Category Archives: Essentials
Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 1 – Overview
About this series This post begins a series in which I will introduce Xamarin.Forms, put it in context and then teach all you need to know to go from absolute beginner to intermediate/advanced Xamarin.Forms programmer. I assume no prior mobile … Continue reading
New Course: Source Code Control With Git Using SourceTree
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Yet Another Podcast #172 – James Montemagno on Embedding
Talking with James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft Embedding Xamarin.Forms in Xamarin Native Merge Conflict: Embedding Xamarin Forms Merge Conflict The Xamarin Show
Asking Questions That Get Answers
This is from my Help! page, but I thought it might be worth blogging here as well… Creating a Question That Is Likely To Be Answered There are a few techniques that make for a question that is likely to … Continue reading
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DevIntersections Advanced C# Code
For those of you who attended my session on Advanced C#, here is a zip of the examples. Thanks
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Yet Another Podcast #171 – MFractor
Talking with Matthew Robbins, creator of MFractor. MFractor is a set of extraordinary tools for Visual Studio Mac. Twitter: @matthewrdev Sack: #mfractor Xamarin Slack sub-channel Email: [email protected] Web: http://mfractor.com
Yet Another Podcast #170 – Windows Template Studio
Create UWP Applications with a template wizard… Clint Rutkas is a Sr. Product Manager for Windows focusing on the developer platform. He has worked at 343 Industries on Halo and on Channel 9 and built some crazy projects using Windows technology … Continue reading
File Persistence in Xamarin.Forms Apps
The goal is to persist data to a file. You might do this for any number of reasons, including storing away user-preferences or, in this case, storing away data to protect you from a crash. In this simple application we … Continue reading
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AirPods First Look
I don’t believe in skimping on tools. I write software, so I have big monitors and a great chair, and powerful Macs. I write mobile apps, so I have a bunch of phones. But AirPods are not part of my … Continue reading
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Top 10 Mac Utilities for Developers
I recently tweeted a request for nominations for best utilities and productivity tools for Developers working on the Mac. This list is an aggregate of my recommendations and those of others who I greatly respect. They are listed in no … Continue reading
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I’ll be speaking at DevIntersection 2017
News flash from the department of shameless self promotion: I’m pleased to say that I’ll be speaking at DevIntersection 2017 in Orlando. Click on the image for more info, and use the code LIBERTY for a $50 discount.
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