Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI
You can build anything with .NET. It’s one of the main reasons millions of developers choose .NET as the platform for their careers, and companies invest for their businesses. With .NET 5 we begin our journey of unifying the .NET platform, bringing . [mgamazon...
Don’t write your Web API Client code
Web APIs are heavily gaining traction in the software world, replacing the (good?) old Web Services. Virtually every API that is born today is likely to be REST and being built using frameworks like WCF (if you’re brave enough), ASP.NET MVC WebAPI or Spring. [mgamazon...
GitHub is now free for teams
We’re happy to announce we’re making private repositories with unlimited collaborators available to all GitHub accounts. All of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone. 🎉 View original article
Flutter web: Navigating URLs using named routes
Named routes can be used to navigate between pages inside a Flutter mobile app, but they also work for URLs in Flutter web apps. This article explains how to add named routes to your app, and how you can customize them, to have pattern matching inside the routes....
How to choose which Flutter Animation Widget is right for you? – Flutter in Focus
In previous episodes of Flutter in Focus, we learned how to implement animations using Implicit widgets, Explicit widgets, and learned even more about how animations work. There are a lot of different animation widgets and figuring out which one is most appropriate...
Here’s A Flutter Boilerplate(Starter Kit) with BLoC pattern, splash screen, sample pages, Google Admob ready
Building a Flutter app is simply amazing! Even more amazing is the fact that you can reuse your code in multiple projects! But there are times you simply need to kick-off a fresh project without having to copy from another project. View...
An architectural review of the Invoice Ninja Flutter app
We’ve been working on our Flutter mobile app for a few months now, I thought it may helpful to share some of the techniques we’re using to help keep our code maintainable. Keep your code DRY (don’t repeat yourself). View original...
The Battle of C# to JSON Serializers in .NET Core 3
.NET Core 3 was recently released and brought with it a bunch of innovations. Besides C# 8 and support for WinForms & WPF, the new release added a brand new JSON (de)serializer. This new serializer goes by the name System.Text.Json and as the name suggests, all its...
JsonConverter Attribute in ASP.NET Core 3.0 Web API
In .NET Core 3.0, a built-in JSON converter is available in namespace System.Text.Json, and ASP.NET Core 3.0 uses this new JSON converter by default. Therefore, when you migrate your Web API from ASP.NET Core 2.x to 3.0, you need to replace JsonConverter attribute...
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ML.NET
An open source and cross-platform machine learning framework Get started Explore samples Supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS View original article
Announcing .NET Core 3.0
We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. View original article
Cascadia Code: new font for developers
IBM Plex Mono is much better in my opinion. These programmer font ligatures thing makes absolutely no sense, but anyway, here it is, the original article announcing Cascadia Code. Excerpt from the original article: Cascadia Code is finally here! You can install it...
Thousands of servers infected with new Lilocked (Lilu) ransomware
Thousands of web servers have been infected and had their files encrypted by a new strain of ransomware named Lilocked (or Lilu). Infections have been happening since mid-July, and have intensified in the past two weeks, ZDNet has learned. View...
Using Adaptive Cards in Flutter: Why we implemented a library with Microsoft
You may have read our last article on giving Flutter a serious try in our startup, which explains why we were so keen to use Flutter in the upcoming version of our product. This hasn’t changed: We’re still excited about Flutter and started rolling it out to some of...
From Native to Flutter to Web
Hillel Coren explains he went from native mobile apps, to flutter apps and back to web app (using flutter). Useful tips here. Original article at https://hillel.dev/2020/02/27/flutter-web-things-to-know/ Source at https://github.com/invoiceninja/flutter-client
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How to use an old iPad as a secondary screen for Windows 10
I have an old iPad 2 lying around. This iPad is getting useless as time goes by, and my 2 monitor setup at home is, sometimes, just not enough. Recently i've found a handy piece of software called Wired XDisplay. The setup is pretty straightforward: Install XDisplay...
Forms in Flutter beta 2 – important limitations
After trying to get Flutter forms to work, mixed with learning Dart and all the Flutter's intricacies, i came to the conclusion that Form support in Flutter is, at best, sub-par. Namely, there seems to be no support to sequence the inputs (e.g. when you insert text in...
Installing .net core runtime 2.0 on CentOS (or RHEL) + Apache reverse proxy for Kestrel asp.net systemd quick start
CentOS 7.x is required, this won't work older versions. First, enable the dotnet repository for yum: yum install centos-release-dotnet Next, install the runtime package: yum info rh-dontnet20 rh-dotnet20-runtime The following packages will be installed:...
Display all glyphs in a WOFF, TTF or OpenType font
Very useful online tool i've found: http://torinak.com/font/lsfont.html - it displays all the font glyphs in a nice, convenient, table.
Meltdown and Spectre in 15 minutes (or less)
Explained by the folks at Computherphile, in some detail in less than 15 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5mRwzVvFGE&t=297s
ISO 8601 Week number in PHP, MySQL and MSSQL
The following methods calculate the ISO 8601 Week number in PHP, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, with the same exact results. All the examples below are using the same week criteria: week stars on Monday. MySQL is easy, as it supports this directly: SELECT...
Centos 6, running PHP7 alongside stock PHP5
I have a couple of servers running PHP 5.x.x on CentOS 6 and i want to migrate some to PHP7, without worrying about the older stuff. So, i could compile PHP7 from source, setup FPM and Opcache for it, etc, etc, but i found out that REMI as a solution for this...
One Keyboard+Mouse, multiple computers, the Microsoft way
From Microsoft Garage, the new "Mouse without Borders" - it supports also keyboard, clipboard and file drag and drop. Its an alternative to Synergy, Input Director and similar solutions. I'll give it a try later. Download it here.
Setup Lighthouse, CentOS, 3 simple steps
Lighthouse analyzes web apps and web pages, collecting modern performance metrics and insights on developer best practices. Here is a simple 3 step setup guide for CentOS: Setup the EPEL yum repository install nodejs and npm using YUM Run npm install -g lighthouse And...
MySQL replication: How to recover from “Event too small corruption” or “Slave SQL: Relay log read failure”
The basic principle is, just restart where the slave left off. The problem arises if a binary log, on the slave side, remains corrupt. The recovery is relatively simple, just follow the recipe: STOP SLAVE SHOW SLAVE STATUS Note down 'Relay_Master_Log_File' and...
SystemD quick cheat sheet
A small collection of Systemd commands, along with the Sysvinit counterparts. Sysvinit Command Systemd Command Notes service frobozz start systemctl start frobozz Used to start a service (not reboot persistent) service frobozz stop systemctl stop frobozz Used to stop...
NativeScript example, step by step, Windows 10
A tiny, 5 minute, tutorial on creating a new empty project using NativeScript + TypeScript, compiling it and running in Android. First of all, install NativeScript (NodeJS v4.6.0 x64)plus the latest NativeScript. Check if the installation is OK: tns...