Light / Dark CSS Theming Allowing users to choose either a light or dark theme when viewing your website is great for accessibility. So naturally I wanted to add it to my blog. Unfortunately my blog doesn’t use a framework like React or Vue, so I had to use CSS variables and JavaScript.
Electron ➕ Blazor = 💙 As a .NET desktop developer I’ve always felt confined to Windows if I wanted to make a C# desktop application. There have been other frameworks for creating cross platform C# applications, but they have still felt very Windows centric. Then I heard about Blazor.
Blog Update 2018 My partner keeps pointing out that every time I feel like writing a blog post I spend so much time updating the blog code itself that I never actually write a blogpost.
Akavache and ETags Akavache is a cool caching library from the prolific Anaïs Betts that simplifies caching of data in your application. I wanted to use it with web calls that provided an ETag for caching but Akavache didn’t support this out of the box.
Cool New Features of C# 6 C# 6.0 is coming soon, and being a brand spanking new compiler there’s a bunch of new features and fixes to the language.
Mitigating The Billion Dollar Mistake - Fody Edition Phil Haack recently wrote a post in which he talked about protecting C# code from null references by automatically adding guard code. Phil’s implementation used PostSharp for the post compile injection. Instead I wanted to use Fody.
Existing MVVM Frameworks This post is part of a series about desktop application development in WPF using MVVM.
The State of MVVM Ok, so I’ve been meaning to (procrastinating actually) write a blog entry for a while now.
