Category Archives: Learning

Xamarin Quick Hit: Dimming a button to indicate it is disabled

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Jesse Liberty

I often have to dim a button to indicate that it is disabled, and I want to do that via data binding.

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Learn to Program (From Scratch!)

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Jesse Liberty

John Papa and I have just released our new Play by Play on Learning To Program.   If you know of someone who has wanted to learn to code but didn’t know where to start, this might be a great option.

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Yet Another Podcast #152 – John Papa on Angular 2

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Jesse Liberty

John Papa, expert in all things Angular, joins me in discussing Angular 2 ES5, ES2015, TypeScript Angular 2 on GitHub    

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Yet Another Podcast #145: John Sonmez

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Jesse Liberty

This week John Sonmez goes beyond programming to talk about life and the pursuit of happiness. Simple Programmer Blog: http://simpleprogrammer.com Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual: http://simpleprogrammer.com/softskills 10 Steps to Learn Anything Quickly course: http://10stepstolearn.com YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/jsonmez Listen | Yet … Continue reading →

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I’ll be speaking at DevIntersections/Angle Brackets

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

April 13-16, 2014 at JW Marriott Grande Lakes, Orlando Florida I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be speaking at Angle Brackets.  Angle brackets is “a conference for lovers of the Web.”    It has been described as “the conference for those … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET, Community, JavaScript, Kendo, Languages, Learning, MVVM, One ASP.NET, Presentations, Training | Tagged | Leave a comment

LINQ From Scratch #2–Deferred Execution

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

I’ve posted the second in my emerging series on LINQ From Scratch here.  This one is about deferred execution, a small but critical feature of LINQ.

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A Baker’s Dozen on Web Applications

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

I am in the middle of unrolling on Pluralsight,  a complete entry-level program in  developing Web Applications, with a focus on free and open-source software. At its heart are these courses: Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC, ServiceStack and Bootstrap Building … Continue reading →

Posted in AngularJS, ASP.NET, Community, CSS3, Essentials, HTML5, JavaScript, Kendo, Learning, MVC, MVVM, News, One ASP.NET, Patterns & Skills, Pluralsight, Programming, Tools and Utilities, Training | Tagged | 1 Comment

New Pluralsight Course: Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC, ServiceStack and Bootstrap

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Very pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC, ServiceStack and Bootstrap In this course you will learn to create a meaningful web application using Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC coupled with the open-source projects ServiceStack and Bootstrap. … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #113–John Sonmez–Pluralsight Author and a focus on ServiceStack

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Jon Galloway joins me in talking with the amazing John Sonmez, who has written over 50 courses for Pluralsight.  We focus on ServiceStack and then on Xamarin, but touch on many related topics. John’s Website John’s courses on Pluralsight Service … Continue reading →

Posted in Languages, Learning, Open Source, Podcast, ServiceStack | Tagged | 2 Comments

Learning Xamarin for Android–Taking the Plunge

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Today, I decided to see what would happen if I set out to write a simple program based on my knowledge of C#/.NET and the little I’ve learned so far about Xamarin and Android.  The results were, if modest, very … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #109–One ASP.NET with Jon Galloway

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Jon Galloway, my friend and sometime co-host is interviewed by Jeff Fritz and me about One ASP.NET and what’s new in ASP.NET.  Jon is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft focused on ASP.NET and Jeff is a Developer Evangelist for Telerik … Continue reading →

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Learning Xamarin–Application Lifecycle

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

As is true with iOS and Windows Phone development, you can’t get very far in Android development (with or without Xamarin) without understanding the Application Lifecycle in somewhat painful detail.  Posted here

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