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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

Tech Company Management Structures …

Posted on: October 24, 2015
By: jammer
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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

Learning MvvmCross

Learning a new technology can sometimes be a very time consuming and error prone process. The more complex the technology…

Posted on: July 4, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Xamarin Android AXML Intellisense

Hmm ... missing your lovely Xamarin Android intellisense in the Visual Studio .axml code editor? Me too ... The Solution…

Posted on: July 2, 2015
By: jammer
With: 2 Comments

Xamarin Android Player in VirtualBox with Fiddler as Proxy to IISExpress API

So today was another learning experience indeed. I decided to try Xamarins own Android Emulator today. I've had so many…

Posted on: July 2, 2015
By: jammer
With: 5 Comments

View IISEXpress Hosted Sites On Your Local Network

This is a useful little tidbit of knowledge to have. Suppose you can browse to your new spanky site using…

Posted on: July 2, 2015
By: jammer
With: 0 Comments

Upgrading MVC4 to MVC5 and WebAPI1 to WebAPI2 – MEF – DotNetOpenAuth

Originally Written 20 June 2014 So, if you have found this blog post as you are going through this process…

Posted on: June 30, 2015
By: jammer
With: 2 Comments