This week, Microsoft’s yearly Ignite Conference took place in Orlando, Florida. Ignite focuses mostly on cloud topics and is beside Microsoft Build the second biggest Microsoft IT conference of the year. Here are my developer centric highlights summarized! Compute Azure Functions: Runtime...
Read moreIf you are doing modern web development these days, chances are high that you do it with Docker Containers. If you are creating modern cloud architectures these days, chances are high, that you do it with automation tools like Terraform. But Read more…
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 in Visual Studio Code” option in their Read more…
From Monday to Wednesday, //build 2018 conference took place in Seattle. It’s in the nature of Microsoft’s largest and most important developer conference to announce a bunch of cool stuff and updates to their Cloud, AI, and Frontend developer tools and Read more…
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 we see discover flaws on iOS more Read more…
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 some time playing video games. Personally, I Read more…
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 could not deliver: A round shape and a Read more…
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 send code to others as a compressed Read more…
With iOS 11, Apple introduced a bunch of new design elements to its mobile platform. One of them are larger titles, that sit in the Navigation Bar and can be scrolled away when more space is needed. Large Titles can be Read more…
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 progress and will be extended over time, but Read more…