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... 
by Chad Michel | Aug 3, 2022 | Technology, Tools
In my previous blog post, I mentioned using SQLite with an iOS application. In this post, we will extend that example to support text searching. While SQLite is a single file database that is pretty straightforward to work, it contains a powerful full-text search... 
by Chad Michel | Jul 26, 2022 | Technology, Tools
When building an application, you often need some way to store associated data. Applications usually store less data than cloud applications, but many of the same constraints still exist. You still need to store data. Some of the data is relational, such as contacts... 
by Chad Michel | Jul 20, 2022 | Tools
Sending SMS (text messages) is pretty straightforward. I have previously written blog posts on how to do this with Twilio and AWS SNS. Now Azure has a service that can send SMS messages without using another service. To start, create an Azure Communication Service.... 
by Chad Michel | Jul 14, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
I work with many students through our various education programs and Nebraska Dev Lab. During the last few days, I have done a lot of code walkthroughs, basically showing students how to implement a feature one line of code at a time. When we got to the frontend...