Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
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 #166 – James Montemagno (Xamarin)
James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Development Tools at Microsoft. Xamarin Show Merge Conflict Twitter
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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New MacBook Pro 13″ – First Look
The headline is this: wow! I’m much more impressed with this new MacBook Pro than others seem to be. I won’t belabor all the improvements, but do want to touch on a few. One, perhaps a killer feature for me, … Continue reading
TypeScript for C# Programmers – a new course
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Adding Databound Pickers to a ListView
Databound Pickers are in much demand, and fortunately Karl Shifflett has created one that is excellent and easy to use. You add it to your program, wire up the data-binding and hey! presto! you’re in business. The tricky bit comes when … Continue reading
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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 #164 – Azure Mobile Apps with Chris Risner
Chris is a Principle Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. There he works within the Developer Experience team where he leads a team focusing on making non-traditional Microsoft technology work well with Microsoft technology. Azure Mobile Apps Notification Hubs VSTS HockeyApp … Continue reading