Review

Dec

2022

My annual review (2022) [Editorial]

In the beginning of 2022, I would never have thought of such a turbulent year. After all, we went more or less over the pandemic, and there were at least some positive signs that were sparking some hope. Pretty fast, the year turned into a memorable one, but for very ugly reasons.

Ukraine war

Russia began a war in Ukraine. We all have to battle the consequences of this war. Because of the ongoing war, prices of living have raised in all areas, be it groceries, energy costs and also entertainment costs. No day passes by without getting notified about the horrible things Russian troops are doing in Ukraine. I still pray (and you should too, if you’re into that) for the war to be finally over soon.

Twitter take-over

The second impacting event was the take-over of Twitter by Elon Musk. While he made Tesla a profitable company by focusing on the product outcome and made space travel less expensive with SpaceX, he is currently about to destroy Twitter. While I still was somehow neutral back in April when the deal became more real, I lost hope for my favourite social network the day he fired half of the company’s staff.

At the time of the take-over, I was actively working on my app TwistReader, which was a reader app for Twitter lists. I had already a beta running on TestFlight when things began to turn bad on Twitter. After UniShare (which was in the process of being ported to Android and iOS when it died), I had to take the though decision to let go also this app. I cancelled the domain I bought for the app and shut down all Azure resources already. If someone wants to continue the project, I am open to talk about it.

This is now the second time I had to stop an app for social media. Ultimately, I decided I will not develop against any of the social networks from now on (even though I have several ideas to improve my social flow).

As we all know, things on Twitter aren’t becoming better. My presence on the bird site serves now solely as a guide to other social media I am active on. I decided to not delete my two main accounts, but to lock them for new followers, and stopped using the service. I am mostly active on Mastodon, followed by LinkedIn (although the later one needs some more attention).

NASA is flying to the moon again

Besides all the negative stuff, there were also some good news for all of us space fans. The NASA finally sent a space-ship to the moon again. They are playing the save game and did an unmanned launch, letting the capsule orbit the Moon and come back to Earth. They made some really awesome photos along the way, and the mission was a full success.

orion space-ship with moon and earth — Image by NASA

New blog series #CASBAN6

Besides working on TwistReader, I also started to port my portfolio website away from WordPress to a self written website in ASP.NET Core with Razor pages. The site itself is already published, with links to my apps in the stores, but the news section still needs a blog. I evaluated all the options, like existing CMS plugins and other blogging platforms.

In the end, I opted into learning something new by using some bits of what I already know – and I started my recent #CASBAN6 blog series about creating a serverless blog engine on Azure. This is now my main side project.

Other dev stuff

While I am focusing on the serverless blog engine, I also have some libraries I made and use internally for Xamarin.Forms that I need to port to .NET MAUI. Some parts can be easily removed and replaced with Essentials and CommunityToolkit. There is still plenty of code worth porting left, though.

At work, I broke up the internally used libraries to be more modular and finished implementing the service templates that use them. I also continued to push source control management within the team. Besides that, I wrote some interfaces for our customers that took advantage of these things, but needed additional items as well. Over all, I was able to use some of my learnings at work and vice versa.

I also decided to not cancel my Parallels subscription. I used it around 10 time throughout the year, which is not worth paying more than 100 bucks for the yearly licence.

Furthermore, I will use the freed budget to buy a Jetbrains Ultimate licence instead, which I started to use recently. The experience in writing code is far ahead of what Microsoft offers with Visual Studio on Mac, so I guess that’s a good investment.

Sports

If you have been following along for some time, you may know that I only became a non-smoker again (after 25 years of chain-smoking) two years ago. In terms of sports, I took part in three challenges this year (Run4Fun 6,8km, 10km at Winterthur marathon and Kyburglauf 2022 10.3 km (including 425 stairs just at the end of km 10). If you want to follow my running adventures, you can find me here on Strava.

Me running the 10 km at Winterthur Marathon 2022

Outlook into 2023

Next year, the roller coaster continues to ride. I will start a new role in March as a .NET mobile developer at Galliker Switzerland, which is one of the leading companies in logistics. They have a Xamarin.Forms code base and started the transition to .NET MAUI. There will be projects where I will have to do API and Web stuff as well, so this new position will help me to move towards my goal of becoming a full stack .NET developer as well. Another plus is that I am free to choose my preferred IDE – which will be most probably RIDER after my recent experiences with it.

