The umBristol Umbraco V8 hackathon

Posted: Tuesday, 18 December 2018

As part of the umBristol Christmas Party day of events, our developer, Karl Tynan, recently attended the Umbraco V8 hackathon on a boat in Bristol.

Awaiting multiple tasks effectively

Posted: Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Working with the Task API and async and await makes consuming asynchronous operations very straightforward. However, what if I want to process several asynchronous operations concurrently?

Mobile app development is key of 2018

Posted: Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Many of us have seen the rise in mobile use, it now seems strange that you would be without a smart phone and also not to use it to order products and help keep our lives in order.

Xamarin.Forms tip: How to restrict entry view

Posted: Monday, 22 January 2018

As a Xamarin Forms developer sometimes all you need is a way to ensure that users of your application only enter specific characters into Entry views. For me, it was to restrict the entry to numeric characters and a single decimal.

Creation of an Alexa skill using an internal HR API

Posted: Thursday, 23 November 2017

With the automation of HR management here at Rock Solid Knowledge we wanted to create a new way to remember who was meant to be in the office. So with a recent office purchase of an Amazon Echo, I decided to take on the development of an interactive program that could be invoked via Alexa...

Something about nothing

Posted: Tuesday, 12 September 2017

I must admit when I first saw the list of new language features for C# 6 like many I wasn’t that impressed, especially off the back of async/await. This last month I have at last started my first new real C# 6 project and I must say while the features have not been earth shattering they are actually a joy to use…

Unit testing decorator base classes

Posted: Tuesday, 12 September 2017

When using the decorator pattern it is a common practice to create a base class implementation of the abstraction that simply forwards all calls to the decorated class. This means that in the actual functional decorators, once you derive from this base class, you only need to implement the behaviour for the specific methods...

Working with CancellationToken and Dispose

Posted: Wednesday, 30 August 2017

CancellationToken were introduced in .NET 4.0 as a general purpose cancellation framework. It is often associated with Task as that was the first API to it. However, it is, in fact, independent of Task and should be used wherever you are supporting the concept of cancellation as async APIs you may call with be designed with it in mind…

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