This is the second part of a series of posts I'm writing about things we found were indispensable for Baba which we wouldn't have known beforehand. The first part you can read here. This time I'm going to talk about everyone's favourite part of looking after a baby: changing their pooey nappies! 3. Puppy training … Continue reading Top things for babies you may not think about, part 1 – the pooey edition →

I was going to write a blog about the top 10 things we bought which we just couldn't do without. As I wrote the list of things, that grew to 20, then 30 and more things just keep getting added! Babies need A LOT of stuff, and this was just a cherry-pick of our favourites! … Continue reading Top things for babies you may not think about – Part 0 →

"Today I'm learning 5 colours" in Gujarati! Soon Zeff will be able to speak more Gujarati than I can which will just be down right embarrassing 🙂 How can I fit in learning Gujarati alongside writing Swrl, looking after baba and most importantly keeping up my blogging ;)? I've installed an app called "Goal Tracker" … Continue reading આજે હું પાંચ રંગો શીખું છું →

Tl;dr avoid using Cordova plugins as much as possible. Cross compiling to 3 platforms (browser, android, iOS) is hard. Cordova does a fantastic job for the most part hiding this pain by essentially abstracting everything to a simple local Webserver. Sometimes though you want to do something a bit complicated and Cordova plugins try and … Continue reading Cooking with Firebase: an ode to Cordova plugin hell →

Oh I do love magic whiteboards! You can buy them on Amazon and they are a roll of white sheets which cling to any flat surface with static! Useable with any dry wipe marker pen, they're super useful and practical! I've been using them for.... Dinner planning... Zeffen scheduling... Learning Gujarati... And whiteboarding ideas for … Continue reading Getting obsessed with magic whiteboards! →

I'm already in week 2 of my 19 week Parental Leave- and it already feels like it's going so fast! 😦 It's been great though, had a super fun busy week with baba and managed to code a bit too! We went to the Zoo... Played with some string in a baby class... Did some … Continue reading One Week Down Already →

After Deploying Cordova apps to Heroku, now I want to push my app to mobile App Stores! After Googling around, I come across fastlane, an open source project to automate building, signing and pushing Apps to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Here's how it works for a Cordova app. Installing Fastlane Installing this for … Continue reading Deploying apps in the Fast Lane! →

Before I start coding Swrl List 2 properly, I want to ensure I have a smooth deployment process to "Production". I'm using Cordova to write the app, which will create an iOS app, an Android app and a website. Neat. This blog/guide shows how to deploy the website (browser in Cordova terms) to Heroku. What … Continue reading Deploying Cordova apps to Heroku →