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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...

If you've ever written a mobile app with Flutter that integrates with an API, then you'll know that there are a lot of model objects that get passed between the app and the API. JSON Serialization in Flutter can also take a fair amount of boilerplate...

Back in May 2020, Microsoft announced a new feature for Azure Blob Storage called Blob Index. Essentially, this enables you to add key/value tags to your Blob objects and be able to query said Blob objects without having to use a separate service lik...

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...

The great thing about the industry we IT folk find ourselves in is the fact that we are able to learn something new every single day. This does not necessarily happen, but therefore i have committed myself to try and learn something new every day.
It does not need to be a new technology or new way to do something in code, but it can be a new util or a great website or an excellent blog.
So from now on, I will try my best to post a blog entry every Friday with at least 5 things I’ve learned during the week(That’s 1 a day).
For example, today I’ve come across the new Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant for Access, had no idea it even existed, check it out here… you can use it to migrate a MS access db to SQL Server 2005 (yes, i know there is an upsizing wizard in access, but it does not work nicely on SQL 2005)