Technology changes on a daily basis, should your business try to keep up?

Not really, no. Unless the business drives that need for change. This is a mistake that many (including myself) will do. A new piece of technology comes out, our software needs to be rewritten using it. But what advantage does that bring to our business and to our end-users? In most cases, none. Instead of…

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Audit your site’s performance, accessibility and user experience using Google Lighthouse

Lighthouse is an automated tool for auditing the performance, accessibility and overall user experience of any web page. It was initially meant to audit PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) but it’s much more than that. Easiest way to audit your website is using the latest version of Chrome. Navigate to your website and open up the…

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Extending your Xamarin Forms AdMob renderer to display Microsoft Ads on UWP

So far we’ve been displaying ads only on Android and iOS through AdMob and our AdMob renderer. Google dropped support for Windows Phone altogether and never bothered with UWP so AdMob is not a choice in this particular situation. Fortunately, Microsoft is also in the advertising business and  they’ve now nicely integrated everything in the…