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, there were some announcements around Azure and Microsoft’s Developer Tools. Beloware my highlights for Cloud
gaming 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 brilliant all-rounder headphone but it struggles with the Xbox. Here is how to connect it correctly for
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 consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs. Although EditorConfig does a great job here, it only
MacOS 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 best combination of hardware and software I have ever used. But this came a looong way. How
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 Build the second biggest Microsoft IT conference of the year. Here are my developer centric highlights summarized! Compute Azure Functions: Runtime 2.0 Released Official Announcement The improved
azure Deploy an Azure Web App for Containers with Terraform If 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 if you want to use Azure Web Apps as
Mac 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 in Visual Studio Code” option in their right-click context menu, macOS users are missing that feature. Sertaç
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 updates to their Cloud, AI, and Frontend developer tools and services. Here are my developer centric highlights
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 we see discover flaws on iOS more often. Using an Android Emulator mostly, is not an option,
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 some time playing video games. Personally, I am not too much into Jump n’ Runs or Puzzle
Xamarin 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 could not deliver: A round shape and a way to catch when a user presses and releases
MacOS 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 send code to others as a compressed .zip file, you might want to remove those folders beforehand.
Xamarin 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 more space is needed. Large Titles can be enabled with a few lines of code in iOS.
layout 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 progress and will be extended over time, but I decided to publish the current version as it
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 avoid sophisticated insights like those in the screenshot below, developers need to define, when Visual Studio App
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 is, that you still need a “feeling” for colors to create a good looking scheme. Colormind goes
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 cronjobs like the ones cronjob.de offers. As this was expensive und quite unsatisfying in terms of
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 when it comes to concentration, I find songs with lyrics distracting. Good thing, that Spotify userEmiliy
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 this series inside this OneDrive folder](http://pumpingco.de/content/images/2017/01/1.jpg)
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 workshop experience, where the participants learned how to Setup a Xamarin development environment Create native cross-platform apps
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 sources and resizing tools with you. Finding icons There are many different icon sources in the web
Development Move your Xamarin.Forms Toolbar to the bottom on Windows While iOS and Android typically have their toolbars and menus at the top of the page, on Windows you will find it at the bottom in most cases. Unfortunately, Xamarin.Forms renders all toolbar to the top of the page per default, even on Windows. So if you define a
purple Wallpaper of the month (November 2016): Purple Wolf I love minimalism and clean desktops anda strong wallpaper without any overlapping icons makes me happy every time I start my computer. That is why I started this series of beautiful wallpapers that I find on my travels through the world wide web. This beauty here makes the start!
azure Different ways to register devices to the Azure IoT Hub The Azure IoT Hub is Microsoft’s Internet of Things solution inthe cloud. Beside the commoneventmessage endpoints, it contains a device management system, which allows to register and manage devices that may send data to the IoT Hub. This increases security by generating a unique access key
Design Useful Developer Tools #5: Facebook's Device Sketches When creating mockup images for your product presentations, finding cool device images to put your screenshots in can be challenging. Especially, when you are looking for license free images that can be used commercially. Good thing, that Facebook now opened their device mockups to be downloaded for free. While Facebook