Viking Me
Today, I was asked about the story behind my viking avatar: The avatar is years and years old. Peter Stern, a graphic designer friend of mine, put...
Backgammon and Using Your Own Products
Have you ever used a product of any kind — an app, a device, a plunger — and thought to yourself “Do these...
Google Cloud Storage Hierarchy in .NET
Google’s Cloud Storage Browser perpetrates a fiction of files and folders that doesn’t exist. The Google Cloud Storage (GCS) API only has two...
Breaking Into the Industry
I got an email the other day from an old friend that said he’d met a young developer named Ben and that he was impressed with his “acumen,...
Access Google Cloud Source Repositories from Visual Studio
Cloud Source Repositories (CSR) provides support for multiple Git repositories for each project. To log into your CSR repos from within Visual...
Solitaire Redux
I’ve done a bunch of stuff related to Solitaire on my blog for some reason. I guess I’m a fan, although mostly these days I focusing my listening...
Moved to Blot
You’re reading this on the 5th version of my blog. The first was a set of static text files I managed in FrontPage. The editing was nice (once it...
Choose HTML for UI Development
On Sept. 10, 2015, Winston Kodogo writes: Hey Chris, if you’re feeling happy enough to blog, how about a post giving us your current thoughts on...
Blog Past and Future
This blog started as a single static page in 1995 as a set of links to provide to my students while I was teaching at DevelopMentor. I would like to...
Handling Orientation Changes in Xamarin.Forms Apps
By default, Xamarin.Forms handles orientation changes for you automatically, e.g. Xamarin.Forms handles orientation changes automatically In this...
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...
App and User Settings in Xamarin.Forms Apps
Settings allow you to separate the parameters that configure the behavior of your app separate from the code, which allows you to change that...
Microsoft Fan Boy Goes To Google
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...
Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: Hiring or Not
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...
Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: The Fit Interviews
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...