Of course, I will continue to with my #CASBAN6 project as well. As I stated in my last post in the series, the Azure functions part is coming up next. I will have some posts on that topic alone, but I will also keep developing it further until the final product is ready to be used in production.

Besides that, I will start to port my Fishing Knots app to .NET MAUI, which will help me to learn the upgrade process and make the app ready for the future.

In terms of sports, I will continue with running, starting up with a focus on improving my average pace to get permanently below 5 min/km. On top of that, I want to run a half-marathon at the end of the next season. I will give runningCoach another try – hopefully they will be able to import my Strava results correctly this time.

Conclusion

What was your 2022 like? What are you all looking forward in 2023? Feel free to get in contact via my social media accounts or the comments section below.

What’s left is to wish all of you a

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Feb

2022

Book review (and recommendation): Learn T-SQL Querying

The Fundamentals

In the first section of the book, the authors give us an overview about the anatomy of a query (going very deep) and how SQL Server (also on Azure) processes queries. They also explain how SQL Server optimizes queries and how different versions of SQL Server are processing them differently, which can result in different performances for complex queries.

Dos and Don’ts

The second section of the book is guiding us through how Query Execution plans work and how they can help to write more efficient SQL queries. The section has a bunch of tips that developers can use in their everyday life with databases. The perhaps most important part in this section are the two chapters about T-SQL antipatterns. This is the section where I learned the most throughout the book.

Troubleshooting and tools

The last section of the book shows a lot of troubleshooting techniques and how to use them properly. Microsoft’s SQL Server Management Tools itself comes with a bunch of such tools, and the book helps not only to find them, but also to use them correctly. On top, there are also references to some Open Source tools that can be helpful at times. The book closes with the Query Tuning Assistant, which is the recommended tool to perform SQL server updates.

Conclusion

I got the book because my current job requires me to write efficient T-SQL code for the interfaces I am developing. The book already helped me during the reading time to better understand what I am doing and how I can optimize my own queries. It will be one of my reference books in future when it comes to troubleshooting and query performance with SQL. Long story short, if you are working regularly with Microsoft SQL Server (also on Azure), you should have this book in your (digital) bookshelf.

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ISBN 9781789348811
PacktPub Free E-book

Dec

2021

Goodbye, 2021!

Starting at dormakaba

I started this year with a new job, moving from a shareholder register to a company for access solutions. The first month was driven by a lot of explanations and testing. The main task at my new job is to write interfaces that connect our customers’ systems with our access control software. After legally being forced to work from home, I wrote a few interfaces.

During the year, I was able to convince my team of several optimizations in terms of architecture and took also the lead on them. Establishing a core library and building interface standards that just need configuration are those with the most positive impact. We also started to use Bitbucket (the company’s choice) internally, which is also one of my maintenance tasks now.

Overall, I am quite satisfied with my first year at dormakaba even if it was (and is) challenging due to the pandemic.

Side projects

In terms of my side projects, I had a slow year. I did some minor updates to my apps and eventually published them to the stores.

The main focus was put into TwistReader (a twitter list based newsreader), which isn’t available in stores yet.

Writing this application produced some libraries (partly public/open source, partly private only). My goal is to get the app into TestFlight in the beginning of 2022 and also to write about the libraries.

Blogging

I did not blog much this year. I covered some interesting (hopefully) topics, though:

As I mentioned above, I plan to write about the libraries and also some other stuff I did in Xamarin.Forms next year.

Private stuff

The non technical part of my year was a turbulent one. As I became non-smoker last December, I restarted the sports ambitions I lost when I was young.

I started with running, did some free runs in the beginning, continuing with training for 5 km in under 30 minutes (which I am no able to achieve constantly).

I also started to train for 10 km in under 60 minutes, but was not able to finish the training course yet. I will restart this course in 2022. If you’re into running/cycling as well, feel free to follow me on Strava.

Just running isn’t enough, however, and so I also started with regular functional strength workouts with Freeletics (follow me here).

In our family, things became different as now both of our kids are no longer at school but started to work in apprenticeship. It is amazing to see them both starting they career, even though they routes are different from what we as parents expected. I wish both of my kids the best and the strength they need to succeed.

I wish all of you a Happy New Year, success, a lot of luck and strength for all the challenges of 2022.

Stay safe and healthy, everyone!

