Articles

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.

Decoupling views and navigation Xamarin.Forms

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?

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?

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...