Dart Failure Handling I write these notes for myself so I don't forget the more complicated stuff I come across. In a great video series, Matt from ResoCoder shows how capturing exceptions at
Sub queries in LINQ Writing these damn queries always makes me feel stupid. Here's a sample where we need to filter on the values in an object and other values in a list contained inside the object, but need access to the parent object and associated child object
Trout Lake Deer Hunting Catastrophe ~ November 1933 This is the accounting of a hunting trip that nearly ended badly. This document was found during a cleaning up exercise and has been reproduced here in its entirety. Some of you will know these individuals.
Crap I always forget... Using Enums Always declare a zero value, valid enum Use ResourceDictionary to localize them. For flags, remember there is a limit of 31 for an int and 63 for a long. Microsoft docs To create a normal Enum, use the attribute below so that
The App: Identity Set Up I have officially lost my mind. I've never run into so many roadblocks in my life on a single concept. Everything seems to be about halfway there, nothing works completely out of the box. And since the effort crosses so many platforms, frameworks and
core Some Bits On Reflection There are some hard to find solutions for reflection issues that work on both .NET 4.61 and .Net Core 1.1 I'm just putting there here so I can
The App: Token Flow I thought I'd write this all down before I forget it. Really hard to remember it after stepping away for a second. I'm using the Microsoft Azure Mobile App platform and I want to support a number of different identity providers and platforms. This
app Setting Up with Zapier This shouldn't have been that hard, but it was. I mostly blame pronouns. I'm documenting this here just so I'll remember how to redo it all again later. As usual.
movies Stuff Worth Watching When I run into friends these days they often ask what I've been watching. Not that they think my opinion means all that much, just that I might have caught
The App: Security Compromises After all this work, it appears that we're at a bit of an impasse with regard to MS products and identity. This is beyond frustrating. At the heart of this
app; development The App: Logging In/Out User Experience It seems that every supplier of identity libraries has their own idea about controlling the login flow. Of course, none of them seem to match ours. The problem is, they
app; development The App: Security Selection and Considerations This has been far more difficult than it ever should have been. None of the pieces of the puzzle ever seemed to fit. But here's what happened and what we're
The APP: More Pesky Security Setbacks So for more than a month I've been working on figuring out how to finally get my security model in place. And failed. It wasn't a complete waste, I'm quite
The App: Great Ways to Debug Azure Mobile Apps - Part2 In Part 1 of this I showed how to connect up Azure Mobile Apps to ngrok.io and make it work. But if you want real performance data on your
The App: Great Ways to Debug Azure Mobile Apps - Part 1 The problem with developing cloud based services, especially those involving authentication, is that at least some of the logic lives in the cloud. Attaching a debugger to that process in
Suggestions for a Xamarin Client SDK Login Adrian, Thanks so much for listening to these suggestions. I think some of them might be a little bit of an edge case (multiple users on a single device) but others seem to get a lot of play on various forums which suggests lots
Working with the IoT and Windows 10 So I decided a long time ago to use the Raspberry Pi 2 for a little home experiment regarding humidity in my crawlspaces and basement. It's already costing me thousands,
Cable and Internet Our internet situation is a challenge. When we bought the house, there was a Uverse router in the basement. I figured that was sub optimal, but it would do. Trying
The App: Security. Jesus. What A Mess. You can't build an app these days without building security in from the start. Whatever choice you make, it ends up baked into everything. So I decided to take a
The App: Really Cool Test/Debugging Setup Trying to host a local site on your local machine while communicating with other hosts can be a huge pain. But it's really important for debugging and seeing the traffic
app; development The App: Shifting Gears - The Database So I thought I would just use Azure Table Storage for everything, given the fact that it's about $0.12 per gigabyte per month. Pretty awesome. But Storage Tables only
app; development The App: Shifting Gears - The Gateway So, just when I thought I had this figured out... I had selected Authorize.NET as our gateway to allow people to charge credit cards. They have a nice .NET
app; development The App: Modelling Heresy In developer blogs over the last year or so, I’ve seen a drift away from a single data model that describes the solution and that every aspect of the
app; development The App: Data Storage Choices for Scale Pro tip: If you are cutting and pasting using Edge and Ghost, be sure to copy and paste instead. Just lost an entire post trying to split one post into
The App: Client Tool Selection I was out for bit on a sailing vacation with my sister and her family. Really awesome bit of time off. Just before I left, I'd built some projects (very
