I've recently been developing a utility to help validate my blog posts against a set of rules to ensure that I get notified if I accidentally publish an incomplete article.…
Mike JJune 15, 2020
As I've shifted from using macOS as my daily driver to Windows 10, I've found myself writing almost no code in Swift, instead finding that I develop almost entirely with…
Mike JMay 15, 2020
As I continue the development of my DMX control system, there have been features that I've avoided working on because of their apparent complexity. Scripting support is one such area;…
Mike JMay 11, 2020
Republished ContentThis post was originally published on both dev.to & lightconsole.dev A little known fact is that the original, intelligent lights and programming hardware formed a distributed system. Each light…
Mike JMay 11, 2020
Introduction In my pursuit to learn Swift, I've decided to branch out into the backend development. That might sound an odd statement to some, as Swift is usually associated only…
Mike JOctober 24, 2019
I recently published a blog post discussing the introduction of both authentication and data storage to App Center, which takes it from a DevOps focus to a fully-fledged Mobile Backend…
Mike JJune 18, 2019
In my first week working for Xamarin, I was flown to Austin Texas from London in order to help support Xamarin Evolve 2013. Like most conferences, we had sponsors, which…
Mike JJune 10, 2019
Earlier this week my girlfriend (who is a networking ninja) asked a great question, how do you secure traffic between pods in Azure Kubenetes Service (AKS). This simple sounding question…
Mike JMarch 27, 2019
The title is click bait, but I can picture situations where we could replace lighting programmers with artificial intelligence using language understanding techniques that power Alexa, Google Assistance and Cortana.…
Mike JNovember 17, 2018