This is to part 3 of a multi-part React tutorial that will teach you the basics of React while building a simple app to compare crypto-currency prices to stock prices. You can find the code to work along here and the starting point for this step can be found in the branch creating-basic-component by running…

This is to part 2 of a multi-part React tutorial that will teach you the basics of React while building a simple app to compare crypto-currency prices to stock prices. You can find the code to work along here and the starting point for this step can be found in the branch start by running…

Lately, I’ve been guiding a few people through the basics of React.js, both at work and with friends. Doing this I realised there really are only a few fundamentals concepts to learn, but sometimes people have trouble getting their heads around them at first. I thought I’d create a a multi-part tutorial to give anyone…

I’m a huge fan of coding standards, but I’m not a big fan of having to enforce them myself. This article is here to show you how to setup automatic code analysis using the new Rosyln anaysers and the ports of the classic StyleCop rule sets. If you want to see a basic .NET application…

I believe that anyone can learn the basics of software and technology. I grew up with my Dad using linux as a physicist, and my older brother creating games in QuickBASIC like snake. I loved using computers. I played the odd game, but wasn’t a gamer. I would search the internet for music I loved….

It’s almost guaranteed that when I tell people what I do for a living they will ask something like the following: Do you think that A.I. is going to take over the world? While the question comes in many forms, I think that this cuts to the heart of it. I think we should be…

I often reflect on my interesting position of being an avid fan of type systems and precompiled production code, while primarily being a JavaScript developer. Especially as the ever changing landscape of the web development world keeps morphing slowly into something that is completely different… But somewhat familiar. I recently got involved in a discussion…

Azure ARM templates let you deploy and configure various Azure resources using a JSON file with a particular schema. Most of this schema is pretty easy to figure out from their documentation or by creating the resources in the Azure Portal and then using the “Automated Script” section of the resource group to look at…

I host a meet up in Christchurch called Azure Evening and this week we had a two great presenters Akmal Fazleen and Aurora Lin from Jade Sowftware talking about chat bots, Luis and Azure Machine Learning. The thing that was blew me away is that both the presenters were not “technical” people and weren’t developers….

NOTE: I have create a new article with an updated and improved approach. Please refer to that article here Lately I’ve been building a lot of single page applications (SPAs) with JavaScript and using ASPNET Core MVC as both the file server and the API server. Although I’ve tried many permutations of how exactly to…