In October, I had an opportunity to talk about Visual Studio 2015 at Microsoft Innovation Center (Karachi, PK). I talked mostly about debugging enhancements, C# 6 language enhancements, the new ASP.NET 5 ecosystem including CoreCLR, .NET execution environment (DNX) etc. Slide deck: If you are interested in reading about C# Read more…
C# 6 has got nothing major coming like LINQ or async/await in past instead it has got several small enhancements which actually helps you clean up your code and get ride of boilerplate code. In this post, I am going to share some of the code snippets I wrote to Read more…
Maintaining your business presence or mobile apps on different platforms is challenging. A lot of companies hire platform specific developers, form one team for each platform which work in their own silos, each responsible to maintain their respective platform, having different implementation, different code paths and different kind of design. Read more…
This week I attended YOW Connected 2014, a mobile and IoT development conference in Melbourne, and also delivered a session. It was good to meet mobile developers in local community. I delivered a talk “Write cleaner, maintainable and testable code in Android with MVVM”. I think it captured attention of Read more…
I am pleased to share that I have been re-awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft. Each year Microsoft recognized around 4000 individuals for their contribution in technical community such as offline events, online forums, authors, open source contributors etc. [See what it takes to become MVP] I am truly Read more…
Few months ago, I shared some of my key tips with students at UoK to be successful in their academic and professional life. Now just to be clear I am not truly a professional coach or mentor but I am glad to share essential tips which I have learned with Read more…
Android app development uses Java platform and you can consume JDK (java development toolkit) in Android. This above statement is partially true however the fact is that some part of Java SDK is being pulled out and packaged it in Android SDK. Second fact is that we can use Java Read more…
I recently published an article on CodeProject.com about how developers can share their code base across Windows Phone and Windows Store apps using Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and Portable Class Libraries (PCL). If you are windows developer with experience of implementing MVVM or want to implement MVVM, I would request you Read more…
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) is a solid presentation model and the best benefit of this design is that it lets you decouple UI and logic which makes you unit test your logic easily. You will find a lot of stuff over the internet about MVVM but I am going to quickly introduce Read more…
Yesterday marks the end of year 2013, wasn’t it very fast? As the year ends, its time to post a short note on how the year has been. Overall I see 2013 as change in professional life. After 4+ years of serving, I left my job and thank Telenor for Read more…