As I See Tech

As I See Tech is taking a holiday break, coming back next year. Enjoy the season of caring, giving, loving and sharing. Peace!

I like books. I like owning them. I like reading them. And re-reading them. They're joys to have. Books are bound to be immortal treasures. Digitizing them is cool and nice and stuffs. But nothing beats the pleasure of experiencing books in print, hardbound, paperback and all.

Biometric authentication is not mainstream. It's expensive. It's hardware specific. It is also not an all-in-one solution. However, if done right, there is a higher chance that the future would be better with it.

Mendz.Graph's Graph class implements IFormattable. The default DOTFormatProvider and DOTFormatter implementations included in Mendz.Graph are really just samples of what can be done. Developers are encouraged to create and use their own IFormatProvider and ICustomFormatter implementations for the Graph.

Not as much fanfare as I expected, but it's finally out! Dapper 1.50.4 for .Net Standard 2.0 is ready! Exciting times ahead for fans of the micro-ORM library.

All Mendz projects and products are now .Net Standard 2.0 class libraries. Use them all in your .Net Core or .Net Framework or .Net Standard targeting projects.

For the longest time, web applications absorb processing loads on the server-side, leaving the client-side to mostly just rendering the response (i.e. HTML/CSS) from the web server. Now, with JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, etc., the client-side is sharing the processing load.

When creating ASP.Net applications for business and enterprise requirements, you are more likely doing something nowhere near basic. While simple MVC examples are available everywhere, the truth is, they are more often, if not always, NOT applicable as-is.

What does it take to be a data scientist? What do I need to learn? What skills should I have? What tools should I know?

To those who own game consoles, you know very well why they should last a long time. Unlike smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops, which have 3 to 5 year life cycles, game console life cycles are estimated at 6 to 8 years. In my opinion, XBox One X just about got it right.

Imagine a future where you can have a single device from which you can choose whichever network carrier/provider is providing the best service and offerings where you are. Imagine carrier competition on steroids. Possible? Perhaps with eSIM, and with prepaid subscriptions the norm.

Apple SIM has gone a long way from just enabling data to now include making and getting calls as exemplified by the new Apple Watch Series 3 . As I See Tech thinks this is big , and you should too!

Apple released the 3rd-generation of the Apple Watch in September 2017. It's available with GPS only or with GPS+cellular via eSIM. This article is interested in the latter, and As I See Tech thinks it's going to be big!

I am pretty much ending the year with a blast! I have finally published my projects in GitHub and NuGet. I am happy with how they are progressing and how they are getting maintained. There are more work up ahead, but mostly it's a celebration to know that they are finally already out there.