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
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…
Mike JMay 9, 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
I wanted to add a little bit of spice to an old app this weekend and decided to implement two incredibly simple features into the next revision of Bait News.…
Mike JAugust 13, 2017
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…
Mike JMarch 31, 2017