If you've ever had the pleasure of enjoying a drink with a .Net developer and stumbled into any form of a C# VS insert language here, then you've probably heard about they dynamic duo of the async and await keywords. Sadly, our .Net loving friends are right that they...
The Year of Xamarin Development?
Xamarin may now be a viable tool for cost-efficient hybrid app development since it’s recent acquisition by Microsoft. The current app marketplace is highly competitive and as the general startup market cools in terms of funding, launch runway for apps is going to be...
Xamarin + Microsoft
Today it was announced that Microsoft is acquiring Xamarin. I’m well on the record as having some mixed feelings about the Xamarin platform. Details are still pretty few and far between about the structure of the deal (other than the obvious fact that it’s a straight...
Xamarin.Forms Review
A few months back in August I did a brief review of Xamarin in which I was pretty happy with the tool-kit and how it was helping the team at Fingertip Tech, INCefficiently handle developing mobile apps for both iOS and Android. Now that we are about six...
Pallet Town: Xamarin.Forms Basic IOC
Welcome to Pallet Town! Pallet town is going to be an ongoing bi-weekly look at various development technologies and techniques from the perspective of someone new to that technology. For those who might know or (God forbid) are too young to get the reference, Pallet...
Book Review: Programming C# 5.0
I recently read Programming C# 5.0 by Ian Griffiths as part of O'Reilly’s Blogger Review program. For those who care about formats, I read the epub format and not the print one. Overall the book isn’t bad, but there are some issues that left me less than impressed. My...
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