Abstracting APIs – Abstract Potentially Insane? There's no doubt about it, things that help are good. This topic of abstraction came up in a chatroom the… Posted on: December 20, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
View Model Value Change Tracking in MvvmCross & Xamarin Change tracking object contents at first might seem like an easy or straightforward task but there are lots of pitfalls… Posted on: December 19, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
Whitelist SSL Certificates in .NET for Xamarin / MvvmCross Apps I have a fairly complex development environment for my current project and needed to allow some self-signed certificates to pass… Posted on: December 15, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
iOS Keyboard Handling in MvvmCross View Controller I've just had to handle the situation where a user taps on a text editor control in an iOS view… Posted on: December 12, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
Windows 10 Threshold 2 Update Hmm ... not an awful lot to report ... hardly anything "new" to play with / enjoy. But it did… Posted on: December 3, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
FireFox Finally Arrives On iOS Finally my favorite browser makes it to the hallowed walled garden that is Apple iOS. I've been waiting for this… Posted on: November 12, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
MvvmCross Beta5 & SidePanel Navigation Sample There is a new release of MvvmCross yesterday that takes the platform to v4 beta 5 that was released yesterday. … Posted on: November 7, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
Need a CRAN / R Time Machine for Old R Windows Binaries?? I was recently in a situation where I needed to find some pre-compiled Windows binaries for the XML package. Yes… Posted on: October 27, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
Reinstalling Windows 10 After Upgrade So, shortly after upgrading my machine to Windows 10 I suffered a major fault with the installation of Windows on… Posted on: October 5, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
Enable ASP.NET 4.5 On Windows 10 or Windows 8/8.1 By default IIS and ASP.NET aren't configured as part of a Windows setup (for obvious reasons) so developers are used… Posted on: September 22, 2015 By: jammer With: 11 Comments
Xamarin Android Player in Windows 10 After having upgraded to Windows 10 I found that I had some networking issues running the Xamarin Android Player. When… Posted on: August 1, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
Upgrading to Windows 10 Crazy? I don't know yet but I decided to go for the upgrade to Windows 10 on day 1 ...… Posted on: July 30, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
Missing Icon Overlays I need to look into whether this is an issue on Windows 10. But this is definitely an issue on… Posted on: July 25, 2015 By: jammer With: 1 Comment
Package Dependencies & Deploying .NET I recently had a requirement to completely package up a .NET application so that it was extremely portable beyond it's… Posted on: July 13, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
WPF ListBoxItem Selected Background Highlight in Windows 8 When targeting the way a ListBoxItems are styled on pre Windows 8 platforms you could easily change with style syntax… Posted on: July 8, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
TeamCity Backup Location Outside TeamCity Data Directory By default TeamCity doesn't allow you to place backup files outside the default data directory (internally known as the TeamCityData). … Posted on: July 8, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments
Xamarin Android Automated CI Publishing Using MSBuild & JetBrains TeamCity I love automating processes and making things consistently repeatable. Continuous integration is your friend, yes it can take time to… Posted on: July 7, 2015 By: jammer With: 4 Comments
Xamarin iOS Build Server is Too Old This is silly message really. If you're getting this error (or something similar) but you also know that you're running… Posted on: July 4, 2015 By: jammer With: 0 Comments