Linux Adventure Pt 2: Ubuntu Apps
My Linux adventure continues on my modest Dell workstation. I’m pleased to say that so far things are going very well and Ubuntu continues to bring new life to my otherwise underpowered workstation. After getting over a few hurdles, what’s really impressive about my...
Re-Connecting the Coord
I was one of the few, the proud, the coord cutters. I lasted over year but a few months ago I called my cable provider and connected that coord right back. As much fun as it might havae been to be “part of the future” of content, it just doesn’t make sense if you...
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...
Linux Adventure pt 1: First Look
Coder Radio listeners will know that I started using an Ubuntu workstation a few weeks ago for over about half of my general development work. While it’s true that I can’t do any native iOS or MacOS development on my workstation the majority of my current work tends...
TarDisk Review
My dev machine is a “Late 2013” 13 inch Macbook Pro. The machine has more or less been serving me well, despite the occasional kernel panic — these crashes tend to happen when I need to have Android Studio and an Xcode project with a substantial storyboard open at the...