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Things I Learned This Week - #1

My plan was to write a quick post about some cool things I found and learned this week but I just learned too much (as I do every week). Below are just the highlights, I will try and write more posts like this, especially if I get some cool comments :)

Read about a REST Client, Unit Testing, TFS and more in this post!

Asynchronous Model Validation

UPDATE: Kamil Grzybek commented on my article and pointed me in this direction: a blog post about Async OOP 2: Constructors by Stephen Cleary . While I still my post, I realize it is a bad practice.

Last week I found some great articles about Domain Driven Design . While I have been trying out various patterns and design principles like Clean Architecture and Domain Driven Design I was still finding out how to implement domain events. While doing some exercises I came up with a solution to validate domain entities with asynchronous validations which I want to share.

Using Google Sheet as CMS for your App - Part 1

Imagine you had an easy to understand CMS without too much overhead, just to add translations and a bit of content for your (Xamarin) app. A CMS with an “excel-like” interface, an interface most of your customers would understand without even a training? Say “Hi” to Google Sheets & Azure Functions!

Using an Arduino with Xamarin for Mac

It’s all about first times: my first Xamarin.Mac app and my first Arduino connection with a Mac. I am going to explain how I connected an Arduino to a Xamarin.Mac app to create a “pomodoro-like” timer.

Google Places Api

The Google Places API can be used to find locations and their details like geolocation, address and other data. It returns a predicted list of locations based on the input string. In this post I will show some details about the plugin I created.

Using MediatR in an MvvmCross App

Intro

A while ago I was listening to a podcast from DotNetRocks about Clean Architecture . Around the same time I read something about a Clean Architecture template which happens to be from Steve Smith , the same guy talking about it on the DotNetRocks show.

2024-08-29

Meeting MEETING Workshop 2 [2024-08-29 Thu 09:00] With: Mitchell (RS), 7 years RS. Bijenkorf. Liander (Arnhem) Question from yesterday: API of co-pilot possibilities Recap van yesterday Struggle to find the scope Got started, but without an introduction of the theme But, at least we had some outcome Today Intro Trying to focus on getting some more, practical outcole (if that is correct?) General Azure stack (power BI, data lake) Idea 1: Make usage visible Proxy usage Would we as devs be comfortable?