Title Image by Markéta Machová from Pixabay

Dec

2020

Goodbye, 2020!

In the beginning of 2020, I was polishing up the app for my personal blog as well as my WordPress reader library. I started to write a series about my experience on implementing push notifications with Azure which I still must finish.

During the spring lockdown, I also started a new project, which is now in the MVP (minimum viable product) state. I started to improve the overall performance by moving parts of the application to the cloud (ongoing process). I hope I will be able to share more on this project soon, but here’s already a screen shot:

Besides working on my personal projects and trying to get some fruit/vegetables from our garden, I was contacted by my new employer (dormakaba AG, starting 2021) in summer on StackOverflow. As I haven’t done any interview for close to 6 years at that time, I decided to “play the game” to gain some refreshing experience. I went through the entire process (which was also different due to COVID-19) and was offered the job – in the end, I accepted it.

Since I am changing my employer, I was quite busy in the last three months of the years to finish the work I started in my daytime job – which is the reason I was so quiet during that time.

2020 was a challenging year (mostly due to COVID-19). Overall, my family and I went through it and did handle most challenges quite well. My biggest personal achievement in 2020: I finally freed myself from the slavery of nicotine and became a non-smoker. Besides that, Santa did an excellent job again this year and upgraded my computer to a MacBook Pro:

2021 will still be a challenging year due to COVID-19. We will still need to keep distance, wear masks, and wash our hands (and stay at home as much as possible). I am sure there will be other challenges and hopefully plenty of chances as well.

Let me close this post by wishing you all a Happy New Year and more important: stay safe and healthy!

Title Image by iXimus from Pixabay

Dec

2018

2018 in review – Focus on Xamarin, RIP UniShare, the rise of crypto and blockchain

This year, I had some rough time to keep me motivated on writing blog posts. In the early months, I was keeping my target to write about Xamarin Forms and my implementations, but I slowly lost pace around the summer.

Xamarin posts

Within the first half of the year, I was keeping a pretty constant 2 week frame for new blog posts, targeting Xamarin and Xamarin Forms. I touched several topics (some of which may be obsolete since Xamarin Forms 3.x). Here is a short recap:

The rise of crypto and blockchain

Since 2017, I was loosely following the area of crypto currencies and blockchain. This year, however, marks the beginning of a deeper dive into the blockchain area – and of course also into crypto currencies. I am not advising anyone to invest any money into crypto currencies, but there are certain projects out there that are really interesting. Two of them are social networks, similar to Tumblr: Steemit and Trybe. While Steemit is running on its own blockchain, Trybe is utilizing the EOS blockchain. Sadly, the .NET world seems to be widely ignored, so I stepped down a bit from posting on those two. I also tested several other networks running on or with blockchain, but none of them took me like the two mentioned above. If you want to learn more about the crypto currencies/projects I am interested in, just head over to my crypto page.

Open Source

Even if I did not made a lot of sound around it, I have worked on some libraries this year. I am not going into detail on every one, just head over to my Github:

I am currently working on another library (targetting crypto payments) – I will write about it once it is ready to be used in your projects.

RIP UniShare

One of the sadest moments this year was the death of UniShare, my most popular Windows (Phone) app. Long story short, due to some changes Facebook made to their API, I had to take UniShare to its funeral at the end of October. Read more about it here.

Looking forward to 2019

In 2019, I will continue my journey within the crypto/blockchain world. Like I wrote above, I am working on a crypto related project at the moment, which I hope to have ready in the early weeks of 2019. One of my other projects, WindowsUnited, will be taken over by another developer in 2019 (because he can invest more time into their official apps and work form them more ore less exclusively). This will free up some recsources, which I am trying to invest in my other projects and the rise of my blogging pace (again).

Thanks to all of you for reading my posts this year. I hope you’ll be with me in 2019 as well. I wish all of you a good arrival in 2019 and a happy new year once it arrives.

Until the next post, happy coding, everyone!

Dec

2017

Saying Goodbye to 2017 [Editorial]

First Half

The first half of the year I wasn’t much into development besides work. I was asked to help building a new German Android news site, which turned out to be an impossible task because of several reasons (high author fluctuation was the baddest thing). In the end, the owners decided to go another route by turning the side into a a site dedicated to Chinese hardware, which is an area I do not have a lot of trust and interest. So I decided to step out of the project and focus again on my software development efforts.

