Merge Conflict is a weekly discussion with Frank and James on all things development, technology, & more. After years of being friends, Frank and James finally decided to sit down and start a podcast about their lives as mobile developers using C#, Xamarin, and .NET MAUI. Much more than just another mobile development podcast, Merge Conflict, reaches all areas of development including desktop, server, and of course mobile. They also cover fun things happening in the world of technology and gaming and whatever else happens to be on Frank’s and James’ minds.
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465: Learning how web development works
James is coding several apps a month and Frank is coding inside the Apple Vision Pro... what could go wrong.
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464: Microsoft Build 2025 Recap + A Little Google I/O
Wow! What a week at Microsoft Build 2025 for GitHub Copilot, VS Code, Visual Studio, .NET, and so much more. We get into it!
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463: Good and Bad Vibes
James has some great vibes and Frank hits some stumbles and is looking for some guidance and next steps.
Frank vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gFn1eGS6Ls
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462: Are Apps Dead?
AI is everywhere and evolving quickly. How is it transforming our lives, our development process, and what does the future hold?
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YCombinator Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TECDj4JUx7o
Frank Codes YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@frankcodes
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461: Merge Conflict REACTS - 7 Programming Myths
We break down Fireship's 7 programming myths to see if we agree.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niWpfRyvs2U
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460: I Only Vibe Code Now
James is all in Vibe Coding, what really is "end of life" for software and for devices, Switch 2 pre-orders are on, and new Mac mini docks!
Pulwtop Dock: https://amzn.to/44J1qqB
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Data Access Evolution & AI with Michael Pizzo - Microsoft Data Expert
My interview with Microsoft's Michael Pizzo—a true trailblazer with over 30 years at Microsoft. Michael began his journey integrating Excel with relational data, and went on to play a pivotal role in the design of ODBC, OLE DB, and ADO.NET, driving standards and innovation every step of the way. Now a Principal Architect in our Identity Division, his influence is felt in modern tools like Microsoft Graph. Let's dive into his incredible story!
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Microsoft Engineer Scott Seiber on Early AI with Microsoft Bob's Rover and Our AI Future
Scott helped revolutionize how Microsoft software operates on Mac, bridging the Windows-Mac divide long before cross-platform excellence was the norm. He also contributed significantly to Microsoft Bob, a daring initiative designed to bring a human touch to computing by creating an engaging, accessible interface. Join me as we explore the fascinating stories behind these pivotal contributions!
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459: Red Robin's Auto Scaling Problems
Red Robin recently rolled out a massively successful promotion for unlimited burgers for a month for $20... but with success comes huge demand... how did they scale up? What could have they have done? What should that have done?
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A chat with Larry Osterman on Microsoft's Transformation, AI, & Interviewing
Register for Microsoft Build - https://build.microsoft.com
I had the amazing opportunity to sit down with the one and only Larry Osterman during the Microsoft 50th anniversary celebration to talk about his development journey, Microsoft's leadership transformation over the year, some of his favorite stories from his time at Microsoft, and of course how AI is transforming his every day life and work.
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458: Agent2Agent
Let's talk more agents everywhere!
Link: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/
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457: Nintendo Switch 2, MCP Remote Servers, & Vibe Coding Games
Nintendo has unveiled the Switch 2 so we discuss, more MCP, and we vibe code non stop!
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456: Hello Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers
Let's talk MCP!
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455: 3D Printing for Profit
James has a great interaction with an etsy seller who collaborated on a design that was completely 3D printed for coffee equipment. We discuss.
Opus Design Company: https://www.etsy.com/shop/OpusDesignCompany
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454: Let's ship some .NET iOS & Android apps! CI/CD Deep Dive
Frank is all in on GitHub actions on his newly updated iOS & Android Apps with .NET 8 and .NET 9. Let's dive through his yaml!
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453: All Things .NET Trimming & Native AOT
It's time to not just AOT our apps, but make our libraries AOT compatible & trimmable so others can leverage these improvements.
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452: Building a 2MB iOS app in Swift & Xcode
Frank is off building amazing things for iOS and they are tiny, but feature rich. How did Frank build his latest app to be only 2MB in Swift?
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451: Mac mini dongles & AI?!?!
AI, USB dongles, more AI, and more dongles? What is even going on this episode?
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450: AI Agents, Hottest Reloading, & Apple Notes in 2025
GitHub Copilot Agent Mode is here! We talk new hot reloading capabilities, more AI in Apple Notes, and overheating our Mac minis!
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449: Modernizing .NET Libraries
Frank is on a journey to update all of his libraries to the latest .NET. Let's talk about why and lessons learned.
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448: Did Android XR Just Destroy visionOS?
Google just previewed their new Android XR device that looks to be a complete game changer... how does this change development and what does it mean for visionOS and the Vision Pro?
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447: Whoops, I Lost My Keystore
What happens if you lose your Android Keystore? Do you ever get to publish you app again? We find out!
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446: Mac mini M4 Pro - Honest Developer Reviews
It has been several months since we got our Mac mini M4 Pro. What are our thoughts on hardware, software, and real world development.
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445: "Live" from CES 2025
We are going "live" from our houses to CES and picking out some of our favorite finds from the week.
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444: Official Family IoT Tech Support
With the holidays behind us, we reflect on Frank's "fun" time playing IoT tech support and talk about the state of multiple houses and managing family tech devices.
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443: If 2024 was the year of AI, what is coming in 2025?
We take a look back at this year's highlights, review our 2024 predictions to see what we got right and wrong, and a peek ahead into 2025.
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442: Launching a new visionOS app
Frank did it! He launched a new app for the Vision Pro! We discuss all the fun details of app store review.
Holo Vids: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/holo-vids/id6464425351
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441: AI Driven Development
Start with AI first is James' new plan for just about everything he does. We discuss some wins we have had recently with infusing AI into our workstream.
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440: Future of GPTs? Mac Desktops? Headphones?
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439: One Month with the M4 Mac Mini - Developer Setup Breakdown
It's been nearly a month since we got our Mac Mini M4 machines. How did the setup good, what went well, what didn't and how are we feeling about our $3K purchase?
Buy Mac Mini on Amazon: https://amzn.to/49hjsQX
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438: Jon Galloway - From Submarine Office to Software Developer
James sits down with Jon Galloway to talk about his journey from submarine office to software developer and community advocate.
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437: .NET 9 Is Here!
Let's discuss all things .NET 9!
Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikSNL-lxolc&list=PLdo4fOcmZ0oXeSG8BgCVru3zQtw_K4ANY&index=1
Blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-9/
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436: We bought new Mac minis! Now what?
That's right we BOTH bought new mac minis! What configuration? Why did we do it? And we answer your questions!
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435: GitHub Universe Recap + M4 is here with a NEW Mac mini!!!
Awesome new features for GitHub Copilit and Apple surprises us with new devices and the M4!
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434: Free OSS Controls for Everyone!
Syncfusion starts to contribute directly to .NET MAUI source code and also open sources 14 free controls for developers! We discuss.
Links:
.NET Blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-maui-welcomes-syncfusion-open-source-contributions/
Syncfusion blog: https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/syncfusion-open-source-net-maui-controls-cross-platform
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433: Epic vs Google
Google may have to make substantial changes to the Google Play store. What does this mean for app developers? We break it down.
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432: Creating our own color space?!?!?
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431: Put some Python in your C# with CSnakes
Have you ever wanted to use some Python in your C# apps, but were stuck and had to spin up a web api to handle it? Not any more with CSnakes! Let's talk.
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430: iOS 18 & Apple Intelligence Preview Hands-On
Frank makes the upgrade to iOS 18.1 to test out Apple Intelligence. Are the early day's of Apple AI any good? We find out....
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429: Hands-on with iPhone 16 Pro... Apple Intelligence Coming Soon
We go hands-on with the new iPhone 16 Pro! That is right, Frank got it on release day and is a major upgrade from his previous device. How does it feel, how is the software, and what is the state of AI?
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428: Our Favorite VS Code Extensions
We take a look at some of our favorite VS Code extensions including C# Dev Kit updates, Remote SSH, iOS and Android Archiver, and more!
C# Dev Kit: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/whats-new-in-csharp-dev-kit-august-2024/
Remote SSH: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh
iOS & Android Archiver: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=banditoth.VSCode-MAUI-Archive
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427: It's Glowtime! Rumor Edition
We break the latest rumors before today's big Apple event and pretend we were there and buying all the Apple goodies!
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426: Designing, Developing, Testing, & Productizing a Board Game with Ben Ruiz
Buy Age of Angra: https://monumenthobbies.com/pages/age-of-angra
James sits down with his good friend Ben to talk about how he designed, developed, tested, and fully productized his new board game Age of Angra. We go deep into what the process is like, how it compares to video game development, and of course all about Age of Angra!
Ben: https://benruiz.net/
DINOGOD: https://dinogod.com/
How to Play Age of Angra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QGC6QvSebg&pp=ygUMYWdlIG9mIGFuZ3Jh
Age of Angra Live Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiIbpHX9sxA&pp=ygUMYWdlIG9mIGFuZ3Jh
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425: The NEW .NET MAUI Binding System
We take a look at the brand new Native Library Interop for .NET MAUI developers to easily bind native libraries to C#!
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424: Xamarin 2025, New Apple Tax, & Mega .NET MAUI Update
Let's talk about keeping our apps going forever... or until the app store stops us. How long can we keep publishing our Xamarin apps? We talk the new and improved apple developer tax, and .NET 9 Preview 7 is here with tons of awesome updates!
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423: Should we be building TV apps?
Google TV Streamer is here.... which has us thinking... should we care about building apps for connected tv devices?
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422: An Introduction to Continuous Integration & Delivery
Let's take a step back and talk about CI/CD.
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421: .NET Aspire 8.1 Is Here! Let's GOOOOO!!!!
Python support, new dockerfile support, and so many new components! We discuss .NET Aspire 8.1's release
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420: Life, VS Code, All The TOPS, and .NET 9
It is time for lightning topics! We talk about .NET 9 and the latest previews, finalizing Mac development setup, too many pop ups in VS Code, Life off Twitter, Dark Icons, and new HP AMD laptops!
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419: An Ideal Mobile Developer Setup on macOS
James is setting up a fresh macOS install and is ready to get .NET MAUI ready to go. Now the question is how... Xcode, VS Code, Android Studio, SDKs, emulators, simulators, and so much more!
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418: Is AI Really Intelligent?
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417: How Starlink Really Works
After a year of Starlink was it worth it? How do you set it up? How does the technology work? Frank breaks it down.
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416: Going Light + How Spatial Video Really Works
We talk about James going "light" with the light phone and also going big on 3D and taking an in-depth look at Spatial Videos.
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415: Apple Intelligence & WWDC 2024 Recap
It is that time of year again and it is infused with AI... Apple Intelligence and all sorts of goodies for iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, macOS, watchOS, and more! Let's get into WWDC 2024!
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414: x86 is BACK!
Intel and AMD are back with their latest CPUs and NPUs and are Copilot+ PC Ready!
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413: Google Takeout in Action
It's time to cut the cord... I mean streaming music service? James is going on a journey of getting rid of all music services. How is it going?
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412: Copilot+ PCs & Everything .NET at Build 2024
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411: AI 4o, Google I/O, .NET Aspire, & #XamarinGaveMe
OpenAI and Google are back with some new AI models that can talk to each other! .NET Aspire is getting close to release and Xamarin end of life is here, so we reflect back.
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410: The New AI Powered iPad Pro
Apple had it's big event, but what do these new devices mean for developers? Are we impressed, is thin to thin? Why can't we have the M4 in our development machines? We discuss.
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409: Let's Discuss AI Devices
The Rabbit R1 and Humane AI pin are here! Is this the future of AI devices? We discuss what we really think and what we really want.
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408: Fine Tuning Minimal App Requirements
With a lack of control and power to specify what hardware is required when publishing your app has left Frank in a predicament. We discuss what Apple could do to improve this for developers.
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407: What the heck are tokens, embeddings, and GPTs anyways?
We are talking AI this week and trying to get to the basics. We take a look at what goes into GPTs and how these models figure things out.
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406: Creating Beautiful .NET Console Apps
It is time to make our console apps look beautiful! There are some amazing libraries out there to help us out. We discuss!
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405: 30 Seconds to Wow
Frank is getting ready to release an app and we talk through paid vs freemium, onboarding, and that magical 30 seconds to wow moment for his app.
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404: The Importance of Project Templates
Templates, templates, templates. Project templates, item templates, default templates, custom templates, and beyond.
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403: That Time Apple Broke Java
Whoops Apple broke Java and some .NET local development in macOS 14.4.
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402: AI Made Easy with Smart Components for ASP.NET Core Web Apps
AI is here for your Blazor, MVC, and Razor pages apps with Smart Components and is super simple. Use a control and AI is infused and ready to go!
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401: The State of EVs - Renting, Driving, Owning
Frank's Vision Pro app is live, was paid worth it? Also, James rented & drove an EV for the first time, we discuss.
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400: Your Burning Questions Answered
Everything you ever wanted to know, answered.
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399: How to Build & Try to Release an Apple Vision Pro App
Frank is deep in visionOS development and spatial computing. He has "shipped" his first app, but after waiting 5 days of it being "in review" what does he plan do to next as the stress builds.
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398: 2 Week Apple Vision Pro Review + .NET 9 Preview 1 Is Here
Frank has had the AVP for a few weeks what does he think. Also we break down all the goodies in .NET 9 Preview 1!
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397: Podcasting Inside Apple Vision Pro
Frank goes hands on with the Apple Vision Pro and loves it so much he decides to record the entire podcast while wearing it!
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396: Designing for the Apple Vision Pro
We answer some of your developer related questions before we get our hands on the device such as how do we think of designing for the Apple Vision Pro?
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395: Buying The Apple Vision Pro
Frank did it! He purchased the Apple Vision Pro. How was the process? What was the motivation? Does he have any regrets? We find out on this week's pod.
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394: 1BRC, Getting Spatial, & Importance of Source Control
Let's explore updates in the 1 Billion Row Challenge, Apple Vision Pro, and how important source control is and how James was so thankful for it recently.
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393: The Apple Vision Pro Developer Dilemma
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392: The One Billion Row Challenge - .NET Edition
How fast can you read in and parse a file with one billion rows of data? That is the challenge taking over the Java world, so Frank naturally attempts to do it in F# and .NET! Let's see how he did!
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391: Our Predictions for Apple in 2024
Hello 2024! Let's talk about what we think is coming for Apple when it comes to hardware, software, and AI!
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390: Goodbye 2023
We close out 2023 with some lightning topics including our favorite editor features, Tesla robots, AI Updates, Transcribing Scrolls, and plenty of holiday hacks.
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389: Wasm, WASI, and Beyond!
We discuss it all and the future of .NET!
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388: Developer to Manager, Hybrid Success, & Capacity for Innovation
For the very first time, Heather joins James for a chat about transitioning from individual contributor to manager in the engineering role. We also discuss hybrid work, some best practices, and how we are trying to increase capacity for innovation.
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387: System.Reflection & Native AOT
.NET 8 brings a lot of enhancements to Native AOT to helps apps start faster, improve performance, and reduce app size... but there are limitations such as reflection. We discuss as this is Frank's passion.
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386: .NET Conf 2023 Recap
We break down everything you need to know from .NET Conf 2023 and .NET 8 release!
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385: .NET Conf 2023, OpenAI Dev Day, LLC Insight
James is out and about, but we have plenty to chat about when it comes to .NET Conf 2023, plus a full recap of all things OpenAI Dev Day, and we answer your questions around if you should start a business when you publish apps. We break it down.
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384: iPhone Widgets On Your Mac Desktop
This week we take a look at a macOS Sonoma feature that allows you to put widgets on your desktop AND bring your iPhone widgets over. We talk about the feature and also a little widget development as well!
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383: Scary Fast (M3, .NET 8, .NET MAUI Edition)
We break down Apple's latest hardware event with M3 chips, new Mac Book Pro devices, and of course we look at what else is scary fast including .net maui!
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382: Let's Talk Dark Forces Remastered
Frank's all time favorite game is getting a remaster... but should it?
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381: The case of the lost iPhone
James found an iPhone on the ground completely destroyed and unable to turn on, what happens next will blow your mind!
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380: llama.cpp, .NET 8 Surprises, & Beyond
We have so many goodies this lightning topic episode including llama.cpp, some Xamarin goodness in the latest .NET 8 RC 2, and so much more!
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379: Breaking APIs for Fun
This week we take a deeper dive into how Google is forcing developers with Google Play Billing to constantly update their apps with ridiculous breaking changes every year. We also dive into central package management for NuGet and so much more.
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378: Debugging MacOS Control Center & SwiftUI CPU Usage
Did Frank just find the ultimate bug macOS's control center?!?! Is it burning cycles of your CPU and wasting precious power? We break down his findings and if this really is a problem.
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- (1) Frank A. Krueger on X: "The Control Center icon in the Mac toolbar is always running and always using 1% CPU. Not a big deal, but I finally had to know wtf it was doing... Turns out it is constantly re-rendering its SwiftUI (running layout) even though there is no UI visible. 🤣 Yay for modern software https://t.co/zI5PdVYzP4" / X
- James Montemagno on X: "My eye strain is real, long days & nights coding (and emails) on my ultrawide, and I have always been looking for a way to improve my setup. The fine folks at @USBenQ reached out to me and sent me their new ScreenBar Halo and I am REALLY impressed. It sits elegantly on my… https://t.co/vkMW1usWj9" / X
- ScreenBar Halo | BenQ US
377: .NET 8, Surface, Copilot AI, & iOS 17 are Here!
