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
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
Recently Microsoft announced a rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to Azure DevOps and as a big fan of Azure, I wanted to check out if the changes were…
Mike JNovember 16, 2018
It's that time of year again where we all ask ourselves "should I install this beta software on my devices and risk my development setup?". If you've only one iPhone…
Mike JJune 4, 2018
Rob Gibbons wrote a fantastic blog post back in 2015 on how best to write network requests layers for your Xamarin Apps. I've personally used this approach many times, but…
Mike JApril 25, 2018
Super quick post here. Sometimes when debugging your .NET Core application on Mac, you'll find the port won't free up, and thus you can't redeploy without getting the following fatal…
Mike JOctober 20, 2017
We've all seen tutorials which demonstrate how to deploy a simple todo list backend to Azure but how many have you read that go onto secure it? In this post,…
Mike JSeptember 7, 2017