Archive
CORS in GraphQL: Subgraphs vs Supergraphs
Learn when CORS is necessary in federated GraphQL architectures and why your subgraphs probably don’t need it
Passing variables to Strawberry Shake Components in Blazor
How to pass an integer variable to a Strawberry Shake Component in Blazor
Strawberry Shake in Blazor
I´m currently working on a Blazor project fetching data with StraberryShake from a HotChocolate Fusion Gateway and I’m loving it.
Deploying docker image to Azure with yml and bicep through Github Actions
How to deploy a Blazor Server with PostgreSQL docker image and infrastructure to Azure using GitHub Actions
The Lost Domain
In case you’ve noticed the eerie quietness on this platform for the past two years, it’s due to a simple, albeit frustrating, reason: I …
Ten weeks of SuperNova
Today the Quick Lookup founder team will finish the ten week startup accelerator, Super Nova. This is a short story about our journey
Quick Lookup awarded fifty millions in grant money
OK sorry for that click bait 🙊! But it’s still true regardless… it’s just that the amount is in ISK not in dollars 😎
Game sector data
Our first target segment, the gaming industry. Read more to know why its a very interesting segment.
Last years start-up reflection and what's to come at my new company Quick Lookup
Little bit on my personal start-up history and my latest data service company Quick Lookup
Adding a iOS test user to AppCenter
I was having some trouble with getting my iOS testers up and running so I decided to create my own instructions and share them with you. On Android …
Change the Statusbar color from Xamarin.Forms
Do you want to change the default statusbar color and do it from Xamarin.Forms? Lets explore that here…
You can use Visual Studio Community edition for FREE
Did you know that if you are a small shop or an solo independent developer you can use Visual Studio Community Edition for free?
SQL-net with a must have extension
Do you want to add a relational database to your mobile app?
Custom dialog with Prism
Get your dialog parameters back into you viewModel
Errors while using Prisms CommandParameter
Reading stack trace error messages is sometimes just hard!
UI animation from your ViewModel
This post is about accessing your views code-behind from your viewModel and nothing much about animation sorry!
Circle button in Xamarin.Forms
Buttons in Xamarin.Forms are much powerful than they used to be. Lets circle around that fact for a while!
Font images in Xamarin.Forms
Use icon images in your Xamarin.Forms apps. A easy step-step guide.
Nesting a file in VS project
How to nest a file under another file to keep them close to each other
SQL helper tip - Table details
This will be a short tip for MSSSQL Management Studio to get detailed information on a database table.
Func and Action delegates
The post contains information on the differences of Func/Action delegates and custom delegates. Hopefully it will give you enough code examples to …
The Dependency Injection Jungle
This is a short overview of IoC (inversion of control), DI (dependency injection) and DI containers I was asked to do for my colleagues at work.
In …
Simple use of Events
I’m working a lot with events and delegate at work these days so I thought I should take a better look at them and try to explain a simple usage …
Running your Xamarin app on your IPhone without a physical Mac
If you are like me this guide will help you get your Xamarin app to your IPhone (and your testers IPhones) without needing to buy a Mac!
Essential extensions for Visual Studio
Here are the extensions I feel I really can’t be without.
The Visual Studio marketplace contains a huge amount of extensions.
Many of them are …
Safe casting with is
Just a short post on some pattern matching in C# 7 that my coworker pointed out to make code cleaner and easier to read. I had looked at pattern …
Basics of Git for Visual Studio TFVC users
This is just a small intro into the basics of Git using VSTS and Visual Studio. This is not a catch-all about git.
Unit testing private methods using the internal keyword
Should you test private methods or should you refactor your code in someway to make the testing easier? And if yes, then how?
Visual Studio Tips & Tricks
Now I’m going to show you all the tricks I know when it comes to my favorite programming IDE, Visual Studio 2017. I hope you learn a trick or …
Decrease load and build times of large VS solutions
In this post I´m going to look at ways to decrease load and build times for large soulutions (400+ projects) in Visual Studio 2017
My old developer blog (in icelandic)
I have not been very an active bloger last couple of years. The reason for that was mostly my young kids (now 3 and 6) and the lack of energy for …
Fired up for my first day at the new job!
Well… that was a great start at a new company! Just got the call from my boss telling me to hold off coming to work my first day …
My new keyboard
I just got a new version of a Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard/mouse. The keyboard and the mouse come as a pair where you can´t opt-out to just the …
A little about me and this blog
Before really starting this blog I would like to introduce my self and what this (and previous) blog is about. Update: My old blog I’m a 46 year …
New blog
I have decided to make the move from my old blog sturla.simnet.is to something newer and easier to manage. Update: My old blog My earlier blog was …