I like to think of my PC's document directory as a sacred place. As its name suggests, the documents directory is where I store my documents, in a neatly organised…
Mike JJanuary 13, 2021
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
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
Anyone familiar with my ramblings will be aware that I mostly develop in C# using a mixture of Xamarin and .NET Core depending on what I'm building. Earlier this year…
Mike JSeptember 28, 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