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Flutter: Animated Gradients via Custom Hooks

When faced with the task of coming up with a re-usable "Animated Gradient" widget, I faced one problem, a gradient isn't actually a widget - I can't go and make an AnimatedWidget that I can use inside a BoxDecoration in my UI somewhere. What I wanted was an actual gradient

flutter

Flutter architecture Part 1: Hooks, Functional Widget and RxDart

This is part 1 of a multi-part series on full-stack flutter architecture, from backend, to web admin, to native IOS and Android apps, to automated deployment, utilising a small sample application.In 2017 I discovered flutter, the new hotness for building mobile apps that seemingly achieves the holy grail of

unity

Exploding stuff in Unity

I've been working on a little voxel-based mobile game, a game with plenty of explosions... and I thought it would be cool if stuff could explode into their constituent cubes. PicaVoxel has scripts for exploding voxel meshes, but I just couldn't squeeze the performance out of it that I needed

ASP.NET Core Image Resizing Middleware

The .NET Framework people have it easy when it comes to image resizing. You can't go past the excellent ImageResizer Package. Unfortunately, at the time of writing this, I was unable to find a mature-enough cross-platform .net core equivalent. Even forgetting about resizing and caching images on the fly from

Microservices on .net core with Nancy - Part 2

This is a follow-on from Part 1. Even though we already have console logging, we'll add a LoggingService so that we can figure out how Microservices might talk to each other. We'll be invoking the service directly over HTTP via a pseudo-RPC mechanism. Note that we aren't considering a number

Radial slider in RaphaëlJS

With Apple's new "Bedtime" feature on IOS utilising a radial slider with 2 control points, I thought I'd try my hand at developing a radial slider for the web - as an alternative to the usual horizontal slider. This slider will only have 1 control point, but could

Microservices on .net core with Nancy - Part 1

In this series of posts, I'm going to talk a little about Microservices, a little about Nancy, and I'm going to put together a very simple architecture that should serve as a good foundation for your own Microservices projects. Part 1 will focus on getting a single Microservice running. Part

Transactional email on .net core with Sendwithus

Transactional emails can be a real bugbear for business and for marketers. They are often buried in source code, require dev involvement to update, and lack powerful tracking, analytics and segmentation that we now take for granted in e-mail marketing. There must be a better way There is! Enter sendwithus

aspnet-core

"Controllerless" views in asp.net core

I'm always looking for ways to make dev teams more cohesive. I had a front-end dev, who typically worked on a mac with sublime, and some .net devs - who worked on PC in visual studio. In the past I might've gone straight to react or angular and built APIs,