George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
In this post I'll talk about the MVPC (Model-View-Presenter-Controller) design pattern I use in client applications such as progressive web apps and mobile clients. It can be best understood as an evolution of the MVC (model-view-controller) pattern past the MVP (model-view-presenter) pattern. The basics: MVC and MVP You might want to skip this section if … Continue reading The Model-View-Presenter-Controller pattern
Pentagram, source Wikipedia. Towards the end of the year I'll indulge in the dark arts, join the goblins and leave my white architect hat under the Christmas tree where it belongs. I'm helping a friend (a technically minded, non-programmer) write his first mobile app . We wanted to keep everything simple: use technologies which can … Continue reading Book of dark arts: storing data in the view
After a simultaneous Thunderbird upgrade and profile migration from Windows to Linux the mail program permanently forgets passwords. The setting: Thunderbird 52 on Windows Back up profile Restore profile to Thunderbird 60 on Linux Observe that all passwords to all accounts are lost even if entered again This seems to be some … Continue reading Thunderbird forgetting passwords
I love learning a term for a vague idea that has been with me for a while already; it gives the fuzzy cloud in my head a box to live in and a label to put under... not to mention convenient stowage when I need room for other things. One such illuminating moment was listening … Continue reading Climbing the monolith
TL;DR if Phantomjs doesn't show any text/fonts, give it a Truetype web font. Despite Phantomjs' [1] development slowing down [2] it still brings most of the features I need for regression testing web applications. And, thanks to Docker, it should be possible to operate it for a long time to come. Installing and operating Phantomjs … Continue reading Phantomjs not showing text
