Author Archives: Jesse Liberty

About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET will be released early in 2025. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Microsoft MVP.

Covid, False Positives & Bayesian Probability

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

This is a repost from 2009. It talks about breast cancer, but applies equally well to Covid testing, given the high percentage of false positives (not to mention the more worrisome false negatives). We simply are not wired well for … Continue reading →

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New site for my writing

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

I’ve created a site for my non-technical writing. Check it out.

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.NET Maui!!!

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

Check out this lineup of guests David Ortinau James Montemagno Maddy Leger What can I say… an hour of amazing Maui goodness, including: What is Maui? When is Maui? How does it affect Xamarin.Forms?

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MonkeyCache step by step

Posted on August 16, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

The amazing James Montemagno of Xamarin/Microsoft has done it again. He has created an incredibly simple cache, named MonkeyCache, that you can get up and running very quickly. In this post I will walk through setting up and using the … Continue reading →

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DataTemplateSelector

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

Suppose you have a collection of items and you want to display them in a ListView (Xamarin.Forms). The catch is that you want to change the display of each item depending on its state or some other code-based attributes. At … Continue reading →

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Jon Galloway: VS Mac & More

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

Jon Galloway. Friend of the show, PM on Visual Studio Mac, amazing guy. Links:https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/community/standuphttps://twitch.tv/jongallowayhttps://github.com/SteveSandersonMS/CarChecker

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C# 9 Part 3 – Patterns

Posted on June 22, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

Jared Parsons – lead of the C# Compiler Team at Microsoft C# 9 Roadmap Jared – LinkedIn Welcome to C# 9

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C# 9 – Part 2

Posted on May 30, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

Jared Parsons – lead of the C# Compiler Team at Microsoft C# 9 Roadmap Jared – LinkedIn Welcome to C# 9

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An Alert From the ViewModel

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

Quite often we want to send an alert from the view model, but you can only do so from the view. We’ve tackled this problem in the past but we think there is room for a simplified and clear step … Continue reading →

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Code Snippet – By request

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

Code Snippets can save you from repetitive (boring) tasks. Visual Studio comes with a great many code snippets, perhaps the most often used is ctor which creates an empty constructor. You can also create your own. Here is one I … Continue reading →

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Latest Video: Xamarin.Forms

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

Proud to announce my newest video course: Hands On Xamarin.Forms. Learn Xamarin in 2.5 hours.

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What’s Coming in C# 9 Part 1

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Jesse Liberty

Jared Parsons – lead of the C# Compiler Team at Microsoft C# 9 Roadmap Jared – LinkedIn

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