Xamarin.Forms -> .Net MAUI

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An app I hadn’t touched since its last store build stopped opening in my IDE. Not a compiler error, not a failing test. I opened the solution and two of the projects were simply dead in the tree. Greyed out. Unloadable. I hadn’t changed a single line. The ground underneath the code had been quietly … Read more

100% DX, 14 Years Later: Was I Right?

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In January 2012 I wrote a post called “What’s in your toolbox?”, running through the tools I leaned on. My favourite grid at the time was the Component One Flexigrid. A few months later, on 29 April, I followed it with “100% DX”. That one started with a simple, slightly annoyed question: could I get … Read more

We Moved a 15-Year-Old .NET Framework App to .NET 10 in Days and let an AI assist

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I’ve been building software a long time. Long enough to have hand-migrated more legacy codebases than I care to count, back when “modernisation” meant a fortnight of find-and-replace, a wall of compiler errors, and a knot in your stomach every time you hit Build. So when I say the project I’m about to describe had … Read more

ChatGPT Scheduled tasks failure

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ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks: How to Lose a User in Three Days I love new technology. In fact, I probably adopt it earlier than I should. Over the last forty years I’ve gone from Sinclair Spectrums and Psion organisers to Azure, AI, mobile apps and SaaS platforms. If there’s a shiny new tool promising to make … Read more

Israel #2

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It’s easy to sit in our country and watch the media reports about what’s happening overseas, hearing the rhetoric, listening to the politicians sprout their views, or in our case listen to the silence of our leaders… But Are you kidding me? Here is some footage of a friend of mine… June 22, camera in … Read more