On episode 38 of DevTalk I speak to Immo Landwerth about the past, present, and future of .NET.
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37: Building an IoT-enabled prosthetic arm. With Clifford Agius
On episode 37 of DevTalk I speak to Clifford Agius about building an IoT-enabled prosthetic arm with a corresponding Xamarin app.
Links:
- Handy: Arm and prosthetic socket
- Handy: 3D Files
- Handy: Electronics
- Handy: App
- Prusa Face Shield for 3D printing
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36: Essential Nuget packages for your .NET projects. With Michael Stonis
On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Michael Stonis about essential Nuget packages for your .NET projects.
Nuget packages:
- FluentAssertions
- FakeItEasy
- Bogus
- Fody
- Humanizer
- NodaTime
- LiteDB
- Akavache
- Polly
- Serilog
- TPL Dataflow
- Reactive Extensions
- Coyote
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35: Creatings Tools for Xamarin.Forms. With Steven Thewissen
On episode 35 of DevTalk I speak to Steven Thewissen about the Xamarin.Forms open source libraries he is working on.
Links:
- Steven’s blog
- Building Beautiful Apps with Xamarin.Forms
- Pancake View
- DebugRainbows
- StateSquid
- Xamarin Inspector
- Jean-Marie Alfonsi’s XamExpertDay intro
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34: Testing Xamarin apps. With Codrina Merigo
On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Codrina Merigo about testing Xamarin apps, from unit tests and integration tests to UI tests and manual tests.
Links
- Ladybug sample tested app
- Codrina’s blog
- Xamarin.UITest documentation
- Codrina’s presentation at .NET Conf
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33: Extending reality with technology. With René Schulte
On episode 33 of DevTalk I speak to René Schulte about extending reality with technology, especially using the Microsoft HoloLens and Azure Spatial Anchors.
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32: What’s new in C# 8. With Tom Deseyn
On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Tom Deseyn about all the new features in C# 8.
Links:
- Part 1: C# 8 asynchronous streams
- Part 2: C# 8 pattern matching
- Part 3: C# 8 default interface methods
- Part 4: C# 8 nullable reference types
- Part 5: Some more C# 8
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31: Xamarin.Forms XAML HotReload and other new Xamarin features. With Maddy Leger
On episode 31 of DevTalk I speak to Maddy Leger about Xamarin.Forms XAML Hot Reload and other new and upcoming Xamarin features.
Links:
- XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms
- Xamarin Community Standups
- Xamarin Chat on Slack
- Xamarin.Forms 101 on YouTube
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30: Time from a developer’s perspective. With Matt Johnson-Pint
On episode 30 of DevTalk I speak to Matt Johnson-Pint about time from a developer’s perspective. Among other things, we cover the topic of leap year bugs and what to do against them.
LInks:
- It’s 2020. Is your code ready for leap day?
- Leap year bug on Wikipedia
- What are some examples of leap year bugs?
- On the Life Cycle of a Leap Year Bug
- On the Timing of Time Zone Changes
- Five Common Daylight Saving Time Antipatterns of .NET Developers
- Falsehoods programmers believe about time
- More falsehoods programmers believe about time; “wisdom of the crowd” edition
- IANA Time Zone Database
- About Timezones
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29: Functional programming using F#. With Isaac Abraham
On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Isaac Abraham about why you should consider F# as a programming language for your next project.
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