Lessons learned
Things built

What is missing in a housing market with demand for rental properties and many owners with a single extra property to rent?
Services. Keeping the property occupied, choosing the right tenants, ongoing maintenance, inspections and all the legal paperwork.

Massive buildings line the roads out of my town. Big ugly cubes with no windows. The uniform anonymous grey walls are sprinkled with fake cheerful corporate colors. As i drive past them I can glimpse more of them behind the first row by the road. How many are there? Do I want to know?

It's fast enough let's ship it. As a developer with a fast desktop or laptop and the latest iPhone, performance might look as a non-issue. But is a non-issue for your users?

Hard to believe, time really flies. We started this blog almost exactly a year ago, with the goal of writing one post a week. With 66 posts (English, Slovak, or both) we can report we made it!

Whether you are a novice seeking advice on what language to learn, or a pro starting a new project. Javascript should be your default choice. It is not a single reason, but the combination of many factors. Let's explore the present, past and future of the Javascript ecosystem.

Tailored trousers always fit better. Tailored - custom developed application just as well.

But, you can buy a a pair of jeans in minutes. And these days buying an off the shelve app is a matter of seconds too. There is no wait time and you know the price upfront.

With custom development, it is much harder to estimate price and time. Software projects famously fail at an alarming rate.

Sadly printing on dead trees or PDFs is still a thing in 2024. Luckily Odoo comes with pre-built reports for many possible scenarios. Whether we need to print a purchase order, a quote, an invoice, there is a report for that. Usually they only need a small adjustment, a field here or there, to make them fit our need. Read on, to see how to achieve that.

Skeuomorphism - the idea that digital elements resemble their real-world counterparts - arguably reached its peak with Apple’s iOS 6. However the idea is both much older than iOS and still very much alive today.

Text input is such an often used “feature” in html, that you would expect any type of text input scenario to have a simple solution.
But, does it?

Does your organization receive payments (donations) via bank transfer (wire-transfer)? Do you want to see the transactions inside Salesforce?

Do you have a new app?
Do you want an easy way for users to sign-up and login?
Social sign-up & login is the answer. Let's make it happen with Facebook.

Are you running or working for a non-profit?
Do you struggle with managing donors, donations and communication?
Let's look at how digital tools can simplify your life.

Do you remember the time before digital calendars and reminders?
When dinosaurs roamed the world and you had to whack your dinner over the head.
Or something like that.

Do you provide a counselling, wellness, fitness or therapy service?
Do you usually sell packages that consist of multiple visits?
We have an app for you!

99% of what you read and hear about react is dogmatic, religious almost fanatical garbage. React is a (html) rendering system, but more importantly it is an idea that with the powerful browser we have, we can simplify our dev lives.

As a business owner you have a wide choice of apps to support, accelerate and improve your operations. This is both a blessing and a curse. There are some areas like accounting, warehouse and email marketing that are standardized and you can find a solution almost exactly for your budget and needs.

However, the real core of your business is your secret sauce. Now, obviously, since you are doing it your way, there is no ready-made product you can buy (ok there is excel…). So what now? Well, you can continue fighting with informal rules; paper, excel and emails.

Why did the calendar go to therapy?
Because it had too many dates.
Read on for more bad jokes and to learn how you can manage time with Calendars in Inuko apps.

Need to manipulate Salesforce.com data quickly?
Would you rather use the tools and language you know?
We too, let's get it done.

Are you a vendor or reseller?
Do you want to place your products onto more virtual shelves?
Let us tell you about our experience with Odoo and Shopify.

Running a skilled trades business has many facets.
Some we like more than others, but they are all required.

If you are running a business our app aims to help you connect all the different parts of your business.
It will keep things moving and organized.

Do you run a manufacturing or assembling business?
Do you use Odoo already?
Do you plan to implement an ERP?
Let me share some insights and code for those running Manufacturing with Odoo.

When you build an app for clients, there will be point where they’ll ask for reporting.
What they usual mean by that, is to have a way to take a bunch of records from the database do some calculations and put it into a pdf.
So how do we build that?

In the previous posts we have introduced a javascript database class and a json based sql variant - json-fetch. We can now implement a dynamic CRUD layer, but there is an important piece missing.

How best to start the holiday season?
With a new project, of course!
Do you often go on business trips and find filling out travel expense forms or processing them tedious?
We have a solution for you.

Wouldn't it be nice to query your SQL database with json?
But, how can we translate a json base query to SQL?
Let's explore together.

After several months in production, we have rolled out version 2 of our SSE feature.
Let's look at our lessons learned together.

Do you wish you could use a single data-query endpoint from your SPA?
Wouldn't it be great to build your data query step by step?
Would you like a SQL, but for Web?

Are you building a new app or service?
Are you wondering how and where to store data?
Let me tell your our experience.

Do you want to automate common worklows?
Do you need to send weekly reminders?
Do you require monthly sales totals?
Is it something else for each customer?

Large and fluctuating work force is common for non-profits, but also for many seasonal businesses and project oriented work.
Nonprofits need to manage volunteers that come and go and work on many different projects, with flexible hours.
The scale and the dynamic nature leads to a mountain of personal data, that has to be acquired and processed.
Can we automate it?

In previous blogs, we introduced the applications we created for non-governmental organizations or non-profits. Among them, the most outstanding were our apps for the organization Cesta von, which helps marginalized communities throughout Slovakia to get out of the trap of poverty and to ensure a better life for future generations.

Do your users run the latest version of your webapp?
Do they see the latest and greatest data?
Do they have the fix for that nasty bug?

Inuko Cloud is the software that hosts apps for customers (or tenants).
New customers can easily sign-up, for one or more apps.
Additionally each app can be customized individually per customer.
How does it work? Where does it work? Let's explore.

Cost-saving, high performance and easy maintenance.
This are just a few of the benefits of multi-tenant SaaS apps.
But today we shall talk about one of the problems.
How to change the app behavior for a single client.

Or in other words can we safely run untrusted code on the server?

I don't need a CRM.
I only want a list of tasks I & my people can work with.
And upload some documents.
And attach some pricing and send a quote.
Can I get some reminders too?

A chart manual for Inuko apps.
Interactive charts are available for any list of records in the app. That means, that any time you see a list of records in the app,
you can also have a visual chart representation of them.

You want a mobile app.
And you have a great web app optimized for mobile web.
Or you are just planning your app strategy.
In both cases you should consider a single approach to web and mobile.
How? With Capacitorjs.

A frictionless sign-up and sign-in experience has many benefits.
Once a user is ready to try our app, don't lose them in the sign up procedure.
Once a user starts using our app, don't lose them becuase they forgot their login.
Multifactor and not reusing passwords keeps user's data safe.

Does the title sound like a contradiction?
Is that possible to so? Is it magic?
Why would you do that?
Will it work in offline?
Continue reading to find out.

The third successful program of Cesta von is the language support program Amal, which mainly develops communication skills in the Slovak language among mothers and parents from the communities, also thanks to the connection of people from the majority…

No, not in pixels, in euros.
No, not with credit card.
Yes with phone.

Clients, cases, orders, calendars and repeat.
Not today.
Today, I’d like to tell you about a unique app we’ve built for (fellow) dog sports enthusiasts.

What are the advantages in integrating your web app with MS Sharepoint?
No need to spend on storage or pay for data transfers.
No need to think about backups or access permissions.

Delighted users, because everything is in one place.
Nothing to locate, copy or sync.

Goal setting and goal achievement support system would be a better description.
But, I’m afraid Case management is the name we are stuck with.
We have build these kind of apps several times.
Let’s look at what they have in common.

If your plan is for one year, plant rice.
If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children.
(Confucius)

Browser requests and the server responds.
This has been the norm for decades.
And still applies to modern web-apps.

A picture is worth a thousand words.
But it is also worth a million bytes.
Let's look at how we can utilize Azure Blobs for efficient multimedia and document storage.

Securing user data is today an absolute must.
Users want privacy and laws required it.
Still we hear about breaches and stolen passwords.
What can we do about it?

It is almost a rite of passage, a sign your software is all grown up when you add reporting functionality.
Like an invoice file, a customer report, or an employee document. Anytime we need the data from our system to be presented, printed or processed we need data in the form of a document.

The Filip program is divided into four categories and each of them addresses a different area in which people from excluded communities need help – housing, debt resolution, employment and financial goals. Each family involved in the Filip program received a…

In addition to applications and business, we also would like to introduce you to another activity in which we have been involved during the year. It's not as much about technology as it is about people. And about how to…

Separating content from code is always a good idea. Therefore, let's explore how to do that in a GatsbyJS website. Without any external data sources.

Let's build a static website with external content. In this post I will show you how you can static-render data from any data source with GatsbyJS.

It has been never easier to create a great looking and performant website than it is today. There is an abundance of options that you can choose from, whether you are a novice or a front end pro. With all the options comes, what the germans nicely call "Die Qual der Whal". Or in english what is the best solution for me.