In .NET world storing data into xml configuration files is very common scenario. While, web apps (Asp.Net) use web.config, desktops use app.config (renamed to <FullExecutableFilename>.exe.config at runtime). Every application sooner or later needs to collect, persist and restore some data (settings) from (to) end user. While web apps store these information almost always into database, […]
Modern applications are distributed, loose-coupled and service oriented. Decoupled systems perform and scale better, maintenance is far easier (by reducing complexity into smaller more maintainable parts). Communication system that glue together these decoupled parts is important part of the system. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) has always been de-facto framework for communication between decoupled systems/processes in […]
A few days ago I read Martin Fowler’s blog post titled Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?. The article talks about balance between software quality and cost. It’s really a must-read for any person involved in process of making software.
I tried to pull some data from one WordPress to another WordPress installation. As I normally do, first I checked if some fancy plugin or widget exist in enormous WordPress plugin repository. After a while, I did not find (did not conform all my needs) any nice and easy solution.
When unit testing Xamarin Forms, sooner or later you hit at “You MUST call Xamarin.Forms.Init()” problem. In this blog post I will investigate one way how to deal with this issue.
If you read my post about setting up custom Linux Azure DevOps build agent https://www.jenx.si/2019/05/27/how-to-setup-private-linux-azure-devops-agent then this post will be very familiar to you. I will try the same thing, but this time, I will use MacOS to set up Azure DevOps build agent.
In general, build agents should run as daemons/services not as user session scripts. In this blog post I will investigate how to register Linux Azure Build agent to run as a service.
Azure DevOps is amazing set of services which support all parts of Application lifecycle management. Although, built-in (Hosted) build agents are enough for almost all scenarios, there are cases when special needs are required. In this case, custom build agents covers these scenarios. In this blog post I will describe how to put on custom Linux build agent for Azure DevOps.
I was involved in development of Xamarin Forms mobile app which was targeting also Chinese market. We handled Chinese localization as any other language/region. But, some China-based phones gave me some headache.
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Microsoft announced and open-sourced new Windows Terminal. As announced, new console will be fast, modern, efficient, powerful, productive and will support multi tabs. Let give it a try!