More than a year ago, the world was taken by storm by a mysterious virus that posed the biggest sanitary crisis the world has seen since the Spanish Flu of 1918. Since then, humans did what they do best, we adapted. While schools, sports, shops and restaurants were closed, homeworking became the rule where this…
Author: Hakim
Safely store secrets during development
When developing an application, we sometimes need to call an api or connect to a database and for this, we use passwords or keys to connect. If we put them in the appsettings, there’s always the danger of forgetting about them and commit them to source control which can then cause a security flaw. To…
Working with Legacy databases
It does not happen everyday that as a developer we start working on a greenfield project. On many occasions, we have maintenance work to do on existing projects or we are rewriting an old application into microservices. What happens during these brownfield projects is that we have to cope with an existing database that is…
Blazor : convince your CTO (or whomever takes the technical decisions)
When there is something new on the market, we developers want to work with it. There might be several reasons for that, but not always the shortcut decision makers think we favour, which is wanting to try the new shiny thing. Most of the time, we want to work with the new stuff because it…
Blazor : server-side or Web assembly
Blazor is amazing. But if you are wondering which of Web Assembly of Server-Side would suit your project, here’s an attempt to explain and help
Feature flags using Azure feature
Feature flags are very useful when you develop an application and while you don’t want users to use the feature that isn’t really ready, you don’t want to stay on a side branch for too long as merging and rebasing from the main branch can become quite the chore. Enter feature flags. So how do…
Publish a Xamarin app to App Center with Azure Pipeline.
I’ve been working on an android app with Xamarin lately and I wanted to deploy it to App Center automatically so I can install it on my mobile to test it as I hate manual deployment. I knew that App Center had a connector to azure devops repositories so you can build and deploy when…
How to : Blazor components (basic)
One essential aspect of Blazor are components. They are basically your Blazor code container. This is where you put the UI and the code needed for your UI to behave the way you want it to. You can dissociate the code from the UI but it’s not mandatory. For small component, I would advise to…
How to blazorify an existing mvc app
Blazor is awesome. If you don’t know what it is, you can check it out here but to summarize, it’s a framework that allows .net code to run in your browser using the power of Web Assembly. I’ve found a lot of tutorials using the official blazor templates but only hints on how exactly using Blazor…
Encourage your kids to read books
Books are a given, or so I thought. While technological progress allowed many children to receive a smartphone from parents, grand-parents, uncles, aunts,… It seems to be detrimental to books and children willingness to read them. I have loved technology for as long I can remember, even before my parents bought us our 486 compaq…