Flutter Mobile UI Framework

Flutter is a new mobile UI framework from Google, that allows you to create native applications on iOS and Android. At the time of writing this blog post, it's still in beta but apparently will hit 1.0 soon! Now, I gotta say, when I first learned about Flutter, and what it was all about, I was very...

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Installing RabbitMQ on Windows

I really like RabbitMQ! If you have not come across RabbitMQ before, it's a messaging system that enables you to seperate your system out to communicate and send data between services or even other systems. If you want to ensure your system meets your reliability, scalability and performance requirements...

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Outputting HTML Content to PDF in C#

If you type "C# PDF Library" into google you will find there are lots of different offerings out there. My search turned up IronPDF which costs $399. We have got EOPdf which costs $749 or abcPDF at $329, Hey, what about ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter which is $550. But what about free? Well...

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Auto Updating an Android App outside the Play Store

In my previous post, I explained how I was writing a private Android app that is only intended for personal use (basically a hobby project). Because of this, I do not intend to release it in the Google Play Store.. But that brings up an interesting question: How am I going to update this app over...

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Android, Self-Signed Certificates and OkHttp

Just recently I have been writing a private Android application using the latest freshness that is Kotlin. Of course, like all mobile applications, it makes heavy use of HTTP requests, sending data back and forth between my app and the back-end API. Because this app is private, it will never be released...

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Excel Interop & C#

If you've ever developed even a small line-of-business application, sooner or later, you know your users are going to ask: "Erm... This is great and everything but can we get this data exported to excel?" Now, of course, exporting data to Excel has always been possible and back in the day, you would...

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OxyPlot Charting Control

The other day, I needed to display a simple time-series chart inside a little tool I was writing. Now, as we know the web has a slew of cool charting controls to pick from including chart.js and amcharts.js which I have used in the past and are great. But those libraries were out of the question because...

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WebAssembly and C#

I will always remember the day I was shown asm.js running a demo of a game using the Unreal engine... in a web browser, no less!!! - My jaw was on the ground. That was 2014. Little did I know at the time but asm.js would seed the path towards WebAssembly. WebAssembly (also known as WASM) looks...

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