Every now and then, we need to customize our Xamarin.Forms apps to match a theme or other requirements. The Forms API has already a lot of options, but sometimes they aren’t enough. A common practice is to write custom renderers, but with the Effects API, there is another cool kid in town.
In this post, I am going to show you how to create a new user and enable login only via SSH for your Linux VM on Azure without any third-party tools.
In this blog post, I am going to show you how to set up a Bitcoin full node on Linux inside a virtual machine on Azure.
It is a common practice to host configurations or data files that may change frequently on the web. This post will show you how to use Gist on Github to host such a file.
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QR code scanning is a common task a lot of apps are using lately. With ZXing.Net.Mobile, we have a library at hand that makes this pretty easy in our Xamarin applications. This post will show you how to avoid a distorted camera preview when using the library on Android and explains why it might happen.
There are thousands of blockchain and crypto projects floating around. Some may be the next shooting stars, some may disappear. During the few months I have been active in this space, I found some projects that I watch, follow and contribute to. This post will give you a short overview.
In this third and last post of the series on handling AtomicPay’s webhook, I will show you how to prepare your Azure Function to send push notifications (using Android as an exemplary receiver).
When it comes to cross-platform development, some of you probably have code they use again and again – just like I do. Some time ago, I started to organize these snippets into libraries and pack them as NuGet packages. In this post, I’ll show you how to do the same and automate package creation and (local) distribution.
In the first post of this series, we learned how to handle the payload of AtomicPay’s webhook with Azure. This post is about invoice verification and storing your API keys in the most secure way on Azure using KeyVault.
Last week, I announced the AtomicPay .NET SDK. In case you missed it, AtomicPay is a non-custodial crypto-payment provider, and I am contributing to the project. In this 3-post series, I will show you how to handle the service’s webhook (which informs about incoming invoice payments) with Azure.