Wow, what a week! Not only did the new iPhones release, so did iOS 17! We break down what developer need to know and what new features they may want to implement. We also discuss the latest in .NET 8 with the release candidates available and the Microsoft Surface and AI event where Copilot was launched!
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376: iPhone 15, Apple Watch Series 9, and USB-C!
We have the full break down of the Apple event including the new iPhone 15 with spatial video, 5x, zoom, usb-c, and of course the Apple Watch Series 9!
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375: Buying an electric vehicle in 2023
Buying a new car is difficult any time, but in 2023 we have a lot of options, gas, hybrid, all electric. Frank is out shopping for a new vehicle, what path did he go down, and how was his experience?
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374: The AI Behind Airport Security
After 16 hours of being in the air with 2 layovers and multiple rounds of security checks, James and Frank sit down to talk about the lagging advancements in airport security and specifically how AI is having an impact.
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373: Installing the .NET 9 Alpha
That is right... .NET 8 RC isn't out yet and .NET 9 is here already and we installed it! We discuss how to install the latest bits of .NET and why you may need them.
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372: Buying a Nintendo Switch in 2023
Frank is interested in buying a Nintendo Switch... a 6+ year old device.... when is it too late to buy a piece of technology? We discuss.
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371: The Problem with Walled Gardens in Apps
There have been a lot of changes in the world of X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and even how our favorite apps work or don't work without logging in. We discuss this new world walled garden and also the fall of LK-99!
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370: The Rise of LK-99
It is time for some lightning topics! We have all sorts of good ones including the new and maybe real LK-99 superconductor, a chat about MacCatalyst, should you use 3rd party libraries? What is on Frank's desk and when will this all end?
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369: Scanning real world objects into ready-to-use 3D models with RealityKit
We are diving back into RealityKit which got some nice updates and potentially some visionOS optimizations as well as we start to scan real world objects and turn them into digital goods!
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368: Building .NET MAUI User Interfaces in C#
James does some experiments with building .NET MAUI UI without any XAML at all and completely in C#! We discuss the pros, cons, and if James will continue his journey to C# only!
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367: NativeAOT for iOS & .NET MAUI Lands in VS Code
.NET 8 is on the way and we have some great updates on C# 12, NativeAOT for .NET iOS apps, and oh.... .NET MAUI gets a VS Code extension!!! Tune in!
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366: Developing for visionOS
Frank dives into building his first app with visionOS for the Apple Vision Pro headset and he walks through everything you need to know to get setup, interact with the simulator, and actually build an app.
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365: Developing 3D Applications
We often get questions around building 3D apps and games and with visionOS getting it's first preview we thought it would be a great time to discuss in more detail for .NET developers.
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364: What is an AI Developer?
AI is all around us and everyone is talking about it. As a developer, what do we actually need to know to start developing for and with AI? Are we data scientists? Are we prompt engineers? Or are we just consumers of APIs? We discuss in this week's pod.
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363: Getting Serious About Upgrades
Let's talk about all good things upgrades! Upgrading to the new Mac Book Air M2? Upgrading Xcode? Upgrading macOS? Upgrading Android Billing Libraries? Upgrading Internet? Upgrading GPUs?!?! We got you covered!
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362: Developer Productivity - C# 12, Dev Tunnels, C# Dev Kit
It is follow up week on some topics we touched on earlier. We first break down our thoughts on C# 12's new Collection Literals, Apple Vision Pro + iCircuit, iOS 17, and some great developer productivity feature for .NET.
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- What’s new in C# 12 and beyond | BRK203H - YouTube
- [Proposal]: Collection literals · Issue #5354 · dotnet/csharplang
- Announcing C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Blog
- New Visual Studio Feature is a Game Changer for API Developers - Put localhost Online - YouTube
- Web Devs 🚨🚨 Easily Test Web API and Apps with a Public URL with Dev Tunnels CLI - YouTube
361: WWDC 2023 Recap - Apple Vision Pro & Beyond
WWDC is here and we breakdown everything you need to know from the keynote and developer state of the union! From iOS 17, new watch features, iPadOS, and yes, the new Vision Pro! We got you covered.
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Teaser: WWDC 2023 Predictions
We are days away from WWDC so instead of making you wait a week we have our predictions first and then will break down with a special episode after the event!
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360: Microsoft Build 2023, Security, Passkeys, & LLM AI Takeover!
It's that time again for lighting topics! This week we first recap and give our impressions of Microsoft Build 2023 and then tackle some of your questions!
- Passkeys (vs passwords + MFA)
- Pros and cons of apps with UI on Canvas
- How worried should we be about LLM AI’s not being able to sort fact from fiction
- How secure (or not?) is most encryption
- Full self-driving? Ever?
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359: Publishing Android Apps to Amazon App Store + Windows 11
James is on a mission to get his app on as many platforms as possible. This time he dives through his journey of getting his Android apps into the Amazon App Store which also means onto Windows 11! What did he have to do and what was the experience like for his end users?
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358: Google I/O 2023 Recap - AI 🤔, Dark Mode 🎉
It's conference season and Google kicks off things with lots and lots of AI at Google I/O 2023. We break down the latest happenings from the main keynotes including new Android Wear APIs, Pixel folding devices, AI infused Android Studio, Android 14, WebAssembly goodies, and so much more including AI.
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357: The Zune UI was the Best UI
That is right! Everyone's favorite MP3 player is back! This time due to a collaboration with Guardians of the Galaxy, but it doesn't matter because Hanselman and others have found ways to revive it in 2023. We discuss the Zune software, UI stack, why we loved it, and why it may have been the best XAML to XAML.
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356: Sunsetting software, libraries, & APIs
When is the right time to sunset software from the app store? How about a library up on NuGet? What is the right way to do it for your customers and folks using your software? We discuss in this weeks podcast.
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355: Previewing the Preview of C# 12
It is that time of year again! New C# features! That is right, .NET 8 Preview 3 just dropped and with it is the first preview features of C# 12 including Primary constructors for non-record classes and structs, using aliases for any type, and default values for lambda expression parameters. We break them all down!
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354: .NET Native AOT Apps Fit on a Floppy Disk!
With Microsoft Build and .NET 8 right around the corner, the team is hard at work optimizing the runtime to fit full Native AOT apps down under 1.44MB! That is right, it fits fully on a floppy disk! We discuss all things AOT and what you need to know.
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353: Exploring & Analyzing Bing Chat
Let's get deeper into ChatGPT and GTP-4 this with Bing Chat and the newly integrated side bar of Microsoft Edge.
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- Everything you need to know about Amazon Sidewalk, the secure, low-cost network that can connect devices up to half a mile away
- visual studio code presention with a code editor in front of them tips and tricks - Image Creator
- visual studio code presention with a code editor in front of them tips and tricks - Image Creator
- a cute purple robot that is programming code and racing away in a sports car. Modern and vibrant colore - Image Creator
- a program that shows a tunnel that is transforming a localhost connection into a publicly available endpoint for developers to use - Image Creator
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- extensions for visual studio code in a neon futuristic style for presentations - Image Creator
- a sauna outdoor near a cabin snowing at winter time - Image Creator
352: Analyzing The Twitter Algorithm
They did it! The Twitter Algorithm is open source! We break down how it works, what is in it, and how why you should care (or not).
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351: What are F# Discriminated Unions?
Frank tries to explain his favorite F# feature and also discussion the C# proposal for union types!
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350: Multimodal GPT-4
It is time for some lightning topics and we go big on AI with GPT-4, infused ChatGPT everywhere, and we answer your questions from the past few months! Oh... and Sauna... and SVB discussion!
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349: Packaged with external location or unpackaged
We figured our how to run a windows exe on windows with .net maui!
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348: ChatGPT Comes to the Command Line
Frank builds a command line interface for ChatGTP with .NET!
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347: Converting Star Wars Dark Forces 3DO Files with .NET MAUI
Franks heads back to create apps for games from the 1990s with .NET MAUI
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346: Calling .NET Libraries from Rust with Native AOT
Native AOT can be used for more than just making super fast apps... you can compile your libraries down to C and use them anywhere!
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345: Backwards Compatible .NET
We talk about .NET Standard, XamarinLegacyCompat, Android Support, and all sorts of forward/backwards compatibility.
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344: Exploring CoreData and CloudKit
Frank journeys into Swift with a little CoreData and CloudKit.
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343: A Mac Mini To Rule Them All!
We celebrate iCircuit Pro, Frank's long await update to iCircuit with a subscription! Then we break down the latest Apple hardware event with new Mac Book Pro models, Mac Minis, and oh... the HomePod?!?!
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342: Democratizing AI... and GPT3
OpenAI as a service is here! We discuss!
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- Microsoft's VALL-E can imitate any voice with just a three-second sample | Windows Central
- Azure OpenAI Service – Advanced Language Models | Microsoft Azure
- General availability of Azure OpenAI Service expands access to large, advanced AI models with added enterprise benefits | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure
- El Pintador - An artist in your pocket
- Introducing El Copiloto: The AI Assistant for La Terminal
341: Frank Masters In-App Subscriptions
Finally Frank goes all in on in-app purchases in his apps and talks about how he went about implementing subscriptions in iCircuit.
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340: CES, IoT, Security, & Roasting Coffee
It is time for lightning topics from YOU! We cover some of the latest happenings at CES including some new IoT things, some IoT security, and a bit of coffee roasting :)
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339: Building a DIY Smart Thermostat with .NET
After a quick recap of our top "things" from 2022, we discuss Frank's holiday hack, a DIT smart thermostat powered by .NET and ML.NET!
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338: Android Publishing Complexities
Frank drives into all of the complexities with android publishing including API targeting, AndroidX, and so much more.
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337: Drawing Lines on Maps
James gets into maps and drawing all sorts of points and lines. We discuss.
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336: ChatGPT
Let's go! ChatGPT time!
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335: All in on Codespaces
We explore the world of GitHub Codespaces and all the joy that it can bring to development.
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334: 7 Awesome New Features in .NET 7
.NET 7 is a major update to the .NET platform and it comes packed with some awesome new features! In this podcast, we'll take a look at some of the most important new features in .NET 7 and what you need to know about them if you're using .NET 7 in your development work.
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- Announcing built-in container support for the .NET SDK - .NET Blog
333: How to REALLY ship apps
Signing, provisioning, certificates, oh my! We break down what you need to know on how to really ship apps to the app store.
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332: .NET Conf 2022 Recap - All Things .NET 7
Finally .NET Conf is here with all the latest news and information! We break down all the .NET 7 new and our favorite sessions from the conference.
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331: .NET 7 is here! C# 11, Performance, and more!
.NET 7 is just about here and .NET Conf is tomorrow (November 8-10). There have been tons of great blogs announcing new features and performance gains. Let's discuss.
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330: Twitter, Metaverse, USB-C, App Store Ads... OH MY!
It is that time of the podcast where we do lighting topics! This time we are covering upgrading iPhone, Twitter takeover, the next social/metaverse platform, USB-C standards, and Apple's Ads on the App Store.
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329: Is iPadOS Ready for Stage Manager?
iPadOS 16 is here and with it are a bunch of new fancy iPads that Apple just released. We break down the latest Apple event and products and give a hands on review of Stage Manager.
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328: Microsoft Surface Event 2022 Recap
We break down all of the latest goodies that Microsoft has from the latest Surface event including all of the new hardware, accessories, and software. Oh, and ARM on Windows is here in the main line Surface lineup with a whole bunch of AI features!
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327: Worst Upgrade Process Ever
Frank has one heck of a journey trying to setup his new iPhone 14 Pro. From iCloud backups to eSim transfer.... it was an exciting adventure. How did it end and what is his overall review of the new phone? Tune-in!
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326: Frank Contemplates In-App Subscriptions
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325: Managing & Maintaining .NET Libraries (.NET 7 RC Is Here!)
As cross-platform developers we build all sorts of libraries that need to target multiple frameworks. How do we do it? What do we need to do with .NET 6 and .NET 7!?!?! We discuss.
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324: Revisiting GitHub Copilot
It has been several months since we last talked about GitHub Copilot, the automated AI coding friend inside of Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code. Let's revisit and give our hands on thoughts of what we think of this new technology.
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323: Let's Get Ultra Dynamic on an Island
It's time to break down the latest Apple new with the latest iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods.
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322: Making Money with Subscriptions
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321: ML In The Browser - transformers-js
Frank figured out a way of hosting and performing full machine learning in the browser with no servers!
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320: All the .NETs
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- Frank A. Krueger on Twitter: "@stroughtonsmith *Pushes up glasses* SwiftUI is Apple’s UWP. Longhorn the OS had its troubles but WPF - the new UI app tech in it - wasn’t one of them. It was tested and powerful. Designed by people who loved UIs. Later, MS would shoot themselves in the foot with Win8 UI and UWP." / Twitter
- Top Stories: iPadOS 16 Delayed, iPhone 14 Pro Rumors, Studio Display Speaker Issues - MacRumors
- Announcing .NET Framework 4.8.1 - .NET Blog
- .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04 - .NET Blog
319: ML Cuneiform Translations
Frank decides to create an ML model to translate Akkadian and Sumerian!
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318: Fixing Performance Issues
We diagnosed and fixed performance problems in the wild and we break down how we did it and what you need to know.
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317: Performance Benchmarking Code
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316: Hosting Websites & Web Apps for Free
After a quick update on Frank's drone, we dive into the world of static web apps, websites, and pages that are completely free to host on different platforms.
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315: A Proper Podcast
This is something special....
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314: Pixy Review - Snap's Mini Drone
Our brand new Pixy drone by Snap is here and we break down every positive and negative of this adorable little drone.
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313: Stop Using Junk In Your Apps
It is a random topic week because we don't know what to talk about in-depth, so we chat up iOS 16 Beta, C# partial methods, scoped keyword, and running python inside of C# on an iPhone with IronPython!
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312: dotnet workload
This week try to demystify the new workload system in .NET! .NET MAUI, Blazor WASM, Source Control, Continuous Integration, and more!
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311: Goodbye Passwords, Hello Passkeys
We break down the big announcement from WWDC that is going to eliminate passwords forever!! Or will it?
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310: WWDC 2022 Recap
Everything you need to know about the latest in iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, iPadOS, and so much more from WWDC 2022!
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309: Where did my OpenGL go?
Frank tried to build a MacCatalyst app with OpenGL and soon realizes that it doesn't exists!!?!?!
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308: James & Frank Go To Build 2022!
Frank and James cover all the great developer bits from Build 2022 including Win UI 3, Project Voleterra, Arm64, .NET MAUI Launch, and so much more.
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307: All in on .NET MAUI
.NET MAUI is here, and Frank is all in on building apps with it! He has started to migrate his apps and shares his journey!
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306: How to Contribute to OSS
Frank had his first PR merged into iOS and macOS for .NET! We explore his journey to getting it accepted
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305: Breaking Your Own APIs
When is the time to make breaking changes that could completely upset every single user of your library? James is in this situation, and we discuss his options.
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304: Snap's Pixy... the future of drones?
A $230 drone... with no controller... with no GPS.... is this the future?
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C# 11 is coming in hot with some awesome new previews and we break down our favorite features.
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302: .NET MAUI Release Candidate Is Here!
It is go time with the .NET MAUI RC!!
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301: Going Beyond ZSH
Where did my bash go says James! Well I am swimming with Fish over here says Frank! We explore what the heck is going on in terminals on all of the different operating systems and how to get them setup to your liking.
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300 Episodes of Merge Conflict!
We take your questions live on .NET MAUI, the state of mobile development, how to teach the next generation, and so much more!
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299: Databases shouldn’t allow delete
Frank explains to James why and how he is doing databases all wrong!
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298: The Great M1 Conspiracy
Frank has a grand conspiracy theory when it comes to what is going on with the M1 Ultra and M2. We discuss why they glued two chips together.
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297: The Ultra Apple Event Recap
We have a full breakdown of the latest Apple event with M1 Ultra, new Mac Studio, iPhone SE 3rd gen, and a new iPad!
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296: NSUrl, Security Scope, & Bookmarks
Who doesn't love security? Who doesn't love security inside of the app sandbox?!?! We break down file-access and all of its complexity when building sandboxed apps for iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows!
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295: Two ways to do the same thing
What to do when there are new APIs that improve but don't deprecate old ones? Do you throw away your old code? Write compatibility layers? Or do you just keep on with what you have? We discuss.
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294: Hello .NET 7, C# 11, and !!
It’s here already…!!!??!!!! That’s right, .NET 7 is on its way with awesome new features.
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293: dotnet-trace with dotnet-monitor through dotnet-dsrouter
Measure, measure, measure with dotnet-trace a "new" tool that Frank has been exploring to make apps super performant.
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292: Developer Guide to In-App Subscriptions
James is back on in-app purchases and this time has a complete deep dive into all things in-app subscriptions!
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291: GitHub Actions All The Things
Frank is finally all in on continuous integration and continuous delivery with .NET 6 and he did it all with GitHub actions!
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290: The .NET MAUI Episode
We answer all of your questions! Which seem to mostly be about .NET MAUI :)
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289: App Publishing Road Blocks
Frank is in a rush to try to get out an app into the app store in record time, but he runs up against those bumps that we have talked about so many times. We discuss his biggest road blocks.
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288: Turning Hacks into Reality
We give an update to our holiday hacks that have become real things that we need to actually care about. Did we go too far, or not far enough? We discuss.
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287: Tech Highs and Lows of 2021
We break down the winners and laggers in tech from 2021 as we look forward to the excitement of what is to come in 2022.
