cReceiver 2.0.

One benefit of visiting the rabbit hole is that once you get back into daylight, things can often become clearer. That’s my experience anyway – and of course it depends on you being able to crawl out.

The cReceiver has now been on offer for just over 3 months, and being the first app off the rank it carried some learning legacy. The App Store downloads are mind boggling with the bulk from China with 199, followed by 106 in the US and 59 in Japan. So at least it’s been noticed.

After a bit of pondering on how best to implement what I’ve learned in the last 3 months I decided to simply re-write the app. In addition to my own e1-service there have been major releases with Angular 4 and Ionic 3 recently out. It’s a sign of how fast this technology is moving that Angular 2’s final release was September 2016 and Ionic 2’s was January 2017. The cReceiver was build with Angular 2 and Ionic 1, even if it’s only 3 months old.

This is also a confirmation of my believe that software code has moved from being an investment to a commodity. The investment lies in how-to while the code is getting more and more dispensable. Programming is becoming more like a trade than alchemy. Like a good tradesman, a good programmer is someone who knows how to use his tools and is an experienced problem-solver. You can learn how to use the tools but experience can only be achieve through life.

The cReceiver app is already available on Google Play and in a browser. As before a vetting is needed from the good people at Apple before it’s published on their Store.

And for anyone interested in trying out the app without access to E1, cReceiver now comes with a demo database. Just click the demo button in the About page and it will be set-up with few sample orders. Obviously the download and upload functions will not work in demo mode, but it gives a feel for how the app works.