My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Designing apps for efficient battery usage

June 21, 2016
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Most people who start coding (me included) have a natural affinity towards poor design, but we refine our approach ...

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Programming on a Mobile OS–Swift Playgrounds

June 14, 2016
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I have argued for a long time that tablets are a reductive technology, not just for direct consumers, but  specifically ...

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Reflecting Tip: Edit a .NET Assembly

June 07, 2016
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A really smart colleague of mine made me aware of a plugin called Reflixil associated with Reflector (also  ILSpy) that ...

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Let it Shine

May 26, 2016
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We are at the center of the universe … well the earth, by definition, is at the center of our observable universe. By ...

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Nerd Life Balance

May 18, 2016
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About five years ago I found myself in a quandary, I simply could not switch off. I had several high profile projects ...

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Facial Recognition using Windows Runtime API

May 11, 2016
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Intelligent applications are all the rage and I for one was really surprised to see how easy and quickly some basic ...

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SHA-1: If One Fails All Fails

April 30, 2016
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When you manage large scale platforms across multiple operating systems (browsers are mini OS’es IMHO), you really have ...

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Task Tip: Handling Antecedent Exceptions

April 12, 2016
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Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (or TAP) was introduced into the .NET framework in version 4, and provided a consistent ...

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Intelligent Applications

March 31, 2016
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Having had some time to reflect on the Build keynote yesterday the idea that resonated with me the most was that we ...

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