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286: Hacking 3D Holograms with .NET
It is time for our holiday hacks! Frank is building and printing awesome 3D holograms with .NET and James is building apps for his favorite cross-country ski sno-park!
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285: is not null
More C# features coming at you! Ones that you totally need to know about!
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284: C# 10 Global & Implicit Usings
Are global and implicit usings controversial? It seem so, we discuss all the details of this awesome C# 10 feature.
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283: The Metaverse - When, where, why
Are we already living in a metaverse?
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282: Automating Protocols
Custom schemes, http schemes, protocols, they are a pain to develop for, but are so powerful! After years of using them, we finally figured out how to automate it and we have a lot of ideas!
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281: C# 10, .NET MAUI, Blazor Hybrid, and more!
.NET Conf is over and we get hands on with live .NET 6 bits and get excited about all sorts of new features! We cover all sorts of goodies in this lighting topic podcast.
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280: .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022 are here!
We break down the latest in .NET 6, VS 2022, and all of .NET Conf 2021.
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279: What are Azure Container Apps?
Deploy containerized apps without managing complex infrastructure. Write code using your preferred programming language or framework, and build microservices with full support for Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Scale dynamically based on HTTP traffic or events powered by Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA).
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278: Inside .NET Hot Reload
Frank recently dove into the inner workings of .NET Hot Reload and came out with a bunch of fun facts of how ti works! We discuss.
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277: MacBook Pro & Pixel 6 Event Recaps
What a week full of new hardware! MacBook Pro devices, Pixel 6, and so much more!
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276: .NET 6 + C# 10 == Mind Blown
This week we explore some brand new features in C# 10 including global usings, implicit usings, scoped namespaces, and minimal APIs!
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275: Analyzing Squid Game’s Motion Detection (Red Light, Green Light)
This week we break down the technology in Netflix's hit show Squid Game. We look at the motion sensing and detection technology in episode 1 to find out if it is realistic or just TV magic.
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274: Building IoT Things
James needs the ultimate tutorial on what and how to build things with Microcontrollers and Frank is here to help!
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273: Microsoft Surface 2021 Event Recap
We are "falling into" new devices with the Surface event showcasing new Surface Pro devices, Surface Duo 2, and Surface Studio Laptop.
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272: .NET 6 RC1, .NET MAUI Updates, & iPhone 13 Event Recap
What a week! We have you covered with everything happening with .NET 6, .NET MAUI, and a full breakdown of the iPhone 13 event.
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271: How not to monetize an app
It has been a week since James did his "phased release" for his apps, how did it go, and would he recommend it. We also discuss how to actually monetize your app correctly when you have in-app purchases.
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270: M1 on the road, phased release, new SQLite-net, and .NET MAUI ready libraries
Frank is on the road, but we answer your questions in this week's podcast featuring lightning topics! We take a look at the latest enhancements to SQLite-net from Frank, how to get your libraries .NET MAUI and .NET 6 ready, and what is the proper way to do phased rollouts on iOS and Android.
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269: How not to advertise mobile apps
Frank explores the crazy world of app advertising across Facebook, Twitter, and Apple. We break down how exactly not to do this!
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268: Authentication shouldn't be hard
We are joined by Tanvir Ahmed from Okta to talk about why authentication can seem so hard, but really shouldn't be. We chat about how our devices that we carry around with us every day really should be the key to unlock and remove passwords.
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267: Hacking Onewheel Bluetooth
Frank is at it again with a new and awesome Bluetooth application, this time for the Apple Watch that displays his Onewheel information in real time! He breaks down the inspiration and how he got it working!
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- My Cadence - Indoor Cycling Cadence Display for iOS & Android
266: How not to architect a database
James had an awesome feature request for his app, but it required storing thousands of rows of data. Instead of relying on decades old best practices he decided to roll his own serialization... was that the best? SQLite-net creator Frank lets him have it.
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265: Robot Engineer turned Program Manager with Maddy Leger
James sits down with Maddy Leger, Program Manager for .NET MAUI and Xamarin tooling at Microsoft, to hear about her journey from her first PC to working at one of the world's largest tech companies.
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264: FOSS, Code Tours, & .NET MAUI Web with Ooui
Open source software funds from Microsoft exist and Ooui was nominated! We talk about the process and how that evolved into contributing to .NET MAUI!
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- microsoft/foss-fund: The Microsoft FOSS Fund provides a direct way for Microsoft engineers to participate in the nomination and selection process to help communities and projects they are passionate about. The FOSS Fund provides $10,000 sponsorships to open source projects as selected by Microsoft employees.
- praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web
- Add code tours for handlers and essentials by jamesmontemagno · Pull Request #1712 · dotnet/maui
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263: Building Computers
Frank and I decided to build and upgrade our computers. How did we decide what to build and what are we building them for?
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262: Your AI Code Copilot
GitHub Copilot is here, and Frank goes hands on with the new service that provides code recommendations directly in VS Code.
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261: Windows 11 Insider Preview
Windows 11 event ✅, Windows 11 developer event ✅, Windows 11 installed ✅.
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260: Every question answered
We take your questions directly on another lighting topic episode of Merge Conflict
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259: Photogrammetry
We dive deep into the latest APIs for mapping the physical world with macOS into 3D models.
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258: WWDC 2021 Recap
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257: M1RACLES
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256: Microsoft Build 2021 Recap
This year's Microsoft Build was all about developer velocity! There was something for everyone from no code, low code, medium code, all the code, you name it, you had it! From .NET 6, to Power Platform, to all things Azure, we have you covered.
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255: What is encryption anyways?
256-bit super duty encryption is what is sold now adays, but what good is it if it isn't end-to-end. In light of the most recent security camera bug via Anker's eufy line we talk about what encryption should be and what these companies can do to make it better.
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254: AirTag Development
Apple AirTags are here, and Frank is ready to do some programming with them... but can he? What are Apple's mysterious APIs that should work with this wonderful device do?
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253: Past, Present, & Future of Ooui
Frank discusses the Object Oriented UI Library, Ooui! He talks about where it came from and where it is going.
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252: Linux GUI Apps on Windows - WSLg
WSL is amazing.... but WSLg now enables you to run Linux GUI apps directly from your Windows machine!?!?! We discuss the possibilities.
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251: #AppleEvent - AirTags, M1 iMac, & Purple iPhone
No upgraded MacBook devices for us just yet, but the M1 is in full force on the new iMac and iPad Pro! We break down the entire apple event.
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250: To The Moon
We celebrate our 250th episode by answering as many questions as we can from YOU, our listeners!
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249: A Beautiful Disaster
WWDC 21 is officially happening and we sit down to speculate on what we think will be announced and reflect on some of our favorite tech devices we have been able to program on.
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248: Satisfying Business Requirements
Yes, this is the most boring title ever, but this podcast episode isn't!
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247: Generating UI with GPT-3
Frank goes hands on with GPT-3 for the first time and basically puts himself out of a job as he has it create his entire app for him. We discuss.
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246: Breaking out of the Desktop App Sandbox
Putting apps into the app store is amazing, but the frameworks limit your ability as an app developer to do certain things on the desktop. We discuss how to keep long running processing going and breaking out of that sandbox with some great APIs.
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245: Doubling Down on Cross-Platform Development
.NET MAUI may be on the way, but Xamarin.Forms 5 is here today! We discuss the journey and what is next.
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244: Introduction to Microservices
We are ready to enter the world of Docker and Microservices.... but first what is a microservice? what is a container? an image? why is all of this important? We discuss.
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243: Lessons Learned - 3 Years of FuGet
It has been nearly 3 years since Frank launched FuGet.org the pro NuGet package browsing website. A lot has happened and he reflects on the last 3 years and talks about lessons he learned and what he would change.
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242: Mac Backups, Store Promotion, & Multi-Window Apps with SceneDelegate
No topic is off limits this week as we talk about testing IAP on mac with mac backups, awesome store promotions coming Frank's way and how to build awesome multi-window apps for macOS and iOS and the new SceneDelegate.
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241: Goodbye DTK, Hello Mac App Development
Apple finally lets us return our DTK units with a nice surprise and both Frank and James double down on bringing their apps to macOS!
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240: Stonks, Robots, and Cross-Platform IAP
Wow! What do we even talk about this episode?!?! Who knows, but it is super fun as we have lightning-fast lightning topics talking about what the heck is happening on the stock market, Frank's next robot, and listener questions!
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239: Planning an App Release
It is now Franks' turn to get his next app into the app store. We look back at what went into its creation, his choices for monetization, and thoughts on what needs to happen leading up to the main release.
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238: Island Tracker - The Final Chapter
We have come to the epic conclusion of James's app Island Tracker, his Animal Crossing app for tracking turnip prices with friends. He is ready to roll out his freemium version of the app while upgrading all of his existing customers and updating the backend.
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237: Bot Awesome
CES 2021 has come and gone and we break down our favorite announcements around robots!
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236: Supporting Your Customers
Customer support is hard to do right, and app support is even harder. How do you get your users to contact you with proper information before they give you that 1 star review. We discuss our journey into improving our support system in our mobile apps.
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235: Holiday Hack Success!
We did it! We finished (mostly) our holiday hacks, so tune in to figure out what we did!
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- My Cadence - Indoor Cycling Cadence Display for iOS & Android
- Amazon.com: MakerFocus ESP32 Development Board Upgraded Version 8MB Flash, ESP32 WiFi Bluetooth, ESP32 OLED 0.96 Inch OLED Display CP2102 Internet for Ar duino ESP8266 NodeMCU: Computers & Accessories
- caseESP32_OLED by klkl - Thingiverse
- Amazon.com: Pin Art - Pin Impression Toy - Stainless Steel Pins - Chrome Pin Impression Hand Mold: Toys & Games
234: Goodbye 2020! Let's ship some apps!
As 2020 comes to a close it is time to hustle to try to try to squeeze in app releases. James talks about this latest creation, My Cadence, and how he was able to get the app onto the app store within 1 week and how he ported it to Android in 1 day!
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- Porting My Cadence to Android in 1 Day! - James Montemagno
- Donating $250 to Warm Hearts Winter Drive Thanks to Hacker News! - James Montemagno
- Building, testing, & shipping My Cadence for iOS in 7 days! - James Montemagno
- Introducing My Cadence for iOS - a Simple Cadence Sensor Display - James Montemagno
- Building a $400 at home DIY spin bike for Peloton & Apple Fitness+ - James Montemagno
233: Bluetooth is Mind-blowing!
James has finally discovered the magic of Bluetooth and is on an adventure of building his own app. On top of that he is investigating the wonderful world of IoT and Bluetooth combined!
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- Cycling Speed Spec Bluetooth
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- Bluetooth Spec
- Amazon.com : Sunny Health & Fitness Spin Bike Belt Drive Indoor Cycle Exercise Bike - SF-B1002 : Exercise Bikes : Sports & Outdoors — https://amzn.to/2J5ujG2
- Amazon.com: moofit Cycling Cadence Sensor with Bluetooth & ANT+ IP67 Waterproof Wireless Bike Cadence Sensor for Wahoo Zwift Polar Elite HRV Tomtom Endomondo Peloton (MooFit app Unavailable): GPS & Navigation
- Building a $400 at home DIY spin bike for Peloton & Apple Fitness+ - James Montemagno
- The Wheels on the Bikeare Bluetooth Smart, Part 2 | Bluetooth® Technology Website
- shinyorg/shiny: A Xamarin Framework for Backgrounding & Device Hardware Services (iOS, Android, UWP, Tizen, tvOS, watchOS, & more coming soon)
- xabre/xamarin-bluetooth-le: Bluetooth LE plugin for Xamarin
- My Cadence - Indoor Cycling Cadence Sensor Display
232: AirPods Max, Apple Fitness+, and AR/VR Indoor Cycling
December surprise from Apple with some brand-new products and services dropping just in time for the holidays. Frank and James take a quick dip into Apple's new headphones, before heading into the world of home fitness and possibilities for app developers.
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- Amazon.com : Sunny Health & Fitness Spin Bike Belt Drive Indoor Cycle Exercise Bike - SF-B1002 : Exercise Bikes : Sports & Outdoors
- Amazon.com: moofit Cycling Cadence Sensor with Bluetooth & ANT+ IP67 Waterproof Wireless Bike Cadence Sensor for Wahoo Zwift Polar Elite HRV Tomtom Endomondo Peloton (MooFit app Unavailable): GPS & Navigation
- Amazon.com : Zacro Gel Bike Seat Cover- BS031 Extra Soft Gel Bicycle Seat - Bike Saddle Cushion with Water&Dust Resistant Cover (Black) : Sports & Outdoors
- Amazon.com: JUBOR Bike Tablet Holder, Portable Bicycle Car Phone Tablet Mount for Indoor Gym Treadmill, Spinning, Exercise Bike for iPad, iPad Pro, iPad Mini, 2, 3, iPad Air, iPhone Smartphone: Electronics
- The at Home Cycling & Running Virtual Training App
- Peloton® | Workouts Streamed Live & On-Demand
- HeartCast: Heart Rate Monitor for Apple Watch
- Indoor Cycling Stats Comparison - Peloton App vs Apple Watch Fitness - James Montemagno
231: No M1 Talk We Promise... 🤞🤔🤫
No, for real, we are completely done with the M1. No M1 talk here at all!
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230: QA Testing M1 iOS Apps + 21% Raise for Frank!
It is time for lightning topics!!! We are here to break down 6 topics quick! We look at testing iOS apps on the M1 chip, Apple's new raise for all app developers, using C# 9 in Xamarin apps, top level programs, visual basic, and The Queen's Gambit!
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229: Selling iOS Apps on M1 Apple Silicon
The time has come! We can finally start shipping and selling iOS apps on macOS devices powered by Apple M1 Silicon! We discuss all the pros and cons and things you probably didn't think you should be considering.
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228: .NET Conf 2020 & Apple M1 Event Recap
This last week was crazy! .NET Conf 2020, .NET 5, Visual Studio 16.8, XAML Hot Reload 2.0, Xbox Series S/X launch, Apple M1 Events, and so much more!
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227: Databases!
Let's talk about databases! SQLite, No-SQL, LiteDB, CoreData, and so much more! All the options!
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- Xamarin.iOS Data Access - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
- praeclarum/sqlite-net: Simple, powerful, cross-platform SQLite client and ORM for .NET
- Overview - ADO.NET | Microsoft Docs
- Using SQLite.NET with Xamarin.iOS - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
- LiteDB :: A .NET embedded NoSQL database
- SQLCipher - Zetetic
- SQLite Home Page
- jamesmontemagno/monkey-cache: Easily cache any data structure for a specific amount of time in any .NET application.
- Xamarin.Essentials: Secure Storage - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
226: Universal Custom Data Link Schemes
We are tweaking and tuning our apps past the beta summer with small fun quirks from Apple and Google.
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225: Frank Got Catalyst for Xamarin.iOS Working!
You heard it! Frank Got Catalyst for Xamarin.iOS Working!
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224: iPhone 12 is here with magnets!
That is right, we are back with another full breakdown of a lovely apple event. This time it is the Apple Homepod Mini and iPhone 12 event.
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223: How App Updates Work
How to app updates work, what do you need to know, migrate, and hook into? Or do you need to at all?
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222: Cool New Tech
Drone cameras, 3d printing with pens, google tvs, and so much more!
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- Amazon.com: MYNT3D Super 3D Pen, 1.75mm ABS and PLA Compatible 3D Printing Pen: Industrial & Scientific
- Chromecast with Google TV - Google Store
- Nest Audio, Amazing sound at your command - Google Store
- Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house - The Verge
- Blix Electric Bikes — Style, Performance and Utility eBikes
- About - iCircuit - The Realtime Circuit Simulator and Editor
- Amazon.com: 3Doodler Create+ 3D Printing Pen for Teens, Adults & Creators! - Onyx Black (2020 Model) - with Free Refill Filaments + Stencil Book + Getting Started Guide: Toys & Games
- Amazon.com: eufy Security 2K Indoor Cam Pan & Tilt, Plug-in Security Indoor Camera with Wi-Fi, IP Camera, Human & Pet AI, Voice Assistant Compatibility, Motion Tracking, HomeBase Not Required: Home Improvement
- Amazon.com: eufy Security 2K Indoor Cam, Plug-in Security Indoor Camera with Wi-Fi, IP Camera,Human and Pet AI, Works with Voice Assistants, Night Vision, Two-Way Audio, HomeBase Not Required: Home Improvement
- Amazon.com: LEGO Super Mario Adventures with Mario Starter Course 71360 Building Kit, Interactive Set Featuring Mario, Bowser Jr. and Goomba Figures, New 2020 (231 Pieces): Toys & Games
221: Swift on Windows, Clean Code, and iOS 14
Now back to our normally scheduled lightning topics with awesome listener suggestions including Swift on Windows, .NET Maui, Database selection, clean code, iOS 14, and more.
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220: Apple Event Recap - Apple Watch Series 6 & New iPad Air
We are back with a full breakdown of last week's exciting Apple event. We break down all of the highlights around the new Apple Watch Series 6, watchOS 7, Apple Fitness+, Apple One, and the New iPad Air.
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219: Move over float, it is time for Half
Is it possible for us to talk about a new floating point time in .NET for 30 minutes and make it super fun? Find out!
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218: The One About Blazor
The time has finally come! We talk about our favorite new web framework, Blazor!
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217: Frank's Custom Identity Service
Frank stands up against the entities of ASP.NET Core's built-in beautiful identity service powered by Entity Framework to do his own thing! How does it turn out? Tune in!
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216: GaaS - GUID as a Service
Everything you ever wanted to know or didn't think you wanted to know about GUIDs aka UUIDs.
