Recently I looked into developing a cross platform .NET Core application. Up to a few years ago a .NET application was developed with the intention to run it on Windows. Not anymore. The landscape for .NET has changed dramatically over...
Customers, whether consumer, business, employee, partner, citizen or stakeholder, are demanding the same high grade user experience they experience from the likes of Facebook, Google and Netflix, in the applications and interactions they have with organisations every day. In the...
ffconf is a JavaScript conference which is held in Brighton each year. This post provides a brief summary of ffconf 2017 (held on 9 and 10 November) and links to the talks posted by the organisers. The day offered a...
Gulp.js is a task runner that is used to automate tasks such as compiling all your style sheets into a single file, uglifying your JavaScript and so much more. This post is going to introduce you to the world of...
There’s a certain inescapable truth that people who work with technology need to face. As time goes by, the knowledge we’ve gained almost inevitably becomes obsolete. If we specialise in something, how do we deal with the fact that our...
I attended a SkillsMatter meetup the other day where Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin) explained some key features of clean architecture. It was a new talk and the content was taken from his new book “Clean Architecture”. It was an...
Overview A common question that many developers and architects struggle to answer is which technology stacks should I use for my project, and more importantly why? This decision is particularly important when it comes to picking a database, as databases...
Since starting on my journey down the Microsoft Open Source road, one of the things I have been introduced to is Docker. Increasingly, I have looked for opportunities where I can use Docker when developing my .NET applications. DevOps has...
Design thinking: What is it and why do I care about it? Design thinking is a framework for finding ideal solutions to complex problems, through observation, empathy and experimentation centered around humans. You might think that this is all rather...
I’m too old to be a front-end developer. Talk of frameworks and js-library bingo makes me feel like a WWII veteran at a segway convention. But then I went to Devoxx US and heard Ben Ilegbodu’s talk, ‘Navigating the React...
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