Creating a simple nodejs API on AWS (including nginx)

26th of November, 2015 / / 3 Comments

On a recent project I was part of a team developing an AngularJS website with a C# ASP.NET backend API hosted in Azure.  It was a great project as I got to work with a bunch of new tools, but it got me wondering on how simple it could be to use a Javascript API instead.  That way the entire development stack would be written in Javascript.

And so a personal project was born.  To create a simple JS API and get it running in the cloud.… [Keep reading] “Creating a simple nodejs API on AWS (including nginx)”

Google Cloud Messaging using Azure Notification Hub

8th of November, 2015 / / 3 Comments

The Xamarin team have provided a very helpful tutorial to get started with setting up Android notifications – I suggest using this to get the basic implementation working, and ensure you’re using the GcmRegistrationIntentService version, and avoid using the depreciated GCM Client.

To get a complete end to end solution up and running there is a fair bit of additional information required.  Here’s a guide for using Microsoft Azure Notification Hub.

Set up Google Cloud Messaging service

Log into the Google Developer Console (https://console.developers.google.com/… [Keep reading] “Google Cloud Messaging using Azure Notification Hub”

Solving self signed certificate blocking by inspecting web requests using Xamarin iOS

21st of October, 2015 / / 2 Comments

In iOS 9 Apple have turned on App Transport Security (ATS) as default. So if your iOS application is connecting to an insecure url resource then you’re out of luck as it will be blocked, an example of the most likely culprit is viewing a webpage without SSL encryption.

With the current application I’m working on I ran into trouble whilst loading a dev resource only to find it was using a self signed certificate and being blocked by the OS. … [Keep reading] “Solving self signed certificate blocking by inspecting web requests using Xamarin iOS”