andrewabest

React Native on Windows

So I've started looking into React Native, as mobile development is still a very hot topic, and I would like to do x-plat mobile development that provides a native experience, but doesn't suck for the developer (I'm looking at you Xamarin). I'm a big fan of React, and doing mobile dev that allows hot-reloading during the dev cycle sounds too good to be true.

I'm also going to be building this app with my son, who is 6. It is going to be for him to track his jobs (chores) and income (pocket money), and track savings and goals - encouraging some financial literacy and hopefully letting him reason about the money he makes and what he can do with it! I'm hoping JSX and Javascript will make for a clean and clear way to teach some of the concepts we will use for building the app. Even running through the boilerplate, it was quite simple to explain to him that a <Text> element in the JSX made the app display some text for us. A good start!

If you follow alon

andrewabest

Install the Cordova Build and HockeyApp VSTS extensions into your VSTS tenant.

Sign up for a MacInCloud account, and create a VSTS build agent.

Create a pool for your agent in VSTS: https://support.macincloud.com/support/solutions/articles/8000016614-getting-started-with-the-macincloud-vsts-previously-vso-build-agent-plan and configure the agent following the instructions in the article.

Sign up for a HockeyApp account. Create an API token that VSTS will use to talk to HockeyApp via Account Settings > API Tokens.

For HockeyApp, create a service endpoint in VSTS: https://support.hockeyapp.net/kb/third-party-bug-trackers-services-and-webhooks/how-to-use-hockeyapp-with-visual-studio-team-services-vsts-or-team-foundation-server-tfs#installation-for-vsts

JCapriotti

The example step includes one required parameter and one that is not required and has a default.

Call with No Parameters

PS C:\temp> Invoke-OctopusStep @{} .\step.ps1
Missing parameter value RequiredParameter
At C:\temp\step.ps1:12 char:13
+             throw "Missing parameter value $Name"
+             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : OperationStopped: (Missing paramet...quiredParameter:String) [], RuntimeException

• FullyQualifiedErrorId : Missing parameter value RequiredParameter

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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Chaser324

Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j

jonnii

Import-Module WebAdministration

###########################
# externally configured variables
###########################

$subdomain = 'subdomain' # e.g. subdomain.yourdomain.com
$appPoolName = 'Awesome App Pool!!!'
$appPoolFrameworkVersion = "v4.0"
$domain = 'yourdomain.com'