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 error: Unable to start Kestrel. System.IO.IOException: Failed to bind to Read more…
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, I’m going to cover how I’m securing the Bait News Read more…
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. In this blog post, I’ll show you how you can Read more…
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 SQL database for storing user information like comments and likes. Read more…
The Yahoo News Digest app includes a couple of interesting user interface elements that I wanted to use within my own apps. The feature that I was most keen to recreate was the stretching UITableViewHeader. Its an effect seen in Read more…
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 I’m solving search with Beer Drinkin. There are many options Read more…
Over the weekend I decided to look at a project which hasn’t recieved much love since I orginally wrote it earlier in the year. That project is PCL for interacting with the awesome beer database that is BreweryDB. My orginal Read more…
Until recently I’d done an amazing job of avoiding Auto Layouts on anything other than demo apps, instead opting to create my layouts with springs and structs. All my apps within the App Store use the old approach, which although being exceptionally Read more…
A couple of weeks ago I started writing a library to speed up the development of iOS app. My aim was to make creating beautiful iOS apps even easier and share more code accross my iOS projects. The main requirment of iOS Read more…
Important Note Microsoft have recently released Azure App Services which aims to replace Mobile Services. I will be writing an updated guide shortly. Azure Mobile Services (AMS) is a great platform for .NET developers to build complex apps that require Read more…