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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 as a Service (MBaaS) solution. The first post was a little light on technical details as it was written on an iPad whilst on vacation,…
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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 included a little startup called Parse. Parse was a backend born in 2011 that allowed mobile developers to easily add cloud storage, push notifications and authentication…
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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 just a new name or if it’d progressed to be a little more welcoming. I say this because as someone with limited experience using VSTS,…
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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 and Mac then it can be difficult to decide when it’s the right time to install the latest and greatest offerings from Apple, for fear…
Read MoreSuper 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 error: Unable to start Kestrel. System.IO.IOException: Failed to bind to address http://localhost:5000 on the IPv4 loopback interface: port already in use. To fix this, you’ll…
Read MoreWe’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, I’m going to cover how I’m securing the Bait News v2 backend infrastructure as well as covering how to configure custom domains. Why bother? Apple…
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