In 2014 I read (according to GoodReads) 47 Kindle books and (according to Audible) 101 audible books.
This year I read zero books on paper.
But not necessarily in that order.
Enjoy, and Happy New Year!
I don’t usually write about individual cool products, but if email is making you crazy this is a product you really want to check out.
It is called SaneBox and it separates your mail for you automagically into inbox, BuilkMail, View Later, and News. You can then train it which email belongs where, though it generally gets things right without training.
More, you can move email to Next Week or Tomorrow and it leaves your inbox, only to reappear when you said.
Further, you can forward to any arbitrary time/date (e.g., Tuesday.10am@sanebox.com and it will come back then. Does a whole bunch more, is highly customizable and generally great.
Enjoy, and I think if you sign up we both get a small discount.
Yesterday, I wrote about one of the new features in Xamarin.Forms 1.3 (Technology Preview 2), Styles. Today I’ll take a first look at Triggers.
The key idea of Triggers is “When this happens, do that.” More specifically, “When this property has that value, then set this other property to this new value.” Huh? Perhaps this is easier to show than to explain.
Let’s suppose we’re building a form and we’d like to enhance the Entry control so that when the user is entering data the text color is blue, but when they are done the text color turns black.
Step one is to create a style in the Resource Dictionary and to give that Style a set of Triggers… Continued here
Xamarin.Forms 1.3 is now available in Community Preview 2 (the final
community preview before release). While this is not a release version, it is close and worth taking a look at. It offers three new killer features:
In this post, I will look at Styles. Continued…
My goal is to create a simple list of Employees with the employees grouped by
the first letter of their name. I’d also like to create a jump list to allow the user to jump to a particular letter in the list.
To see the implementation, click here
Many of us believe that Unit Testing is critical in any non-trivial programming. But Unit Testing can be difficult, especially the use of fakes. The most common fake is a Mock; unfortunately they are also the most confusing.
There are a number of Unit Testing libraries you might use with Xamarin, but the easiest to integrate is nUnit. For mocking, Moq makes great sense, especially as it works so well with nUnit. Continued here…
Often, there will be multiple views in your form that share the same values (e.g., font size, color, etc.). There are a couple ways you can handle this:
While the names are very similar, x:Static and Static resources work differently. The former access a public static constant (or a public static property defined by a class). The latter, static resources, is a markup extension supported by xAML that depends on the creation of a resource dictionary.
Let’s look at how you might use both. More…
Miguel de Icaza is one of the most respected technologists in the industry, known for starting the Gnome and Mono projects. He is the CTO and co-founder of Xamarin and a genuinely nice person. Today we talk about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms and mobile programming.
Xamarin now offers a crash and analytics program that integrates beautifully into 
their applications, including Xamarin Forms. It is very easy to get started, and in this article we’ll look at a very simple example…
…There are a few boiler plate steps to take to get Insights up and running:
Complete article here
In a recent post, I described how to import code from ASP.NET MVC into a Xamarin Hybrid application. In this post, I will show how you can reach into native code from that application.
Remember that our application has Views (.cshtml files), a Model class and a ViewModel class. You will also remember that the UI consisted of a main page (with thumbnails of the images) and a details page with the image and associated meta-data. We’d like to be able to tweet the image, and iOS makes this pretty simple.
Continued here
Incredibly pleased to announce the release of my latest 
Pluralsight course: Kendo UI and AngularJS From Scratch
This course is targeted at Kendo UI programmers who wish to integrate Kendo UI into AngularJS programs (e.g., rather than jQuery). In only an hour and a quarter you’ll learn all you need to know to be productive.
