by Andrew Tarr | Mar 4, 2020 | Software Engineering
Developers come and go throughout the life of a project, and they all tend to have their own personal coding nuances. With no style guide, no standardization, no rules, no linter, no style cop, etc., the codebase’s style – or lack-there-of – will inevitably become...
by Andrew Tarr | Oct 10, 2017 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
If you’re wondering how to best leverage your Azure account in the midst of containerizing all your things, then you’re in luck. Azure’s got you covered. In this article, I’m focusing on Azure’s container registry, because I think it will fit into my workflow a little...
by Andrew Tarr | Jul 11, 2017 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
I recently needed to implement a UI that required a UITableViewCell to have an expandable “notes” fields within it, with the expansion triggered by a button within the cell itself. Getting this to work was a little tricky. So if you find yourself in this situation, I...
by Andrew Tarr | Nov 30, 2016 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
In this post, I’d like to share a few tips to get up and running with the Telerik mocking framework JustMock, so you can easily and quickly write tests that give you that warm-and-fuzzy feeling you crave from your code. Notes I assume some familiarity with the...
by Andrew Tarr | May 3, 2016 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
As of April 2016, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) does not support triggering a build from another build. This presents a problem if you want your setup to do something like start two builds from a single pull request onto a branch (because VSTS does not support...
