Technology

For most apps, I tend to use Microsoft SQL or Postgres for data storage and persistence, but occasionally it may also make sense to use a document database. I wanted to see how it was working with Cosmos DB in a .Net application.

This is the fourth article in a 10 article series: Blazor vs Flutter. This post focuses on components and pages.

Lately, I've been looking at a few different options for a CMS platform. Of the ones that I've looked at, I think Umbraco makes the most sense, considering that most of my work uses C# & .Net, it has online hosting for ~$35/month, and it's been the easiest for me to understand.

Sometimes it can be useful to share your code between projects or with other individuals. One easy way to do this is through the creation of a NuGet package.

Over the past few months, I've dedicated a fair amount of time to two different activities: experimenting with indoor farming and building an open source farm management platform

It's about time for another monthly FarmCraft update! The beginning of July started out a bit slow due to working through some other projects, but things picked up again in the second half. Let's take a look.

This is the third article in a 10 article series: Blazor vs Flutter. This post focuses on package installation.

This is the second article in a 10 article series: Blazor vs Flutter. This post focuses on project setup.

At the beginning of May, I created a post about FarmCraft. I thought it would be a good time to give an update about what I've accomplished.

I first tried Flutter back in 2018, prior to the first major release. Then, a year or so later, I came across Blazor. Both platforms have come a long way since then, but I haven't seen an in-depth comparison of the development experience between the two.

One way to improve application performance is to use a cache of some sort. This could include caching websites on a server closer to the user's location, caching regularly used data for faster access, and more.

Good morning, and welcome to my weekly DevLog! This week I completed a small amount on FarmCraft, but also took a slight break to work on a custom CRM & project management app that I hope will help me keep track of things as I start getting into more consulting work.

Last week at Microsoft Build, they announced that .Net MAUI was now GA, although you still need the preview version of Visual Studio to create and build the projects. Regardless, I thought it would be a good time to try it out, and decided to do so with a simple encryption helper program.

Good morning, and welcome to my weekly DevLog! This week, my main accomplishments were adding search functionality to my website, and getting authentication working on the FarmCraft web portal.

Not long after getting my site set up, I decided that I wanted to have an easy way to search for things, especially considering that the site serves as my knowledge base for tech-related topics.