Restsharp

Quick Look – RestSharp

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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 using pretty low-level tools in…

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The Magic of Git Bisect

The Magic of Git Bisect (And Why Small Commits Are Important!)

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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…

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.NET Cold Starts

.NET Cold Starts

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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: Cold starts. In software…

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Avalonia

Avalonia

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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 Foundation), a framework that really needed a V2….

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Earned Value

Earned Value

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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 answer, “we’ll be done when we are done,” usually doesn’t fly. Earned…

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Pulling Calendar Items Using Swift

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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 access, we must create…

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Scaffolding

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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, scaffolding is when some pre-generated code is used to get…

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Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Basics

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Basics

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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 Resource Sharing (CORS) is an HTTP-header based mechanism that allows…

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Contact Integration for Your Swift App

Contact Integration for Your Swift App

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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 contacts? The code to do so isn’t…

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RBAC vs ABAC

RBAC vs ABAC

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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 they can do anything inside a system. In many systems,…

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