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Xamarin – The Baptism of Fire – Windows 7

So as I blogged a few days ago about the issues I was having with getting to grips with all…

Posted on: June 24, 2015
By: jammer
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Windows 8.1

Well I know, very late to the game on this one. Problem is I loved Windows 7 as much as…

Posted on: June 23, 2015
By: jammer
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Restoring YouTrack Backups

I love JetBrains software, I really do. How I'd get by without ReSharper is anyone's guess but they are not…

Posted on: June 21, 2015
By: jammer
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Why are Hardware Manufacturers Web Sites and Documentation Like Black Holes?

As some one that has built a large number of PCs and servers over my career I'm constantly surprised by…

Posted on: June 21, 2015
By: jammer
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The Apple Developer Clique

I'm genuinely gobsmacked by this. I applied for the Apple Developer program a couple of weeks ago on behalf of…

Posted on: June 20, 2015
By: jammer
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PCL Profile 259 in Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 7, Xamarin, MvvmCross & ReSharper 7.1

Well, today was a lot of fun. You can tell just how much fun from the ridiculous title of this…

Posted on: June 19, 2015
By: jammer
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Downloads Broken – Fixed

Must put an apology online. I've had a few enquiries today as to why some of the code examples on…

Posted on: June 17, 2015
By: jammer
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Should I Download MacKeeper?

I'll cut to the chase - NO, DO NOT DOWNLOAD this "software". MacKeeper is one of those apps that seems…

Posted on: June 10, 2015
By: jammer
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Code Reviewing – Xamarin Components and MvvmCross Plugins

At the moment I'm working through the implementation of a mobile application build on top of the Xamarin platform targeting…

Posted on: June 7, 2015
By: jammer
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Unit Tests in User Configurable Applications

Yesterday was another one of those little lessons in Unit Testing. In one of the applications I work on there…

Posted on: June 6, 2015
By: jammer
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Get Windows 10 App & Skype Login Broken Fix

So yesterday a new icon appeared in my Task Tray. A little Windows icon representing the Get Windows 10 App…

Posted on: June 2, 2015
By: jammer
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Facebook Suspended My Account – The Real Name Policy Fiasco

So I went to log into my Facebook account the other day and was presented with a message saying that…

Posted on: May 21, 2015
By: jammer
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Xamarin Pairing Visual Studio 2012 to Mac for iOS Builds

Well, this was a bit of a pain in the arse. When I initially paired Visual Studio 2012 to my…

Posted on: May 16, 2015
By: jammer
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Apple MacBook Pro 85w MagSafe 2 PSU

So last Sunday my PSU died. I don't know if it's something about luck or what but in all my…

Posted on: March 25, 2015
By: jammer
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Microsoft to Retire IE – Project Spartan

This is actually quite a momentus occasion! Hearing that Microsoft is going to retire the IE brand is something I've…

Posted on: March 22, 2015
By: jammer
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Anti-Virus – BitDefender

So it's the best ... or at least was the best. *ahem* ... I've used a LOT of virus applications…

Posted on: March 20, 2015
By: jammer
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WordPress & IIS Permalinks

When hosting a Wordpress site under IIS you can run into some troubles when not getting things set-up exactly right.…

Posted on: March 7, 2015
By: jammer
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Shopify

So we've just had the pleasure of building my first Shopify application for a client project. Am I impressed? Very.…

Posted on: March 7, 2015
By: jammer
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Compiling Blender on Mac

So I decided that after all these years I would like to start looking at and contributing to an open…

Posted on: February 13, 2015
By: jammer
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EVGA GTX580 Classified Overclocking – Blender Benchmarks

Over the last few weeks I've been playing around with MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision x16 to see what I…

Posted on: February 11, 2015
By: jammer
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