Codename: Alexandria

Pieter van der Westhuizen, a professional freelance web & mobile developer and founder of Coalition Software.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen, a professional freelance web & mobile developer and founder of Coalition Software.
A recent requirement came up for configurable dynamic forms in a mobile application. There are a few dynamic form packages for Flutter, but I wanted a bit more control over the schema and behavior of the form. Here follows my attempt at creating dyna...

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In my last post, "Using AWS Cognito with Xamarin Forms", I showed how to authenticate with Amazon Cognito using Xamarin Forms and the Xamarin.Essentials Web Authenticator. In this post, we'll go through the process of using the AWS Cognito Hosted UI ...

In this post, I'll show you how to quickly and easily set up user authentication for your Xamarin Forms app using Amazon Cognito. AWS Cognito is a user identity management solution by Amazon. It is a really easy way to add authentication to your appl...

Yes! Development has switched to full gear on my latest project. Codenamed Alexandria this project is a system to help companies with an in-house library to keep track of all materials in the library.
What I’m most excited about is that this is my first project where I use CSLA.Net. Already the CSLA.Net Framework is showing it’s metal, the security model I’m using fits like a glove into this framework. Rockford Lhotka has really done a smashing job.
Oh yeah…Why Alexandria?No, it’s not an long lost love…it’s named after the great Library of Alexandria. I thought it is a fitting name 
Onto the 5 things I’ve learned this week:
Right…back to the greatest library system ever written ;o)