by Chad Michel | Jul 9, 2019 | Software Engineering
From the outside, developers are sometimes seen as trolls living under a bridge. Okay, maybe that’s a bit harsh. How about this: strange wizards who wield unknowable powers to make things work. Or perhaps this: t-shirt-wearing loners who subsist on junk food and never...
by Chad Michel | Jul 2, 2019 | Software Engineering
As I wrote in Part 1 of my REST API with AWS series, development coding shouldn’t happen within the browser due to the lack of good practices such as reuse of functions, source control, and continuous integration. But there is a slight caveat to that: AWS Cloud9. With...
by Chad Michel | Jun 26, 2019 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Azure Functions are pretty cool and, from the perspective of an Azure .NET developer, they are almost the perfect place to drop some code. They are basically stateless services in the cloud. What else could you want? Azure DevOps is Microsoft’s solution for...
by Chad Michel | Jun 19, 2019 | Tools
Google has released a fun and engaging game building environment. Simply called “Game Builder”, this engine is unlikely to produce the next Halo or Call of Duty, but it’s a quick and easy way to create a video game…and that’s pretty awesome for anyone who’s wanted to...
by Chad Michel | Jun 11, 2019 | Tools
The interwebs are all ablaze with Apple’s announcement of SwiftUI. I’ve seen multiple articles about what was covered at the WWDC keynote, but the one topic that stood out to me was SwiftUI. With SwiftUI, did Apple just rewrite software development? What is SwiftUI?...
