This is our technical blog where we write about code, share open source projects or discuss solutions to problems we encounter in our daily workplace here at byBrick.

How to download and open a PDF on Phonegap/Cordova

Written 04 Mar 2014

Downloading and opening a PDF in Phonegap on an Android unit seems to be opone of the hardest things you can nowadays, that and maybe copy files to my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, but not any more.

Phonegap Javascript

How to: sensible default typography with a vertical rhythm

Written 23 Aug 2013

In order to help your users to read and interpret your content there are a few tricks we can pull out when designing websites. First off, we have to make sure the font is large enough to read, that there’s enough contrast between the body text color and the background, that the lines of text in each row aren’t too long (about 45-65 characters is optimal) and then there’s to set up a typographic rhythm that helps your users to read.

CSS SASS Compass

Routing with multiple areas in MVC

Written 21 Aug 2013

Routing in ASP.NET MVC is pretty straight forward, however, with multiple areas and the strong possibility of having controllers with the same name in several of them strange things can happen.

.NET C# ASP.NET MVC