Line of business software development is one of the least discussed and least sexy areas of software development. Ironically, it is by almost any metric the largest. There are more HR applications that are succussfully running inside their organizations than there are...
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Recently, we at Fingertip Tech, INC have been doing a lot of work in Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. All in all, things have been going fairly well and the tooling seems to get better everyday! Still, nothing is perfect and at the end of the day working with the Xamarin...
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Listeners to last week’s Coder Radio know that during the live feed WWDC coverage, I was less than enthused with the announcement of Swift, Apple’s new programming language for iOS and OS X. My initial reaction was based on the somewhat unclear way they announced...
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I spend a lot of time in XCode working in Objective-C for iOS and Mac OS X projects. In many ways, Objective-C has become my "native language" in terms of programming languages. Still, that doesn't mean that I can't make really silly mistakes when working in that...
Programming Pitfalls: Windows 8 & VS 13
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