Understanding Flutter: deep links on the web
NOTE: This content has largely been subsumed by the most excellent blog post that John Ryan wrote in September of 2020: Learning Flutter’s new...
Fun with Curl and Dart
If you’re a Dart programmer, the curl command doesn’t really help you. Oh, it can tease you with of its wonderful functionality, but you still have...
#Returning to D&D
30 years ago, I paused a 5-year love of D&D to attend college. About six months ago, I picked it up again with my adult sons...
WebAssembly explodes client-side programming
Back in the olden days, you could use whatever programming language you wanted to write your client-side code: ASM, C, C++, BASIC, Java, C#, etc....
Building a modern, mobile-first app
A while ago, I started building a brand new client app. I wanted to use all of the modern techniques to make it a great app and to make sure it had...
Viking Me
Today, I was asked about the story behind my viking avatar: The avatar is years and years old. Peter Stern, a graphic designer friend of mine, put...
Backgammon and Using Your Own Products
Have you ever used a product of any kind — an app, a device, a plunger — and thought to yourself “Do these people even use their own product?” As a...
#Google Cloud Storage Hierarchy in .
NET Google’s Cloud Storage Browser perpetrates a fiction of files and folders that doesn’t exist. The Google...
young-dev-q-n-a
#Breaking Into the Industry I got an email the other day from an old friend that said he’d met a young developer named Ben and that he was impressed...
Access Google Cloud Source Repositories from Visual Studio
Cloud Source Repositories (CSR) provides support for multiple Git repositories for each project. To log into your CSR repos from within Visual...
Solitaire Redux
I’ve done a bunch of stuff related to Solitaire on my blog for some reason. I guess I’m a fan, although mostly these days I focusing my listening in...
Moved to Blot
You’re reading this on the 5th version of my blog. The first was a set of static text files I managed in FrontPage. The editing was nice (once it...
Choose HTML for UI Development
On Sept. 10, 2015, Winston Kodogo writes: Hey Chris, if you’re feeling happy enough to blog, how about a post giving us your current thoughts on UI...
Blog Past and Future
This blog started as a single static page in 1995 as a set of links to provide to my students while I was teaching at DevelopMentor. I would like to...
Handling Orientation Changes in Xamarin.Forms Apps
By default, Xamarin.Forms handles orientation changes for you automatically, e.g. Xamarin.Forms handles orientation changes automatically In this...