Category: JavaScript

Introducing Suave Streams

Welcome to Suave Streams at https://twitch.tv/suave_pirate where I’ll be taking some time twice a week to build some of the coolest, funniest, and also innovative pieces of software using real-world patterns, practices, and tools.

Come for a laugh, come to build, and come to learn! We’ll be jumping into languages, and tools like:

  • C#
  • TypeScript
  • Kotlin
  • Swift
  • ASP.NET Core
  • Alexa Skills
  • Actions on Google
  • Bixby Capsules
  • Conversational AI
  • Real time communications
  • Xamarin/Maui.NET
  • UWP
  • Game Development
  • Bot building

and so much more!

We’re starting off with a schedule of every:

  • Sunday 12:30-4:30PM EST
  • Wednesday 6-10PM EST

I hope you’ll join for our first ever livestream this Sunday, May 22nd at 12:30pm EST where we are starting to build an Alexa Skill to Beat Call of Duty Warzone! Using:

C#, ASP.NET Core APIs, SignalR, UWP, Alexa Skills SDK, and scalable architectures and design patterns to make it come to life.

After each stream, I’ll also be uploading the whole recording (with minor edits) to my YouTube over at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1ycVqsWOInQuel68295M7w

So if you can’t make the stream, you won’t miss out on all the fun. Be sure to follow me on twitch for updates on when I go live and to keep up with the projects we start creating!

See you there!

 

 

HACKMIT 2019 This Weekend!

HackMIT is this weekend, September 14-15th.

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be mentoring as one of the local Microsoft MVPs that were invited to help as part of the Microsoft sponsorship of the event. I look forward to building some incredible applications with some of the brightest students coming to Cambridge! Hack for a reason 🙂

Check out some of the awesome tracks:

hackmit_tracks

 

If you’re hacking this weekend, come find me for help with:

  • Conversational AI
  • Voice First Development
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Machine Learning
  • Unity
  • C#
  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Kotlin
  • React
  • Video Editing
  • and RTC

See ya’ll there!

If you like what you see, don’t forget to follow me on twitter @Suave_Pirate, check out my GitHub, and subscribe to my blog to learn more mobile developer tips and tricks!

Interested in sponsoring developer content? Message @Suave_Pirate on twitter for details.

HackMIT This Weekend!

HackMIT is this weekend, September 16-17.

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be mentoring as one of the local Microsoft MVPs that were invited to help as part of the Microsoft sponsorship of the event. I look forward to building some incredible applications with some of the brightest students coming to Cambridge, and may the best faction win! Keep an eye out for me Sunday morning, and feel free to reach out if you’re attending.

 

If you like what you see, don’t forget to follow me on twitter @Suave_Pirate, check out my GitHub, and subscribe to my blog to learn more mobile developer tips and tricks!

Interested in sponsoring developer content? Message @Suave_Pirate on twitter for details.

 

 

Generating Unique Ids on the Fly

Let’s do some JavaScript!

This post may be a little off-topic from my normal content, although it isn’t Xamarin, it could be used for hybrid frameworks like Ionic or base Cordova.

What we’re going to do is look at ways to generate unique ids on the fly for anchor tags. This could be used to help with your Google analytics or general user interaction tracking.

First thing we need is a function to generate the ids:


var lastId = 0;
function uniqueId(prefix){
    lastId++;
    return prefix+lastId;
}

Now what we need to do is use this function to set the ids on all our anchors:


document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) {
    var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a")
    for(var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++){
        anchors[i].id = uniqueId("generatedId");
    }
});

Doing it this way ensures that our ids are the same each time we load the page since it is based on their position when the DOM is loaded. This set up isn’t fool proof, obviously. If your page’s content is inconsistent, tags could end up with different ids than they had before. Some of these problems can be handled better by using a smarter prefix for your id.