Category Archives: Patterns & Skills

File Persistence in Xamarin.Forms Apps

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Jesse Liberty

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 →

Posted in Essentials, Patterns & Skills, Programming, Xamarin | 1 Comment

Yet Another Podcast #132: FalafelCon Roundtable

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with J. Tower, Josh Eastburn and Venkata Koppaka of Falafel Software about their upcoming presentations at FalafelCon. We also discuss working remotely, software, AngularJS, Xamarin and much more. Falafel Software FalafelCon Falafel Blogs HipChat GoToMeeting 48 States Project Special … Continue reading →

Posted in AngularJS, ASP.NET, Azure, Bootstrap, Falafel Software, iOS, JavaScript, Kendo UI, Mobile, Observations, Open Source, Patterns & Skills, Xamarin, XAML | Tagged YapCast | 1 Comment

Yet Another Podcast #123–Ted Neward on Architecture

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

This episode marks the premier of John Papa as permanent co-host of Yet Another Podcast (along with Jon Galloway as intermittent co-host)! Joining John and me are Ted Neward. Ted is CTO of iTrellis Software, a Microsoft MVP and much-in-demand … Continue reading →

Posted in AngularJS, Opinion, Patterns & Skills, Software Architecture | Tagged YapCast | 3 Comments

Yet Another Podcast #120 – Breeze Roundtable

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Jesse Liberty

An extraordinary roundtable… Brian Noyes – Pluralsight Author Ward Bell – VP of IdeaBlade. Mr. Breeze. John Papa – Microsoft Regional Director/ MVP Jon Galloway – Microsoft Evangelist and some-time co-host Been holding off on publishing this until my Web … Continue reading →

Posted in AngularJS, Breeze, Open Source, Patterns & Skills, Pluralsight, SPA | Tagged YapCast | 2 Comments

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

Yet Another Podcast #110–Steve Smith on Software Development

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Steve is a software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He’s also EVP, Services for Telerik. Steve has published several courses on Pluralsight, covering design patterns, software architecture, and improving software quality. He’s … Continue reading →

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New Pluralsight Course: One ASP.NET From Scratch

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Extremely pleased and proud to announce my latest Pluralsight Course, this time co-authored with Jeff Fritz: One ASP.NET From Scratch. One ASP.NET From Scratch teaches all you need to know about the elements of programming with ASP.NET, including Web Forms, … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #100–Jeremy Likness

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Jeremy returns to blow my mind talking about TypeScript and Angular. He is an incredible font of information and I learned more in 1/2 an hour than I have reading a dozen articles. Brilliant, erudite and a truly nice guy, … Continue reading →

Posted in JavaScript, Languages, Learning, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, TypeScript | Tagged YapCast | 1 Comment

Yet Another Podcast #89–Laurent Bugnion on MVVM and Windows 8

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Laurent Bugnion about MVVM in detail, including the ins and outs of commanding and managing events in Windows 8. MVVM Light Laurent’s blog IdentityMine Behaviors for Windows 8 (Joost van Schaik, uses Rx) Jesse’s book on LINQ … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #88–Chris Bowen on Game Development for Windows 8

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Jesse Liberty

Talking with Chris Bowen, Principal Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, about developing games for Windows 8 Store. Chris’ Blog 30 Days to a Windows 8 Game – Resources & Guidance (See both the Games and App Frameworks sections) Introduction to JavaScript … Continue reading →

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Windows 8: Adding An AppBar to Conference Buddy

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

In an earlier postings I described the project that I’ll be creating with Phil Japikse and Michael Crump, code-named Conference Buddy. In the most recent posting, we looked at a wire-frame that illustrated some of the data we’ll be collecting. … Continue reading →

Posted in Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Windows 8 | Tagged Mini-Tutorial | 4 Comments

Yet Another Podcast #85–Fritz Onion of pluralsight

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Jesse Liberty

Fritz Onion, one of the founding members of pluralsight, joins me to discuss on-line learning, pluralsight’s business model, where the opportunities are for instructors and students and much more. Fritz is Editor in Chief at pluralsight, and the author of … Continue reading →

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