In the inevitable run-up to Xamarin Forms tumbling slowly off of a cliff face our attentions turn towards alternative technologies to usher us into a new golden age. I’ve seen a good number of developers transition to things such as the classic Flutter/Dart combination. As far as Microsoft offerings, the next evolution for cross-platform application […]
What are we up to then and why? With the licensing changes around Docker Desktop, I’ve been on a journey to investigate the possibilities of just running the Docker Engine, with other kinds of tooling and WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux). For someone who is mostly focusing (at the moment) on leveraging this for […]
What is Obsidian? Obsidian has recently been introduced to me and, in short, I am having a whale of a time with it. In essence, Obsidian intends is to fill the role of becoming your second brain, providing a way to create and link concepts in a manner that is akin to how the brain […]
This post has been triggered by a rather long succession of failures to get any kind of build working with Unity 3D using my locally hosted runner with GitLab. I’m clearly missing a trick and, let’s be honest, magically grasping hold of a ‘trick’ at 1am probably isn’t the easiest thing to do. So, as […]
Fresh off the back of the excellent Microsoft Build I wanted to try out the CICD capabilities directly inside GitHub; aka GitHub Actions (although ‘Actions’ aren’t specifically limited to this area). Getting started is absolutely free, with 2000 workflow minutes per month available right off of the bat (increasing based on your account type). The […]
Orchard Core is an open-source, modular CMS and general application framework which (as you can tell based on the name) ties to .NET Core. Multi-tenancy is very much at the root of what the project aims to deliver. A nice component here is that Orchard Core has been reimagined for .NET Core completely, rather than […]
I’ve been adventuring, not for the first time, into the world of Datatables. I’ve worked with this library in the past and, through recent work, ended up deciding it was high time I put together a small, re-usable utility module. There were a number of underlying use cases to cover: The module needed to configure […]
I recently had to do a very quick ‘rip and tear’ (high fives for the ‘Doom’ reference!) of stored execution plans for a bit of exploratory work I was involved with. It seems like a simple, shareable piece so here it is for you to grab, use and modify as and when you need it. […]
I’ve worked on numerous occasions with the various flavours of the FOR XML clause within SQL Server. Taking that a step further, this seemed like as good a time as ever to check out how to work with the FOR JSON clause. This clause can, simply put, be used to boil down data retrieved via […]
A completely trivial subject coming up next…triggered by a really interesting debate I was involved with the other day. When dealing with class hierarchies and chaining constructor arguments through this hierarchy, what’s our mindset as to the direction of travel? Do we think of passing arguments ‘up’ or ‘down’ the hierarchy of objects (initially anyway, […]
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