What I learned from the MVP Cloud Skills Challenge — Recently, I participated the MVP Global Cloud Skills Challenge, which allows all Microsoft MVPs to be competing on a global stage. As you know, Microsoft Learn is a free learning resource site for everyone who wants to learn Microsoft technologies. I have advocated it many times via my social network…

Around two month ago, I was awarded Microsoft MVP for the 5th year. I would like to take this opportunity to reflect my last 3 years… — Around two month ago, I was awarded Microsoft MVP for the 5th year. I would like to take this opportunity to reflect my last 3 years. After one year of preparation, I migrated to New Zealand from China in 2018. That was a huge change to me and my family…

Let us create a reusable PowerShell script to schedule your VMs with Azure Automation Runbooks — Azure Automation is a service of Azure that allow us to automate the Azure management tasks and to orchestrate actions. It is widely used in operations to help us save time and reduce the human errors. Recently, I just created the scripts to turn on/off the virtual machines on schedules…

How can we disable copy/paste for the EditText control? This is a note for Xamarin beginners. — Recently, I am using Xamarin to develop a mobile app for Android. In the app, there is a page that asks the user to input phone numbers twice to make sure the number has been typed correctly. The user is not allowed to copy/paste. …

A refactoring practice for GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata to explain the simple factory pattern and the strategy pattern. — I found an interesting project — GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata on GitHub. It provides a starting code for refactoring exercise in a bunch of programming languages. The principle is we should create enough unit tests that can cover all cases(especially for the edge cases), then start to refactor the code. …