How to use heart rate apps to track your fitness
Staying on track with fitness goals is hard. We explore how heart rate apps can provide the extra support, insight, and motivation to keep momentum.
Luke
Founder
Older posts
Earlier articles from the Azuki team on building software and working through the practical details of delivery.
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Electron Windows Installer with Forge
A practical guide to packaging and distributing Electron apps with Electron Forge, covering installer choices, setup tips, and Windows branding.
Duncan
Developer
Native, Cross-Platform, Hybrid, & Web apps differences
Choosing native, hybrid, web, or cross-platform for an app is complex. This guide compares tradeoffs, costs, and use cases so you can choose confidently.
Luke
Founder
The Top 5 Benefits of Building a Mobile App for Your Business
Explore five practical benefits of building a mobile app for your business, from improving customer experience to creating new ways to engage users.
Luke
Founder
Creating an Electron Application for the Raspberry Pi
A practical guide to creating an Electron application on a Raspberry Pi, including setup, installation and running a simple desktop app.
Duncan
Developer
My Tools
A look at the hardware and software tools used by an independent web developer, from laptops and monitors to development tools.
Luke
Founder
Software Impact on Remote Freelancers' Work
How software is changing the way remote freelancers work across accounting, journalism, writing and teaching.
Luke
Founder
How to Hire a Freelance Web Developer – Part 2
In part 1 I covered how to find a freelancer. In this part, I'll talk a bit about how we run our projects smoothly.
Luke
Founder
How to Hire a Freelance Web Developer – Part 1
A practical guide to hiring a freelance web developer, from finding the right person to choosing someone who can deliver reliable work.
Luke
Founder
Getting Going with the Apple Watch in Rubymotion
A guide to getting an Apple Watch extension running in RubyMotion, including the identifiers needed for successful deployment.
Luke
Founder
Rails Performance
An interview with Rails creator DHH about application performance, Ruby on Rails and the techniques used to make Basecamp fast.
Luke
Founder
Keeping track of attribute changes over time in Ruby
A simple Ruby approach to recording attribute changes over time and emailing a daily summary of differences between saved data snapshots.
Luke
Founder
Picking images & videos from the iOS photo album with RubyMotion
How to use RubyMotion and UIImagePickerController to select images and videos from the iOS photo library.
Luke
Founder
Getting going with ActiveJob on Heroku
Learn how to use ActiveJob in Rails to run slower tasks in the background, including an example for deploying with Heroku.
Luke
Founder
Using Postgres' hstore in Rails 4 with scopes
Learn how to use Postgres hstore with Rails 4 to store custom data against database records and query it with scopes.
Luke
Founder
Pretty address from coordinates in iOS using RubyMotion
Learn how to turn latitude and longitude into a readable address in iOS using RubyMotion and reverse geocoding.
Luke
Founder
Profiling JSON request in Rails using Rack Mini Profiler
Learn how to use Rack Mini Profiler to investigate the performance of JSON requests in a Ruby on Rails application.
Luke
Founder
Laravel - The future of PHP apps
A practical look at Laravel and the features that make it a capable PHP framework for building modern web applications.
Luke
Founder
Android Push Notifications via Rails
A practical guide to sending Android push notifications from a Ruby on Rails application using Google Cloud Messaging.
Luke
Founder
2014 Retrospective
I thought I'd write a little note about 2014 before we get too far into 2015.
Luke
Founder
Collections in Jekyll
Jekyll has introduced something called collections (beta at the time of writing) which has been added to handle custom post/page types.
Luke
Founder
Heroku Preboot
Learn how Heroku Preboot supports zero-downtime deployments for Ruby on Rails applications.
Luke
Founder
Thanks RubyMotion Dispatch
A short note about an Azuki post on integrating Google+ into RubyMotion, featured by RubyMotion Dispatch.
Luke
Founder
RubyMotion & Google iOS SDK
I needed a way to login with Google+ in the RubyMotion iOS app I'm building. After having used the Facebook iOS SDK, I expected it to be relatively painless.
Luke
Founder
iOS Switch on change action
How to trigger actions such as saving when a switch is toggled in an iOS app built with RubyMotion.
Luke
Founder
Garage to Office
The story of turning a garage into an office after leaving employment and starting a full-time independent web development business.
Luke
Founder
Standing Desk
A practical review of setting up a standing desk in a home office and how it worked in day-to-day use.
Luke
Founder
Starting up
A personal account of leaving a senior development job to start Azuki and build a career as an independent web developer.
Luke
Founder
This Space
Notes from Azuki's early days: projects, development discoveries, useful tools and the occasional personal reflection.
Luke
Founder
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