
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 463 Episodes.
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333: How to REALLY ship apps
November 21st, 2022 | 30 mins 9 secs
android, app store, certificates, ios, provisioning, shipping apps, xamarin
Signing, provisioning, certificates, oh my! We break down what you need to know on how to really ship apps to the app store.
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332: .NET Conf 2022 Recap - All Things .NET 7
November 14th, 2022 | 43 mins 16 secs
.net, .net 7, .net maui, aot, blazor, dotnet, dotnet maui, dotnet7, dotnetconf, iot
Finally .NET Conf is here with all the latest news and information! We break down all the .NET 7 new and our favorite sessions from the conference.
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331: .NET 7 is here! C# 11, Performance, and more!
November 7th, 2022 | 39 mins 45 secs
.NET 7 is just about here and .NET Conf is tomorrow (November 8-10). There have been tons of great blogs announcing new features and performance gains. Let's discuss.
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330: Twitter, Metaverse, USB-C, App Store Ads... OH MY!
October 31st, 2022 | 49 mins 29 secs
.net, ads, app store, facebook, meta, metaverse, twitter, usb-c, xamarin
It is that time of the podcast where we do lighting topics! This time we are covering upgrading iPhone, Twitter takeover, the next social/metaverse platform, USB-C standards, and Apple's Ads on the App Store.
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329: Is iPadOS Ready for Stage Manager?
October 24th, 2022 | 41 mins 45 secs
ios 16, ipad, ipad pro, ipados, ipados 16, stage manager, xamarin
iPadOS 16 is here and with it are a bunch of new fancy iPads that Apple just released. We break down the latest Apple event and products and give a hands on review of Stage Manager.
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328: Microsoft Surface Event 2022 Recap
October 17th, 2022 | 56 mins 3 secs
development, microsoft, surface, surface event, surface laptop, surface pro, visual studio, xamarin
We break down all of the latest goodies that Microsoft has from the latest Surface event including all of the new hardware, accessories, and software. Oh, and ARM on Windows is here in the main line Surface lineup with a whole bunch of AI features!
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327: Worst Upgrade Process Ever
October 10th, 2022 | 41 mins 32 secs
icloud, ios 16, iphone 14, iphone 14 pro, xamarin
Frank has one heck of a journey trying to setup his new iPhone 14 Pro. From iCloud backups to eSim transfer.... it was an exciting adventure. How did it end and what is his overall review of the new phone? Tune-in!
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326: Frank Contemplates In-App Subscriptions
October 3rd, 2022 | 36 mins 35 secs
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325: Managing & Maintaining .NET Libraries (.NET 7 RC Is Here!)
September 26th, 2022 | 45 mins 2 secs
.net 7, dotnet, dotnet 7, dotnet maui, libraries, maui, plugins, xamarin
As cross-platform developers we build all sorts of libraries that need to target multiple frameworks. How do we do it? What do we need to do with .NET 6 and .NET 7!?!?! We discuss.
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324: Revisiting GitHub Copilot
September 19th, 2022 | 32 mins 28 secs
android, copilot, dotnetmaui, github, ios, maui, visual studio, vs code, xamarin
It has been several months since we last talked about GitHub Copilot, the automated AI coding friend inside of Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code. Let's revisit and give our hands on thoughts of what we think of this new technology.
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323: Let's Get Ultra Dynamic on an Island
September 12th, 2022 | 56 mins 43 secs
It's time to break down the latest Apple new with the latest iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods.
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322: Making Money with Subscriptions
September 5th, 2022 | 41 mins 46 secs
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321: ML In The Browser - transformers-js
August 29th, 2022 | 39 mins 14 secs
Frank figured out a way of hosting and performing full machine learning in the browser with no servers!
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320: All the .NETs
August 22nd, 2022 | 39 mins 42 secs
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319: ML Cuneiform Translations
August 15th, 2022 | 42 mins 29 secs
Frank decides to create an ML model to translate Akkadian and Sumerian!
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318: Fixing Performance Issues
August 8th, 2022 | 37 mins 57 secs
.net, .net maui, android, c#, ios, performance, xamarin
We diagnosed and fixed performance problems in the wild and we break down how we did it and what you need to know.