Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
Yet Another Podcast – #168: Greg Shackles
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
I’ll be speaking at DevIntersection 2017
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
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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