In case you can’t or don’t want to use the Microsoft hosted agents (why?), setting up your own build servers is not too hard. Of course, I hope you don’t have to deal with a proxy server. In the unlikely scenario that you have a proxy server, I honestly hope you don’t have one with a self-signed certificate. Now, if you have to deal with all of this, I feel you....
If you are neck-deep into DevOps using Azure DevOps, chances are that you have your code on a git repository, have PBIs or Stories, are using Pull requests, Builds, and releases. If you are doing all of this good stuff, great! Carry on and I will show you how to get that shiny cherry on top of your cake. If you are not, you can probably benefit from this post too, but you will have to figure out how to do the same using the tools you love....
Devices that are optimized for industrial purposes are typically rugged, have physical keyboards, and are very expensive. Why keyboards, you ask? First, a lot of those devices are still running Windows CE. Second, it is not uncommon for them to be used by workers wearing gloves. This is especially true in cold warehouses. Thus, having to use touch in these scenarios is less than ideal. In this post, I wanted to write about how you can handle keyboard events for an Android app built using Xamarin Forms....
There is a pattern here, I think. I don’t like to work with dates and you probably know that by now. Anyway, don’t like them, got to work with them. In this episode of Pains against dates, I wanted to write about something very specific that I had the pleasure to troubleshoot last week. I have this very important and somewhat old app where all dates are saved using server local time....
Let’s start by pointing out the obvious. It is painful to work with dates. No matter the technology, it is just harder than it should be. Anyway… I stumbled across one of those annoying date related issues with axios. Just to be fair, the problem is not necessarily an axios problem, I just got to it when using axios. By default, axios will use JSON.stringify to convert an object to a json....