I don't normally enjoy writing controversial posts about why new technologies are bad; I LOVE it! So here we go! We're starting a new large-scale first-party project over at The Mad Botter (sorry no details today) that requires a significant level of low-level...
ZMQ Setup for Qt Dev on Windows
Currently, I am working on a project that is a Qt application targeting modern Linux desktop distributions and Windows. The application needs to communicate with some onboard hardware via ZMQ. Normally in a Windows only .Net environment, I'd use NetMQ and C# and be...
Pallet Town: Async / Await
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...
Xamarin Review
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...
ASP.Net — Good, Just Not for Me
If you’ve been listening to recent Coder Radio episodes or following this blog, then you probably know that I have been working on a side project (that I am no longer pursuing due to intense competition in the space and a general lack of interest on my part) in...
A Look at Azure and MVC 4
ASP.Net MVC 4 is amazing. There I said it! I know I’m supposed to be the ‘Mac guy’ or ‘Linux guy’ or possibly even the ‘Ruby / Rails guy’ depending on where you know me from but the truth is that I love all technology and often find myself trying out new platforms or...
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