
Frank Krueger
Co-Host of Merge Conflict
Frank is an independent mobile developer living in Seattle, WA. He started work as an embedded systems engineer, moved on to be a web developer, and eventually found happiness as an iOS developer. He has written iCircuit - an interactive electronic circuit simulator that runs on all the great platforms; Calca - the text editor that is also a powerful calculator; and Continuous - a fun and powerful .NET IDE for the iPad. All the while, Frank has enjoyed releasing open source projects and contributing as much as he can to the software development community. His programming interests include computer graphics, simulation, programming languages, and artificial intelligence. When he's not at his computer, you can usually find him hiking around some mountain or sleeping in a tent by a river.
Frank Krueger has hosted 97 episodes.
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Merge Conflict 94: Everyone Loves Architecture
April 23rd, 2018 | 48 mins 25 secs
android, architecture, flutter, frp, functional reactive programming, immutable ui, ios, mvvm, react, redux, uwp, xamarin, xamarin.formsMVVM, Functional Reactive Programming, Redux, Reactive, or just straight up code behind! There are so many options out there and has been a huge debate. We sit down and discuss some architecture including Frank's latest experiment: Immutable UI.
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Merge Conflict 93: Follow the Audit Trail
April 16th, 2018 | 49 mins 45 secs
android, cd, ci, cross-platform, documentation, essentials, ios, libraries, release, uwp, visual studio, xamarin, xamarin.formsIt is time to release some "real" software and "real" production libraries. We discuss the steps we take to release our libraries out into the wild including a full audit trail of APIs, code, docs, and tons of tiny little things that are easy to skip. We have a blast this week and think you are going to love it.
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Merge Conflict 92: Writable Contiguous Memories
April 9th, 2018 | 35 mins 30 secs
android, c#, c# 7-2, dot-net, dot-net core, ios, memory, span, uwp, xamarin, xamarin.formsIt may be our geekiest podcast yet as we somehow chat about the new Span
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Merge Conflict 91: Game Development Chit-chat
April 2nd, 2018 | 49 mins
android, c#, game developers conference, gdc, ios, mobile games, monogame, unity, urhosharp, visual studio, xamarinWe take a look at game development in 2018 and sit down for our first interview with Shaun Peoples from Durham Games to talk about their upcoming iOS and Android game Foodie Trucks that is built with Unity and C#.
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Special Edition: Apple's Plan to Invade Classrooms
March 28th, 2018 | 26 mins 19 secs
apple, clasrrom, classkit, education, ios, ipad, swift, xamarinThis week Apple announced their brand new plan for bringing the iPad to classrooms with a brand new cheaper iPad, new software, and a new SDK for developers to create content. We breakdown the entire event with our thoughts on if their plan will work.
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Merge Conflict 90: Going Reactive with Progressive Flutter Apps
March 26th, 2018 | 48 mins 30 secs
blazor, flutter, ooui, phython, programming languages, progressive web apps, pwa, react native, source control, twitter, wasm, web assembly, xamarin, xamarin.formsYes! Half way to 180 episodes! We are back for lightning talks covering not 6 but 7 different topics this week! We take a quick recap of web assembly, but jump directly into Flutter, React Native, source control, server-less computer, progressive web apps, and more.
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Merge Conflict 89: WebAssembly + Mono == .NET In Your Browser
March 19th, 2018 | 44 mins 6 secs
asm, asp.net, blazor, javascript, js, ooui, wasm, web assembly, xamarin, xamarin.formsYou read that correct, you can now run .NET Code directly in your browser with WebAssembly and Mono and it is absolutely amazing. On top of that you can run Xamarin.Forms and ASP.NET applications directly in the browser without any plugins. Frank explains how this all works.
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Merge Conflict 88: Getting Hip to F#
March 12th, 2018 | 51 mins 40 secs
android, dot-net, dot-net standard, f#, frp, functional, ios, reactive, uwp, xamarinIt is that time of year to sit down and analyze F# and how absolutely awesome it is! Frank and James talk through some features that make it a delightful programming language.
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Merge Conflict 87: Cross-Platform Is So Easy I Don't Even Have to Do It
March 5th, 2018 | 40 mins 28 secs
android, architecture, core animation, frp, fun, functional programming, ios, mac, macos, mvvm, porting, redux, uwp, view model, work, xamarin, xamarin.formsFrank is ready to start his next app and he is completely skipping cross-platform development... or is he?!?! We investigate what to do with File->New and how to start the architecture for your next app.
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Merge Conflict 86: Containerized Pod Development
February 26th, 2018 | 39 mins 27 secs
azure, containers, docker, image, ios, kubernetes, pods, swarm, xamarin"It works on my machine" is a statement of the past with containers! Docker, Kubernetes, Pods, Registries, Swarms, and Spheres! So much to learn and so much awesome.