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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
This post is a direct result of a conversation with a colleague in a taxi in Madrid. We were driving to Santiago Bernabéu (the Real Madrid Stadium) to demonstrate to…
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,…
Most mobile apps require some form of infrastructure to function correctly. In the case of something like Instagram, they'll likely have some blob storage for storing images and then a…
Search is a feature that can make or break your mobile app, but it can be incredibly difficult to get right. In this blog post, I'm going to share how…