Launching the Native Map App from Xamarin.Forms
My goal was to take the name and address of a place and show it on the native map app regardless of what mobile platform on which my app was...
My goal was to take the name and address of a place and show it on the native map app regardless of what mobile platform on which my app was...
Settings allow you to separate the parameters that configure the behavior of your app separate from the code, which allows you to change that...
In 1992, I was a Unix programmer in Minneapolis. I’d graduated with a BS in Computer Science from the University of MN a year earlier and had...
This is the last in a 4-part series on how to interview well. Parts 1-3 covered the phone screen, the technical interview and the fit interviews. In...
If you just found yourself here, you’ve stumbled onto a multi-part series on the technical interviewing process. Part 1 covered the phone screen and...
It’s incredibly important to interview well as you’re building your technical team. Further, interviewing well is hard to do and, like anything, you...
In 30 years, I’ve done a lot of interviewing from both sides of the table. Because of my chosen profession, my interviewing has been for technical...
Google, like Microsoft, is famous for asking brain-teaser style questions during their interviews. However, in a June, 2013 interview with the New...
I’m surprised how well that my commentRss proposal has been accepted in the world. As often as not, if I’m digging through an RSS feed for a site...
This part 3 of a multi-part series on taking a real-world web site (mine) written to be hosted on an ISP (securewebs.com) and moving it to the cloud...
In our last episode, I talked about the joy and wonder that is moving my site’s ISP-hosted SQL Server instance to SQL Azure. Once I had the data...
In a world where the cloud is not longer the wave of the future, but the reality of the present, it seems pretty clear that it’s time to move...
I’ve been watching the Portland startup scene for years. However, in the last 12 months, it’s really started to take off, so when I had an...
This has been my first week at Snapflow and what a week it’s been! I’ve already spend a good part of two days with actual customers that are excited...
As soon as I saw Anders’ talk on TypeScript, I fell in love. If you’re not familiar with it, TypeScript adds a lot of necessary features to...