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215: Model Intermediate Language
We are back to machine learning and artificial learning, taking a look at the latest and greatest in Core ML 4.
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214: Switching from Android to iPhone
After 11 years James has moved from Android based phones to iPhone running iOS. Let's talk about the good, bad, and ugly of the transition.
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213: GPT-3
Is GPT-3 set to take over the world? Find out on this week's podcast!
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212: Model-View-Update (MVU) - What, Why, How
It is all in the name - Model-View-Update (MVU) - What, Why, How
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211: Failure To Launch
Fit & Finish! That is our topic this week and try to understand what is in Frank's way of shipping his app.
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210: I Should Buy a Mac Mini Every Summer
Beta summers, favorite C# 9 features, best new cross-platform app frameworks, and USB-C on this week's lightning topics!
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209: Working from Home
Work from home, work from office, work from coffee shop.... we discuss.
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208: WWDC Detox + DTK Hype
Frank lost his phone, James bought an iPhone, and WWDC is over!
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207.5: WWDC20 Recap
We are off to WWDC 2020! Or... watching the keynote from our house in quarantine. We break down all of the latest apple announcements from WWDC including macOS 11, iOS 14, tvOS 14, and watchOS 7!
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206: IoT Build Status with BuildLight
Frank is off with another #holidayhack... in June with his BuildLight project!
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- Amazon.com: WALI Single LCD Monitor Desk Mount Fully Adjustable Stand Fits 1 Screen up to 27 inch, 22 lbs. Weight Capacity (M001), Black: Computers & Accessories
205: Monetization
In episode 85 of running a business and building apps we discuss ads! Why your app and website should have them or maybe not and if so how to make money.
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204: Going Freemium
When the app store first started paid apps were the standard, but now it is all about freemium and subscriptions. James walks through his latest dilemma with his Animal Crossing app and how he tried to figure out if he could profit from a freemium model.
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203: Updating Open Source Projects
Sometimes life gets in the way and it takes a bit too long to update that OSS project. A few lessons learned from Frank on SQLite-net and some insight from James on his plethora of projects.
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202: Let's Start a Business
So you want to develop apps.... or sell something... or do anything... you should looking starting an LLC or some sort of business. James and Frank walk you through their journey and James' recent battle with Apple.
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201: Release It Already!
James struggles to release his app and walks through all of his fears while Frank tries to talk him into just clicking the button!
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200: Have We Reached Peak Merge Conflict?
200 Episodes and still going! Thanks to all of our amazing listeners that have been with us from the beginning and the ones that are joining for the first pod!
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199: Update, Rewrite, or Throw It Away
Frank is having a debate on whether he should update iCircuit to the latest bits or rewrite the apps with Xamarin.Forms. We discuss his options and James throws a bunch of crazy ideas his way.
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198: Why Can't We Be Friends
Have you ever thought of creating your own social network? How about just having a friend system in your app? How would you implement it? How would you handle authentication? How would it all work? We discuss as James tries to implement it in his latest app.
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197: I Need a Website
Launching an app, you need a website, but you are an app developer. What to do?
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- Calca - The Text Editor that Loves Math
- Continuous C# and F# IDE for iPads and iPhones
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196: Our Future Is Now
Frank's family enters the world of video conferencing, and so do we! We break down all the options and spiral into random topics because that is our lives now.
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195: The Hanselman Machine Learning Model
We dive back into machine learning with more automagical ML. James tries to pull off some sentiment analysis for his app and we discuss a few options.
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194: The Day The iPad Became a Laptop
It has finally happened! The iPad now has a trackpad and a mouse cursor!!! We discuss for fun!
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193: UI Is Messy
Architecture, Data Binding, MVVM, MVC, MVU, Animations, ALL THE THINGS! It is all messy!
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192: Getting Started with Live Streaming
Frank has entered the world of live streaming code!
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- Amazon.com: Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro - Stream and record in 1080p60, superior low latency technology, H.264 hardware encoding, PCIe: Computers & Accessories
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191: An Odious Prime Deficient Number
It is lightning rounds this week on Merge Conflict!!! YAML, Git GUI, Blazor, AndroidX, .NET 5, and more!
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190: The Creation of Appstat with Frank
Frank decided to do his holiday hack in mid-February and build an entire app in a weekend. What is it? What was his inspiration? How did he build it? How is he distributing and promoting it? We discuss on this weeks pod.
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189: Enter the era of dual-screen development
It is all things dual-screen with Windows 10x, Surface Neo, and Surface Duo. We take a look at some of the awesome announcements from the last week and what it means for Xamarin developers.
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188: Frank Teaches James Electricity
When we aren't programming we pretend to be electricians.
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187: Blasting Off with Jupyter Notebooks
Frank goes deep on Jupyter Notebooks and James is oh so confused, but hey he got to fly some drones.
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- dotnet/try: Try .NET provides developers and content authors with tools to create interactive experiences.
186: Hot Hot Hot
Everything is HOT! XAML Hot Reload, Hot Restart, Hot UI, Hot Hot, and the Hottest of the Hot and we discuss it all!
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185: Frank Hates Dark Mode
We are back talking about designing beautiful applications that span both light and dark modes. While maybe he doesn't hate dark mode, he has great tips and tricks that we discuss to make your app pop.
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184: Building 3D Apps with SceneKit
2D, 3D, VR, MR, all the things with SceneKit! Frank talks about his adventures into creating a full 3D application that IS NOT A GAME with SceneKit!
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- The Xamarin Podcast Episode 69: Happy New Decade!
- Audacity ® | Free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
- Shanghai New Year drone display was pre-recorded - BBC News
- Episode #100 Special: How to Make a Podcast! - Podcast
- Podcast Equipment, Accessories, Setup, and Recording Guide - James Montemagno
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183: How This Thing Is Made
What started off as a conversation about flying around drones turned into a full podcast about how we make this very podcast production you are listening to.
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- Amazon.com: DJI Mavic Mini Combo - Drone FlyCam Quadcopter with 2.7K Camera 3-Axis Gimbal GPS 30min Flight Time: Toys & Games
- Amazon.com: SKYKING F007 Mini Drone for Kids Gift,Beginner RC Portable Nano Quadcopter Boys Girls Toys with Hovering/3D Flips/One Key Return/Headless Mode/3 Speed/LED Light(White): Toys & Games
- Shanghai’s New Year’s Eve drone show spectacular didn’t actually happen – shanghaiist
- 27: Ooui. With Frank Krueger | Kerry's Blog
182: Introduction to Electrical Engineering
To close out 2019 we go back to the basics with a little introduction to IoT, which means an introduction to electrical engineering. James is guided through the journey of understanding out all of this cool fun tech works by Frank, the electrical engineer himself.
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181: Hacking The Holidays
It is time for some holiday hacks! Tune in to see what Frank & James are hacking on through the holidays.
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180: Cloud Powered GPUs
We are back for our 18th installment of lightning topics! We cover several topics each covered in 5 minutes. This week we cover more DevOps, large PRs to Xamarin, System.Threading.Channels, GPUs, and what the next thing in tech is.
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179: Analyzing All That Data
After a year of gathering data in his apps, Frank finally sat down to analyze it all. Did it answer his questions? Did he make changes to the app? Did he rip the telemetry out completely? Tune in.
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178: Building C# with Mads Torgersen
James sits down with the legendary Mads Torgersen to talk about how the team at Microsoft builds C# and works with the community to plan out and iterate on new features.
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177: DevOps, DevOps, DevOps
It is all things DevOps for mobile apps this week. We try to get Frank inline with figuring out continuous delivery with several different products including App Center, Azure DevOps, Bitrise, and more.
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176: The Ultimate Developer Machine
Apple has finally put the Pro back in MacBook Pro with the new 16-inch. We discuss if this is finally the ultimate developer machine, what we would pick, why we would pick it, and if you really need to spend this month money :)
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175: #nullable enable
The time is now! Turn on C# 8 in all of your projects and enable Nullable Reference Types! James is a convert and he explains why in this week's pod.
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174: LangVersion ??= C# 8
The time has come for C# 8 and all of the glorious features it brings! Go time!
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173: RISC Is Good
Devices are a changing! ARM is slowly taking over the world, now fully running the new Surface Pro X and the touchbar on macOS. What is next for CPU architecture and what does it mean for developers?
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172: Who Turned Out The Lights?
Now that the betas are over and the .1 releases are out, it is finally time to actually integrate new features into our app. No better place to start than dark mode! So many considerations when attempting to implement this. Implicit, explicit, system themes? Where to start? We discuss.
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171: The Beta Hangover
The beta summers are over and it is time for the beta hangovers where we have to somehow deal with all of the craziness now that new operating systems are out.
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- What's new in C# 8.0 - C# Guide | Microsoft Docs
- mono/SkiaSharp: SkiaSharp is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for .NET platforms based on Google's Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.
- [BUG][macOS] EntryPointNotFoundException after upgrading to 1.68.1-rc.147 · Issue #968 · mono/SkiaSharp — l problem since 1.68 does not work on Catalina but this beta does (before it crashes)
- CI & CD for .NET Libraries with Azure DevOps (VSTS) - James Montemagno
170: 10 Ways To Develop Faster And Better
Hold on to your seats, because it is time for lighting topics! Surface announcements, state of F#, election update, accessibility, Google silliness, and how to stay positive.
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169: A Love Letter To Immutable Data
Frank is headed off to the Open F# conference where he will be giving a talk entitled "Why I wish I wrote my app in F#" and he gives us a sneak peek at what everyone is in store for.
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168: The World of Protocol Buffers
What are protocol buffers? Why do we care? How do we use them, and what the heck is gRPC?!?!?
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167: My Phone's CPU Has 8.5 Billion Transistors
It is all things Apple all the time! That is right, it is the launch of the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, but so much more including SERVICE! Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade are GO! Additionally, there is a new iPad, new watches, and a whole lot more!
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166: Disconnecting with a Feature Phone
Smartphones are everywhere and are essential in our day to day lives and our business. James has decided to take a step away from his smartphone and experiment with a few feature phones. He walks us through his journey of trying to find a decent feature phone in the US, what the experience is like, and if he can survive on just a few built in apps.
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165: IoT Gifts Make The Best Gifts
What happens when you combine IoT, 3D Printing, and a 48 hour deadline to come up with a wedding gift? The most amazing IoT Wedding Clock ever created... by Frank for H+J! Frank breaks down how he built it, how it works, and how you can build it too!
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164: Modding the Game Boy Color
We have talked about hardware hacking before, but this time it is actually hacking to enhance existing 20 year old hardware! We put a brand new backlit LCD into an original Game Boy Color. Follow along on our not so smooth adventure and find out how this hardware actually works!
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- Game Boy Color Replacement LCD Module - Midwest Embedded Corp.
- (1) James Montemagno on Twitter: "Last night @praeclarum helped me update my classic Gameboy Color with a new backlit LCD from Midwest Embedded (https://t.co/tLZkNbUGLp) after some soldering and cleaning it came out amazing! Now... need come Gameboy Color game recommendations!!! https://t.co/QMu6jahORK" / Twitter
163: "Borrowing" Code from the Internet
Stack Overflow, blog posts, GitHub repos... we all live in a beautiful open source world of code sharing. However, what happens if you want to use that code in your library or in your app? What should you do as a good digital citizen?
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162: Throttle Those Cancellations
What is the best way to keep your UI responsive and at peak performance? This week we look at ways of properly throttling and using cancelation tokens efficiently.
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161: The World of Embedded Hardware
Let's enter the world of embedded hardware and how to program on them with CircuitPython!
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160: Infrastructure as Code, Signing Packages, & 1 Million Downloads
It is time for lightning topics! 6 topics, 5 minutes each, from you, our listeners. This week we cover package signing, infrastructure as code, ML for everyone, Skia on the web, and tons of fun podcast facts.
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159: Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Undo
The title says it all. Why can't we have unlimited undo and redo in our applications! What about cut/copy/paste? How about delete? How do we get this done in our app?
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158: Everything Is Awesome
It is official.... worst day in history.... MacBook Adorable is officially gone :( That makes us think.... what hardware should we buy to develop on, what software should we use, and what should we do now.
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157: FOMO UI Design
This week we switch it up and take a look at one of the most amazing and yet terrible UI/UX experiences and how it impacts our own apps design and the industry at large.
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156: SwiftUI's Tasty Architecture
All of the excitement from WWDC hasn't worn off just yet and we are back with something you may not expect... SwiftUI. Apple unleashed a new code first UI framework for Apple platforms and we have to discuss.
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155: Hello iPadOS
Welcome to the world of iPadOS... iOS API enhancements for iPad! At WWDC Apple made several announcements to not only enable developers to enhance iPad apps, but also bring them to macOS. Frank gives us a full breakdown of what this means for developers and our applications going into this fall's iOS 13 update.
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- The new iPadOS powers unique experiences designed for iPad - Apple
- Designing iPad Apps for Mac - WWDC 2019 - Videos - Apple Developer
- Introducing Desktop-class Browsing on iPad - WWDC 2019 - Videos - Apple Developer
- Introducing Multiple Windows on iPad - WWDC 2019 - Videos - Apple Developer
- Introducing iPad Apps for Mac - WWDC 2019 - Videos - Apple Developer
- Taking iPad Apps for Mac to the Next Level - WWDC 2019 - Videos - Apple Developer
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- Google says it’s done making tablets and cancels two unreleased products - The Verge
154: Homemade IoT Lights
Another day in the life of Frank and hacking IoT devices! This time he builds his very own IoT light strips that can speak directly to his Amazon Echo with a tiny little $11 device! Tune in to find out how he did it.
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- Amazon.com: MINGER LED Strip Lights, Govee 16.4ft RGB LED Light Strip 5050 LED Tape Lights, Color Changing LED Strip Lights with Remote for Home Lighting Kitchen Bed Flexible Strip Lights for Bar Home Decoration: Gateway
- Amazon.com: Luminoodle USB Bias Lighting - LED TV Backlight Strip - Ambient Home Theater Light, TV Accent Lighting to Reduce Eye Strain, Improve Contrast - White - Large (30" - 40" TV): Electronics
- Frank A. Krueger on Twitter: "@JamesMontemagno and I are repairing hard drives. https://t.co/j5dX2t0ci7" / Twitter
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- Amazon.com: HiLetgo ESP-WROOM-32 ESP32 ESP-32S Development Board 2.4GHz Dual-Mode WiFi + Bluetooth Dual Cores Microcontroller Processor Integrated with Antenna RF AMP Filter AP STA for Arduino IDE: Gateway
- n8henrie/fauxmo: Emulated Belkin WeMo devices that work with the Amazon Echo
- xoseperez / fauxmoesp — Bitbucket — Source code to emulate a Philips Hue
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153: Building Machine Learning Robots!
Frank takes us on the wonderful journey of understanding robots, how to build them, how to program them, and how to build machine learning algorithms to make them even better!
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Special Edition: WWDC19 Recap: Mac Pro, Project Catalyst, SwiftUI, iPadOS, & Security
It is that time of year where Apple pulls out all the stops for developers and this year is no different at WWDC. There is a new watchOS, tvOS, iOS, dark mode, project catalyst, SwiftUI, Xcode updates, accessibility improvements, and so much more! We have you covered in this very special edition.
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152: Refreshing Hanselman.Forms - Visual, CollectionView, & Serverless Backend
What does it look like to refresh a 5 year old app with the all of the changes in iOS, Android, and Xamarin.Forms? James walks through all of the UI and backend changes he has been making to fully optimize the app. Additionally, he walks through how he is using Azure Functions to revolutionize his backend.
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- Azure Functions Documentation - Tutorials | Microsoft Docs
- Azure Functions—Develop Faster With Serverless Compute | Microsoft Azure
- Live Stream: Azure Functions, Xamarin.Forms, CI/CD, OH MY! - YouTube
- sthewissen/Xamarin.Forms.PancakeView: An extended ContentView for Xamarin.Forms with rounded corners, borders, shadows and more!
151: The Future of the Future of .NET
At Microsoft Build 2019 the .NET team announced some amazing news around the unification of .NET runtimes with .NET 5. We could not let another week go by without talking about how awesome this is for .NET developers and what it means for the future of application development.
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- dotnet/corefx: CoreFX is the foundational class libraries for .NET Core. It includes types for collections, file systems, console, JSON, XML, async and many others.
- Long-term support - Wikipedia
- .NET Core offical support policy
150: We Have Lift Off
The lighting talk topics tradition is alive! We are answering your questions and commenting on your topics! 8 of them in total including how to keep up with Android, how we met, UI testing, figuring out if dependency injection really is hype, and how to land a job without a CS degree.
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149: .NET Powered Political Campaign
It is official, Frank is running for political office. Since we don't talk politics on this podcast we get into the technology side of running for a seat on city council. What tools exist, need updating, or are missing all together. Frank fills us in on all the details.
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148: When App Developers Get Together
They talk about how they hate updating apps and all of the issues that they run into when it comes to code, libraries, OS updates, software updates, store changes, and support! Here we go again!
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147: I'm a Mac Developer!
James is official a macOS developer thanks to Xamarin.Forms! He ported My Stream Timer over to macOS from WPF in a matter of hours and he gives a full break down of the good, bad, and the ugly.
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146: Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control, and HttpClientFactory
You read it right! James is going all in on DI and IoC... or is he? We chat about the pros, cons, and reasons why James hasn't gone all in for many years and why he has started to change his mind using the new Microsoft.Extensions.Host library!
