Following up on the first part of this tutorial, in this tutorial we shall see how we can leverage tezosgen to easily interact with our contract in our SwiftUI/Combine codebase. (more…)
Part 1: Creating iOS App With Smart Contract Interaction
Tezos smart contracts have matured a lot – and it’s time to use them in iOS apps, closer to the users’ hands. 😉 Throughout this tutorial we will write a smart contract using SmartPy.io and then move to Xcode and get a hands-on experience with interacting with our contract in Swift using generated code from tezosgen. Note that this tutorial will touch on the most important parts of RateMyTeam app and is not a complete step-by-step tutorial. (more…)
RateMyTeam: PoC Tezos Smart Contract App, Support for Combine
It is my pleasure to announce two new projects we have been working on for the last few months: proof of concept iOS app that interacts with a Tezos smart contract RateMyTeam and tezosgen support for Apple’s Combine framework announced at the last WWDC. (more…)
Webpack 2019: What’s new?
There have been a few changes in Webpack since my last blog in February 2017. The original blog was written for version 2 and Webpack is now in stable version 4 with version 5 being in beta release. In this blog, I will take a look at the changes that can make our lives easier again. (more…)
NSSpain 2019: A Conference Full of Wine and iOS
NSSpain is one of the most well-known iOS conferences in Europe – that had been proven by the fact the tickets had been sold out before even one single speaker was announced. This was my first time at any iOS conference, so I was extremely excited about this whole trip. The talks were divided into two days, 19th and 20th September, so it was a great getaway before the summer ends.
Internationalization of a Static Website with GatsbyJS
Do you use React? Do you need an internationalized static website? We have a brand new GatsbyJS starter supporting you out-of-box! Check out our Github.
In Ackee, we use React as the main front-end technology. Most of the time we create SPAs, but sometimes we need to create a static website with just a few pages, and an internationalization is compulsory every time. There is a lot of static site builders but if you want something easy to use with React, you should go with GatsbyJS and its huge starter ecosystem.
Thanks Apple for the ’19 WWDC
Last few years, the WWDC keynote was mostly about introducing new features into Apple operating systems that were focusing mainly on the end user. It looked like Apple forgot that the letter D in WWDC means Developer. Everything was all about introducing new UI, new gestures or introducing new hardware. We were again and again wondering if something was changing and Apple would come up with some real game changer even for developers and again and again we were a bit disappointed that it never happened. But this year it’s a completely different story. (more…)
Our Infrastructure Forming as a Code with Terraform
As the number of our new (and old) customers grows, it becomes crucial to use IaC and enjoy all of its benefits like mitigation of human errors, infrastructure (self-)documentation etc. (more…)
What (the hell) was my app doing: First steps with Opentracing and Jaeger
Try to Google a bit and find some blog posts about adoption of microservices, Docker, Kubernetes and other “new” stuff in the traditional environments. Almost every post is like “yeah, microservices are kinda cool, but monitoring and overall observability is very challenging.”
Well, that’s not true anymore. And today I’m gonna show you one important pillar of this shift from “challenging” to “absolutely possible.” Please make some noise for the technology which can’t be missing in your microservice stack – distributed tracing.
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What I Don’t Like About React Hooks
There has been a lot of discussions concerning React Hooks on Twitter recently and Dan Abramov is defending them pretty well. But since I have seen the API for the first time I can’t get rid of the feeling that I just don’t like them. Here is my reason why. (more…)
