Xamarin Forms for Windows Developers: Tips, Tricks and Lessons Learned, Part 2
Xamarin Forms best practices: The 60+ tips, tricks, lessons learned accumulated over the last couple of years using Xamarin Forms as a Microsoft Developer.
Xamarin Forms for Windows Developers: Tips, Tricks and Lessons Learned, Part 1
The Confession Okay, right off the bat, I’m going to admit I’m a Microsoft “bigot” or in less unfriendly terms, a Microsoft “super-enthusiast” with severe “Microsoft is actually better at everything” leanings. I’ve spent most of the last 30 years writing Microsoft-based solutions with Microsoft tools and technologies for clients who are Microsoft “shops.” Still,…
Building JavaScript Applications with Angular and Redux
Introduction The web application world has been disrupted by the plethora of JavaScript technologies which has transformed the development of web applications from being a primarily server-side effort, to primarily a client-side one. Ever since jQuery made cross-browser web applications easy for everyone to create, a steady stream of JavaScript libraries and frameworks have been…
How to Use Microsoft’s Project Rome for a Seamless Cross-Device Experience
Taking the ‘universal’ part of the Universal Windows Platform to the next level, Microsoft’s Project Rome focuses on having apps function continuously and harmoniously across devices. A new Microsoft tutorial shows how that might work for your app. Microsoft is highlighting two key features of its Remote Systems API for the Windows Anniversary Update: 1)…
A Brief Tour of Azure IoT Hub
I’m preparing some material for a webinar on Azure IoT in mid-October (you are signed up, aren’t you?) and thought I’d do a quick intro to the basic concepts and moving parts. Azure IoT Hub is a cloud-scale service for managing and securely communicating with large numbers of field devices (potentially millions at once); communication…
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Explained
The purpose of this post is to provide an introduction to the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. While I’ve participated in lots of discussions online about MVVM, it occurred to me that beginners who are learning the pattern have very little to go on and a lot of conflicting resources to wade through in order to try…
LIDNUG Webinar Presentation Materials
Many thanks to the participants, organizers, and sponsors of today’s LIDNUG webinar – “Putting the Cloud in Your Pocket Pt1 – Using Windows Azure to Build Cloud-Enabled WP7 Apps.” I especially appreciate the patience of those who attended as we struggled to do the best we could to resolve the LiveMeeting technical issues that dogged…