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...

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Programming Pitfalls: Circular Imports in Objective-C

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...

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Coding is More than Just Code

Every week I do a little online radio show called Coder Radio with incomparable Chris Fisher. Most of the show’s feedback is overwhelmingly positive, however, there is, on occasion, a comment made about the show lacking in “code”. In the past, I’ve brushed these...

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Programming Pitfalls: WinRT MediaElement URL Scheme

I’ve been doing a good deal of C# WinRT development recently and for the most part it hasn’t been bad. This week, however, I found a pitfall that is not only so simple it’s silly but also managed to waste an hour or so of my time. WinRT has a class called MediaElement...

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My Android Christmas Wish

Android developers will know that there are some serious issues of fragmentation on the platform. These issue have been well recorded and, at times, greatly exaggerated. The truth is that in the last year Google has taken great steps toward making the Android...

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The Best Feature…

I’ve been hard at work mapping out the future of Code Journal  and took some time to go through user e-mails that requested new features; the idea was that I would simply implement the feature that the most users had e-mailed asking for. That feature was a resizable...

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