Intro In this post, I’ll be playing with the RadListView by Telerik UI for Xamarin. I’ve been wanting to try out this suite of controls for quite some time now. However I’m usually doing really small projects and using a trial isn’t the greatest. I did find out that there may be a license available … Read more
Intro This is one of my favorite topics as of late – Clean Architecture, the Do’s and Don’ts of how to write awesome software. At some point in your software development career, you’ll want to start taking things to the next level. That one liner might not be as magical anymore; or maybe you’re hazed … Read more
Intro If you don’t know by now, Xamarin Forms is a powerful, cross platform mobile application framework. One of the challenges with cross platform development, is a consistent user experience and look and feel. In this How-to guide, we will create a ‘MasterDetail’ application, where the user has a slide out, hamburger style menu that … Read more
Custom Snippets In Visual Studio Code, you have the ability to create custom code snippets that are available via Intellisense. This is really useful when you want to get things done quickly, as there is no limit to how complicated the code in the snippet can be! If you haven’t tried Visual Studio Code yet, you’re missing out on … Read more
Changing Password Policy The password restrictions in ASP.NET Core Identity are strict by default, however you may find yourself wanting to change it to make it easier for you users. Changing the password policy, consists of modifying the way IdentityRoles are created on startup. You can do this by modifying the code inside the “ConfigureServices” method … Read more
Callbacks Understanding callbacks is essential, they not only provide a means to application flow, but allow you to write cleaner, and more modular code too. You must understand that functions are first class citizens in JavaScript, they can be stored in variables, passed into functions, and returned as a result of an operation. Using a … Read more
Intro This tutorial will show you an example app I wrote in AngularJs for the popular video game World of Warcraft. It will show you how to create simple http requests against Blizzard’s API, you’ll need to register for an API key there if you plan on running this app. It will then demonstrate how to … Read more
Getting started in the world of .Net and C# isn’t easy; I have a JavaScript background and it was tough for me at least. So, here is a simplified walk through of creating a “Code-First” database using the Entity Framework. Code First is a convention where by you write code (models) to represent entities in … Read more
Often, I find people asking the question about how to properly use promises and http factories, to retrieve data from a web service in AngularJs. I want to share the way I’ve adapted to using factories, which has streamlined the way I use them throughout my applications. As you know, $http supports promise chaining, which … Read more
Today I will show you how to install word press on an existing LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP ). This is a super quick install, that will have you running WordPress in no time. Once connected to your Linux server via SSH, you’ll want to run the following commands as the root user. Switch … Read more