Cron-Dev Blog
Battery saving experiments for Wear OS
Wear OS has been highly ignored by Google and manufacturers alike. No feature additions, no better watches (Hopefully Google does release one) My biggest concern along with lot of others who enjoy using Android...
Migrating your WordPress.com site to Bluehost – What’s missing?
I am be moving my blog from the current wordpress hosted site to a self hosted domain. Simply crondev.blog instead of crondev.wordpress.com I have tried to ensure there is no change for any of...
GeoMapping and the Travelling Salesman Problem
Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem to make mapping Farms using Geotagging easier and intuitive for users.
This application uses the 2-opt algorithm for solving TSP and runs on a mobile phone.
Add caching to speed up your site: Even if you think it isn’t needed
In this post, we will explore solving the n+1 problem using caching. The tools used are Django ORM with which makes the problem becomes common, and the Cachalot library. Writing systems at a start-up...
Snippet: Disabling Sentry for Test environments in Ionic
First, we need to setup Environment variables in Ionic, unfortunately, there is no easy recommended way of doing that, here’s an open issue. Github user fiznool has provided with a really nice solution with...
Missing guide to notifications on your Cordova app
While there’re hundreds of posts which tell you how to set up notifications using the Firebase FCM plugin, there is no post that helps you to take your notifications to production. This post tries...
Use Device buttons using WD with Protractor tests
This is a short build up to my previous post where I gave an explanation of setting up Ionic E2E tests with Protractor and Appium. We started using them at LeanAgri and going further...
Failure resilient model using circuit breakers for Microservices
This one is a long pending article on my drafts. I gave this as a talk roughly a year ago at Rootconf, but got buried under other things. If you’re thinking, why microservices? Does...
Snippet: OR filters with Django-filter
The requirement is to build a simple OR condition query string filter using django-filter. Since there is no standardization of the format, I have used a query string which looks like ?value=v1|v2|v3 Here’s a...
