Lessons learned
Things built

There are many reasons to visit a client. Whether it is for therapy, for sales or for delivery, the journey cannot start without an address.

Queries with OR conditions are notorious for being hard to make fast.
Avoid them if you can, read on if you cannot.

To quote captain obvious, we humans spend a lot of time searching. For socks, keys and phones all the way into the digital world. So much in fact, that one of the most valuable companies is the search engine. Now if that is so obvious, why do most apps provide such a broken search experience?

Do I live in the moment or is my past self controlling my life? I do things, he put in the calendar, call people he arranged meetings with. It makes me wonder, for a short while. Then I remember I need to start planning work for my future self.

Are you looking for a good way to move data from and to your app? You know, export and import? Do you wish for maximum compatibility? Nothing beats a good ol’ CSV.

Recently we have started on a journey of teaching programming. The setup is a little bit unusual, the students are beginners and the lessons will be online. To make things easier for everyone, we need a simple environment for students to write and test code and for teachers to see it and correct mistakes.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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

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.

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.