10 years back this day,  I officially kick-started my "this.life". I have come a long way since then and as usual I did not realized that today till end of the day and a small incident which pushed me to evaluate my geek journey. I am just planning to

So, I recently refreshed my Mac - I use it for Xamarin development and while I am travelling or to show off :D I use it in conjunction of my awesome Windows Desktop Build with VS2017. So I follow the drill, install Mac - update all things - setup iTunes

THE IDEA "God's Own Machine" - Always loved this term, not sure who coined it but read it first from Scott's Blog long back. All right - back in Early 2014, I decided to create my own build (custom assembled desktop computer) and I came up with a build that

Developers mostly like to take control of your machine and how things work on it. This time I decided to take control where NodeJS would restore my global packages and manages package cache. In this case I am referring to Windows 10 particularly as that is my core development platform.

Using MySQL community server in one of the projects I have been working on. Few days back I reset my machine and installed latest version of MySQL server - v5.7.12 (development mode). This started giving me error on "update from source" in EntityFramework (EDMX) - design first approach.

Azure notification hub can be used to send push notification to your client app. It supports sending push notification to application build with Xamarin (but not only restricted to it). I create a notification hub in Azure using FREE TIER for a work related project, with intention to be used

Most of you already know about it and rest are still confused and don't know what the hell is happening. This may help for the one who are still digesting the big changes and not sure what is going on! Story started long back (more than an year ago) and

To start using Couchbase solution as data store for your mobile application you need to setup up couple of things. This stack is named Couchbase Mobile and consist of three components: * Couchbase Lite (Embedded NoSQL database) * Couchbase Sync Gateway (Server component to synchronize data between the device and server) * Couchbase

Quick note: Below case only affects developers using VS2015 (only) and AzureSDK for .NET - v2.8.2 seems to fix the problem. Link: Azure SDK for .NET v2.8.2 Many of you are using Azure Mobile Service as your service back-end for the mobile device applications. It has

Recently started playing with XAMARIN and working on related stuffs. I created a Xamarin.Forms Shared application, which creates an [ApplicationName].Droid and [ApplicationName].iOS project along with [ApplicationName] shared project. To work further on the images, I replaced the default XAMARIN icon image which is added in [ApplicationName].Droid\