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Over the last week, I’ve had some serious issues with my Windows 10 installation, running on my Mac Mini. It started early last week, where I had some difficulties with my wifi. The wifi have had issues earlier as well, but now I actually got sick of it, and though I’d try to fix it. Bad idea! Having done my fair share of support involving drivers over the years, I decided to reinstall the network driver on Windows. This turned out to fail miserably, leaving me without network (my router is too far away to wire up the machine). Nothing I tried would work, so my next option was to repair the Windows installation. ...

As I wrote in my post, Cloud based back end service, I have been using Parse for data storage for my two apps, “Din Lokale Dyrlege” and “Parker Gratis”. Now however, it is time for a change. Not because I want to, but I am forced to do so, since Parse is shutting down. ##New options Before deciding how to proceed, given that I had to change something, there is several factors I have to consider. Parse open-sourced their server, so one option is to set this up myself, and run the service at my own terms (or rather at some host’s term). The big plus to doing this will then be that it would require almost no change in my apps. The downside being that it would require maintenance from my side (server-side that is), and I will have to spend time keeping up to date on potential security flaws and other bugs. Another downside is that it will most certainly cost more than the revenue from the apps is (which is practically 0..!). ...

At Build 2016 it was announced that Xamarin would be included with Visual Studio, at no extra cost. It would also be included with Visual Studio Community Edition, rendering it completely free, which is great news. Anyway, when the update for Visual Studio became available I installed it and went to test my Xamarin apps with Visual Studio. Unfortunately, though, I ran into an issue with compilation. The compiler was complaining that InitializeComponent() did not exist in current context. This specific method is called in the constructor in the code-behind of a XAML file, and it is a method coming from the Xamarin package included. ...

Last week I introduced my new blog, powered by the Ghost blog platform. Coming from a WordPress background, I had to do some work to get all my posts, as well as comments imported to the new blog. Seeing as I also put the new blog onto a subdomain, there was a few tricky parts during the setup. This blog post will take you through the steps required to make the move from WordPress to Ghost. ...

In this post I will go through my first-impression of using HTML/CSS/JavaScript for mobile app development. The background for doing so is that I’ve been spending quite a lot of time at FreeCodeCamp lately, and now feel comfortable enough to try to do some comparing with Xamarin and C#. To be able to see some similarities, I have chosen to create an app similar to one I have done with Xamarin, a map application. I did a tutorial on this for Xamarin last year, which you can find here. ...