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My Life With a MacBook Pro – 3 Years In

Hmm ... where to start? I had to buy a MacBook, I need to write and compile apps for iPhones…

Posted on: February 27, 2016
By: jammer
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TeamCity – Sharing Build Properties

Sharing parameters and properties can be a bit confusing for new users of TeamCity. Lets use a simple example to…

Posted on: February 26, 2016
By: jammer
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Xamarin iOS TeamCity Build

So this turned into a complete nightmare for a while. TeamCity Mac Agent Push Installation I started by trying to…

Posted on: February 26, 2016
By: jammer
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Source Control – Learning Git

Over the years I've used many source control systems. Most of them seemed pretty simple to use after a short…

Posted on: February 21, 2016
By: jammer
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Bye, Bye Parallels – Hello Virtual Box

So I finally did it. When I first purchased my MacBook Pro I bought a copy of Parallels 8. What…

Posted on: February 20, 2016
By: jammer
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MvvmCross iOS Support and Samples

A while ago Martijn van Dijk and I had a very brief chat about creating an MvvmCross iOS Support library…

Posted on: February 16, 2016
By: jammer
With: 2 Comments

SSD Windows 10 and The Dreaded INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

So, I this has happened to me a couple of times now and frankly it's a sham, it really is. …

Posted on: January 26, 2016
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Programming – Imagine trying to complete a puzzle whilst also designing it and cutting it out.

– Me

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
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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
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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
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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
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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

Tech Company Management Structures …

Posted on: October 24, 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