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.

Yet Another Podcast #170 – Windows Template Studio

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Jesse Liberty

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 →

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Yet Another Podcast #169 – Shawn Wildermuth

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Jesse Liberty

Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he’s also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider. He’s the author of over twenty … Continue reading →

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C# 7 First Look

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Jesse Liberty

Very proud to announce the release of my newest Pluralsight course:  C# 7 First Look.

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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 →

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Code with Meraki

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Jesse Liberty
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AirPods First Look

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Jesse Liberty

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

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Jesse Liberty

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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Yet Another Podcast – #168: Greg Shackles

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Jesse Liberty

Greg Shackles is a Principal Engineer at Olo. He is a Xamarin MVP, Microsoft MVP, host of the Gone Mobile podcast, organizer of the NYC Mobile .NET Developers Group, author of Mobile Development with C#, and also a monthly columnist … Continue reading →

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I’ll be speaking at DevIntersection 2017

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Jesse Liberty

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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Yet Another Podcast #167 – Charles Petzold

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Jesse Liberty

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 →

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Yet Another Podcast #166 – James Montemagno (Xamarin)

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Jesse Liberty

James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Development Tools at Microsoft. Xamarin Show Merge Conflict Twitter    

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Yet Another Podcast #165 – Jon Galloway on Azure Functions

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Jesse Liberty

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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