BackupBuddy review and experience

The problem I have close to a dozen sites that I personally handle.  That includes feature requests, performance, and backups.  To perform backups, I pretty much set aside a decent chunk of time to manually export the WordPress databases, then I FTP down the...

Raising events across Windows

Multi-threaded applications appear to be more and more the norm with the latest version of Windows development.  In fact, it’s become a necessity when displaying additional windows with a UWP app.  With this article, I want to capture the resolution to a problem...

Refreshing the DataTemplateSelector

The DataTemplateSelector could be a cool tool for changing out which DataTemplate is used to display an element within a list.  I started using it for a media feature to figure out whether an element’s thumbnail should display as image, sound, or video. The...

Serializing data with C#

Years ago, there appeared to be only XmlSerializer.  Then came the DataContractSerializer particular for use with WCF.  Now, it appears there are a couple JsonSerializers – who knows what will be next? Recently, I had to implement a Serializer.  I tried a few of...