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... by Andrew Tarr | Oct 13, 2015 | Software Engineering
In one of our recent projects, we were managing data back and forth between two websites: one set up for an intranet with Active Directory authentication and the other set up to face external traffic with Identity authentication. In the project, a need arose to... by Andrew Tarr | Aug 25, 2015 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
Over the last seven months I’ve been developing web applications using Visual Studio in Parallels 10, and the experience is alternatingly fantastic and frustrating, depending on the day. Some days I get the performance I want out of Parallels, and other days it’s...