Author Archives: bradintheusa

The case for no notifications

This is maybe going a little too far, but today turn off a few notifications on your phone.  You don’t really need them and you be OK without them.   View story at Medium.com  

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Icons for everything

Need an icon?  The noun project seems to have everything  https://thenounproject.com/

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Ten Immutable Laws Of Security

Encrypted data is only as secure as its decryption key. I once had a salesman tell me the data was safe because it was encrypted in binary. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rhalbheer/2011/06/16/ten-immutable-laws-of-security-version-2-0/

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Tracing a Meme From the Internet’s Fringe

Nice use of graphics to explain the flow of an idea. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/04/technology/jobs-not-mobs.html

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Address fields

I wonder if we are too far down this road to turn around now. Do you do it better? or the way users expect? http://uxmovement.com/forms/why-you-should-use-a-text-area-for-address-form-fields/

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Flutter SimpleDialog wont pop

My SimpleDialog wouldn’t pop so I change my pop line from: Navigator.pop(); to: Navigator.of(context, rootNavigator: true).pop(); Now it all works perfectly.

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Flutter Material Icons

If you are in Flutter and you are looking for a list of the icons then you have found it.

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Pineapples

A failed pineapple and a better design that worked.

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Cannot find module ‘rxjs/Observable’

I resolved this (Angular 2.0.0-beta.0): Cannot find module ‘rxjs/Observable’ By installing this: npm install rxjs

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EXCEPTION: No Directive annotation found on…..

The problem with using using alpha software.  Lots of people with errors but no-one with the same version as me.  Am I doing something wrong or is this a transient problem? <script src=”node_modules/systemjs/dist/system.src.js”></script> <script src=”node_modules/angular2/bundles/angular2.dev.js”></script>

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