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…
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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…
See Matt at That ... Conference!
I’m Speaking! I’m extremely honored and couldn’t be happier to announce that I’m speaking not only once… but twice at That Conference this August in Wisconsin Dells! Session One – Apple Watch Development: The Bear Essentials In the first session on Tuesday, August 11, I’m joining…
Akavache is AKA Awesome!
In the last post [https://codemilltech.com/cold-hard-data-cache-or-saving-our-users-money/] we covered how to implement data caching in a cross platform application using Xamarin. And we also showed why providing a data cache to the users of our mobile applications is important. Why caching is important * Network resiliency * Perceived app performance However,…
Cold Hard Data Cache - Or Saving Our Users Money!
After that last post on SQLite [https://codemilltech.com/artisanal-cross-platform-data-persistence-a-sqlite-sqlite-net-primer/] , let’s explore one of the best things we can do with persisted data for the users of our mobile applications … provide a cache of data. And even better … the data cache that we’re going to give them is…