Software development ramblings, mostly Azure, ASP.NET, Xamarin and related tools and technologies
The “challenge” concept has been around for a few years now at Microsoft. Basically what happens is Microsoft provides you with a pre-built solution in the form of some sample application. From there it is up to you to let your mind go free and implement more awesome things. This challenge is no different, apart … Read more
For my project cfp.exchange, I was struggling a bit on how to generate a good preview for the URL that was entered. Then I learned about the Cognitive Services Labs and more specifically, the Project URL Preview which seems to do exactly what I wanted. In this post, I will share my findings on this … Read more
For a recent project I needed to implement a prototype for sending push notifications. Of course the backend will be the source of these push messages, but we wanted to show something to the customer today. For this, I have put together a small but simple Azure Function that allows me to send a custom … Read more