It’s Your Day That was the mantra that James Montemagno repeated time and time again during his opening remarks yesterday, August 22, for Xamarin Dev Days – Madison. And truly, it was the developers’ day, as there were tons of insightful questions, comments and positive reactions throughout the day as…
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Matthew Soucoup
Matthew is a Sr Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and a Pluralsight author from Seattle by way of Madison, WI. He ❤️s 📱 & ☁️ development and Wisconsin craft 🍺 and 🧀.
Code Mill Minute: Adding npm Modules to Azure Mobile Services
I recently had to add some npm [https://www.npmjs.com/] modules to a “classic” Azure Mobile Service instance built on node.js. (I say classic, which is accessed through the old portal, as opposed to the new Azure Mobile Apps, which is managed through the new portal. But the…
Why Can't We Be Friends? Conflict Resolution in Azure Mobile Services
The story is always the same… we develop this brand new app, introduce it to Azure [https://codemilltech.com/head-in-the-clouds-azure-mobile-services-and-data/], and they get along like gangbusters… constantly sending data back and forth. Then they have a little squabble, the lights go out and the internet is down, but Azure &…
Code Mill Minute: Setting Up Xamarin Studio To Work With TFS Online Git Source Control
Today I’m starting a new series of blog posts entitled “Code Mill Minute”. These will be a departure from my normal novel length posts (I’m trying to shorten those too, but that’s another story) and will focus on just fixing or doing something that we developers encounter…
Who Turned Off the Lights? Azure Offline Editing and Syncing
We spent the last post cloud gazing [https://codemilltech.com/head-in-the-clouds-azure-mobile-services-and-data/] and exploring the Azure Mobile Services API as it relates to creating and retrieving data from a Xamarin mobile app. But we were limited to accessing our data only when connected to the internet. What happens when the skies…
Head in the Clouds - Azure Mobile Services and Data
As we continue down the path of looking at cross platform data options, let’s reminisce of where we came from… * First we argued with a hipster about whether storing data in SQLite [https://codemilltech.com/artisanal-cross-platform-data-persistence-a-sqlite-sqlite-net-primer/] was good or not… * Then we got down and dirty with some cold…