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About Jesse Liberty

** Note ** Jesse is currently looking for a new position. You can learn more about him at https://jesseliberty.bio Thank you. 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, is now available wherever you buy your books. Liberty 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 13 year Microsoft MVP.

My Favorite Mac Utilities

I have experimented with a number of different utilities.  I’m going to list some of them here, and then invite you to please add your preferred utilities that I haven’t tried yet, and why you like them. The following are … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast #162 What’s New in C# 7 with Mads Torgersen

Mads Torgersen is a Program Manager at Microsoft, responsible for the evolution of C#.  What’s new in C# 7

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Xamarin Utility in 5 Minutes with Plugins

[This article was restored] I needed a quick and dirty program to create quick notes and mail them to myself.  You can see how this would be useful;  a way to jot down notes while away from the computer, with some high … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast #161 – David Britch

David Britch is a Developer/Writer at Xamarin, and has previously spent many years working on projects for different groups at Microsoft. David has authored and contributed to a range of recent software development publications including books, guidance documentation, reference implementations, … Continue reading

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Tech Bash 2016

Save $50 with code LIBERTY

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Yet Another Podcast #160 – Mobile Technology Overview – Sam Basu

Sam Basu is a technologist, author, speaker, Microsoft MVP, gadget-lover and Developer Advocate for Progress. With a long developer background, he now spends much of his time advocating modern web/mobile/cloud development platforms on Microsoft/Telerik stacks. His spare times call for travel, fast … Continue reading

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My Web Journey

In a recent post, I launched what will be a series on web development.  What better way to get this started than to review how we got here?  And to do that, indulge me, I will tell you (briefly) my … Continue reading

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Back to the Web – but where to start?

In my previous post I described my desire to revive my web programming skills and tune up to the latest frameworks.  The question is: which frameworks, and in what order? This is a question that I struggled over for quite … Continue reading

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Join my journey back to the web

For 20 years, I’ve been doing web programming of one sort or another.  I worked through web forms and MVC and SPAs and so forth.  Then, about three years ago, I started to focus on Xamarin, and only keep an … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast #159 – Shawn Wildermuth

Shawn Wildermuth is a world-renowned speaker, and a world-class Pluralsight author. He has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2002, he’s also involved with Microsoft as … Continue reading

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$50 Discount at TechBash

I’ll be speaking at TechBash in September. Use this code: LIBERTY, (all caps) for a $50 discount. Thanks!

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$50 Discount on DevIntersections / Angle Brackets

I’ll be speaking at DevIntersections/ AngleBrackets in October. Use this code: LIBERTY, (all caps) for a $50 discount.         Thanks!

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