Thoughts from a solution architect, technologist and Christian citizen.
Hi Community, As usual, I’d like to share with you a recent change to my MVP status. After 11 years, I am not an MVP recipient any longer. I recently had a lengthy conversation with my MVP lead and she gave me the news and I took it easy, but now I am member of […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, Today’s post is a quick recipe to enabling FTPS capabilities to our Xamarin applications. Please refer to code below to see it fully. Angel ObjectInfo Class using System; namespace WebUtils { /// <summary> /// /// </summary> public class ObjectInfo { /// <summary> /// Gets or sets the name. /// </summary> /// <value> /// […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, As a follow up to my previous post on Xamarin development, Today is about a common task which is serialization of SQLite tables as a CSV file (It could be any file actually, but in this specific case is a CSV file). At the same time, I’d like to also share with you […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, If you usually wear two hats (architect and developer) like I do, you might find this blog post useful. My current engagement requires me to have the precision of a surgeon, because anything misplaced might break the functionality of this Xamarin Android application. My customer’s requirement was “simple” being able to extend existing […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, It’s been almost 3 months since Microsoft announced their “Visual C++ for Linux Development” extension. There is a very concise and clear article here. This extension allows developers to target and deploy to *Nix systems (even to a Raspberry Pi) using Visual C++. Developers can even set breakpoints and debug remote code. In […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, This post is about a question that many of us as architects and developers tend to ask ourselves, how can we build reliable yet flexible software that has the ability to adapt itself on the fly based on configuration changes? There are a few approaches to this, but Today I’d like to share […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, Today’s post is about an IoC library I wrote back in 2013. I called it “LightIoc” because it’s self-contained in a single assembly file. Over the years I have used a few IoC libraries some of them are easy to use, others a bit bulkier or with more dependant assemblies but for this […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, This post is about how to check whether the binary representation of a byte is a palindrome. I’ve recently received an email by a fellow developer requesting some help with this, and after having done a bit of research I couldn’t find any good example written in C#, so I decided to do […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, I don’t consider myself a security specialist (or specialist at anything for that matter but a generalist instead). I am currently architecting a Web solution for one of my clients, and they came to me with a requirement “review, assess and rectify security vulnerabilities” on an existing Web application. it’s not what I […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, Today’s post is about a common issue faced by many Web developers when they build an MVC Web application that uses ADFS as its authentication mechanism. The problem lies that sessions might be abandoned by IIS when their time is up, but the MVC application might not even be aware of this fact, […]
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