Month: March 2016

Thinking Outside the App: ExxonMobil and Speedpass+

I’m a big fan of Apple’s ApplePay ecosystem, a bit for the convenience of NFC-based transactions, but really for the security. ApplePay is a tokenized payment system in which credit/debit card account information is neither stored on the phone nor transmitted when making a purchase. It seems not a week goes by that we don’t […]

Using Postman to test RESTful APIs

There’s a sharp divide in MEAN projects between the back end and the front end. Most use cases involve manipulating model data in some way via either a controller or view-controller, which in MEAN is implemented in Angular. The first work to be done, though, is on the back end, defining and implementing the models and the […]