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Yet Another Podcast #167 – Charles Petzold
Charles Petzold has been writing books and articles about Microsoft-based operating systems since 1984. He is currently part of the Xamarin documentation team, which means he’s a Microsoft employee. Today we briefly discuss what’s new in Xamarin.Forms and then turn our … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #165 – Jon Galloway on Azure Functions
Jon Galloway is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, focusing on Web Development, Azure and .NET. He is also a long-time friend, and a truly great guy. Azure Functions Unity Jon’s blog Herding Code Jon on Twitter
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TypeScript for C# Programmers – a new course
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MVVM Light Messaging Made Absurdly Easy
I wanted to send a message from a ViewModel to its View so that the View could pop up a dialog box. To do this, I used MVVM Light’s messaging bus. At first, this seemed difficult because I was over … Continue reading
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Away From The Keyboard
I was pleased and proud to be interviewed on Away From The Keyboard, talking about my history in the industry. Makes a good bookend with my talk with Shawn Wildermuth on Hello World. Great fun.
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iPhone 7+ – First Look
What can I say that you don’t already know? [Updated Sept 23, 09:19: To reset the iPhone 7, hold the power button and the volume down button until you see the apple The battery does seem to last much … Continue reading
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MacOs Sierra – first look
[Updated 11:26 EDT] macOS Sierra is here (goodbye Mac OSX) It has only a few new features, most notable of which is Siri on the Mac. Siri works ok, not great. And even when she is fully understanding my requests, there … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #163: James Montemagno and Xamarin Cycle 8
James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager on the Xamarin team at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005 working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Prior to becoming a … Continue reading
My Favorite Mac Utilities
I have experimented with a number of different utilities. I’m going to list some of them here, and then invite you to please add your preferred utilities that I haven’t tried yet, and why you like them. The following are … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #162 What’s New in C# 7 with Mads Torgersen
Mads Torgersen is a Program Manager at Microsoft, responsible for the evolution of C#. What’s new in C# 7
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Yet Another Podcast #161 – David Britch
David Britch is a Developer/Writer at Xamarin, and has previously spent many years working on projects for different groups at Microsoft. David has authored and contributed to a range of recent software development publications including books, guidance documentation, reference implementations, … Continue reading
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