Category: Development

  • Boosting Your Coding Efficiency with Video Game Music

    Boosting Your Coding Efficiency with Video Game Music

    The rhythmic tap of keys, the buzzing of hardware, the sip of coffee amid deep concentration; the scene is a familiar one in the world of software development. While developers employ various techniques to improve concentration and productivity, music often reigns supreme as the tool of choice to foster a productive environment. But did you…

  • Why Software Developers Should Consider Gaming Mice For Coding

    Why Software Developers Should Consider Gaming Mice For Coding

    In the evolving world of software development, engineers incessantly hunt for tools and setups that can enhance their productivity and lessen the operational burden. Amid powerful IDEs and multifaceted frameworks, a peripheral tool like a gaming mouse, especially those adorned with a plethora of programmable buttons, has surprisingly emerged as a productivity powerhouse for developers.…

  • Monolith vs. Microservices: Making the Right Architectural Choice

    Monolith vs. Microservices: Making the Right Architectural Choice

    Being a software developer, I have worked with multiple types of architecture over the years and with as microservices being all the rage largely thanks to cloud computing and serverless functions, I thought it might help those trying to decide what sort of architecture they should use if I gave a bit of an explainer…

  • Why .NET MAUI is an Upgrade over Xamarin Forms

    Why .NET MAUI is an Upgrade over Xamarin Forms

    As I have mentioned in the past, my day job is as a software developer.  And it is also my hobby too!  For a while now, I have been working on a mobile app that I have been using Xamarin Forms to develop.  After about a month of frustration in what I can only assume…

  • Embracing Records in C#: The Pros and Cons

    Embracing Records in C#: The Pros and Cons

    As a software developer, I am always interested in new features getting added to my language of choice (C#) and how it can help me improve my day to day life as a developer.  I don’t really talk much about this sort of thing outside of giving presentations and stuff to the dev teams at…

  • DIY Stargate Powered By A Raspberry Pi

    DIY Stargate Powered By A Raspberry Pi

    One of these days I will get around to learning how to do some hardware hacking and building things that run off of something like the Raspberry Pi or Arduino but I’m really more of a software guy.  That said, while I would generally prefer to create software, seeing stuff like this amazing DIY Stargate…