Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
What Languages Have You Learned?
I started programming in 1971, but didn’t much like it and didn’t start professional programming until 1985. I’d be very interested in when you started, and what languages you used since then (languages you used to write something meaningful) Here is … Continue reading
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52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 5 – Diving in the deep end
For the past four weeks, we’ve been reviewing the fundamentals of Xamarin. Let’s stop for a bit and talk about how we really code, and how we should. In my Pluralsight courses, I take you through each skill, step by … Continue reading
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52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 4 – Creating the Model and Saving
This week we’ll save the Tasks in memory, in coming weeks we’ll review databinding and we’ll review the tasks in a bound list. NB: We’re moving very quickly through the preliminaries, so please do use the comments to ask questions … Continue reading
FalafelCon with TWO Free Workshops??
Zero hype. Free means free. Sign up for FalafelCon (Monterey, September 14-17) and you not only get full admission to all of FalafelCon and all of TechIntersection, but under this special deal you get the IOT workshop by Doug Seven ( all … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #141: Greg Shackles on Xamarin
This week, Greg Shackles: mobile expert and Xamarin MVP; host of Gone Mobile Podcast. NYC Mobile .NET Developers Gone Mobile Olo Xamarin Evolve 2014: Using Continuous Integration with Xamarin Apps MvvmCross fastlane xUnit Listen | Yet Another Podcast
52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 3- Events in Xamarin.Forms
In this, week 3 of 52 Weeks of Xamarin, we’re going to pick up where we left off last week, and add event handling to our buttons There is much to do to make this a working program, and starting … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast – Show 140: J. Tower
This week we have J Tower, Telerik Expert, Community Organizer, Itinerant Consultant J’s web site Community Organizing 48 State Project Listen | Yet Another Podcast
52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 2 – Starting the project
This is the second week of 52 weeks of Xamarin. To make this all more interesting and practical, we’ll start on building a quasi-real-world application; the iconic To Do List. The application shown in this and future columns is … Continue reading
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Newest Pluralsight: Xamarin.Forms and Data
I’m very proud to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Xamarin.Forms and Data. Thanks!
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52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 1
This launches 52 Weeks of Xamarin, an opinionated series in which I will post (at least) one instructional blog post on Xamarin a week. In this series I’ll be talking about Xamarin.Forms as well as “Xamarin-native” iOS and Android. We will follow … Continue reading
Xamarin with James Montemagno
James Montemagno is a Developer Evangelist at Xamarin and Microsoft MVP. He has been a .NET developer for over a decade working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Previously, James was a professional mobile developer and has now been crafting apps using the Xamarin Platform for over 4 years. Today we discuss all things Xamarin. Xamarin Dev Days: http://www.xamarin.com/dev-days Xamarin.Forms: http://www.xamarin.com/forms Xamarin University: http://www.xamarin.com/university Xamarin Test Cloud: http://www.xamarin.com/test-cloud Plugins for Xamarin: http://github.com/xamarin/plugins James: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jamesmontemagno James: Blog: http://motzcod.es My Shoppe: https://blog.xamarin.com/connect-to-customers-with-my-shoppe-template-app/ Moments: https://blog.xamarin.com/build-your-own-snapchat-clone-with-xamarin.forms-and-azure/ Listen … Continue reading
Words I Thought Were Yiddish
Yiddish has permeated our culture, probably due to the over-representation of Jews in the Entertainment industry. Almost all Americans know the basic meaning of schmuck, chutzpah, oy vey, etc. But there are English words that I always thought were Yiddish. … Continue reading
