Category Archives: Essentials

A Xamarin Project

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

Recently, Steve Smith, CTO of Falafel suggested we form a small team to re-write our Falafel2Go application which had been written a year earlier in Xamarin. The goal was to learn, to demonstrate and to blog about Xamarin Forms. This … Continue reading →

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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 Pluralsight | 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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New Pluralsight Course: Sublime Text 3 From Scratch

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Very pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Sublime Text 3 From Scratch Sublime Text 3 is the premier text editor for programmers. This course provides a complete tour of the editor along with extensive coverage of options, plugins, customization, … Continue reading →

Posted in Essentials, JavaScript, Pluralsight, Tools and Utilities | Tagged Pluralsight | 2 Comments

Essential Development Tools–Part 2

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

In a very recent post, I described a number of Insanely Essential Utilities for developers. It occurs to me that I put the cart before the horse, and prior to installing any of that, you need a development environment that … Continue reading →

Posted in Essentials, Opinion, Product Reviews | Tagged Hardware | 3 Comments

Two Dozen Insanely Essential Programmer Utilities*

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Lately I’ve been focused much more on Web development. Along the way, I’ve discovered a number of utilities that are simply essential to successful coding, depending of course on which frameworks and libraries you are using. Here’s a sampling, intended … Continue reading →

Posted in Essentials, Opinion, Tools and Utilities | Tagged Utilities | 57 Comments

A Personal Note – Moving On…

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

In our industry it is common to have a number of jobs during the course of your career. I’ve benefitted from my experiences at PBS, Citibank, Ziff Davis, AT&T and Microsoft to name just a few. In recent years I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET, Community, CSS3, Essentials, Falafel Software, HTML5, JavaScript, Languages, Linq, News, Observations, One ASP.NET, Opinion, Pluralsight, Podcast, Presentations, Telerik, Windows 8, XAML | Tagged Personal | 11 Comments

Pluralsight Course: Windows 8 From Start to Store

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Shameless self-promotion warning! I have released my first (but not last) Pluralsight course, Windows 8 From Start To Store . This XAML and C# – based course covers everything from design fundamentals to data to getting your app in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Data, Design, Essentials, Learning, News, Tools and Utilities, Windows 8, WinRT | 1 Comment

Windows 8–Storing App Data

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

While your Windows 8 Store application is running, you want to be saving data all the time. After all, the user can switch to another application at any time, and you only have five seconds to store out your data … Continue reading →

Posted in Essentials, Mini-Tutorial, Windows 8 | Tagged Mini-Tutorial | 3 Comments

Yet Another Podcast #91–Pete Brown on Creating Great Windows 8 Applications

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Discussion with Pete Brown, Microsoft Evangelist, on creating great Windows 8 applications. We also discuss his forthcoming book on Windows 8, hardware, good software design and much more. Links Pete’s Blog Pete’s Books Pete on Twitter Acer Touch Laptop Logitech … Continue reading →

Posted in Essentials | Tagged YapCast | 1 Comment

Using the Grid App Template in Windows 8

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Microsoft Visual Studio offers a number of templates for building Windows 8 applications. In most of my postings, we’ve been using the Blank application template, but the Grid App template is extremely powerful. Unfortunately, it is not obvious how to … Continue reading →