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145: IoT Goes .NET Core
Let's enter the world of IoT with .NET! We take a quick stroll down memory lane, but blaze at lightning speed into the future of running .NET Core and the SDK directly on raspberry pi devices! The .NET team is hard at work enabling IoT scenarios and creating the "Xamarin.Essentials" for IoT connectors and devices with their first stop being GPIO. We don't stop there as we investigate where Windows 10 IoT Core fits into the .NET developer story!
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- Merge Conflict: 138: Organized Productivity
144: Package Up Those .NET Core 3 Apps
So long Desktop bridge and hello MSIX, the new hero of packaging and distributing Windows applications (and maybe more). James walks through his new .NET Core 3 WPF app and how he stumbled upon MSIX. We also discuss what the heck it is, the downsides, the upsides, and the future of packaging up apps.
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- What is MSIX? - MSIX | Microsoft Docs
- Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows: An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps
- Snaz stream tool
- jamesmontemagno/MyStreamTimer: A cool app to count up or down that writes text to file for streamers
- My Stream Timer
- msix-packaging/preview/Win7Msix at master · Microsoft/msix-packaging
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143: It's a Services Episode
Apple steps out of its element to announce several new services and a... credit card? What does this mean for developers, consumers, and the future of Apple? We discuss it all.
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142: Super Speed with AOT & LLVM
What about performance? How fast can C# possibly be on the iPhone? What if we told you it is a 1 to 1 and Frank can prove it as he wrote a way of compiling C/C++ code directly to .NET Standard and then measured performance of C to LLVM to IL to LLVM to Native! We discuss what this all means.
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141: Visual Studio 2019 HYPE
HYPE HYPE HYPE! It is almost time for a brand new version of Visual Studio with awesome new features including a brand new editor on Visual Studio for Mac. We also look at source control, first run experience, C# 8, .NET Core 3, and so much more.
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140: Visual Dreams and WebAssembly Wishes
It is time for more listener submitted lightning topics! This week we cover Xamarin.Forms Visual, how we start an app, WebAssembly wishes, career languages, and chat about people we deeply respect and admire.
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139: Foldables == Tablets on Demand
Regardless if you want a foldable phone or not they are coming! In fact they are here today with new devices from Samsung and Huawei! We give our thoughts on the foldable revolution and their impact on mobile application development.
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138: Organized Productivity
When was the last time you completely tore apart your work space and optimized it for full productivity? We are talking about creating a unique, organized, and happy work office that you actually want to come to every day. We talk about our recent experiences in creating a great work at home experience.
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- Amazon.com: North Bayou Monitor Desk Mount Stand Full Motion Swivel Monitor Arm Gas Spring for 17''-27'' Computer Monitor from 4.4lbs to 14.3lbs: Computers & Accessories
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- Amazon.com: IRIS USA, UB-6035, Space Saving Shelf with Adjustable Shelf, 14 x 23", Walnut Brown, 1 Pack: Kitchen & Dining
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137: Tweaking UI to Perfection
Platform Design vs Custom Design? Fancy Animations? Hours of tweaking and tuning the user interface? Does that really make a great application? It is worth all the work that needs to go these small tiny details? We discuss!
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- windows-toolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit: The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building UWP apps for Windows 10. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
- Xamarin.Forms Visual - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
- Xamarin.Forms 3.5: A Little Bindable Love | Xamarin Blog
- Get Windows Community Toolkit Sample App - Microsoft Store
- hawkerm/monaco-editor-uwp: A Windows Runtime Component wrapper around the web-based Monaco Editor.
- Welcome to Microsoft To-Do
- Xamarin Evolve 2014: Using Animations to Bring your Mobile Apps to Life - Jérémie Laval, Xamarin - YouTube
136: I Love PInvoke
When you need to get something done, sometimes you have to write some C++. Or sometimes you have no choice because you were handed a C++ library and why not expose a beautiful C# layer to call form your mobile apps. Seems easy right? We take a look at the why, how, and struggles with doing so.
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135: Aspirational Office
Is working from home the future or is it just a pipe dream? What is the correct setup when it comes to equipment and what issues can you run into? This week we take a look at our own situation and discuss the positive and negatives.
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134: SQLite On The Server
It is the 10 year anniversary of Frank's SQLite-net library and he has some huge improvements and feature in store. We discuss the past, present, and future of SQLite across all of the different .NET platforms and how you can drop SQLite-net onto your server to simplify web apps!
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133: Indie App Marketing
Frank has some totally rad news! Apple is maybe, perhaps, almost, promoting his app. This has us thinking of app marketing and promotion for not only launching an app, but also when launching new features.
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132: The Life & Times of Frank Krueger
It is a very special week on Merge Conflict as James Montemagno gets to sit down and interview Frank Krueger about his childhood, life, career, move to independent developer, and future plans.
From humble beginnings in New York, to electrical engineer, internship at Microsoft on the WPF team, business owner, world traveler, and now independent developer.
You do not want to miss this episode.
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- Interlocutor | Definition of Interlocutor by Merriam-Webster
- Eiffel (programming language) - Wikipedia
- Bertrand Meyer - Wikipedia
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- The complete history of Star Wars on PC | PC Gamer
- University internship | Microsoft Careers
- Trinspo: Travel Inspiration Episode 19: Deserted in Sinai
- About - iCircuit - The Realtime Circuit Simulator and Editor
131: Three Degrees of Freedom
It's a slow start to the new year, which means it is time to talk about what we splurged on this holiday! Frank got himself a new Oculus Go, so why not talk about the state of VR, AR, and MR!
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130: 2018 Retrospective & 2019 Predictions
It is that wonderful time of the year where we get to reflect back on all of the amazing stuff from 2018 and also give our 2019 (and beyond) predictions in the world of development. We also take your questions for our end of the year lightning topics including: C# features we want, .NET Standard vs Shared Project, Xamarin.Forms 5.0, Microprocessors, and learning languages.
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- Introducing Essential Studio for Xamarin : Feature-rich data visualization and file format components
- Getting Started With & Learning C# - James Montemagno
- RISC-V - Wikipedia
- Wilderness Labs: .NET IoT
- Microsoft Learn | Microsoft Docs
- Unlimited Online Developer, IT and Cyber Security Training | Pluralsight
- Udacity - Free Online Classes & Nanodegrees | Udacity
129: Never Nullable (Null Bad)
We enter the world of C# 8 nullable reference types! What does the migration look like? What are the benefits? Should you be turning on all the flags right now in your apps and libraries?
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128: Professional Application Performance Monitoring
This week we bring on an expert in application performance monitoring to tell us all of the things we are doing right, wrong, and ways to improve to have the best application and server experience for our users.
John-Daniel Trask, CEO of Raygun, breaks down the latest and greatest in tracking crashes, performance, and user feedback in applications. We also learn and investigate how Raygun uses Raygun on their own website to constantly monitor and improve.
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- Merge Conflict: 104: Learning From Our Users
- Error, Crash & Performance Monitoring For Web & Mobile Apps | Raygun
- Storybook - UI dev environment you'll love to use
- Calca - The Text Editor that Loves Math
- About - iCircuit - The Realtime Circuit Simulator and Editor
- Real User Monitoring - End User Monitoring For Web & Mobile | Raygun
- Application Performance Management | Raygun
127: Connect(); 2018 Recap - .NET Core 3, VS 2019, Xamarin.Forms 4, and More!
We break down every little bit of the Microsoft Connect(); 2018 event including Visual Studio 2019, .NET Core 3, Xamarin.Forms 4.0, C# 8, and a whole lot more.
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- What's New in C# 8.0 | Microsoft Connect(); 2018 | Channel 9
- Take C# 8.0 for a spin | .NET Blog
- Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019 | The Visual Studio Blog
- Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks | .NET Blog
- Empowering every developer to achieve more at Microsoft Connect(); 2018 - The Official Microsoft Blog
- Connect(); 2018 Xamarin Announcements | Xamarin Blog
- Amazon.com: The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) eBook: Neal Stephenson: Kindle Store
- The Future of Visual Studio and .NET: Visual Studio 2019, C# 8, .NET Core 3, & Xamarin.Forms 4.0 - YouTube
126: Collaborative Coding Magic
Paired programming has helped us through the years to solve critical problems together. It is also great for learning new skills or teach it to others and the space for collaborative paired programming has exploded recently with the introduction of VS Live Share. We discuss the past, present, and future.
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125: Getting Fancy With Bluetooth Low Energy
Bluetooth is everywhere! What is Bluetooth Low Energy? Why does it matter for mobile devices and IoT devices and what can you do with it? We cover all of this and so much more!
A true summary of this episode of Merge Conflict can only be best described by our fellow listener David: "So what I took from new podcast is that Frank is the Seattle's human version of the google street car driving (skateboarding) around capturing wifi (bluetooth) data."
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- VisualStudio - Build your first application with C#, Xamarin, and the Cloud | Jeff Fritz, James Montemagno, Matt Soucoup - Twitch
- xamarin/Monkey.BluetoothLE: BluetoothLE abstraction for use with Xamarin projects, including Xamarin.Forms.
- aritchie/bluetoothle: Easy to use, cross platform, REACTIVE BluetoothLE Plugin for Xamarin
- Bluetooth low energy beacon - Wikipedia
- Bluetooth Low Energy - Wikipedia
- GATT Overview | Bluetooth Technology Website
- Add Bluetooth/BLE API · Issue #242 · xamarin/Essentials
- Meadow: Full-stack .NET Standard IoT platform. by Wilderness Labs — Kickstarter
124: All In On .NET Standard 2.1
We are all in on .NET Standard for sharing code between our projects and libraries for the community and things are about to get better with .NET Standard 2.1! We break down the latest news in the world of .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Standard 2.1!
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- Announcing .NET Standard 2.1 | .NET Blog
- Announcing .NET Standard 2.0 | .NET Blog
- Update on .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.8 | .NET Blog
- The JIT finally proposed. JIT and SIMD are getting married. | .NET Blog
- standard/netstandard2.1.md at master · dotnet/standard
- dotnet/standard: This repo is building the .NET Standard
123: Gimme Five Stars!
So your app has no reviews and no one will download it? Story of James's app development career... am I right! Well how do you get them? How do you properly ask your users without bugging them too much?
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122: Today's Lecture... Debug Symbols
What are they? What do they mean to you? Why can't we just debug the source code? We go through it all this week's episode including debug symbols, line numbers, sourcelink, new NuGet features, and more! Oh and we also talk about the new iPad Pro, Mac Mini, and MacBook Air!!!!!!!!
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- NuGet Package Debugging & Symbols Improvements · NuGet/Home Wiki
- Publishing & Consuming Symbols & Source for Debugging
- dotnet/sourcelink: SourceLink enables a great source debugging experience for your users, by adding source control metadata to your built assets
- Symbol Server and Symbol Stores | Microsoft Docs
- Home page - FuGet Gallery
- Trinspo: Travel Inspiration Episode 20: Pondering Peso Pizza
- Trinspo: Travel Inspiration Episode 19: Deserted in Sinai
- Meadow: Full-stack .NET Standard IoT platform. by Wilderness Labs — Kickstarter
121: Real Time Communication
We get fancy with real-time communication protocols focusing in on the elusive SignalR for web and mobile apps and also chat on other protocols such as WebSockets & MQTT.
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120: Rapid Fire Topics
We are back to lightning topics this week covering all of the things you wanted us to talk about. We chat about the late Paul Allen and his impact on Seattle, open source projects, self-promotion, rapid topics, and much more.
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119: RESTQL
This week we take a look at web requests! REST APIs, GraphQL, OData, SOAP, and so much more!
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118: Undo Architectures
We answer important questions such as if you should update to macOS Mojave this week and how to handle system updates in general. Our main topic this week is "Micro Frameworks/Libraries" and re-usable code across all of your projects. Should you architect your code for max re-use or should you just shove it into you project and ship code!
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117: Getting to the Metal of Metal
We head down the deep dark rabbit hole of developing against the Metal APIs found in iOS including performance shaders and raytracing! We also talk about the new iPhone XS as it has finally arrived at the Montemagno house!
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116: iOS 12's "Revolutionary" Shortcuts
It is time for a new iPhone, a new version of Xcode, and a new version of iOS that we get to explore as developers. This week we take a look at our new favorite app and API: Shortcuts!
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115: Apple Event Recap & Smart Homes 3.0
Yes! It is time for new iPhone and Apple Watch devices! We quickly break down the entire Apple Event from last week and then go directly into smart home automation and Android Things.
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- praeclarum/NEcho: Amazon Echo ("Alexa") ASP.NET Core Web Service
- timheuer/alexa-skills-dotnet: An Amazon Alexa Skills SDK for .NET
- Build with Android Things
- Build with Android Things
- XamarinComponents/Android/AndroidThings at master · xamarin/XamarinComponents
- Azure Functions—Serverless Architecture | Microsoft Azure
- Philips Hue Smart Dimmer Switch with Remote (Installation-Free, Smart Home, Exclusively for Philips Hue Smart Bulbs) - - Amazon.com
- Merge Conflict 19: Home Automation API Integration 2.0
114: Clean Code Styling
It is time to clean up that code! We aren't talking "Clean Code", instead we are talking about tools that help you and contributors keep standard conventions, naming, and styles across any IDE!
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- EditorConfig
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- Visual Studio IntelliCode | Visual Studio - Visual Studio
- EditorConfig Language Service - Visual Studio Marketplace
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113: The 30% App Developer Tax
This week we switch things up a little bit and talk business... app store business talk! Right now is an interesting time as there has been a revolt against paying the app store 30% tax with Epic and Netflix changing course. We discuss what this fee is, how it works, if it needs to change, and some ideas to change the revenue sharing process.
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- Apple's App Store Generated Over $11 Billion In Revenue For The Company Last Year
- The App Store has made Apple over $40 billion in revenue: CHARTS - Business Insider
- Netflix Doesn't Want to Pay Apple's "App Store Tax" Anymore
- Transaction fees - Play Console Help
- A new Microsoft Store revenue share is coming - Windows Developer BlogWindows Developer Blog
112: Decrypting Encryption
On this week's pod we take a look at the current state of web and app security for developers. We discuss options when dealing with TLS/SSL, database encryption, and how to store items securely in mobile apps.
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- Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare
- App Transport Security in Xamarin.iOS - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
- Mobile App Security with Kerry W. Lothrop | The Xamarin Show | Channel 9
- #wedskaas: What every developer should know about app security, part 1: How to handle API keys | Kerry's Blog
- praeclarum/sqlite-net: Simple, powerful, cross-platform SQLite client and ORM for .NET
- SQLCipher - Zetetic
- Xamarin.Essentials: Secure Storage - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
111: The Three Equals of a Struct
We get nerdy again diving deep into the world of struct equality and performance. Sit back and get ready for some operator overloading, IEquatable, performance implications, getting of hash code, amazing C# 7 features, and how ValueTuples save everything!
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- Performance implications of default struct equality in C# – Dissecting the code
- Struct Design | Microsoft Docs
- .net - What is the best algorithm for an overridden System.Object.GetHashCode? - Stack Overflow
- Uno.CodeGen/Equality Generation.md at master · nventive/Uno.CodeGen
- Optimizing C# Struct Equality with IEquatable and ValueTuples - James Montemagno
110: The Future of App Development
We are back with lightning talks with topics submitted by our amazing listeners. We take a look into performance, cross-platform UWP XAML with Uno, deep dive into the world of Xamarin.Forms, and give our thoughts on the future of app development.
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109: Neural Network C# Predictions for Everyone
It is that time again for more machine learning! This time it is actually something that you can totally build and something that Frank shipped inside of his application to do code prediction using Python, Keras, PlaidML, and CoreML!
We talk about the main use case, the route Frank took to create the machine learning model, what hardware and software he used, and the final outcome to predict code while you type.
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108: .NET Standard Wants & Modernizing Win32 Apps
This week we have a quick followup on System.IO.Pipelines that leads into a deep discussion of what we want in .NET Standard vNext. We then investigate the motivation, optimizations, and reality of porting a Win32 Application to run inside of a UWP container for the Microsoft Store.
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- Desktop conversion for UWP apps - Windows app development
- .NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications | .NET Blog
- Immo Landwerth (@terrajobst) | Twitter
- NuGet Gallery | System.Numerics.Vectors 4.5.0
- Calca - The Text Editor that Loves Math
- Squirrel
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- The Visual Studio Image Library - Visual Studio | Microsoft Docs
- Forecast: Podcast MP3 Chapter Encoder — Overcast
107: App-Centric vs Developer-Centric
We tackle a listener submitted topic this week of how we make decisions between performance, frameworks, and convenience when building applications. It is an interesting question when choosing a framework or library and their trade-offs.
Frank sees it a bit differently than James does when building apps. We look at how we have built apps from our present, past, and future when we look at developer productivity.
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106: We Know Nothing About Anything
We get a little crazy this week and dive into three topics that we know almost nothing about. First up is a little web development for Ghost with gulp, handlebars, and sass. Then we dive into more machine learning with ML.NET and wrap up with our new favorite way to read in streams with Pipelines. To be honest, we do know something about them and think they are super cool, so you should check them out.
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- Ghost - The Professional Publishing Platform
- ML.NET | Machine Learning made for .NET
- Handlebars.js: Minimal Templating on Steroids
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- Announcing ML.NET 0.3 | .NET Blog
- dotnet/machinelearning: ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET.
- System.IO.Pipelines: High performance IO in .NET | .NET Blog
- Roderick on the Line
105: Marzipanifying Apps
The time will soon be upon us that we can start shoving all of our UIKit based applications on to macOS! What a glorious day that will be once Apple opens up those APIs to developers... or perhaps that day is today with a few hacks! We discuss everything we love about Marzipan and the potential that it has on our applications, frameworks, and the industry.
