Category: .NET

  • Floppy Bird

    I’ve played around with Unity a few years ago (which never eventuated in anything), Roblox Studio last year (which was great to introduce programming to my kids), and Unreal Engine this year (which I felt was overwhelmingly the most difficult). I’ve come back to Unity with a view of recreating some simple games to understand…

  • Calling a SOAP 1.1 Web Service using WS-Security and HTTPS

    I recently had to update an .NET application to enable support for calling SOAP 1.1 Web Services using the WS-Security UsernameToken support over HTTPS with a self-signed TLS certificate. In the end, I had to use a custom binding, since there wasn’t a built in one that suited my requirements; for example, basicHttpBinding supports SOAP…

  • GUS Gives

    I was approached two years ago by a colleague from the Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) to help set up a web application for GUS Gives – a charity portal that collects payments from members and provides detailed analytics for charity organisations. My role was to provide data management support and the first…

  • Parallel Bible

    My 85 year old grandma has been getting into reading various bible translations from her iPad. In order to improve her Hindi reading skills, she was looking for a side-by-side translation of a Malayalam bible and Hindi bible. While we could find Malayalam-English and Hindi-English versions, we couldn’t find a Malayalam-Hindi one that she could…