Problem Requiring the committer to specify a unique, meaningful version identifier for every merge to a high traffic repository with a lengthy merge process results in painful merge conflicts and delays in merging otherwise approved code. Example scenario I have written a code change that has been approved and is ready to merge into our monorepo. I do a final … Continue reading “Automated Version Bumping on Merges”

Co-Authored by Kat Molostvova The Problem A common problem in almost any codebase is having too much boilerplate code doing the same thing in too many places. This can be reduced by trying to extract logic to a common SDK framework, but when developing for a cross-platform application, we are still left with a lot of the same code for … Continue reading “Creating Custom Attributes in Xamarin.Native”

gRPC is a networking framework brought to us by Google, which allows for the direct calling of methods on a remote server over a network. We were tasked recently with adding gRPC to our Xamarin Native applications. Luckily for us, there is an officially managed NuGet package for us to use. Following our last post, you just need to install … Continue reading “Fixing gRPC Xamarin iOS linking errors”

At the Front End team, we are constantly looking at ways to update page content with ease. A big part of that is vanity URL which is a redirecting mapping system that helps finding correct URLs. The vanity URL will be used for our marketing and communication team to spend their time wisely on A/B test experimentation. This blog post … Continue reading “Improved Vanity URL System”