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Dependency Injection Everywhere

August 7, 2018 | Android, C#, iOS, Windows, Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms | No Comments

Hello there, today we are going to get involved with a feature for mobile apps that i recently needed to one of my apps, called Dependency Injection.

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We are going to give some info and guidance on how to perform platform-specific tasks in the Xamarin.Forms framework and especially how to save and open a PDF file with the default viewer on each platform.

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By georgemakrakis

Creating Web Api

November 27, 2017 | API, C#, Windows | No Comments

Hello guys, after a long long time i found some spare time to write a blog about one of my favorite subjects as a developer. The RESTful APIs.

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Today we are going to see how easy is to create an RESTful API that demonstrates a messaging service using Visual Studio, C# and Postman.
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Dealing with Docker

June 11, 2017 | Docker, Linux, Windows | No Comments

Back after a while with some interesting stuff!

A few months ago, i was assigned to make a free-topic project for Networks and Cloud Technologies class at my University’s Department of Information
& Communication Systems Engineering. Me and my team (Manolis Andreopoulos and Nikos Valakitsis) decided to get involved with Docker.

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Problems with default encoding between Windows and Linux

May 16, 2017 | Linux, Windows | No Comments

Recently i noticed that Windows Notepad used ANSI as default encoding in all it’s .txt files, when i tried to move a mail that i wrote to my Ubuntu 16.04 system to send it from there. Default text editor gedit opened the file that looked like this:

This happens because gedit does not support ANSI Windows-1253 (Greek) by default. So there are many ways to make this work such as adding support for ANSI. But a quicker and more elegant way is to use iconv (https://linux.die.net/man/1/iconv) the linux build-in program to convert the encoding of characters from a input-file to another file with the desired encoding.
An example of this command is: iconv -f Windows-1253 -t UTF-8 Mail.txt -o Mail2.txt
Then Mail2.txt wil be encoded in UTF-8.

Hope this is going to help some of you!

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By georgemakrakis