I’d like to start with a short story. I’m trying to write a simple Hello World program. I want it to run on Android, and it must use Xamarin Forms, and use XAML to describe the UI. Should be easy, 5 minutes to do, right? Not in my case. I go into Visual Studio and …
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Visual Studio 2015 MRU List Cleanup
Somewhere in the many years that Microsoft has been developing Visual Studio, they’ve managed to completely mess up the Most Recently Used (MRU) list of projects in the Start Page. It used to be that if you opened a project, it would appear at the top of the list the next time you open Visual …
Mongo, Restheart, and Dokku
Mongo is a popular NoSQL database nowadays. It has several advantages compared to relational databases (schema-less, key-value store, scalable, distributed, propagated consistency) but the main advantage, IMHO, is that JSON is the lingua franca for the data structures it stores and the queries you use. JSON is a nice, simple data structure representation. It can be easily …
GoDaddy left at the Docker
I’m in the process of checking out the advantages and disadvantages of GoDaddy’s new Cloud Server product, which has just been announced as generally available. It has few features, less compared to DigitalOcean, which has been available for a few years. AWS, which has been available for even longer, is generally the gold standard–if you …