Personal Setup How I built my Dream Desk Last summer, I spent a day in my garage to build the perfect standing desk for my home office which is adjustable in height, supports wireless charging, hides all cables away from me and has indirect lights.
2019 Microsoft Build 2019: App Developer Highlights For Microsoft Build 2019, I have tried to summarize the most important announcements for Application Developers, Cloud Native fans and Data & AI engineers here at one place.
coding style Enforcing a consistent Coding Style across projects and programming languages Coding with style is hard. Especially because it is a very personal and opinionated thing – as always when it comes to style. To not offend anyone in the team but still follow a
AKS Control ingress to AKS with Azure API Management In this blog post, we will discuss, how to use Azure API Management as an ingress point for AKS services, that are not exposed publically and how other services in the Kubernetes cluster
announcements Microsoft Connect 2018: App Innovation Highlights This week, Microsoft Connect(); 2018, one of the companies smaller developer conferences took place in Las Vegas and the internet. All sessions are also available on-demand. During the keynote and other deep-dive sessions,
bose Use the Bose Quiet Comfort 35 with your Xbox One for Game Sound and Voice Chat The headphone situation on Xbox One is a bit messy. Some older controllers don’t have headphone outputs at all, others support different standards and cables. The Bose Quiet Comfort 35 is a
azure Check if Pull Requests violate EditorConfig rules with Azure DevOps Pipelines If you work in a project with multiple different developers, you might be using EditorConfig to standardize the coding styles and file formats across your team members. EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain
great Make the Mac great and again! With increased usability, especially for Windows users It’s not a secret, that using a Mac as my main device in the Microsoft world is a little bit exotic. I have to admit:I love this device! It’s the
announcements Microsoft Ignite 2018: App Innovation Highlights This week, Microsoft’s yearly Ignite Conference took place in Orlando, Florida. Ignite focuses mostly on cloud topics and is beside Microsoft Buildthe second biggest Microsoft IT conference of the year.Here
app service Deploy an Azure Web App for Containers with Terraform If you are doing modern web development these days, chances are highthat you do it with Docker Containers. If you are creating modern cloud architectures these days, chances are high, that you
finder Useful Developer Tools #10: Open folders in Visual Studio Code right from Finder in macOS If you work with Visual Studio Code on a Mac, you might benefit from an easy way to directly open the current Finder folder in the Editor. While Windows users have an “Open
announcements Microsoft Build 2018: App Innovation Highlights From Monday to Wednesday, //build 2018 conference took place in Seattle. It’s in the nature of Microsoft’s largest and most importantdeveloper conference to announce a bunch of cool stuff and
android Easy tricks to boost the native Android integration of your cross-platform apps Most mobile developers write their Mobile Apps on a Mac, which makes it super easy to quickly test them in the iOS Simulator. Naturally, this results in prettier iOS than Android apps, as
gaming My favorite offline Mobile Games for traveling I have always been into gaming but decreasingly find the time for it. As I travel for work quite often, airplanes are the only place where I can calm down and really spend
controls FlexButton: A super flexible button control for Xamarin.Forms Although Xamarin.Forms includes a Button control with quite a few ways to customize its layout, I needed a more flexible button for a side project, that required two things the default implementation
bin Useful Developer Tools #9: Clean and Zip .NET projects from Finder If you develop .NET projects, particularly in the Xamarin world, you might find yourself cleaning your projects (delete /bin and /obj folders) from time to time by hand. Especially, when you plan to
forms Enable and control iOS 11 Large Titles in Xamarin.Forms With iOS 11, Apple introduced a bunch of new design elements to its mobile platform. One of them arelarger titles, that sit in the Navigation Bar and can be scrolled away when
control Swipecards: A Tinder-like swipe control for Xamarin.Forms For a side-project of mine, I created a Xamarin.Forms control, that lets the user wipe away cards in different directions, similar to the popular Tinder app. The control is still work in
devops Disable Visual Studio App Center when running on a Simulator, Emulator or Test Cloud device When tracking usage statistics and crashes with Visual Studio App Center, you usually only want real-world data in there and filter out data that gets generated while developing or testing the app. To
color Useful Developer Tools #8: Colormind A while ago, I wrote about the Adobe Color Wheel here, which helps design noobies to create a color scheme for their product using colors that fit together. The challenge with Color Wheel
azure Replace your old cronjobs with free Azure Functions within 5 minutes For some of my older projects, I had some repetitive tasks where a simple job triggers a script to run and loadsome data from the web. For this, I used good old
coding Useful Developer Tools #7: Spotify playlist "Ambience While Coding" The new year has just started and many of us still have some holiday to spend time on our beloved coding projects. I personally love listening to some music while coding but especially
Wallpaper Wallpaper of the month (December 2016): Blurry Corn New month, new wallpaper. As it is getting really cold outside, I decided to use a summer wallpaper, that is also compatible with 21:9 ulta-wide screens! You canfind all wallpapers of
Development Free self-guided Xamarin workshop Two days ago, I gave a Xamarin workshop at the Microsoft Technical Summit 2016 conference in Darmstadt (Germany). This was a full-day workshop with a Xamarin introduction at the beginning and a guided
icons Useful Developer Tools #6: App Icons and Resizers Finding the right icons for your applications can be a tough task. Especially resizing them for the different platforms is super annoying. That is why I would like to share my favorite icon