Back to software development (Second Half)

The first thing I was focusing on in that area was to get deeper into web development with ASP.NET Core. I learned a few basics from Pluralsight and started to work on a project that I will (hopefully) bring forward in 2018.

I also got back deeper into cross platform development with Xamarin, especially Xamarin.Forms. As Microsoft killed all mobile efforts in the UWP, this step was one I denied way too long to go. As a logic step I started with my ongoing series of blog posts about Xamarin Forms and the MVVMLight toolkit. If you missed it, here are the links to the posts:

During the first 8 month of the year, I was running Android as my daily driver. However, I never was really happy with the Android OS (and I am still not), so I decided to switch to the iPhone 8 Plus after its launch. I detailed the reasons why here:

Why I am (once again) using an iPhone [Editorial]

In the last month, I was also looking into some IOT development, and this is were my current focus is. In the next few weeks I have a private project that overlaps with a project at work. I really appreciate it when I can be productive in multiple ways, and those (sadly rare) overlapping projects are just plain awesome to work on.

Private things…

Having a look at my private goals (for those who care), I started with some functional fitness workouts in late summer. I am using the workout app from Skimble, which has some handy video guides and is way cheaper than a gym subscription. In 2018, I want to move on to get even more fit. On top, one of the biggest (and probably hardest) goal is to become a non-smoker. I am hoping that being more active has motivating impacts on the later goal as well. On top, in the last few days I had my first baby steps into meditation as well, but I am still struggling with that one. So, way to go in these parts of my life.

Well, this post is not as long as the ones of the years before, but I really already told you everything that happened this year. To close this post, I wish you all a happy end of the year, an awesome party tonight and I hope to welcome you all again in 2018 here on my personal blog.

Happy new year, everyone!

Dec

2014

Review of a geek’s 2014

We are close to the end of this year 2014, time for a little review.

At the beginning of the year, I was mostly busy with working on my UserVoice library that makes it easier for me and other developers to integrate UserVoice into Windows Phone apps. I also launched Voices Admin, the companion app for the library. I will start to rewrite this library in 2015 to make it a true Universal library for Windows, Windows Phone as well as Xamarin (and make it return objects instead of naked JSON strings).

I also had some troubles with my former hoster, which lead to a total domain chaos and finally ended in January, too. Thanks to Azure Websites, the transition should have been without problems. At Telefónica, I was busy finishing the internal App “Friends & You” for Android and Windows Phone. I learned a lot using Xamarin for the Android version, and even more about corporate rules and requirements. In the beginning of December, I also finished the iOS variant of the app (using Xamarin.Forms) – which is sadly set to be not launched for the moment (mostly because of my departing of Telefónica).

During the year, we also received the Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview. It removed the ability to cross post on social networks on Windows Phone. As this was one of my most used features, I decided to solve this problem for myself and started to write my own cross posting solution. As some of my followers recognized this, I continued my efforts to a more public and polished version, the result is UniShare for Windows Phone.

Since the first WP8.1 Developer Preview, we also have Cortana. Cortana is an awesome piece of software – if you are willing to use your phone with English and US region settings. I tried the UK version as well as the Italian and German version, but was only satisfied with the US one. I truly hope that the other countries will be on par in 2015.

I also updated my very first app ever (Fishing Knots +) to a Windows Phone 8 only version, leaving the old version for WP7 users. Also my NFC Toolkit received some love (and will receive even more in 2015). On top, I started to work on a Universal library for WordPress, which I will also continue to work on in 2015 to make it even better.

One of my saddest geek moments was when the screen of my Intel developer Ultrabook broke shorty before Christmas. As I need to be able working while on the go, I needed a replacement. I found it in the ASUS TP300L Transformer Flipbook, which is an awesome piece of an Ultrabook. On top, Santa (aka my wife) gifted me an HP Stream 7 tablet, that perfectly fits my needs for a tablet use (reading, surfing, playing some games). And so this part also turned well.

The most significant thing happened in September, when I read about a job as a C# Junior developer in Switzerland. I am truly happy about the fact I got this job (read more on it here), and already learned some new things in WPF. Currently, I am also working on my first WPF application, that is a practicing project for my new job I am going to start next year. Which leads me to the end of this short review.

