Desktop GUIs for Web Developers

Over the past few years I’ve become more interested in making desktop applications. For some context, I’m a web developer with around 15 years of experience. I mostly work with Laravel and Vue.JS but I have dabbled in a whole heap of other languages and frameworks.

Building small desktop apps with Ember.js and Tauri

I recently played around with Tauri, a toolkit for development desktop apps with web technologies. Here's how I got it working with an Ember.js application.

Making an Electron App with Ember JS Part #4: Windows

This is part four in the series of blog posts “Making an Electron App with Ember JS” where I go over how I built my app Snipline for the web, Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Making an Electron App with Ember JS Part #2.5: MacOS Notarisation

This is a quick, cheeky part two-point-five of the blog post series “Making an Electron App with Ember JS” where I go over how I built my app Snipline for the web, Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Making an Electron App with Ember JS Part #3: Linux

This is part three in the series of blog posts “Making an Electron App with Ember JS” where I go over how I built my app Snipline for the web, Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Making an Electron App with Ember JS Part #1: Initial Setup

I work on the development of a tool called Snipline, a utility created to solve scratch my own itch, increasing my shell command productivity.

Making an Electron App with Ember JS Part #2: MacOS

This is part two in the series of blog posts “Making an Electron App with Ember JS” where I go over how I built my app Snipline for the web, Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Configuring Ember JS Analytics for GDPR

One of the issues I ran into while developing a new Ember JS app was letting the user configure tracking libraries such as Google Analytics for GDPR compliance.

Handling slug URLs in Ember and Phoenix

I've recently started playing around with the PEEP stack (Postgres Elixir Ember Phoenix). One of the first things I wanted achieve is using SEO-friendly slugs instead of ids in Ember application's URLs.

Realtime chat with Laravel, Ember JS and Pusher

I've been hearing a lot of noise about Firebase recently. Lots of good noise. When I first started making this article I wanted to make use of Firehose which is an open source alternative to Firebase.

Using Padrino with Ember CLI Part 5: Realtime

Note: This article was updated on 8th April 2015 thanks to Phil from Pusher with a better solution for preventing duplicate data. You can see the content of the original post here.

Using Padrino with Ember CLI Part 4: Authorisation

In the last article I went through how to implement authorisation with Ember-simple-auth and Padrino. The next logical step is to implement authorisation with the same toolset.

Using Padrino with Ember CLI Part 3: Authentication

While thinking about what to write for this week's article it occured that I never touched on authentication with Ember and Padrino in my previous articles. So I think this is the perfect excuse to continue with the series!

Using Padrino with Ember CLI Part 2

You can view the full source for this article on Github. I am using the following library versions for this tutorial: IO.js v1.2.0 NPM 2.5.1 watchman 3.0.0 (Installed with homebrew) Ember 1.8.1 Ember Data 1.0.0-beta.14.1 jQuery 1.11.2 Handlebars 1.3.0

Using Padrino with Ember CLI Part 1

After listening to the Ruby Rogues’ Padrino episode I was sold on the idea of using Padrino for smaller websites and simple API’s. I know Grape is also a perfect contender for building an Ember APIs but: