Feature flags are very useful when you develop an application and while you don’t want users to use the feature that isn’t really ready, you don’t want to stay on a side branch for too long as merging and rebasing from the main branch can become quite the chore. Enter feature flags. So how do…
Author: Hakim
Publish a Xamarin app to App Center with Azure Pipeline.
I’ve been working on an android app with Xamarin lately and I wanted to deploy it to App Center automatically so I can install it on my mobile to test it as I hate manual deployment. I knew that App Center had a connector to azure devops repositories so you can build and deploy when…
How to : Blazor components (basic)
One essential aspect of Blazor are components. They are basically your Blazor code container. This is where you put the UI and the code needed for your UI to behave the way you want it to. You can dissociate the code from the UI but it’s not mandatory. For small component, I would advise to…
How to blazorify an existing mvc app
Blazor is awesome. If you don’t know what it is, you can check it out here but to summarize, it’s a framework that allows .net code to run in your browser using the power of Web Assembly. I’ve found a lot of tutorials using the official blazor templates but only hints on how exactly using Blazor…
Encourage your kids to read books
Books are a given, or so I thought. While technological progress allowed many children to receive a smartphone from parents, grand-parents, uncles, aunts,… It seems to be detrimental to books and children willingness to read them. I have loved technology for as long I can remember, even before my parents bought us our 486 compaq…
Esp8266 – the IOT prototyping Graal
I’ve been working for some time now with IOT and I’ve worked extensively with the Esp8266 chip just because I’m testing a lot of stuff and don’t want to spend a lot of money in it. You can get these small WiFi chips at very reasonable prices like these on Aliexpress for example. The main…
MVA’s dead, long live Microsoft Learn
I’ve been a regular user of Microsoft virtual academy for quite some time now and when I heard the news about it being decommissioned I felt a bit nostalgic. This is where I learnt WCF and tons of other stuff, and the content was ever growing at the time and quite often upgraded. Yet there…
Another blog
To be honest, I thought about whether or not writing a blog about .net and dev in general would be relevant given the crazy amount of similar blogs around the web. Yet if you read this you’d know I’ve taken my decision 😉 I’m just going to write about whatever I feel like, and if…