2014 was a year with ups and downs like every year. I had some trouble in “first world” that we were able to solve as family (and friends), but made some good success in my geek and dev world. I am looking forward to 2015, where I am starting a new chapter in my dev story (with becoming a full time developer). But there are also some nice side projects, like maybe porting some apps to Android as well as the Internet of Things, which I am looking forward to dive in deeper. And of course, like any other MS fan, I am looking forward to the next evolutions of Windows 10!

What are you all looking for? How was your 2014? Feel free to comment below.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Aug

2014

Book review: iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook (Dimitris Tavlikos)

I love to learn and expand my knowledge. Because of this, I was absolutely happy when I was asked for a book review about Dimitris’ iOS book.

The book is a huge collection of iOS recipes using Xamarin. The first three chapters are going deeply into the UI of an iOS application, looking on a lot (almost all) possible aspects of UI elements. What I like very much is that the author shows the code, usually with a step by step guide, and after that delivers a detailed explanation why something works in the way it does.

The next two chapters are all about creating and displaying data, files and sqlite, providing the same experience as the first chapters.

The sixth chapter is all about consuming services, such as web services, REST services or even WCF services (I wasn’t even aware of this being possible). Very good starting point for so many app ideas.

So far, the book shows already a lot of what we can do with Xamarin. But modern apps often contain media content: videos, photos, capturing media – this is what chapter 7 is all about.

Like all modern Smartphone operating systems, iOS provides some methods to let our apps interact with the OS. The 8th chapter is all about those interactions, like contacts, mail and more and has the matching real world scenarios.

The most usable apps use a device’s sensors, touch and gestures. Of course, with Apple being the leader in this space for a long time (we just need to be fair in this point), iOS has a lot of APIs for these. Chapter nine has some good recipes to help us with improving our app’s UX.

If your app needs location services and maps, chapter 10 is your friend. It shows you how to interact with Apple’s map services, add annotations and a lot more.

Users love when apps have some nice animations when something changes in an app. iOS provides a lot of options, and chapter 11 explains a lot about animations and drawing methods.

One of the most important parts when developing an app is lifecycle handling. As with any other OS, also iOS has its specific methods to handle the lifecycle. Background operations are part of this handling. In chapter 12, Dimitri tells us a lot about handling the states of an app as well as background operations.

Chapter 13 consists of tips and recipes for localization of an iOS app.

One of the most important steps when creating an iOS app is deploying the app. Apps should of course be tested on real devices, and this what chapter 14 is about – but not only. Also the required steps to prepare and app for submission as well as the submission to the store are explained.

The final chapter contains some additional recipes that can make your app more valuable like content sharing or text-to-speech.

Conclusion

I only began with Xamarin.iOS a few month ago. This book provides a great insight into development for iOS using the Xamarin IDE. As I said already, I like the approach of showing code first and then explaining what it does exactly and provide additional info if suitable. This book is absolutely worth every single cent if you want to start with iOS and Xamarin.

If you’re interested in the book, you’re just a click away: http://bit.ly/1tnxmGX

Note: This post was completely written on my phone. If you find typos, you can keep them ;-).

Aug

2014

Book review: Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Geoff Webber-Cross)

During the last months, I used the few times of my spare time when I wasn’t in the mood for programming to read Geoff’s latest book for diving deeper into Azure Mobile Services. Geoff is well known in the community for his Azure experience, and I absolutely recommend to follow him! I am really glad he asked me to review his book and need to apologize that it took so long to get this review up.

The book itself is very well structured with a true working XAML based game that utilizes both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 and connects them to one single Mobile Service.

Even if you are completely new to Azure, you will quickly get things done as the whole book is full of step-by-step instructions. Let’s have a quick look on what you will learn while reading this book:

Prepare your Azure account and set up your first Mobile Service
Bring your Mobile Service to life and connect Visual Studio
Securing user’s data
Create your own API endpoints
use Git via the console for remote development
manage Push Notifications for both Windows and Windows Phone apps
use the advantages of the Notification hub
Best practices for app development – some very useful general guilty tips!

I already use a Mobile Service with my Windows Phone App TweeCoMinder. I have already started a Windows 8 version of that app, which basically only needs to be connected to my existing Azure Mobile Service to finish it.

While reading Geoff’s book, I learned how I effectively can achieve this and also improve my code for handling the push notifications on both systems. The book is an absolutely worthy investment if you look into Azure and Mobile Services and has a lot of sample code that can be reused in your own application.

As this is my first book review ever, feel free to leave your feedback in the comments.

You can buy the book right here.

