flutter 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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