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- Visual Studio Live!: Visual Studio Live!: The development world's trusted educational provider of developer-focused content since 1993, focusing on .NET and Visual Studio. Join us at an upcoming 2018 event: · Redmond – August 13-17 · Chicago – September 17-20 · San Diego – October 7-11 · Orlando – December 2-7  Promo Code: MERGECONFLICT
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104: Learning From Our Users
This week we are diving into one of the final parts of DevOps, which is continuous monitoring and learning about our apps and our users. Frank has gone all in on integrating crash reporting and analytics into his apps and we discuss his outcome.
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103: .NET Everywhere with Miguel de Icaza
What more do we need to say? We sat down with Miguel de Icaza to pick his brain about the past, present, and future of .NET. Miguel gives his insights into where the entire industry is moving and why GUI based console applications are so important.
We start first with how .NET and Mono are changing the world and evolving quickly. We then move on to what WebAssembly is and how it is set to change the web forever. Finally we discuss his vision for Console# and his four pillars for building great apps for the console.
This is a legendary episode that you do not want to miss.
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- Mono
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- migueldeicaza/gui.cs: Console-based user interface toolkit for .NET applications.
- Mobile App Development & App Creation Software - Xamarin
- Visual Studio and Xamarin: The future of app development | Microsoft Build 2018 | Channel 9
- Mocast
- migueldeicaza/NStack: New Stack - Explorations on Unicode, IO, new idioms and error handling for .NET
102: Mono.Cecil, Linker, and Unity Updates with Jb Evain
At Microsoft Build 2018 we sat down with the legendary Jb Evain. The man behind libraries and technologies we use every day including Mono.Cecil and the Mono linker itself. We discuss all this and his passion for creating the Visual Studio tools for Unity and everything new that Unity has to offer.
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101: GitHub Acquired & WWDC 2018 Fully Recapped
What a way to start June! GitHub was officially acquired by Microsoft and Apple started off it's developer conference by announcing tons of great new software updates and developer APIs. We break down each and every juicy bit.
Not only do we cover the main keynote, but we take a look at the developer state of the union and fully cover iOS 12, tvOS 12, watchOS 5, and macOS Mojave including soon to come UIKit to macOS!!!
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100: Rambling Our Way Through 100 Episodes
We did it! 100 episodes of Merge Conflict! Somehow with your support Frank and James rambled their way through nearly two years of podcasting. We celebrate with questions from our listeners, some inside info on the podcast, chit-chat about how we started, and a contest!
Enter the Merge Conflict 100th Episode Contest
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Merge Conflict 99: Inclusive App Design & Seeing AI with Saqib Shaikh
We got to sit down with the legendary Saqib Shaikh to talk about creating inclusive software for everyone. As a blind person Saqib not only has first person experience with using software that is accessible, but also designing and working on inclusive software as he is the Team Lead for the Seeing AI mobile application. During our chat we discuss what developers can do inside of their application to add accessibility features and how they can test them using the built in operating systems. Saqib also shared insights into how Seeing AI was created and where it is going next.
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- Seeing AI 2016 Prototype - A Microsoft research project - YouTube
- How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio - YouTube
- Seeing AI | Talking camera app for those with a visual impairment
- Custom Vision
- Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 5, Plugin for on-device models
- jimbobbennett/Xam.Plugins.OnDeviceCustomVision: Plugin to allow custom vision models to be used from mobile devices
Merge Conflict 98: Machine Learning for Space Exploration with Paige Bailey
We sit down with the world famous Paige Bailey to discuss the state of machine learning and its impact on space exploration as well as on the coral reef. We of course get into artificial intelligence and how it is impacting every industry out there and we let Paige fill in all the pieces. James talks about his passion for the dwarf planet Pluto and how it should be everyone's favorite planet out there. Frank gets into his hidden passion for python and a lot more.
Paige also discusses her favorite libraries and projects that everyone should know about and support.
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- MFractor: MFractor makes Xamarin app development in Visual Studio for Mac much easier; use the Xamarin.Forms code analysis and generation tools to make working with XAML a breeze and take the sting out of Android development with resource intellisense or mobile specific C# code analyzers. Use coupon code MERGE-CONFLICT for 10% off! Promo Code: MERGE-CONFLICT
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- DynamicWebPaige | Twitter
- GitHub: dynamicwebpaige (Paige Bailey)
- Paige Bailey - Cloud Advocate
- LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon | NASA
- Beautiful, Bewitching Pluto Poses in New Images from New Horizons Probe
- Custom Vision
- Cognitive Services | Microsoft Azure
- Image Processing with the Computer Vision API | Microsoft Azure
- BB8 (@BB8) | Twitter
- Keras
- tensorflow/cleverhans: An adversarial example library for constructing attacks, building defenses, and benchmarking both
- kubeflow/kubeflow: Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes
- TFX Papter
- NumFOCUS
Merge Conflict 97: GitHub + App Center = 💖
We are live from Microsoft Build 2018 with Nilofer Rajpurkar from App Center and Steve Winton from GitHub to discuss the new partnership between Microsoft and GitHub and how they are making mobile app developers' lives better with new integrations for continuous integration. We dive into the details of what exactly this means for developers, the new "checks" api and dashboard in GitHub, and so much awesome for any and every mobile developer!
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- Visual Studio App Center | iOS, Android, Xamarin & React Native
- Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio
- App Center · GitHub Marketplace
- Insomnia REST Client
- Microsoft brings its Visual Studio App Center lifecycle management tool to GitHub | TechCrunch
- Microsoft Build 2018 - Technology Keynote: Microsoft Azure - YouTube
Merge Conflict 96: Throw Away All Architecture
We love architecture, but we also hate architecture... so throw it all away! This week we take a look at UI Driven Development to get stuff done! We chat about the reasons why, the positives, the negatives, and what James and Frank both have built using this approach all in very little time.
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Merge Conflict 95: Just Link It All Away
Using too many libraries and your app size is too big? Don't worry the linker is here to save the day! That's right the Mono linker and .NET Native are here to shrink that app and library size and can be highly customized. We take a look at why you would want to use the linker, how to preserve code from getting linked, and how to optimize your libraries and apps.
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- Compiling Apps with .NET Native | Microsoft Docs
- Linking on Android - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
- Linking on iOS - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
- Custom Linker Configuration - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
- Linker | Mono
- Shrink Your Code and Resources | Android Developers
- ProGuard - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
- GitHub: mono/linker
- Single Linker config for .NET Native and Mono · Issue #57 · mono/linker
Merge Conflict 94: Everyone Loves Architecture
MVVM, Functional Reactive Programming, Redux, Reactive, or just straight up code behind! There are so many options out there and has been a huge debate. We sit down and discuss some architecture including Frank's latest experiment: Immutable UI.
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Merge Conflict 93: Follow the Audit Trail
It is time to release some "real" software and "real" production libraries. We discuss the steps we take to release our libraries out into the wild including a full audit trail of APIs, code, docs, and tons of tiny little things that are easy to skip. We have a blast this week and think you are going to love it.
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- Async/Await - Best Practices in Asynchronous Programming
- Linking on iOS - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
- Access Modifiers (C# Programming Guide) | Microsoft Docs
- praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web
- xamarin/Essentials: Essential cross platform APIs for your mobile apps.
- Announcing the Docs Markdown Extension for Visual Studio Code | Microsoft Docs
- StyleCop/StyleCop: Analyzes C# source code to enforce a set of style and consistency rules.
- MDoc | Mono
- Documenting your code with mdoc · xamarin/Essentials Wiki
Merge Conflict 92: Writable Contiguous Memories
It may be our geekiest podcast yet as we somehow chat about the new Span and Memory value types in C# 7.2 and all the optimized goodness that they bring to .NET applications! We also dive through James's not so optimized code to see how it could take advantage of these new structures.
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- What's new in C# 7.2 | Microsoft Docs
- C# - All About Span: Exploring a New .NET Mainstay
- C# 7.2: Understanding Span | Connect(); 2017 | Channel 9
- NuGet Gallery | System.Memory 4.5.0-preview1-26216-02
- Caboodle/Compass.android.cs at master · xamarin/Caboodle
- soundbite.fm: a podcast network
- Trinspo: Travel Inspiration Podcast
- The V Spot: Vegan Podcast
Merge Conflict 91: Game Development Chit-chat
James is back from GDC, the Game Developers Conference, and he has games on his mind! We take a look at the state of game development for .NET developers in 2018 and at some of the large announcements from GDC. James also sits down for our first interview with Shaun Peoples from Durham Games to talk about their upcoming iOS and Android game Foodie Trucks that is built with Unity and C#.
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Special Edition: Apple's Plan to Invade Classrooms
This week Apple announced their brand new plan for bringing the iPad to classrooms with a brand new cheaper iPad, new software, and a new SDK for developers to create content. We breakdown the entire event with our thoughts on if their plan will work.
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Merge Conflict 90: Going Reactive with Progressive Flutter Apps
Yes! Half way to 180 episodes! We are back for lightning talks covering not 6 but 7 different topics this week! We take a quick recap of web assembly, but jump directly into Flutter, React Native, source control, serverless computing, progressive web apps, and more.
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- praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web
- PWAs are coming to iOS 11.3: Cupertino, we have a problem
- Create a PWA in Xamarin.Forms with Ooui.Wasm - Xamarin Help
- Merge Conflict on Twitter: "What's your favorite Mobile/Desktop platform to develop for?"
- Merge Conflict on Twitter: "What CI are you using to build your mobile apps?"
- xamarinhq/app-geocontacts: Xamarin + Azure demo contact list feature Azure AD B2C, Functions, & CosmosDB.
- Twitter Lite - Progressive Web Apps - The Good, Bad, & Ugly - James Montemagno
Merge Conflict 89: WebAssembly + Mono == .NET In Your Browser
You read that correct, you can now run .NET Code directly in your browser with WebAssembly and Mono and it is absolutely amazing. On top of that you can run Xamarin.Forms and ASP.NET applications directly in the browser without any plugins. Frank explains how this all works.
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- Making WebAssembly better for Rust & for all languages – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
- WebAssembly
- .NET and WebAssembly - Is this the future of the front-end? - Scott Hanselman
- GitHub - aspnet/Blazor: Blazor is an experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly
- Hello WebAssembly | Mono
- praeclarum - Ooui.Wasm - .NET in the browser
Merge Conflict 88: Getting Hip to F#
It is that time of year to sit down and analyze F# and how absolutely awesome it is! Frank and James talk through some features that make it a delightful programming language. They also chat about the MVP summit, cool new features, and talk about their heroes.
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Merge Conflict 87: Cross-Platform Is So Easy I Don't Even Have to Do It
Frank is ready to start his next app and he is completely skipping cross-platform development... or is he?!?! We investigate what to do with File->New and how to start the architecture for your next app. Why target the platform specific APIs instead of cross-platform APIs? What is Frank doing and how is he going to handle the situation where he wants to go to a new platform?!
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- About Core Animation
- An Introduction to SkiaSharp - Xamarin
- Overcast
- Under the Radar - Relay FM
- Functional reactive programming - Wikipedia
- reactjs/redux: Predictable state container for JavaScript apps
- Apple could let you run iPad apps on your Mac | TechCrunch
- James Montemagno 🙈 on Twitter: "This week on @mergeconflictfm we tackle the unthinkable! Docker! Containers, Swarms, & Pods Oh my! Essentially @praeclarum gives me a full 101 and why everyone should care: https://t.co/779xoUBFvf… https://t.co/ioteYt1RYM"
Merge Conflict 86: Containerized Pod Development
"It works on my machine" is a statement of the past with containers! Docker, Kubernetes, Pods, Registries, Swarms, and Spheres! So much to learn and so much awesome. This week we break down what containerized development truly means, what it is good for, how you use these services, and how you can go do something today!
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- Docker - Build, Ship, and Run Any App, Anywhere
- Azure Container Registry – Docker Registry | Microsoft Azure
- Why should I care about Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration? - Scott Hanselman
- Keynote: Containers aka crazy user space fun - YouTube
- Docker Overview
- Getting Started with Windows Containers | .NET Web Development and Tools Blog
- Nintendo confirms it’s working on a Mario movie with the studio behind Minions - The Verge
- Everything We Know so Far About Universal Studios' Nintendo Theme Park | Travel + Leisure
- Plugin For Xamarin Templates - Visual Studio Marketplace
Merge Conflict 85: All I Want To Do Is Multi-Target
It is 2018 and we are so over Linked Files, Portable Class Libraries, or Shared Projects cluttering up our libraries. In fact we only need ONE project to target every platform that .NET supports. It is time to multi-target the world! We take a look at this awesome new feature and tell you what it is all about and why you would want to use it. We also take a look at some of the gotchas right now to help you make the choice to make the big switch or not.
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- Oren Novotny » Multi-targeting the world: a single project to rule them all
- Immo Landwerth on Twitter: "The one and only @JamesMontemagno was asking me whether I consider it to be bad to multi-target for .NET Framework and multiple .NET Standard versions. https://t.co/4NqUrghHpy"
- Additions to the csproj format for .NET Core | Microsoft Docs
- jamesmontemagno/monkey-cache: Easily cache any data structure for a specific amount of time in any .NET application.
- .NET Standard | Microsoft Docs
- Get NuGet Package Explorer - Microsoft Store
Merge Conflict 84: Accidental Web Developer Podcast
Did we just become web developers? This week we slip over to the ASP.NET Core side of things as we build out web apps with Razor Pages, Ooui, and all sorts of C#/.NET goodness. We discuss the ups and down of getting started with web development and how far it has come since the early days of ASP. Join use as we explore the world of web development.
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- Ooui - Ooui
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- Introduction to Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core | Microsoft Docs
- Getting started with Razor Pages in ASP.NET Core | Microsoft Docs
- praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web
- In-memory caching in ASP.NET Core | Microsoft Docs
- iCircuit Gallery - Share Electronic Circuit Files using iCircuit
Merge Conflict 83: Fear of Breaking the World
We have way too many open source projects and NuGet libraries which are used by thousands of developers, which is awesome, but means we get really scared when we change anything! We discuss when and how we decide when to push that release out. Frank discusses the drama behind SQLite-net and the most recent 1.5 update and James discusses his trials and tribulation with the Geolcoator plugin.
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- NuGet Gallery | sqlite-net-pcl 1.4.118
- praeclarum/sqlite-net: Simple, powerful, cross-platform SQLite client and ORM for .NET
- ericsink/SQLitePCL.raw: A Portable Class Library (PCL) for low-level (raw) access to SQLite
- Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 | Semantic Versioning
- Fire 7 - Amazon Official Site - 7" Tablet Our best selling tablet - now even better.
- Fire 7 Kids Edition - Amazon Official Site - The #1 kids’ tablet in the US—now even better
- GeolocatorPlugin/Plugin.nuspec at master · jamesmontemagno/GeolocatorPlugin
- soundbite.fm: a podcast network
- The V Spot
- Coffeehouse Blunders
Merge Conflict 82: Broken Backs and Updating Apps
It is 2018 and both iOS 11 and Android O are in full swing on tons of awesome and new devices. What does that mean when you want to update your apps? We walk through what we have been up to in the last few weeks to bring our apps up to date. This includes our continuous integration and delivery, iPhone X tweaks, supporting the latest OS, and changes to the App Store itself.
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Merge Conflict 81: It Takes Two to Debug
When something goes wrong, it is time to debug! Or maybe first we should write logs? Maybe we should use the intermediate window? Or perhaps write a unit test? We discuss our pro tips for debugging when something goes wrong.
We also take a quick detour and talk about the cute Mini-Husky that James is dog sitting!
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- P E N N Y • P I C K L E S (@penelopepicklesthedog) • Instagram photos and videos
- Alaskan Klee Kai - Wikipedia
- Serilog — simple .NET logging with fully-structured events
- Debug Class (System.Diagnostics)
- Console.WriteLine Method (System)
- NLog
- Managing Exceptions with the Debugger
- Debugging with Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
- Running Xamarin.iOS Unit Tests in Visual Studio Team Services | Xamarin Blog
- Touch.Unit Automation Revisited | take a bit, get a byte
Merge Conflict 80: It's Your Fault We Couldn't Name This Episode
We are not lawyers! However, we both have our own LLCs. We explain why on this lightning talk week and also tackle your questions around performance, .NET Standard, CSS in Xamarin.Forms, and technologies we think are worth investing in.
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- Styling Xamarin.Forms with CSS - David Ortinau
- Stylesheets by StephaneDelcroix · Pull Request #1207 · xamarin/Xamarin.Forms
- Miguel de Icaza on Twitter: "Very excited to announce: For the next 2 years, Don Syme @dsyme from Microsoft Research will be with the Xamarin team on an assignment to he… https://t.co/ODExrSvBDb"
Merge Conflict 79: Frank Justifies His iMac Pro
We kick off the new year by not knowing what to do, what to talk about, or just about anything. All we know is Frank has taken the plunge on the new iMac Pro, so why not have him justify it and discuss when is a good time to update your development hardware and software.
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Merge Conflict 78: This One is Actually Good
Happy 2018! We made it, so let's recap the best in tech, development, life, coffee, and so much more that happened in 2017. We expose our top picks of the year and of course what we are looking forward to in 2018.
