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...
Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: The Technical Interview
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...
Future Proof Your Technical Interviewing Process: The Phone Screen
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...
Head of Google interviewing says “results matter, riddles don’t”
Google, like Microsoft, is famous for asking brain-teaser style questions during their interviews. However, in a June, 2013 interview with the New...
Moving My ASP.NET Web Site to Disqus
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...
Moving My Site to Azure: DNS & SSL
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...
Moving My Site to Azure: ASP.NET MVC 2
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...
Moving My Site to Azure: The Database
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...
Bringing The Popular Tech Meetups to Portland
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...
The Party Is Just Getting Started At Snapflow!
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...
TypeScript Templates for Windows 8
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...