Scott Hunter of Microsoft joins Jon Galloway and me to discuss ASP.NET V-Next. 
If you are a web programmer do not miss this show.
Yet Another Podcast Show 134 – Scott Hunter and ASP.NET V-Next
Falafel2Go and MVVM
When we decided to rewrite Falafel2Go, we quickly decided to do so 
with Xamarin Forms.
One of the many advantages of Xamarin Forms is how quickly you can write the software. Among the other advantages are that it supports XAML and databinding.
We thus made the somewhat obvious choice to use the MVVM pattern.
Complete posting here
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Free e-Book: Learning to Master Cross-Platform Mobile Development With Xamarin
The good folks at Falafel have put together all my posts (to date) on 
Xamarin and Xamarin Forms into an e-book, which is available free at http://jliberty.me/masteringXamarinBook
Enjoy, and thanks!
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iOS 8 is the biggest release since… iOS
iOS is now available and it is huge. Huge. Bigger than that.
There are 15 new frameworks and over 4,000 new or modified APIs. The primary goals of this release are extensibility and adaptive 
(reactive) design, and they have gone very far with both, especially extensibility.
Among the highlights for developers are APIs for
- Fingerprint authentication
- Home Automation
- Health and Medical
- Photo editing
- Interacting with cloud-based documents
- Identifying more bar codes
- Audio/video for gaming
- Apple Pay and general NFC
Continued here
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Yet Another Podcast #133 – Jon Galloway on ASP.NET
Jon Galloway, co-host, friend and Microsoft Evangelist joins me to discuss 
ASP.NET MVC 5.
A Xamarin Project
Recently, Steve Smith, CTO of Falafel suggested we form a small team to re-write 
our Falafel2Go application which had been written a year earlier in Xamarin. The goal was to learn, to demonstrate and to blog about Xamarin Forms. This project was undertaken by Jesse Liberty, Venkata Koppaka, and Josh Morales, with J. Tower kibitzing and Steve Smith providing the carrot and the stick. All of us were working in our down-time, and so we didn’t expect the project to move along terribly quickly.
We started by creating a brand new Xamarin Forms application and setting up the code structure. Xamarin Forms practically cry out for MVVM and so we began by creating Views, Models and ViewModels folders. We spent quite a bit of time discussing navigation and decided that we would not fight the platform, but that V1 would use a relatively simple ListView to act as a menu of Activities that the user could choose from. Later in the process our designer, Matt Kurvin provided us with some beautiful visualizations for navigation.
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Yet Another Podcast #132: FalafelCon Roundtable
Talking with J. Tower, Josh Eastburn and Venkata Koppaka of Falafel Software about their upcoming presentations at FalafelCon. We also discuss working remotely, software, AngularJS, Xamarin and much more.
Special 10% FalafeCon discount for
Yet Another Podcast Listeners.
Posted in AngularJS, ASP.NET, Azure, Bootstrap, Falafel Software, iOS, JavaScript, Kendo UI, Mobile, Observations, Open Source, Patterns & Skills, Xamarin, XAML
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Yet Another Podcast #131 – Phil Haack
Phil Haack works at GitHub, is formerly of Microsoft, and is always worth listening to.
Hybrid Apps in Xamarin?? Part 2
In a previous blog post I started to create a hybrid application in Xamarin (see that post for why this is not an entirely crazy idea).
I glossed over the implementation of IDataAccess. Let’s focus on that now. In the iosStockPhoto project we have divided the implementation of IDataAccess into two partial class files, DataAccess.cs and DataAccess.ios.cs. The latter handles the path for the database file,
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Hybrid Apps in Xamarin??
Today I begin a new series of blog posts on creating Hybrid Applications in Xamarin.
This material will excerpted from the presentation I’ll be making at Evolve 2014, though I confess I’ll be holding back some cool stuff for the actual presentation.
Hybrid Xamarin??
A few questions come to mind:
- What, are you nuts?
- Why Hybrid?
- Why Hybrid With Xamarin?
These all revolve around the central point that the beauty of Xamarin is that you write native applications for iOS, Android and WindowsPhone in C#. The key phrase is native applications. Hybrid is not native.
But Hybrid has a number of advantages, not least of which is that it can be a tremendously helpful bridge from your current skills and interests to creating native applications down the road.
As Joseph Hill (co-founder of Xamarin) writes in one of his slides that I ripped off for the Evolve presentation, “It’s Not A Battle To The Death, It’s About Using the Right Tool For the Job.”
Yet Another Podcast #130–Intense Xamarin
We have James Montemagno and Jeremie Laval of Xamarin in a very intense discussion
of Xamarin and iOS and Android.
- Jeremie’s Web Site
- Jeremie’s Blog
- @jeremie_laval
- James’ Blog
- James’ GitHub
- James’ Twitter
- Xamarin
- Evolve 2014
I’m teaching a 2-day 16-hour hands-on course on Xamarin
I’m very proud to announce that I’ll be teaching a 2 day hands-on course on Xamarin 
at Falafel in Hudson Ohio. This will be a very intensive course, but no prior Xamarin experience is needed, though you do want to be comfortable with C#.
During this course you will learn how to set up your Xamarin development environment, and how to create meaningful and useful Xamarin applications using best practices from the very start. Topics covered include MVVM, Events, Data-Binding, creating forms, working with Images, Fonts, Files and Maps, accessing the web, working with data locally and in the cloud, using the capabilities of the phone, migrating from web or hybrid applications, native iOS and Android development, working with lists, navigation, backgrounding, memory management and publishing your application.
Classes will run on September 17 – 18, from 9:00am to 5:00pm Eastern Time
Complete details here
