Here on my Articles page, you can find a range of technical articles of software development. While these are mainly focused on mobile application development they contain many exciting insights and ideas that can apply to a wide range of application types and software development projects.
Un-deprecating UIWebView in Xamarin Forms
Since the 30th of April, many software houses and developers using Microsoft Xamarin will have fallen foul of the dreaded 'Deprecated UIWebView' issue which stops new apps being released to the Apple Appstore!!
Microsoft has provided a fix in the latest versions of Xamarin but upgrading is fraught with dangers and may not even be possible. As a result, businesses are now faced with the painful decision of either dropping Apple support or significantly delaying the launch of their new apps.
Having spent hours trying to unsuccessfully upgrade Xamarin I fixed the problem directly within the old version of the Xamarin code myself. It took less than 40 minutes before I had a new working app available on the Apple store with minimal disruption to my code and timescale!
Read about my innovative solution in this latest article of my Streetwise Tech series where I present easy to follow steps with screenshots and samples taken from live apps. I also describe some of the issues encountered in the upgrade attempt to help anyone considering that route.
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Conference Presentations
I'm an avid public speaker and have had the privilege of presenting at digital and IT conferences around the world. Watch my past conference presentations and public speeches.
Green Computing
Green Computing is about reducing the energy required to build, test, operate and maintain software. It requires us to take responsibility for our own code and not just rely on the big cloud providers and others to do it for us.
With Green Computing Software Engineers really can help save the planet.
The Tragedy of Charlie Bluster
The hilarious epic adventure saga of a lovable small orphan boy with a runny nose who turns into a super arch-villain that will cause any hero to go running for the toilet in terror!
Charlie has a secret, a superpower, and lots of bad people like the Mafia want to use him for their own Evil Purposes such as Teasing their Little Sisters or Nicking Flipping Great Wadges of Cash.
