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 […]
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, […]
Yoyo you wonderful bear followers, I hope today finds you well and for those of you in the UK I hope your snow-related torment hasn’t been too painful to endure and you’ve all stayed safe 🙂 In the shower today (apologies for the mental imagery!) I started to mull over what I would tell someone, […]
Happy New Year all and I truly hope you all enjoyed a terrific festive period. As a little weekend treat, I decided to pick myself up a copy of the ‘net’ magazine, mainly due to the included feature articles on which web development and design tools are ‘en-flique’ (that one is for Claire; a trip […]
My brother, who is a DevOps and integrations whizz, got around to quizzing me, after hearing chatter amongst the nearby developer folk in his building, about the wonderful world of classes and instances, as they pertain to C#. I reeled off the best explanation I could as I sipped on the best damn gin ever […]
Evening all, Just as I was getting into the swing of things with a few quick fire posts I ended up needing to focus on work due to some important project pieces. Coupled with that, I caught a dreaded man-flu style bug over the weekend which broke me a little this week. Posts on Alexa […]
Task estimates; the very real enemy of the developer. The numbers you provide for a task or piece of project work (whether this is in hours, days, story points, etc.), as an ‘estimate’, are often not being viewed as an approximation by all involved. This particular subject is covered, rather marvellously by Robert C.Martin, aka […]
Howdy all, I am a bit of a customisation nut; pretty much with any software package I pick up I have the uncontrollable urge to dig straight into the options and get on the hunt for how to ‘theme it up’! The one that probably upsets me the most is poor old SQL Server Management […]
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