Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
Yet Another Podcast #111–Lance Bullock on Xamarin
Lance Bullock is the VP of Mobile Solutions for Falafel Software. Lance has over 20 years’ experience leading teams, architecting, and developing enterprise-level solutions for some of the world’s largest corporations. Prior to joining the Falafel team, Lance served as … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin–Menus!
[Please see the Table of Contents for this series.] In this entry, I look at creating menus in an Android application. This article is available on Falafel.com here.
New Pluralsight Course: Sublime Text 3 From Scratch
Very pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Sublime Text 3 From Scratch Sublime Text 3 is the premier text editor for programmers. This course provides a complete tour of the editor along with extensive coverage of options, plugins, customization, … Continue reading
Essential Development Tools–Part 2
In a very recent post, I described a number of Insanely Essential Utilities for developers. It occurs to me that I put the cart before the horse, and prior to installing any of that, you need a development environment that … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #110–Steve Smith on Software Development
Steve is a software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He’s also EVP, Services for Telerik. Steve has published several courses on Pluralsight, covering design patterns, software architecture, and improving software quality. He’s … Continue reading
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Two Dozen Insanely Essential Programmer Utilities*
Lately I’ve been focused much more on Web development. Along the way, I’ve discovered a number of utilities that are simply essential to successful coding, depending of course on which frameworks and libraries you are using. Here’s a sampling, intended … Continue reading
New Pluralsight Course: Kendo And MVC From Scratch
Very pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Kendo and MVC From Scratch. Kendo is rapidly becoming one of the most popular frameworks for building professional looking web applications. More than just a beautiful set of widgets and data-visualizations, … Continue reading
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Learning Xamarin–Preserving State With JSON
In a recent entry in this series, I discussed one approach to preserving state when the application is stopped. I then received a tweet from my friend Paul Betts of GitHub.com saying “one thing that’s super useful is to … Continue reading
New Pluralsight Course: ASP.NET MVC Testing From Scratch
Very pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course: ASP.NET MVC Testing From Scratch. ASP.NET MVC was designed with testing in mind. This course teaches everything you need to know about Unit Tests, Test Driven Development and User Interface Testing in … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin for Android–Taking the Plunge
Today, I decided to see what would happen if I set out to write a simple program based on my knowledge of C#/.NET and the little I’ve learned so far about Xamarin and Android. The results were, if modest, very … Continue reading
MVP–thank you
Today I was awarded Microsoft’s MVP, which I have to say was truly terrific. It is an amazing program with some amazing people, many of whom are friends. This is the second time I received the MVP (the previous award … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin–Spinner Control
As you may know, I have embarked on a course of learning Xamarin for Android. Here is the Table of Contents for the blog posts to date. In today’s post, I look at adding a Spinner control to Android.
