flutter Featured Flutter: Animated Gradients via Custom Hooks 💡The code and method below has been updated to latest flutter as of Jan 15th, 2023. When faced with the task of coming up with a re-usable "Animated Gradient" widget, I faced one problem, a gradient isn't actually a widget - I can't go and make an AnimatedWidget that I
flutter Featured Flutter architecture: Hooks, Functional Widget and RxDart 💡The source code has been updated for latest flutter as of January 15th 2023. Architectural approaches have changed since this article was written, but it's still relevant today. In 2017 I discovered flutter, the new hotness for building mobile apps that seemingly achieves the holy grail of a singular code-base
unity Featured Exploding stuff in Unity 💡This article is from 2017. Code samples may no longer work. I've been working on a little voxel-based mobile game, a game with plenty of explosions... and I thought it would be cool if stuff could explode into their constituent cubes. The Problem The game has a lot of "explodable
ASP.NET Core Image Resizing Middleware 💡This article is from 2017. Code samples may no longer work. The .NET Framework people have it easy when it comes to image resizing. You can't go past the excellent ImageResizer Package. Unfortunately, at the time of writing this, I was unable to find a mature-enough cross-platform .net core equivalent.
Microservices on .net core with Nancy - Part 2 💡This article is from 2017. Code samples may no longer work.💡This is a follow-on from Part 1. Even though we already have console logging, we'll add a LoggingService so that we can figure out how Microservices might talk to each other. We'll be invoking the service directly over HTTP
Radial slider in RaphaëlJS 💡This article is from 2016. Code samples may no longer work. With Apple's new "Bedtime" feature on IOS utilising a radial slider with 2 control points, I thought I'd try my hand at developing a radial slider for the web - as an alternative to the usual horizontal slider. This
Microservices on .net core with Nancy - Part 1 💡This article is from 2016. Code samples may no longer work. In this series of posts, I'm going to talk a little about Microservices, a little about Nancy, and I'm going to put together a very simple architecture that should serve as a good start for your own Microservices projects.
Transactional email on .net core with Sendwithus 💡This article is from 2016. Code samples may no longer work. Transactional emails can be a real bugbear for business and for marketers. They are often buried in source code, require dev involvement to update, and lack powerful tracking, analytics and segmentation that we now take for granted in e-mail
aspnet-core "Controllerless" views in asp.net core 💡This article is from 2016. Code samples may no longer work. I'm always looking for ways to make dev teams more cohesive. I had a front-end dev, who typically worked on a mac with sublime, and some .net devs - who worked on PC in visual studio. In the past
