http://codecube.net/ Software Engineer at Xamarin. Founded ONETUG. Author of 'C# 5 First Look' http://amzn.com/1849686769. en-us https://codecube.net/2024/1/copilot-for-azure/ Taking a moment to update here about Microsoft Copilot for Azure (Ask Learn... Joel Martinez 2024-01-15 2024-01-15 https://codecube.net/2023/7/what-ive-been-up-to-since-2020/ The last few years have been ... interesting, for lack of a better term. After basically checking out from social media, in about July of 2020 when the world starting dealing with pandemics, lock... Joel Martinez 2023-07-09 2023-07-09 https://codecube.net/2023/7/back-online/ Well ... it's been entirely too long, but if you're reading this I'm BACK ONLINE! Technically, the site has never been offline, but the deployment pipeline was mistakenly deleted sometime in 2021.... Joel Martinez 2023-07-04 2023-07-04 https://codecube.net/2020/7/clarity/ There's a lot of things going on in the world today ... it feels like we've lived 10 lifetimes in the last 3-4 months. All of the above left my mind in almost a literal cloudy haze ... it was almos... Joel Martinez 2020-07-08 2020-07-08 https://codecube.net/2020/7/recollecting-my-thoughts/ As I've egostistically announced yesterday, I'm taking a short break from social media. With this break, comes a chance to reflect over this activity that has certainly taken over our entire cultur... Joel Martinez 2020-07-08 2020-07-08 https://codecube.net/2020/7/social-media-diet/ This has been a long time coming, but I'd never actually gathered up the ... courage isn't the right word ... but the oomph to actually do it until now. I'm going to limit my social media partic... Joel Martinez 2020-07-07 2020-07-07 https://codecube.net/2019/7/audio-post/ Trying out something new ... adding some dynamic audio generation capabilities to my blog posts, using tone.js. Turn up your speakers and let's see if this works: Play Sound document.post... Joel Martinez 2019-07-27 2019-07-27 https://codecube.net/2018/10/programmatically-open-pull-request/ When integrating github repositories into any automated workflow, a very common pattern is for the process to open a pull request against some repository. This lets a human step into the mix and re... Joel Martinez 2018-10-24 2018-10-24 https://codecube.net/2018/5/review-your-pipelines/ So everyone knows that friends don't let friends right-click-publish. I had previously posted about how I created a continuous deployment... Joel Martinez 2018-05-21 2018-05-21 https://codecube.net/2018/4/what-i-wish-id-know-about-3d-printing/ A friend sent me a message recently, that they were getting their first 3d printer, and they asked me if I had any advice that I wished I had known when I was starting out. What followed was a mos... Joel Martinez 2018-04-25 2018-04-25 https://codecube.net/2017/11/sprinkling-devops/ DevOps ... it's something that I have a love/hate relationship with. When I'm working on a project that has a really nice devops pipeline (testing/deployment), it's pure bliss. However, when I'm w... Joel Martinez 2017-11-09 2017-11-09 https://codecube.net/2017/11/charging-fatigue/ Anyone else get tired of charging stuff? I do! ... Joel Martinez 2017-11-07 2017-11-07 https://codecube.net/2016/9/xamarin-devdays-orlando/ Come join us on Saturday, September 10th, for a completely free hands-on learning experience. We'll spend the morning exploring mobile development, then roll up our sleeves for an afternoon dedi... Joel Martinez 2016-09-06 2016-09-06 https://codecube.net/2015/9/xamarin-is-zipfian/ Michael, from the popular YouTube channel VSauce, recently published a video titled The Zipf Mystery, wherein he talks about several aspects of Zipf's Law: Zipf's law states that given some... Joel Martinez 2015-09-27 2015-09-27 https://codecube.net/2015/4/bootstrapping-community/ Ten years of the Orlando CodeCamp! That was the message that I was priviledged enough to deliver as the first keynote speaker at the 10th Annual Orlando CodeCamp... Joel Martinez 2015-04-21 2015-04-21