Posts by Daniel Morales
-
Swift3: Consming REST services, data mapping and intro to CocoaPods
In my first Swift post I'll explain how to consume a simple REST service, parse the JSON response and map it into our own objects using some libraries and generics. Also it includes the implementation of a simple singleton class to keep our code and service calls organized.
Read more... -
How to simply create JSON REST services using ActiveRecord and Sinatra
I wrote a Ruby application using the Sinatra framework, it comes with simple database model and a couple services: one to get a list of all elements, and another to fetch one by providing their ID. The results are returned as a JSON response.
Read more... -
GruntJS, organize, compile and minimize your javascript, css and less
Grunt JS is a task runner, and what that means is that using a command-line interface you can perform predefined tasks that you can configure in a JSON file. These tasks can used for many things such as compiling, minify, testing, watch for file changes and others.
Read more... -
Introduction to Vagrant
Vagrant is a tool to create and configure VMs for development. You basically write a config file that can be shared with the rest of the team and added to your project repository. This post is an introduction to the configuration and will show you how to quickly setup Ubuntu box for RVM+Ruby development; and another for Apache+PHP.
Read more... -
Recaptcha using Ruby without other requirements
This post is a collection of code snippets about how to make HTTP requests and parse the response. Also as example I included how to verify a Recaptcha field using the API from Google
Read more... -
CSS3 Font Smoothing
As a programmer I'm always sending out demos and simple web apps out there to show my work to clients, coworkers, or just examples to 'show off' my skills out there; giving them a good look and feel it's always important so here is a simple tip for that.
Read more... -
Resurrecting the blog
My blog has been raised from the death so many times that now officially acquired the status: undead. Bad jokes aside, I'm back!. Here is what i been up to, working on; and what to expect from now on.
Read more... -
Image upload preview using my JQuery Upload Plugin
How to quickly add a simple image preview to my simple upload plugin when uploading images.
Read more... -
Ruby on Rails in Fedora 20
Simple and straight forward way to run Ruby on rails in F20
Read more... -
Using the Symfony OptionsResolver interface with Custom Forms
A new way to to pass options to your custom form classes.
Read more...