Shrooms: Microscopic Focus on things that are Irrelevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyRxnu8I-wk  Motivation Everything I do is calculated Everything is an event and I’m compelled to judge it High anticipation of favorable outcome per event I analyze arbitrary events to figure out if I can ethically benefit from it Inability to meditate Become one with universe/nature Precautions Bodily Harm Firearms Knives Rampage Grand Theft Auto - …

Xamarin: Building a Real-time Listener for an Azure Topic

Recently, I had to implement an Azure Topic subscription within my Xamarin app. AzureTopicListener The code below is what I built to get my Xamarin app to subscribe to Azure topic that relies on a filter rule: Test Here's a test that I wrote:

Implementing a custom Checkbox control

Building a Custom Checkbox Control This post is a code dump for a custom checkbox control. There's four main parts for this: Custom Control * Bindings * XAML Host Page * XAML * Viewmodel Bindings XAML Host Page Viewmodel

Azure Functions with Azure Service Bus

Intro Azure Functions can be executed via an Azure Service Bus trigger. In this post I provide an example for how I was able to publish a message to a queue as well as a topic. AppConfig An app config file is great for hosting connection strings as well as other key/value pairs. Here’s an …

Deploying EventStore to Azure Kubernetes

Prerequisites I used this link as a guide to install the tools required for deploying EventStore to Azure. A description of the tools needed are as follows: Kubectl: Kubernetes command-line tool Helm: Kubernetes package manager Azure CLI: Azure command-line tool EventStore Deployed on Azure I observed the following resources created in Azure after executing the …

Xamarin.Forms: Ratings Interface

I recently implemented a Ratings user interface for a Xamarin.Forms app: Here's the XAML for the Rate interface: Here's the ValueConverter implementation: Here's the viewmodel property and command:

Xamarin.Forms: ShellContent Navigation

Intro I came across a scenario in which my app exposed multiple methods for navigating to a particular page. Method 1: XAML One exposed method was from the app menu in which the navigation was implemented in XAML: Method 2: Code-behind of  Initial page Another exposed method was to perform navigation from another page's code-behind: Method …