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Garden management with Azure, Part 1

By on 02/03/2017

Microsoft offers with Azure and its SDKs a comfortable and fast way to create pretty nice applications

Cloud with SQL database, storage, authentification and notifications
Clients with offline data synchronisation
Life diagnostics and flexible scalability

When you follow the example implementations, it’s very easy to create an application that…


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Developing in small circles

By on 17/02/2017

Automatic testing is one of the most important ‘best practices’. But why? We all know that it’s an effort to write them, and more effort to maintain them. Fact is, they can help you writing high quality pieces of your system within a big stack.

Here’s an example stack:

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Mobile app for garden beds and plantations

By on 13/02/2017

In short
This post describes the implementation of a cross platform mobile application with Xamarin that allows the display of different GardenBeds and the different plants on it (details). It’s meant to demonstrate a complete frontend implementation including testing and dependency injection. User input is not implemented, to keep the example…


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Introduction

By on 01/02/2017

Welcome fellow planters!

Planting? Growing? Is this guy crazy or does he just want attention? Hopefully none of those. Of course one thinks that developing software and growing plants have nothing to do with each other. Please lend me some minutes of your time and let me point out some…