Category: Coding Corner

  • Cards Layout in Xamarin.Forms – Never have Xamarin Forms looked so cool!

    All credits to the original author for doing this. Although I’m trying to extend it in the coming days, but props to Adam for finding this one out! Go to https://www.syntaxismyui.com/xamarin-forms-in-anger-cards/ and follow his other tutorial as well.   The #1 request I get for the Xamarin.Forms in Anger is for a Google or Facebook like card view. […]

  • Some more football API for epl or rather any sports API

    Browse the world’s largest API repository  http://www.programmableweb.com/category/sports/apis?category=20016 I was skimming through all the api’s and found one which actually works! https://market.mashape.com/heisenbug/premier-league-live-scores#match-events-live Now go code!

  • 4 Ways to Test Your Website in Old Versions of IE

    The first version of this article was written over four years ago, so as we approach the end of 2015 I thought it would be useful to revisit this topic. 1. Developer Tools Firstly, IE8, IE9, IE10 and IE11 all have developer tools that you can access by pressing F12 whilst in Internet Explorer. These […]

  • A software developer’s guide to clean code

    Software development is a tricky business. We spend most of our day breaking down complex problems into smaller tasks and then we write machine code. We often have to analyse code that someone else has written. We need to read so much documentation in order to get acquainted with a new API. Every day is […]

  • Top 10 Books Every .NET Developer Should Own

    Have you ever had a reference book that you HAD to keep near you? This list of must-have books are required reading and should always be within your reach. Everyone at one time or another reached for that specific book to find out how that one design pattern works or just needed it as a refresher […]