A simple developer's journey

I- Introduction II- Docker presentation III- A simple [MySQL / phpMyAdmin] docker example IV- Docker in Windows, how to ? V- Simple Docker glossary VI- Links I- Introduction There are enough websites to introduce to you Docker in detail. This presentation will just remind you the key concepts of Docker. In my posts, I will always talk about Docker embedded in the Windows environment but I presume, all given information will also be valid for Linux and other OS. So, what are we going to see in this post ? As I said, we will remind the key concept of Docker, then we will list some common use cases and all the basic related commands. I will share some links at the end of the post if you want to go deeper with Docker. Let's go ! II- Presentation Docker is 'just' a technology used to virtualize environments (named containers ) in order to run specific applications. It acts like traditional virtual machine but it's much more lightweight. Take

If as me, you don't really understand all subtleties between .NET Core and .NET Standard , I suggest you to have a look at the following article. It explains some history about .NET Framework and how .NET Standard is born. >>  Xamarin blog: A brief history of .NET Standard Which version to use ? For me, an important point to master for my own projects, is to know which platforms I can reach with a specific .NET Standard or .NET Core library. The following table illustrate the compatibility between each .NET implementation: For instance, - if you build a Xamarin Android v. 7.0 application, you could use versions 1.0 up to 1.6 .NET Standard librairies into your project - or if you have a .NET Standard v. 1.4 library, you could only build Android  v. 7.0  applications ( not v. 8.0) Intersting References about .NET Standard: Xamarin blog: A brief history of .NET Standard .NET Standard official website .NET Standard, table version video

New 'Xamarin' menu available If you are a Xamarin developer, you will be happy to know that the "full" Xamarin Platform's documentation is now available on microsoft.com website.  This website looks really clear , so it should be easy to find what you need... Microsoft documentation portal:   https://docs.microsoft.com If you select the "Xamarin" menu, you will be redirected to the following page: This is the entry point to many chapters describing the platform like: - technical / language documentation - UI (with XAML) documentation but you will also find: - deployement tutorials - mobile continuous delivery tutorials - data / database articles - code samples - and so much more ! So let's go coding Xamarin !

This post is made for those (like me) who like image processing , web development and maybe, for those who want to learn new programming technics ... - I will make you discover p5.js , a javascript library specialized in graphical creation for your web browser ! - I will also talk about the the Youtube channel "The Coding Train" presented by Daniel Shiffman. A lot of its videos are based on P5.js. It was for me a great source of inspiration and made me discover javascript (because I'm a newbie with JS...) So I'm pretty sure, you will learn a lot too... - Finally I will present you my personnal example of what I did with P5.js. It's about an old retro fire effect (used in demoscene few years ago) :) So let's begin with p5.js ! I- What is P5.js ? a- Presentation As I mentionned it previously, P5.js is a graphical Javascript library. With it, you will be able to make great effects in your web pages in a few minutes.  This lib

I- Introduction, OpenCV and EMGU Do you know OpenCV ( Open Source Computer Vision Library:  https://opencv.org/ ) ?  This open source library let's you work and play with images and videos with a lot of powerful image processing algorithms !  If you want some details, I suggest you to first navigate to the link above or search for 'OpenCV' on Google.  Examples of OpenCV processing found on the web (filters, object detection, edges...): EMGU is a .NET OpenCV wrapper. That means that you will be able to use OpenCV functionnalities in your .NET projects using C# for instance. EMGU is cross platform, so you will also be able to use it in your Xamarin projects ! That's great because there is no advanced image processing library in Xamarin. In this article, we will talk about EMGU and list the steps to setup a Xamarin Forms project using EMGU . It may help you because, we must say that it's not a trivial task...  II-What do I need to

Discover 'FFLoadingImage' library Today I want to make a quick presentation of a really good library for Xamarin Forms . This is the kind of library we would like to see more often on XF... This one is dedicated to image manipulation. It's called " FFImageLoading ". If I take time to make this presentation, it's because I think that we should use it in almost all our "basic" Xamarin Forms applications. When I say basic, I exclude Games or other specific apps. But in my mind, I suggest you to change all your traditional "<Image />" by "<FF:CachedImage />" in your apps. Before to start, where to find it ? On Github:  https://github.com/luberda-molinet/FFImageLoading On Nuget:  https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.FFImageLoading Main features So what will you find using this library ? I will not explain all the details but the main interesting features of the library. Multi-platform The good po