Posted: Friday, 12 March 2021
I have worked with a lot of C/C++ programmers over the years, who have wanted to take up or convert to C# in particular for a multitude of reasons, but have never done so. Most could not believe that a company would pay them their expected salaries during the transition. I managed to do it, and this article is my bit to encourage those still willing that it is very, very possible.
Posted: Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Blazor WebAssembly is a new UI technology from Microsoft that allows developers to create single-page applications using C# and .NET utilising a component-based architecture
Posted: Monday, 11 January 2021
When you’re an inventive company, you want your employees to be spending their time on fresh new ideas, not repetitive queries. Learn how Rock Solid Knowledge built a customer service helper bot for Garden Games, powered by Umbraco, KHAOS Control and Microsoft LUIS.
Posted: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
You might have heard of "machine learning". Maybe it was through an advert for an online course or someone complaining about the dreaded “Algorithm” that rules most of online life. We’ve been running a weekly Machine Learning Club to skill up our developers in this space
Posted: Thursday, 2 July 2020
What is Tailwind CSS? What is a utility-first CSS framework? Find out how switching from bespoke CSS, Bootstrap, or other frameworks can help improve your front-end development productivity and maintenance.
Posted: Tuesday, 10 December 2019
You may have noticed that the C# compiler gets very upset if you try to use an `await` inside a `lock` statement. There is a reason for this but what if you need synchronization when calling async methods?
Posted: Tuesday, 16 April 2019
This article explores how to use SkiaSharp to change the colours of images at runtime
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.
Posted: Thursday, 4 October 2018
Navigation in Xamarin.Forms is tightly coupled to the UI. How can you go about breaking that coupling and making your ViewModels more testable?
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?
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.
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.
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...
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…
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...
Posted: Thursday, 7 September 2017
There is a common pattern that is used in .NET APIs where anything that returns a Task has the suffix Async…
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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