by Chad Michel | Sep 27, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
It is very common to make REST API calls as part of our applications today. REST APIs are probably the most common API flavor out there. The ease of interacting with REST APIs is perhaps the biggest driver for REST APIs becoming so popular. You can make REST API calls...
by Josh Donner | Sep 22, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Have you ever had a bug slip through CI/CD, and the code you were CERTAIN worked a while back is no longer working as designed? If the bug is hard to find or in a piece of code that is hard to debug, git bisect may be the tool you are looking for. If you practice good...
by Chad Michel | Sep 20, 2022 | Software Engineering
I love .NET and C#, and I think it is the best platform for writing software in many ways. C# was created to make it easier to write quality business software. And it has evolved to be better and better. But there is one thing that still isn’t fixed with .NET:...
by Chad Michel | Sep 13, 2022 | Tools
I am always on the lookout for new tools and frameworks for writing software. While I bump into many tools that I’ll probably never use, Avalonia is one that I actually hope to try out soon. For me, Avalonia is a spiritual successor of WPF (Windows Presentation...
by Chad Michel | Sep 8, 2022 | Project Management, Software Engineering
Tracking project progress isn’t as simple as you would think. Common questions often include, “are we there yet?”, “are we going to end over budget?”, and “are we going to end past the schedule?” These questions keep people up at night. And the...
by Chad Michel | Aug 30, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Software Engineering
In a previous blog post, I took you through how to pull contacts from iOS or Mac. In this post, I will show you how to pull calendar items. This turns out to be very similar to pulling contacts. First, we must request access to the calendar. As part of requesting...
by Chad Michel | Aug 25, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Sometimes we just need a few screens to perform some basic data editing. Often this is necessary for an admin system. We could build full systems for that (which has some advantages), but we might be better off with some scaffolded UI. In software development,...
by Andrew Tarr | Aug 17, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Software Engineering
This post is intended to give you a swift kick from behind into a pool of CORS, without taking all day to do so, and without digging into any specific technologies. With that said, let’s learn to swim. What is CORS? From Mozilla: “Cross-Origin...
by Chad Michel | Aug 16, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
iOS and Mac have built-in systems to house many things, such as contacts. If you are building software that has contacts, there is a good chance you will want to pull those system contacts and integrate them into your system. So how does one go about integrating those...
by Chad Michel | Aug 11, 2022 | Technology
Most modern systems have some form of authentication and authorization. Authentication refers to figuring out who someone is (think of user login). Authorization refers to figuring out what a user can do within a system. Just because a user can log in does not mean...
