Dave Carson
onthefencedev.bsky.social
Dave Carson
@onthefencedev.bsky.social
A 50 something software developer, living in the UK and just trying to make my way the best I can.

#csharp #dotnet #developer #xamarin #maui
I used to say that moving between email providers was quite a low friction process - but that was before I decided to move away from #ProtonMail..!

#OMFG what a pain this is going to be - their exporter tool has just dumped 160k files with hashes for filenames and no indication of date or folder
July 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
So - being forced to move to #MAUI9 to please Googles API requirements and while it should be a simple upgrade when you throw the MAUI Community Toolkit and the recent change to the way Popups work and it's proving to be a lot more work than it should be

#MAUICommunityToolkit #Upgrade
July 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I've been working with a client who are making good use of #git #hooks - something many developers have used in the past but probably don't anymore.

I was putting a quick blog post together but using #jetbrains #rider they don't work unless I commit from the integrated terminal - very disappointed!
May 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Reposted by Dave Carson
Happy 43rd birthday to the fabulous ZX Spectrum.
#zxspectrum #retrocomputing
#retrogaming
April 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Well, that's it - the contracting market in the UK is still flat-lining and I'm out!

This isn't going to be a political post but successive governments and HMRC have destroyed the gig economy here.

The problem is that the cost of employing staff has also increased so where does that leave me?
April 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Wow - burnt a lot of time this morning after integrating #sentry into my #maui application to capture and report exceptions.
Was getting 'System.Net.Sockets.SocketException' on app start but it turns out its not in my code as the 'File-New Project' solution does the same thing! #blogtofollow
March 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
So, I have a personal mobile (#MAUI) project that I want to add Crash Reporting and Analytics to - but which service are people using now that AppCentre has gone the way of the Dodo?

Suggestions

#crashreporting #analytics #dotnet #maui #appcentre
March 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Possibly my favourite photo from a recent trip to #Sydney. A wonderful city and I wish I could have stayed longer.
February 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reposted by Dave Carson
📦 Join us for .NET 10 Preview 1 Unboxed Live Stream!

Join us for an unboxing video with the team to discuss what’s new in this preview release, with live demos from the dev team!

📆Today at 1 PM Pacific / 21 UTC

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.NET Previews Unboxed - .NET 10 Preview 1, C# 14, HybridCache, & More
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February 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Reposted by Dave Carson
Hey .NET devs! Are you following @dot.net here on Bluesky already? If not, what are you waiting for?
February 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
No matter where you go in the world there is always something cute called Dave 😁
February 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Reposted by Dave Carson
The team at AWS have been hard at work building support for .NET Aspire!
aws.amazon.com/blogs/develo...
Integrating AWS with .NET Aspire | Amazon Web Services
.NET Aspire is a new way of building cloud-ready applications. In particular, it provides an orchestration for local environments in which to run, connect, and debug the components of distributed appl...
aws.amazon.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
So, I'm going to give this #bluesky thing a try ... just to see what it's all about.
February 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM