We recently drew out some super simple mind maps to introduce the “universe” of Machine learning to new ML Candidates who might get overwhelmed by the plethora of terms and concepts mentioned on the great world wide web!! Essentially when you see a machine learning related problem statement what should be your starting points? […]
Alexa tell me your Dev gotchas in 5 mins!!
Recently a customer wanted to experiment with Alexa for interacting with end users instead of having them select a bunch of options from a web/mobile app. Here is how Alexa works when defining a Custom Skill which is what we needed to make. We decided to do a quick POC in order to estimate […]
Setting up an Angular (Angular2) App for Continuous Integration on Azure.
We recently wanted to set up CI for one of our Angular apps on Azure. After spending sometime going through a sea of suggestions on the same we concluded on the following steps! Hopefully this helps a fellow programmer save some time! Step1:- To deploy an Angular 2 app (in this case v4) to Azure […]
Choose your Serverless Framework!!
Almost all the projects we work on are cloud based applications. A common question that crops up every time we start looking to use serverless components in any project is which one?? Azure Functions or AWS Lambda( there are ofcourse others but these two seem to be our favorites at the moment). Both frameworks come […]
Migrating an existing WebAPI into Serverless functions!
We have been dabbling with Serverless computing for sometime now . Recently we decided to check if it made sense to convert an existing customer’s WebAPI into a set of serverless functions. The accompanying question was which would be the right stack? AWS Lambda or Azure Functions. We aim to pen down here what were […]
Getting Keyboard events in Android
Currently in Android (as of Android 7.1.2), there is no out of the box option to get keyboard events. When we came across a scenario where this was needed, we had to come up with our own solution. Our Problem Our design included a main view with a ScrollView inside and some buttons below the […]
Cennest’s entry into the world of AI and Machine Learning!
Cennest was started with the vision of making a niche company working on cutting edge technologies and doing “fun” work. Projects which would make everyone want to come to work, projects which would leave us feeling challenged and fulfilled. From our roots as a .NET shop, we quickly moved into Mobile world, getting involved in native […]
Angular2 Focusout event not working in Firefox
In a recent project using Angular 2, we got a request to create a customized autocomplete text box which could search, filter and create data based on user’s selection. Angular 2 being relatively new, we referenced the official Angular2 site (https://angular.io/) extensively to implement the functionality. However when we started testing across browsers, we found […]
Our journey from Swift2.2 to Swift3.0 and back to Swift2.3
27th Sept was the decided date to upload a Swift2.2 app to the appstore. iOS10 and XCode 8 got released on Sept 13. iOS10 devices can be detected and debugged only on XCode8 ( There are some hacks out there on how to detect iOS10 devices on XCode7 also) . When we had played with […]
Apple does not let you scan for wifi networks!
Recently in one of our projects we got a request to make a supporting mobile app on iOS and Android which would scan networks and list out specific access points broadcasted by the customer’s raspberry pi devices. Then the user could connect to the pi and proceed with more functionality. Although this statement looks pretty […]