DEV Community: Ross Henderson

Push notifications maintenance

Ross Henderson — Sat, 01 May 2021 10:53:15 +0000

Hi all,

I am potentially building an app for a group of people who do some great volunteer work, and one of the big things they want in the app is push notifications so they can let people know when they're available/where they are.

The two big questions I have here are:
1: Regarding geolocations, is it possible to be far more specific, i.e. at an event/county (in the UK) or will I have to use topics?
2: What is the best way for a fairly technophobic group to utilise push notifications? I am worried that going through the FCM console on Firebase may be too technical for them.

Additional info:

I will be building this app in Flutter. I also don't actually know how to do push notifications correctly yet, I am currently learning that.

Web UI Standards

Ross Henderson — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:46:12 +0000

Hi all,

I'm looking for some resources to read on the standards a web app/website should consider. We are already looking at improving the accessibility of the application and are following a W3 guide on that, but I think we need a bit of guidance for standard UI practice. For example: do people prefer "sign in" or "login", "forgot password" or "Need help logging in?", etc.

Any advice would be useful, but any resources I can read up on would be ideal. Cheers all!

Black Friday/Cyber Monday Deals (2019)

Ross Henderson — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:04:43 +0000

Hey everyone!

Was just thinking we could post a post together where people can link the best Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals that they've come across this year. Personally I'm looking for a decent coding laptop and good VPN, so if anyone comes across this stuff, please post away!

If you're looking for anything yourself, comment below and I'm sure the awesome Dev community can help us out! :D

Advice: What language to learn for mobile dev?

Ross Henderson — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:57:06 +0000

Hey guys,

I have an idea for an app that I would like to build, but I have no idea what language to learn to do it. I know iPhone is Swift, but would it be better to do it on Swift first, or learn it in something like Kotlin for Android and then create a Swift version later.

Not only that ideally this app would also be a website (which I could create using Oracle APEX as I already have a draft).

Any advice? I'm getting confused between all the many different options.

How do you name your projects/products?

Ross Henderson — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 11:00:13 +0000

So I'm just wondering how you all name your projects/products that you create. I've had an idea for a project but I feel that it's missing a catchy name and it has demotivated me quite a bit!

So how do you guys do it?

Javascript File Concatenation

Ross Henderson — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:32:05 +0000

Hey guys,

I'm wanting to use SweetAlert2 in one of my applications but I'm having a problem with the JS files. The developers for SweetAlert2 have several JS files that seem to group relevant JS together. But I'm using Oracle APEX, and it doesn't quite allow the JS files to reference each other as they do (because they assume they're in the same directory).

Can anyone give me pointers on how to concatenate these files or if there's an easier way to do it? It'll have to be one file at the end.

Explain to me Like I'm 5: Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Ross Henderson — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 13:52:40 +0000

Hey guys,

I have used CDN's in the past, and to be honest they've just been a "thing" that I know people use and it made things easier for me.

But how do they work and are they secure?

There are 10 types of people who understand Binary.

Ross Henderson — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 14:32:09 +0000

Those that do understand binary, and those that don't.

It's an oldie but a goodie!

Has anyone used Okta?

Ross Henderson — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 09:27:30 +0000

So my company is looking at Okta to be a new solution to allow our SSO credentials to be passed on through website to website. Has anyone used this solution before?

For more details: https://www.okta.com/products/single-sign-on/

Explain Change Postmortem Like I'm Five

Ross Henderson — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:30:23 +0000

Hi,

Our new I.T. Contractors keep talking about a Change Postmortem and no one is explaining to us what this actually means, or what it benefits. Can someone explain simply what it is and why it's important to the change request process?

Edit: I've also heard this being called a "Change Moratorium"

How did you choose your career path?

Ross Henderson — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:07:30 +0000

Over the last year, I have become an Oracle APEX Developer. With that, I have become adept with basic front-end languages, such as HTML, CSS and Javascript, but mainly the use and maintenance of the Oracle database using SQL and PL/SQL.

I enjoy it, but I can already feel the restriction in the career path. I can continue to become an APEX Developer and hope that it continues to take off, or I can go into Database Maintenance which I'll be honest, I have no interest in.

Then there's learning different languages, but I never know what to pick. I like the look of application development, but I also like the fact that I am pretty much full-stack in my current role.

How did you choose your career path and what advice would you give developers that are fairly new in our career?