Happy coding, everyone!

Dec

2013

A year in the like of MSicc – my review of 2013

2013 was a year with a lot of surprises. It was a year full of community work for me as well as a huge learning year in development. But my year had also dark clouds on heaven. This post is my personal review of 2013 – you can like my impressions or not.

I started the year with releasing my first Windows 8 app ever, along with an huge update to my blog reader app for Windows Phone. I wrote several blog posts and started also development of my NFC Toolkit app for Windows Phone (Archive: January). I also ran a beta test for my NFC Toolkit, and finished my series about the parts that should help other developers to write a blog reader app for both Windows and Windows Phone (Archive February & Archive March).

Then in April, the first time I had dark clouds hanging deeply in my life, affecting all parts – family, community work and also my 9to5 job. My wife had once again problems with her back, caused by slipped discs. It went as far as she needed to rest in hospital for a pain therapy. Luckily this therapy was helping her and our life went back to normality (knocking on wood).

I also started a new series on the WinPhanDev blog – Why we started developing (WWSDEV). We are collecting stories from developers, and posting them over there to motivate other developers and keep the community spirit alive. Just have a look, we have really great stories over there.

In the last days of April/beginning of May, Iljia engaged me to start using Windows Azure Mobile Services to make an app idea reality: TweeCoMinder was born. It is a very special and unique app, interesting for those that don’t want to miss their special counts on Twitter, supported by real push notifications via WAMS for both Live Tiles and Toast Notifications. I learned a lot during setting up my WAMS for the app, and I did also write some blog posts about that (AzureDev posts).

Because of TweeCoMinder, I stopped developing my NFC app for that time, and did only bug fixing updates to my other apps.

In August (at least in the spare time I had), I moved my blog completely to run in a Windows Azure VM. I did it to get more control over the whole system and to learn more about running a web service. I still need to write my blog posts about setting the VM with LAMP on Azure, but I just didn’t have time for that until now. In August/September I also had again very very dark clouds hanging around, with my wife was very ill (you can’t even imagine how happy I am about the fact she has this part behind her). But our daily live is still affected by this – we just learned to arrange us with the new situation.

In October, I got back to my NFC Toolkit to finish it finally. The app has some cool and unique features utilizing NFC tags, and I am quite satisfied with my download numbers. NFC Toolkit is my main project for the moment.

But also on my 9to5 job I came to write code. I was asked to write an internal app for Windows Phone (Telefónica has a partnership with Microsoft, and so the company is flooded with Windows Phones). I used this to learn more about speech recognition on Windows Phone, as this is part of the application (Make your app listening to the user’s voice).

And finally, I also started with my very first Android app using Xamarin while porting the Windows Phone app I wrote before. I recently started to blog about my experiences with Xamarin (read more here).

In between all those projects, I made a basic reader app for the fan blog “This is Nokia”, using a PCL project for both Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8. I also wrote a simple car dashboard app to integrate it in my NFC Toolkit app as well as Mix, Play & Share, which was written on a lonely Saturday night while my kids where sleeping an my wife was at her best friend.

Through the year, I learned a lot of coding, but also a lot about people. I made some very positive experiences – but also bad ones. I am always willing to help (if my still growing knowledge enables me to do so) – but sharing a feature rich app to another person isn’t helping – if you want to learn about development, there are plenty ways to do so. We have really great developers that blog about their experiences in our community, and by understanding how to code, you truly learn. Just using an already working app and restyling it, is the wrong way.

Well, that is what my year was about – a lot of coding, learning and again coding.

Dear followers, friends, WinPhans & WinPhanDevs – thank you for being with me this year. Let’s make 2014 an even more exciting year.

I wish you all “a good slide into the new year”, as we say here in Germany. May god bless you and your families also in the new year.

Ukraine war

Twitter take-over

NASA is flying to the moon again

New blog series #CASBAN6

Other dev stuff

Sports

Outlook into 2023

Conclusion

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Fundamentals

Dos and Don’ts

Troubleshooting and tools

Conclusion

Book metadata

Starting at dormakaba

Side projects

Blogging

Private stuff

I wish all of you a Happy New Year, success, a lot of luck and strength for all the challenges of 2022.

Stay safe and healthy, everyone!

Xamarin posts

The rise of crypto and blockchain

Open Source

RIP UniShare

Looking forward to 2019

Until the next post, happy coding, everyone!

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