by Chad Michel | Dec 7, 2022 | Tools
.NET MAUI is Microsoft’s next version of Xamarin Forms. It has taken Microsoft a few years to get here, but with .NET 7 MAUI is finally in a usable state. Since .NET MAUI is an extension of what was Xamarin Forms, you can write a single piece of C# code that...
by Chad Michel | Dec 2, 2022 | Tools
Visual Studio may be Microsoft’s best product. I have always been impressed with it, especially compared to other IDEs. I have become a fan of JetBrains Rider in the last few years. It is a pretty impressive editor too. In some ways, it does a better job than...
by Doug Durham | Nov 30, 2022 | Leadership
What skills and knowledge are developers lacking? How do developers view their current skill sets? How do we help developers add to their toolbox of skills? How can we promote better software engineering practices? At a time when qualified development talent is at a...
by Chad Michel | Nov 23, 2022 | Leadership, Software Engineering
Some of our Don’t Panic Labs team attended Live 360 (which included Visual Studio Live) in Orlando last week. I’ve never had the opportunity to participate in a Visual Studio Live conference before, so I was pretty excited to check it out. While we were there to...
by Chad Michel | Nov 15, 2022 | Software Engineering, Technology, Tools
.NET 7 is out, and it is a pretty significant upgrade. Performance, ASP.NET, MAUI, and C# 11 are some of the new features. Microsoft continues to improve the performance improvements of .NET. As I have discussed in a previous blog post, Microsoft has needed to improve...
by Chad Michel | Nov 11, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
In JavaScript projects, we have been using MomentJS for a lot of the date math that happens in much of the business software we write. The MomentJS team is pushing for Luxon as the replacement. To get started with Luxon, you need to install it with npm. npm install...
by Chris Niemann | Nov 9, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
I was working on a research project that involved evaluating Styra, but it took me a couple of days before I was able to write my first policy. Styra provides authorization policy management for native cloud apps. It is built on top of the open-source Open Policy...
by Chad Michel | Nov 3, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Electron is a technology that allows developers to create desktop applications using web technologies. This approach has a few advantages. First, it will enable us to create a desktop application using web technologies. Second, it allows us to create a single...
by Dyllan Usher | Nov 1, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
There are several different ways to pass data from one component to the next. We will briefly discuss a few of these options and then implement passing data from a component you’re navigating away from to the component you navigated to using router NavigationExtras....
by Chad Michel | Oct 28, 2022 | Software Engineering
I am not good at drawing; I wish I were, but I am not. I got a lot of practice when my kids were younger. We spent a lot of time drawing with chalk on our driveway and sidewalks. We often drew things my kids were into at the time: cars, families, and trains. For some...
