Greycastle
not just code
Building products is hard, building good products, even harder.
Here you’ll find my hardships and experience described, in snippets, rants and software.
What do I do?
Build software
I’ve been coding professionally since 2008, more than 10 years now. I have been working both as an employee and contractor in public and private sector.
I’ve done desktop clients, web clients, batch processing systems and backends.
Improve
Since I wrote my first lines of Visual Basic code in my school days I have used many different languages and frameworks. I have found that coding is about more than the actual code though. I constantly try to improve both within and without the confines of the IDE to better myself in the hard and the soft parts of that which is the engineering craft.
Help out
Finally, though I do enjoy to tinkering on my own, building real products is seldom one man show. As such, I believe that it is incredibly important to work together and share knowledge. Which is what this blog is partly about. Giving back to the community that’s given me so much.
Sharing is caring
There are so many brilliant people out there in the world. Since I started developing I’ve been saved so many times by both framework creators and the StackOverflow community alike. I’ve a huge respect for the open source community and everyone that simply gives without asking anything back. So I want to do the same. I want to share both my experience in the form of my thoughts and experiences in this blog and also the code I put together.
Past projects
Some stuff I’ve written and I’d love for you use
It’s not much but in my free time I’ve put together a few projects that are still alive. I’m thrilled to see anyone using the stuff I’ve written or even perusing it so if you can spare the time and effort.
The blog
XML as HTML using XSLT with Javascript in 30 minutes
That's a mouthful of a title indeed but I found today that the plain Javascript SDKs bundled with modern browsers are capable of a lot. To be specific, to take a file, parse it as XML then put it through an XSLT parser and spit out HTML. Why David, do you want to do...
Post-install hook for Podfile failing after upgrading to Flutter 2
You've probably tried upgrading major versions before, if you haven't I recommend you do it as soon as you can. Upgrading both libraries and frameworks frequently will save you loads of time compared to letting it pile up. Also, you get the benefits of any performance...
Supporting iOS 14 with Admob
Yesterday I spent two long hours tracking down the solution to a __TCC_CRASHING_DUE_TO_PRIVACY_VIOLATION error and I hope this post might save that time for someone else. In my project JReader, I use the admob_flutter package to display advertisements to my users. It...