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- Xamarin Live Player - Xamarin
- Onewheel // Future Motion
- iPhone X - Apple
- Introducing VSTS Mobile App Tasks Extension for iOS and Android - James Montemagno
- My Top Nintendo Switch Games & Accessories - James Montemagno
- Nintendo Switch™ - Official site – Nintendo gaming system
- Frank & James are creating Merge Conflict Podcast | Patreon
Merge Conflict 77: `dotnet pack holiday`
In this holiday special we thank our listeners by getting to all of your great questions that you have been asking about python, Visual Studio, DevOps, and so much more. We discuss our holiday hacks that we plan on doing this year along with how we have fallen in love with .NET Standard's new auto NuGet packaging.
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- Wilderness Labs
- praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web
- Build Your Own Continuous Integration Pole
- Introducing VSTS Mobile App Tasks Extension for iOS and Android - James Montemagno
- aloisdeniel/Standard.SpecialFolders: Just listing all .NETStandard special folder paths.
Merge Conflict 76: We Can't Solve Everyone's Problem
When having SQLite isn't enough for James he has to go and try to solve offline data caching again with Monkey Cache. We discuss why this open source library happened, where it is going, what are best practices for data caching, and so much more. We also follow up on Ooui's status and where Xamarin.Forms on the web is going as well as a bit of follow up on C# 7.1/7.2/8.
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- James Montemagno 🙈 on Twitter: "What library should I use for my Xamarin apps for caching web request data for like 24 hours? Minimal dependencies if possible no RX stuff!"
- akavache/Akavache: An asynchronous, persistent key-value store
- NuGet Gallery | MonkeyCache
- jamesmontemagno/monkey-cache: Monkeys in Barrels, the best way to cache data!
- Added an abstracted Monkey, an in-memory Monkey and an eating Monkey by dersia · Pull Request #1 · jamesmontemagno/monkey-cache
- Xamarin.Forms BugSweeper - Ooui Samples
- Premium Beard and Moustache Products by Can You Handlebar – Can You Handlebar Moustache and Beard Co.
Merge Conflict 75: The Hello World of Video Production
Have you ever thought about coding to a live audience? How about producing video content such as How-To guides? We discuss what goes into this long process, what equipment is needed, and several tips and tricks on this week's podcast.
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Merge Conflict 74: App Distribution, the Hard Way
How do you get your app into your testers' hands? App Center, TestFlight, HockeyApp, Google Play, E-mail? So many options exist, but how do you do it right and get testers signed up fast? We take a look at all the options and some tools fastlane offers.
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Merge Conflict 73: Program Language Evolution
Keeping up with different operating systems is hard enough, but how do you keep up with all of the new awesome features in C#, Swift, and all of the other amazing languages out there? We discuss how we do it and what is new in C# 7.1, 7.2, and take a glimpse into 8!
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Merge Conflict 72: Xamarin.Forms on the Web
Xamarin.Forms on the web? XAML powering your ASP.NET applications? How can this be so? Well with Frank's new Ooui library the life long dream is now a reality. While still early on, developers are loving it! We discuss where it came from and where it is going next.
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Merge Conflict 71: Continuous Everything with DevOps
James is on a DevOps kick after going on tour with Donovan in South America and he wants to automate everything! It is different this time as he wants full control with Visual Studio Team Services and he even wants to manage his own build machines! Is he crazy? Probably, listen in to find out.
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Merge Conflict 70: Cloud $$$$
It is that time of the year once again! That is right, lightning talks on Merge Conflict. We cover 6 different topics submitted by your, our listeners, in under 30 minutes! This week we discuss IoC, Dependency Injection, Cloud service costs, release management, coded user interface, and our awesome podcast setup.
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- IoC Container Performance - Xamarin Help
- Visual Studio Dev Essentials
- Amazon.com: Blue Nessie Adaptive USB Condenser Microphone, Cardioid: Musical Instruments
- Zencastr
- aloisdeniel/Microcharts: Create cross-platform (Xamarin, Windows, ...) simple charts.
- aloisdeniel/Xamarin.Animations: Animate your views with simple shareable animation declarations.
Merge Conflict 69: Copy Pasta
When is the right time to fork a repository and send a pull request for a feature request? Or is it better use a submodule in your own repository? Or maybe just copy and paste the code into your solution? We discuss all the possibilities.
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Merge Conflict 68: Throw Some XAML In It
We know how to share our business logic between our applications, but what about some of the user interface. We aren't talking Xamarin.Forms, we are talking cross platform views in native iOS, Android, and Windows apps. What type of architecture is needed and what technologies enable us to do this?
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Links:
- SeattleGiveCamp/SGC2017_VolunteerPark: Volunteer Park Trust project repo for SeattleGiveCamp 2017
- Unleashed: Embedding Xamarin.Forms in Xamarin Native | Xamarin Blog
- praeclarum/NGraphics: NGraphics is a cross platform library for rendering vector graphics on .NET. It provides a unified API for both immediate and retained mode graphics using high quality native renderers.
Merge Conflict 67: Surviving a Hackathon
In a quick follow up, James finally breaks down and learns how to properly learn the profiler. This last weekend Frank & James participated and helped organize a mobile app hackathon for charity. What went right? What went wrong? And will they ever do another hackathon again?
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Merge Conflict 66: Drawing Pixels with SkiaSharp
Google announces a slew of new products including the brand new Pixel 2, which means James has finally placed an order for a new phone. We break down the full Pixel event, but go deeper into our topic of the week of 2D and 3D cross-platform drawing libraries with SkiaSharp.
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- Google Pixel 2 event in under 15 minutes - YouTube
- Custom Vision
- praeclarum/NGraphics: NGraphics is a cross platform library for rendering vector graphics on .NET. It provides a unified API for both immediate and retained mode graphics using high quality native renderers.
- praeclarum/CrossGraphics: Cross-platform Graphics Library for .NET
- mono/SkiaSharp: The Skia 2D Graphics library from Google exposed to .NET languages and runtimes across the board
- An Introduction to SkiaSharp - Xamarin
- Skia Graphics Library
- aloisdeniel/Microcharts: Create cross-platform (Xamarin, Windows, ...) simple charts.
Merge Conflict 65: Worst Plan Ever
A quick follow up on Frank's Hot-dog or Not app he tried to create in a week. After that we take a look at what it takes to completely plan an actual application by yourself or with a full team. We discuss our management style, tools we like, and how we plan out releases.
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- praeclarum - "Hotdog or Not" Using Azure Custom Vision, CoreML,...
- Luce Carter on Twitter: "@mergeconflictfm I am attending a hackathon in a few weeks, it made me wonder, how do you approach projects in terms of planning, tasks etc."
- praeclarum/HotDogOrNot: A minimal Xamarin CoreML app to detect hotdogs
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen: 9780142000281: Amazon.com: Books
- Trello
- Discord - Free Voice and Text Chat for Gamers
Merge Conflict 64: Machine Learning as a Service
If we aren't talking about machine learning then we are talking about machine learning on Merge Conflict! This week we go through several services and resources to find out what exactly it takes to build hot dog or not! We review several free and paid services to create your own machine learning models and how to train them all online!
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- Building powerful image classification models using very little data
- Custom Vision Service introduces classifier export, starting with CoreML for iOS 11 | Blog | Microsoft Azure
- Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-ios-customvision-sample: Real time image classification on iOS using a CoreML model exported from Custom Vision Service
- Cognitive Services—Intelligence Applications | Microsoft Azure
- FloydHub
- Scale: API For Human Intelligence
- Machine Learning | Microsoft Azure
- Custom Vision
Merge Conflict 63: Who Needs a Phone Anymore
It is that time of the year when Apple unveils all of the brand new toys for consumers and developers. Sure everyone is talking about the new iPhone X, Apple Watch Series 3, and Apple TV 4K , but what about the launch of Xcode 9, iOS 11, and watchOS 4? We got you covered and discuss it all!
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Merge Conflict 62: Snacking on Android Oreo
We have survived the beta summers and Android 8.0 Oreo is finally out with a plethora of beautiful APIs. We discuss all the delicious bits of this lovely release for both developers and end users. From enhanced notifications, picture-in-picture, and tons of crazy API enhancements Android Oreo is packed full of features. Some changes are huge and can potentially break your app with behavior changes, and we break them all down on this weeks show.
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- Raygun: Everything developers of any application need for native and managed crash reporting to detect and diagnose software errors.
Links:
- Android 8.0 Features and APIs | Android Developers
- Recent Support Library Revisions | Android Developers
- James Montemagno on Twitter: "Recommended by @gruber on this week's Talk Show. Thanks @bartelldrugs for carrying @NewmansOwn https://t.co/txrjJd0PTp"
- Notifications | Android Developers
- Autofill Framework | Android Developers
- Background Execution Limits | Android Developers
- Cookies - Newman's Own
Merge Conflict 61: Getting to the Core of ARCore
We just can't get enough of augmented reality and the awesome new SDKs that are being created for developers to use. This week we discuss Google's attempt for Android and web developers with ARCore.
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Merge Conflict 60: Hacking Frank's Apartment
We are back with lightning talk week here on Merge Conflict. We cover 6 awesome topics in 30 minutes! This week we look at C# 8, Bottom Navigation on Android, Hacking Frank's Apartment with Serverless Compute, and so much more!
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Links:
- A Preview of C# 8 with Mads Torgersen | Seth Juarez | Channel 9
- dotnet/csharplang: The official repo for the design of the C# programming language
- Exploring Android's Bottom Navigation View | Xamarin Blog
- Snack Pack 19: Serverless Compute in 5 Minutes | The Xamarin Show | Channel 9
- Soylent (meal replacement) - Wikipedia
- Soylent Green (1973) - IMDb
Merge Conflict 59: Managing Open Source Projects
This week we take an inside look at what it takes to actually maintain an open source project or in James' case 50 open source projects. How do you handle issues, PRs, CI, and how to stay sane when that blue GitHub notification bubble will never go away?
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Merge Conflict 58: Dealing with Rejection
It is that dreaded time in every iOS developers life when you get that rejection notice from app store because you broke one or eight of the App Store guidelines. This week we look at how to deal with these rejections and how to handle phone calls with Apple!
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Merge Conflict 57: Let's Learn the Machines
Why bother with ARKit when you can learn all about the machines with CoreML! This week we explore all the goodies that Apple has for us in iOS 11's CoreML. We also attempt to demystify exactly what is machine learning and how to get started.
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Merge Conflict 56: Take on ARKit
Apple has blessed us with a beautiful API for augmented reality with ARKit and this week we investigate all of the awesome baked in, what you can and can't do with it, and look at all the awesome things people are already building.
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Merge Conflict 55: Mac vs PC
It is that age old debate... Mac vs PC! What is the most optimal operating system for development, what are the ups and downs of each, and what are our favorite tools to keep us productive regardless of where we are working?
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Merge Conflict 54: Dropping in on the iPad
iOS 11 is packed full of awesome with machine learning, augmented reality, and a full file system, but who cares about that? Let's talk about our new favorite feature: Drag & Drop! This week we dive into why drag and drop matters, how it is implemented, and what you will get for free out of the box when you simply recompile your app! We also dive into several other iOS 11 goodies.
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Merge Conflict 53: Document All The Things
It has been said that if a feature has not been documented, than it might as well not exist. It could not be more true from our findings and this week we finally take a look at all things documentation! We also get to your listener feedback and debate the future of progressive web apps, async/await, and a whole lot more. In addition to all of this AWESOME it has been officially been 1 full year of Merge Conflict! Thank you so much to our amazing listeners! <3
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Merge Conflict 52: Bug Fixes and Improvements
Will Frank ever update his apps in the app store? When, how, and what should go into that super important app update that your users are expecting? We investigate what has changed for us and the app stores in the last year. How about open source projects and libraries? Do these fall into the same criteria of an "app release"? We also take a look at how Apple, Google, and awesome CI services have helped us be more successful.
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Merge Conflict 51: The Core Developer Experience
.NET on Linux? Yes we can with .NET Core! This week we tackle what it is like to develop for the server and the web using the new fancy Core tooling with .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. Frank stress tests .NET on Linux servers with the ultimate button clicking experience and James attempts to figure out how the internet and ASP.NET MVC works all from VS for Mac!
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Merge Conflict 50: We Have Standards
It is that time again, lightning talks! We cover 6 different topics in under 30 minutes! This week we talk coding standards, documentation, E3, app reviews, and so much more!
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- Raygun: Don't wait for users to report problems. Raygun gives you complete visibility on errors, crashes and performance problems affecting your end users. Raygun has full support for .NET, Javascript, Xamarin, and all other major languages and platforms. 
Links:
- NuGet Gallery | Settings Plugin for Xamarin and Windows 2.5.8
- NuGet Gallery | System.Collections.Immutable 1.3.1
- Introducing .NET Standard | .NET Blog
- Apple won’t let apps annoy you with their own review prompts anymore - The Verge
- Responding to Reviews on the App Store - Apple Developer
- EditorConfig
- StyleCop/StyleCop: Analyzes C# source code to enforce a set of style and consistency rules.
Merge Conflict 49: The Magic of MVVM
We are back to talk architecture with MVVM, that is right Model-View-ViewModel, and all of the awesome stuff that comes along for the ride with the fantastic frameworks available. Before we talk about those frameworks, we go through why we love MVVM itself, what it is, how to use it, and why it is not just data binding. We take a look at popular frameworks and how to use MVVM with no framework at all. So sit back and get ready for architecture!
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Links:
- Episode 5: MVVM & Data Binding with Xamarin.Forms | The Xamarin Show | Channel 9
- Episode 13: MVVM Helpers | The Xamarin Show | Channel 9
- Episode 12: MVVM Light and Xamarin with Laurent Bugnion | The Xamarin Show | Channel 9
- Episode 10: Prism for Xamarin.Forms with Brian Lagunas | The Xamarin Show | Channel 9
- Model–view–viewmodel - Wikipedia
- jamesmontemagno/mvvm-helpers: Collection of MVVM helper classes for any application
- MvvmCross
- MVVM Light Toolkit
- Build a Native Android UI & iOS UI with Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin
- Frank's list diffing observable collection
Special Edition: WWDC 2017 Recap
WWDC has come to a close and we are here to fill you in all the news from the largest Apple Developer event of the year. From iOS 11 and amazing new machine learning APIs, to brand new Mac hardware to start development on, to yes renaming in Xcode 9, we break down each and every announcement that you need to know about.
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Merge Conflict 48: Frank Mocks Interfaces
To create design time data or not to create design time data, that is the question? Or is it better to mock out all of your interfaces or say heck let's code straight to the API end points? When you are developing a large project and desire the "blendability", what approach is best to take, and what works well with design time tools like Blend and the Xamarin Live Player? We discuss all this and more on this week's episode.
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Merge Conflict 47: You Got Some F# in My C#
C# 7 is here! The most functional version of C# to date with pattern matching, tuples, local functions, and so much more! This week we break down every single new feature and let you know what we love and what we think is just okay.
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Merge Conflict 46: Building the Xamarin Live Player
The dream of continuous deployment and debugging your Android and iOS apps from Visual Studio with nothing more than a device is now a reality. We talk shop on what the Xamarin Live Player is and how we built it. Frank goes into the inner workings of his genius mind and the bits and bytes of how the Live Player player works. James on the other hand got to work on the app and IDE integrations with the Xamarin team and discusses the intricate parts of running an app inside of an app.
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Links:
- Xamarin Live Player - Xamarin
- Xamarin: The future of mobile app development | Build 2017 | Channel 9
- Xamarin Live Player for Android Walkthrough - YouTube
- Getting Started with the Xamarin Live Player - YouTube
- Xamarin Live Player FAQ | Xamarin Blog
- Xamarin Live Player - Xamarin Documentation
- ZXing.Net.Mobile: Zxing Barcode Scanning Library
Merge Conflict 45: Build 2017 - No More MSBuild
The past few days at Microsoft Build 2017 have been filled with wonderful news for .NET and Xamarin developers. On this weeks pod we have a full recap of the event, announcements, and a few predictions. Additionally, we deep dive into a few stand out topics such as XAML Standard, .NET Standard 2.0, the Xamarin Live Player, and of course Fluent Design. Sit back and relax for a Build 2017 packed show.
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Links:
- Microsoft Build 2017: Day One Recap, Highlights, Announcements
- Microsoft Build 2017 Review of Day Two - Windows News & Updates
- Microsoft/xaml-standard
- Xamarin Live Player
- Merge Conflict 35: Security Through Obscurity
- Xamarin: The future of mobile app development | Build 2017
- dotnet/standard: This repo is building the .NET Standard
- .NET Standard 2.0, UWP support and UI futures | Build 2017 | Channel 9
- New distro’s coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
- Fluent Design System
Merge Conflict 44: I Love Callbacks
This week we tackle the TPL, that is right, the Task Parallel Library. We dive into one of our favorite features of C# and .NET, async/await programming. We take a walk down memory lane to talk about thread pools, completion handlers, locks, and just about everything else we had to do for parallel programming. Sit back, relax, and enjoy some TPL!
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Merge Conflict 43: DevOps for the Solo Developer
DevOps, that is right Developer Operations, all the things that you don't want to do manually, so you automate them! This week we talk about build, test, and deploy for all of your mobile applications and .NET libraries. As solo developers it all seemed like a pipe dream to have everything magically happen when we committed code to GitHub, but the services available streamline the entire process. Frank and James walk through not only their solo DevOps solutions, but what it means when you start working on a team with serious applications.
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Merge Conflict 42: Code Coverage == Quality
It's everyone's favorite topic... TESTING! That's right we tackle the world of unit testing, code coverage, user interface testing, acceptance testing, and so much more. Even though Frank and James are solo developers and there may not always be time to write a full suite of unit tests, that doesn't mean they don't dream of 100% code coverage. What does that even mean though? Does that mean your app will be flawless? Where do you get started and what should be your goals? We discuss on this week's show.
