Powering Hybrid Mobile Apps with Couchbase

Every mobile app represents an opportunity for your ideas and creativity to reap rich dividends. You have put in the due diligence to decide on your data storage mechanism – whether to go with SQL or NoSQL. Given the nature of your non-relational data and potential scale of operations, you choose to go with NoSQL. And your chosen provider is Couchbase. Wise choice my friend.

Also, after much consideration, you decide to reuse your web skills to make a hybrid cross-platform mobile app. After all, who wouldn’t want to have their app run on every mobile platform while maintaining a single codebase? And you have chosen to use Telerik AppBuilder for end-to-end mobile tooling and all the required build/deployment services. So far, your choices have been spot on. In this article, we’ll walk through how easy it is to get started integrating and managing your NoSQL storage through Couchbase Mobile inside your hybrid mobile app project, for a consistent user experience.

Complete article over @ TDN HERE!

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Write C# on a Mac like a Champ!

 

Let’s face it – Apple makes some of most desired notebooks in the industry. The MacBook Pro Retina is loved by many developers for its screen real estate and silent but robust performance. The MacBook Air, on the other hand, offers portability and long battery life for productivity. If you own one of these, you know that you’re not alone in your love for notebooks with glowing fruit!

If you are a Microsoft stack developer, you may want to use a Mac as a development machine and write C# code – is that even possible? Alternatively, you may have always been a Mac developer, but are interested in .NET going Open Source and want to try out some native ASP.NET on OSX. Either way, your goal is to marry up two of the best things for developers: quality Mac hardware and C# comfort. Good news – they happily coexist! Let’s talk options ..

Full article HERE