Hi, I'm Christofer Löf
I'm Building products for Flightradar24, coding the Cloud and explore trails by bike
Configuring zsh on Windows 10
With Windows Subsystem for Linux I'm now happy to have a very similar cli experience on both Windows and Mac. This is how I've configured zsh on Windows.
A closer look at data streaming capabilities of Amazon Kinesis and Azure Event Hubs
Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services both offer capabilities in the area of management and analytics on streaming data. In this post I'm looking a bit closer at how Azure Event Hubs and Azure Stream Analytics stack up against AWS Kinesis Firehose, Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Analytics.
Open sourcing Driver's Log for Windows Phone 7
What can I say. Time flies.
Azure Architecture Guidance
Customers often ask about best practices and blueprints on how to build solutions for the cloud (on Microsoft Azure in particular). These days things evolve at a pace never seen before why developing reference architectures may be a very costly thing - once it’s done it may be obsolete if it’s produced with too much detail and too low level of abstraction.
Exploring IoT information exchange patterns with Azure Service Bus and Gadgeteer
In the article Service Assisted Communication for Connected Devices Clemens Vasters discuss challenges with different approaches for exchanging information with special-purpose devices - The type of devices which we today like to group into the term ‘Things’ in ‘Internet of Things’. Addressing and security being two of the main concerns in many of today’s implementations.
Driver's log celebrates three years
One of my apps, Driver’s Log, is now celebrating three years in the Windows Phone Store. The app has a loyal user base and by continuing adding features and supporting new devices I surly hope that you’ll continue to enjoy it for at least another three years.
Book Contributor
Earlier this year I had the pleasure to contribute content to a book on Scrum with Visual Studio
Continuous Delivery is not just automated deployments
The Continuous Delivery wave seems to be what people are trying to surf these days. I’m a bit worried though when I see posts and articles, especially from the Microsoft Community, where people claim they do Continuous Delivery when in fact the only thing they achieved is an automated deployment triggered by a check-in.
Portable Class Library and ICommand
A while ago I wrote an article describing how the Portable Class Library can enable us to write Unit Tests for our Windows Phone apps using the tools and frameworks we’re already familiar with. By adding an abstraction layer and using types common to the Base Class Library, Portable Class Library and Windows Phone we can write unit tests using tools like MSTest and Moq.
Unit testing Windows Phone 7 apps
Unit testing your apps can help you ensure that you didn't break anything between versions.