Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
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
Yet Another Podcast #163: James Montemagno and Xamarin Cycle 8
James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager on the Xamarin team at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005 working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Prior to becoming a … Continue reading
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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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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