104: Conversations with GNOME Mono Xamarin creator Miguel and VS App Center PM Simina

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn makes the pilgrimage to Microsoft Connect 2017. Connect is Microsoft's annual developer conference where they announce a bunch of new products and services.

Donn got to interview a bunch of folks, and in this episode, we talk to two of them: Miguel De Icaza (leading open source proponent who also helped create Gnome, Mono, Xamarin etc.) and Simina Pasat (Program manager for Microsoft's very new CI like service AppLink). Both of them were terrific guests and had quite a few gems to share, for us Android devs!

Show notes

• Microsoft Connect

Miguel

• MiguelDeIcaza (Wikipedia)
• Wine
• Midnight Commander
• Gnumeric speedsheet
• Evolution - Outlook clone for linux

Cross platform development

• Mono project
• Xamarin
• Xamarin Live Player
• Xamarin Workbooks

Misc

• Scott Hanselman on using Visual Studio
• Download Visual Studio
• F# (programming language)
• Bret Victor - The Future of Programming (youtube)

Simina Pasat

• HockeyApp platform
• Visual Studio App Center
• Introducing App Center: Build, Test, Distribute and Monitor Apps in the Cloud
• How to upload an Espresso Test to Visual Studio App Center
• @vsappcenter

Contact

• @MiguelDeIcaza
• @SiminaPasat
• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @donnfelker and +DonnFelker
• @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe