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. Liberty is a Senior AI Engineer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and was a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer for various corporations, 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 21 year Microsoft MVP.

Jon Galloway on Visual Studio Mac

Posted on April 2, 2021 by Jesse Liberty

Jon joins us again, this time to talk about Visual Studio Mac and Maui!

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Xamarin Best Practices

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Jesse Liberty

In a recent blog post, I showed the C# best practices we use at my current placement. Today, the Xamarin best practices: Xamarin 🐒 Best Practices The Do’s 🙌 👍 Catch XAML Errors Early Add the following attribute to code … Continue reading →

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C# Coding Standards – Updated

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Jesse Liberty

Let’s face it, most coding standards are arbitrary. The key to a successful project, however, is not which standards you follow, but that you are consistent. Here is a partial list of the C# coding standards my team uses and … Continue reading →

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Mads Torgersen! C# 9 & Beyond

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Jesse Liberty

Microsoft’s Mads Torgersen– Lead Designer of C# — talks about how to know when to use the new features in C# 8 and 9, and more. Photo credit: Jesse Liberty

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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