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Merge Conflict 41: Print me up, Scotty
Is 3D printing poised to change how we prototype and build parts and full machines or is it just another toy? Both Frank and James have been long time 3D printing advocates and with prices coming down to consumer friendly levels it seems like it is a great time to jump in. However, as James just recently experienced it may still be early days filled with tons of headaches and thrown away print failures. We discuss the past, present, and future of 3D printing on this week's Merge Conflict.
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Merge Conflict 40: Setting Expectations
It's that time again... Lightning Talks!!! Every 10th episode here on Merge Conflict we take a look at our list of topics and what our listeners have submitted and pick six different topics that each get five minutes of coverage. This round we take a look at the ideal developer setup, how to manage tricky certificates, properly handling settings in applications, publishing an app in a week, effective app store advertising, and finally how to properly ask for that five star review. Sit back and get ready for an action packed episode! Be sure to tweet or email us with topics that you would like to see covered in the future.
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- Code Signing and Provisioning - iOS
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Merge Conflict 39: Parsing Palindromes
It's time to tune our developer skills by leveraging some amazing coding challenges that teach us answers to questions like exactly what are linked lists again? We share the best resources we know on coding questions and share our experiences from past interviews of what you should really be studying. It isn't just code as we discuss the crazy left field questions that you may be asked during your next interview.
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Merge Conflict 38: One Library to Rule Them All
It is finally time for .NET truly to be EVERYWHERE! This week we investigate the dream of .NET Standard libraries, one library that can be shared in any .NET application. We take a look at the concept, implementation, tooling, and mix in our analysis of the pros and cons of making the big switch to .NET Standard libraries.
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Merge Conflict 37: TLS - How Do You EVEN
It's time to go down the rabbit hole of networking to investigate the ins and outs of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and how it impacts your apps. James walks Frank through his latest issues with APIs requiring TLS 1.2+ and how he was able to debug the situation at 4:30am to get a new release of his app. We attempt to make networking fun as we dive through HTTP Headers and general connectivity tips and tricks.
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- Transport Layer Security (TLS) - Xamarin
- James' Meetup GitHub Issue
- Mocast: Podcasts App for iOS
- Realm: Create reactive mobile apps
- sqlite-net: Simple, powerful, cross-platform SQLite client and ORM for .NET
- PaintCode - Turn your drawings into code
- Sketch - Professional Digital Design for Mac
- Stunning Animations with Lottie
- The many flavors of HttpClient | Kerry's Blog
Merge Conflict 36: Sorry iPhone 4
When and how should you drop support for a specific device or operating system? We talk about the market today and how we handle it in our own apps. We also dive into specifics around what types of hardware architecture to support and how that impacts your application. Finally, it is much more than just mobile applications, as the same has to be considered for the desktop, and Frank speaks from personal experience.
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- Android Dashboard
- Project Centennial
- Merge Conflict Stickers!
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 35: Security Through Obscurity
It's time to talk code security when developing applications to try to stop people from stealing our precious code and apps. We discuss the different methods we have used to attempt to obfuscate our code and the tools we use to peek into our own code. When it comes to security, it is more than just the executable we ship as we have to be aware of everything happening on the device such as in app purchases, certificates, web requests, and a bunch of other things. We discuss all this and more on this week's show.
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- dotPeek
- Security Through Obscurity
- Securing IAP with Azure Functions
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 34: Developing for macOS
It is time to tackle the other desktop and brush up on our struts and springs as when investigate the ins and outs of macOS. If you know iOS development your are primed to make your next great desktop macOS application, it is way easier than you think! Frank walks us through how he got started, what you need, and how Xamarin.Forms is about to change the desktop game.
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- Sparkle Updater
- SkiFree
- AppKit
- Steve Jobs The Lost Interview
- Xamarin.Forms Nightly Builds
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 33: Prepping for Disaster
Is your data ready for a complete disaster? We discuss why you should care about backing up your data and how to easily get started. No matter if it is just a few photos, your entire business documentation, or the most important source code in the world you have to have ways of backing up and restoring data no matter where you are in the world. Frank and James break down some horror stories from their personal lives and how they are now prepping for disaster.
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- BackBlaze
- Time Machine
- Netgear ReadyNas
- James' Burnt Blu-ray Drive
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 32: Building "Super" Computers
Everyone should build their own computer! This week we cover the ins and outs of building your own "Super" computer from scratch. We discuss where we got started building our own computers and what keeps us inspired to keep building them after all these years. All of this while Frank tries to explain to James what "Super" computer really means.
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- James' "Super" Computer
- James' Charity Event
- Elgato HD 60 Pro
- Intel NUC
- Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Game
- Netgear ReadyNas
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 31: One UI to Rule Them All
Cross-platform user interface? Pipe dream or reality? Frank and James debate the Pros and Cons of Xamarin.Forms, an open source cross-platform user interface library from Xamarin. We discuss performance, look and feel, alternatives, and if we really should be using all those fancy data bindings on this week's show.
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- Xamarin.Forms
- Xamarin.Forms Roadmap
- Free Xamarin.Forms Book By Charles Petzold
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 30: The One with No Conflicts
It's lightning talks week here on Merge Conflict. We cover six topics in under thirty minutes! We take a look at topics that have been on our minds for a while and from our listeners. On this week's lightning talks episode we take a look at iMessage Apps, GPU Programming, Tensorflow, how to advertise an application, and ask the age old question... "Do I really need ALL the mobile platforms?".
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- Apple Search Ads
- Tensorflow
- Shader Toy
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 29: What Developers Ought to Try in 2017
What better way to start 2017 than a crash course in fun new things for developers to start playing around with. We pick out our favorite topics that developers ought to know to try out in 2017. We look at new interactive ways of designing and building user interfaces, how to run .NET on Linux, how to properly use the linker, and finally how to compile C# & F# code to JavaScript.
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- What Xamarin Developers Ought to Know to Start 2017
- What .NET Developers Ought to Know to Start 2017
- Xamarin Workbooks
- .NET Core for Linux
- Frank's Netjs Project
- Fable Compiler for F#
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 28: Demystifying In-App Purchases
What does it take to enable and test In-App Purchases in your application? We cover the ins and outs of each step in the process. We walk through the different reasons why you may want to consider adding IAP, what is available, and how to simplify your life by not making the mistakes James has. In addition, we follow up on Episode 16 with a quick recap of the Nintendo Switch event.
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- Micro.Blog
- In-App Billing Plugin
- Nintendo Switch Conference
- AdMob for iOS
- AdMob for Android
- Scoreboard App
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 27: Coding Around the Globe
Frank is off traveling the world, but that hasn't stopped him from coding on the road. This week we take a look at being productive while away from home including the software and hardware to stay light and productive, how to get internet away from the US, and what complications we have both run into.
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- iPad Pro
- Prompt2 App
- Working Copy App
- GoBag
- Chrome Remote Desktop
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 26: A Pinch of PHP and a Dash of JS
Even though we love our world of C# sometimes we have to adventure into the great unknown to get things done. This week James and Frank explore new languages, new IDEs, and brand new services as they explore ways to finish their #HolidayHacks and try out new ideas. James takes a good hard look at building serverless applications with Azure Functions and Frank takes a look at his good old pal... PHP.
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- James's JS HTTP Calls
- James's post on Azure Function
- Postman
- SendGrid
- Azure Functions
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 25: #HolidayHacks
The holidays are here and it is time to do some holiday hacking on things we wish we could have done this year. On this weeks episode Frank and James discuss their past Holiday Hacks and what they plan to accomplish before 2017 arrives. We want to hear from you by tweeting out #HolidayHacks with an @MergeConflictFM mention to let us know what you are planning to hack on this holiday.
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- Meetup Manager
- Arduboy
- Xamarin.Forms Community Toolkit
- Frank's Netjs
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 24: Everyone Needs Extensions
We love our IDEs and live in them most of the day, but it sure is nice to reach into their extensible frameworks and add even more productivity. On this week's show we chat about why there is a need for extensible IDEs, how you can extend them, and how we have personally extended them.
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- Templates for Xamarin
- Mono Develop Documentation
- Continuous IDE Extension
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 23: ORM or Bust
Object-relational mappings, you can't live with them and can't live without them so you have probably written your own by now. When you out grow built in settings and need a database an ORM is a must and we decipher the need and implementations.
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- SQLite-net
- Settings Plugin
- Entity Framework.aspx)
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 22: Designing Apps the Developer Way
This week we take a look at how we design mobile applications based on your questions from Twitter. We discuss designing for multiple platforms including the choice to design for the platform or use a custom app design. What are users expecting from the operating system they are using and how have we adapted our apps over the years to make our users happy?
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- Material Design Guidelines
- Material Up
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 21: Always Be Profiling Code
We seem to be addicted to refactoring code, but what about checking in on CPU and Memory performance and usage with profiling? This week we take a look at the desktop and mobile tools available to developers to diagnose their applications and code to fully optimize them on the different platforms.
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- Xamarin Profiler Video on Channel 9
- Xamarin Profiler
- Android Device Monitor
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 20: Lightning Talks Round 2
It is lightning talk week on Merge Conflict as we cover six different development topics in under thirty minutes. Each topic gets just five minutes of back and forth debate before moving on to the next. This week's topics include the recent Connect(); event, .NET Standard Libraries, Xamarin.Mac, Mobile Market Share, Git, and more. While Frank and James picked a few of the topics, many are from you our listeners who have been tweeting at us about what you want to hear. Get ready for fast paced development fun on this week's Merge Conflict.
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- DJI Mavic Pro Drone
- Connect(); Xamarin Videos
- VS for Mac
- Xamarin.Mac for Xamarin.Forms
- Mobile Market Share
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 19: Home Automation API Integration 2.0
James has gone and purchased a Google Home and now thinks he can fully automate his entire house, but can he wrap his developer mind around the new world of IoT in his home and get it all playing together? With so many devices and so many APIs where do you even begin when you want to automate your house and what happens when things don't work as expected? Can Frank help James create the world's smartest apartment? Find out in this week's show.
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- Amazon Echo
- Google Home
- Nest Security Camera
- Smart Things
- Ian Mercer: World's Smarest Home
- James Clancey's Rosie Library
- Homeboy: Insteon Control App
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 18: Ads + ? == Profit
Users and developers are overwhelmed with options to monetize their mobile applications. With so many strategies, how do you know what to pick and what will work for your apps? James recently when through the tough choice between creating a paid app, using in app purchases, or just shoving ads into his latest app. This week we discuss all the options that have worked and what haven't worked in the world of monetization.
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- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 17: Live Coding - The Ultimate Performance
Frank is off to deliver a technical presentation in London and James is here to help with his Tips and Tricks on presenting code. We have a lively discussion about submitting, accepting, and actually delivering the technical presentation including some do's and don'ts. We take a look at IDE setup, slides, topics, fonts, and about a hundred other things to consider when you step up on stage.
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- James' How To Deliver a Great Technical Presentation Blog
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 16: There Will Always Be Room for Nintendo
Nintendo has announced Switch, their new hybrid portable game console. What does this mean for mobile games, what are the opportunities for developers, and where to get started? We take an in depth look and pick apart Nintendo's new console and the current state of mobile gaming accessories. Finally, we attempt to figure out if the mobile industry will ever standardize on a real controller to revolutionize the TV with Apple and Android TV.
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- Nintendo Switch
- Apple TV
- Nvidia Shield
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 15: Bots Bots Bots
Bots are the new conversational user interface that integrates with the most popular apps that we use. This week we discuss where to start, what options are available and what is the future? Whether it is a cross platform bot framework or something specific to Google, Apple, or Amazon hardware there is surely something for everyone.
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- Amazon Echo
- Alexa API
- Google Assistant
- Microsoft Bot Framework
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 14: Stumbling into VR
This week Frank and James stumble into a whole new world of virtual reality with new devices, SDKs, and a whole lot of fun. Virtual Reality is becoming much more interactive with motion tracking devices introduced with the HTC Vive and new controllers coming to Playstation VR, Oculus, and Google VR (Daydream). We take a look at the transformation of the industry and what is next for developers whether it is on a smart phone or a dedicated device.
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- Google RV/Daydream
- Aztez
- HTC Vive
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 13: Let's Talk About Bugs
Let's be honest, no one writes perfect code and those sneaky bugs find their way in. Frank and James take a look at mitigating and managing bugs and how to properly get feedback from their users. What can be added into your application to notify users when bugs are fixed and what can be added to help provide feedback to you when something goes wrong? Let's squash those bugs on this week's Merge Conflict.
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- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 12: Surviving Beta Summers
It is new OS season, the best time of year and yet the worst time of year. This week we cover how we survive and preparing for the end of beta summer. We take a look at what steps we take to prepare for the latest releases including when to update machines, update apps, and when is the right time to actually add new features.
Links & Show Notes
- Android N APIs
- iOS 10 APIs
- Appveyor
- Visual Studio Team Services
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface
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Merge Conflict 11: Lightning Talks Round 1
It is lightning talk week on Merge Conflict as we cover six different development topics in under thirty minutes. Each topic gets just five minutes of back and forth debate before moving on to the next. This week's topics include markdown, asynchronous programming, hardware and software setup, programmer art, and a little bit of science fiction. While Frank and James picked a few of the topics, many from you our listeners who have been tweeting at us about what you want to hear. Get ready for fast paced development fun on this week's Merge Conflict.
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- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 10: Wireless. Effortless. Magical.
Did someone say new Apple hardware? This week we discuss Apple's new phones, watches, accessories, and even a brand new Mario game from Apple's September 7th event. It was also much more then hardware with some exciting announcements around watchOS 3 and iOS 10 going GA this week, which means it is time to make room for a new copy of Xcode on your macOS machine. There was so much packed into this Apple event and we cover it all on Merge Conflict.
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- Super Mario Run
- Apple Watch Series 2
- iPhone 7
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 9: Welcome Onboard
The first time users launch your app is the most important time users launch your app. This week we discuss what goes into a great onboarding experience to win over users in just a few seconds. We take an in depth look at why and how some hardware manufacturers are making spectacular setup experiences and what we can learn from them. What should a first run look like and what should we do when we add new features to our app?
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- Nest Cam
- Coffee Filter
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 8: Navigating the SyntaxTree Forest
Interpreting is Easy, Compiling is Hard, and Linking is even Harder. This week Frank and James investigate what actually happens when you hit that compile button. Frank is a compiler addict and James loves trying to understand how the linker works, but there is so much more to development, compiling, and packaging.
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- Roslyn
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 7: Is Code Sharing Worth It?
Building cross-platform apps sure isn't easy, but code sharing sure helps, but is it worth it? How and when should you share code across a single app and across all apps that you are developing? What to pick? Share projects? Portable class libraries? .NET Standard libraries? This week we investigate the different approaches to sharing code inside of a cross-platform app and how to efficiently share that code with even more applications.
Links & Show Notes
- Sharing Code - Xamarin Documentation
- Shared Projects with Xamarin.Forms
- .NET Standard Libraries
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 6: Debugging the Daily Process
There is a constant influx of notifications from Slack, e-mail, text messages, and news alerts. This week we discuss how to keep productivity high even with all this going on. We cover some of the tips and tricks that we use to stay organized as developers and go a bit further as to not go crazy and not get distracted when working from home.
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- Clear
- Google Keep
- FogBugz
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 5: Programming Languages: Gotta Collect 'em All
C# and F# and Go! Oh my! There are just so many lovely programming languages to learn, but where to start? This week we take a look at what worked for us and what didn’t. James has recently been trying to wrap his head around F#, a functional programming language, and it just hasn’t stuck yet. Maybe because he uses C# all day, or the change from procedural to functional? We tackle all these topics and more on this week's Merge Conflict.
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- Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
- F#
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 4: How Not to Maintain a Server
This week Frank & James discuss the importance of a great local experience, server maintenance, and Apple’s amazing CloudKit. We take a look at what it takes to make an application that is cloud connected and what services are available to developers so we don’t have to actually maintain a server. What have we tried, what has worked, what hasn’t, and what we would start with today?
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- CloudKit
- Azure App Service Mobile Apps
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 3: Your First Open Source Project
What happens after that Initial Commit to GitHub? This week on Merge Conflict we discuss how we go about starting new repositories on GitHub. Did you know that the README.md file is the most important file in your repository? We talk about how and what should go into it and what resources there are for learning markdown. Finally, we take a serious look into how to handle Issues and Pull Requests "properly".
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- GitHub Issue & Pull Request Templates
- Appveyor CI for .NET
- LaTeX
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 2: Augmented Reality #PokemonGo
Pokémon Go and its augmented reality pocket monster capturing has taken the world by storm. This week we discuss if AR has finally hit critical mass and general acceptance. Frank and James also debate over what exactly AR is and how the Hololens, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive fit in. What does the future hold for AR? All this and more on this week's Merge Conflict.
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- Pokémon Go
- Frank's Xamarin Evolve AR Talk and Dragon App
- Geocaching: Real world scavenger hunt
- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Merge Conflict 0: Merge Conflict
Welcome to Merge Conflict, a weekly discussion around all things development, technology, and more. This week we kick things off with an introduction to the Merge Conflict podcast and its hosts Frank Krueger and James Montemagno.
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Merge Conflict 1: Build up to an app release
You have spent months or years developing an app, but now you are at that last 5%. Frank & James walk through the last steps before launch day. We take a look at how to prepare for that final submission before launch day including what sort of documentation, website, and support you need to be prepared for. Of course, we can't forget about that ever so important app store artwork, icon, and marketing jargon that must all be put together before it is time to go live.
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- Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
- James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
Continuous Development for iOS by Frank
Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface
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