A lot of people have been jumping on the headless CMS bandwagon over the past few years, but I’ve never been entirely convinced. Maybe it’s partly because I don’t want to give up on the sunk costs of what I’ve...
As frontend developers, it’s not enough to know how to build the applications, you also need to know how to build applications for everyone to be able to use. With the number of web users continuously growing, it’s important that...
I love messaging platforms. Slack has made a real difference to the way we can work with remote teams and keep our disparate engineers sharing thoughts and mindsets. We’re also experimenting with Teams, which is proving great, but all these...
I am in my final year at university: part of the Capgemini Degree Apprenticeship. This year requires a large software project to be delivered and one component of that is a React frontend. Through it I’ve been experimenting and discovered...
After such a positive experience at the Lead Developer conference last year, as soon as I saw this year’s announcement, I saved the date and started writing the email to get my company to pay for the ticket. Thankfully, my...
Xamarin provides a common development experience for creating cross platform mobile applications. The aim of this post is to highlight the design techniques available and options Xamarin provides for maximising code reuse, thus ensuring cleaner code and increased productivity. The...
For many years Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) was the standard approach for communicating with remote services, often via HTTP. The landscape has changed significantly in recent years with the increase in the adoption of Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs....
There are many ways to create a Service Fabric cluster and what follows, is by no means, the only one. A few posts have been written elsewhere on the internet (for example Create Service Fabric clusters from Visual Studio) and...
For our Platinum sponsorship of Devoxx UK this year, we had a theme to align with our recruitment drive of “it takes all types to make a team”. One attraction that we had at our stall was an application taking...
Overview Since its conception by Facebook in 2013, React has quickly become one of the most popular libraries for building web-based user interfaces. React uses JavaScript to create a dynamic web application normally rendered directly on the client side device,...
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