Other Use your Synology NAS as a personal free VPN (using OpenVPN) When traveling to some countries, you might need a VPN. I won't sell you any VPN here, but if you have a NAS at home, you basically have a personal VPN. Follow this tutorial and you can route all your traffic through your home!
MAUI Adding Haptic Feedback to your MAUI app [part 1: MAUI] 7 years ago, I wrote a post about Haptic feedback in Xamarin. Now that Xamarin is gone, it is time to refresh that. This is part of a series of posts dedicated to Haptic Feedback in the .NET multi-platform realm. This post will cover the usage of the MAUI shared API (HapticFeedback).
Archived How much salary should you ask for ? [foreigner edition] It can be very hard to know how much money you should ask for when going to work abroad. After many failures I've decided to write down an estimation technique, and I'll share it with you here.
Archived Reflections on “Why remote freelancer” Hi everyone! It's been a while since I've posted on here ... I want to give you some updates about where I'm at today and some learnings from my 2 years in the same company.
C# / .NET Singleton snippet (PC/Mac) #XamarinMonth Code Snippets (or templates in the Visual Studio for Mac world) are ready-made snippets of code you can quickly insert into your code. Here is my snippet/template to implement a singleton.
Xamarin Drag and drop in Xamarin.Forms (Fixed for Android) In this article I'm showing you my solution for implementing a Drag and Drop interaction into your Xamarin.Forms app. I didn't want to use any native component or Custom Renderer on purpose, many of these solutions are available. I'm using PanGestureRecognizer, TranslateTo and some basic maths.
Xamarin More Xamarin.Forms.Color functions Hi all! When designing en app and implementing styles it can be useful to control and transform your Color resources. Here are some extension functions to help you with that.
Xamarin Controlling iOS StatusBar in Xamarin.Forms On iOS there is this system StatusBar at the top of the screen that shows the battery level, time etc. This is how to control it in Xamarin.Forms
Tooling ScrCpy : Free open-source solution to cast your Android screen on Mac As a mobile developer we are often asked to demo our work. In the Android world there are many ways of doing that. Here is an introduction to Scrcpy.
Xamarin Handle navigation exceptions in Prism for Xamarin If you're using the NavigationService in Prism, for Xamarin.Forms or simply Xamarin you might notice native crashes with no information or whatsoever. Here is how I handle this.
Xamarin Drag and drop solutions for Xamarin The drag and drop user interaction is a popular subject in the Xamarin world. Most solutions we can find online are native implementations, here are the documentations I could find.
C# / .NET Logging .NET apps using NLog Debugging messages, logs, can become very messy very quickly in development teams. I've decided to set up a sort of logging framework in my last team. Here is what I did.
Xamarin Add vibrations in a Xamarin.iOS app Long time ago I've worked on adding Haptic Feedback, aka. vibrations on a Xamarin.Native app. Here is how it works for iOS
Azure How to create a blog in 20 minutes Ghost is a free and open source blogging platform written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT License.
Azure Rename an Azure Directory Every Azure account is bound to at least one Azure Directory. My Azure Directory was named "Répertoire par défaut" for ages. I didn't know how to rename it and I wasn't sure what would be the impact of that renaming. Turns out it's not as hard as I thought and there are no particular side effects.
Azure Organising your Azure Subscriptions Since I was a student I always had multiple Azure Subscriptions, Each of them had a different capabilities and amount of money included. It became such a waste of time that I decided to find a solution to tell the difference between each of them.
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