Merge Conflict
Join Frank & James for a weekly discussion on the world of technology and development including C#, F#, .NET, web, mobile, and more.
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118: Undo Architectures
October 8th, 2018 | 45 mins 1 sec
android, architecture, code, ios, macos, micro, mojave, nuget, reuse, sharing, xamarin
We answer important questions such as if you should update to macOS Mojave this week and how to handle system updates in general. Our main topic this week is "Micro Frameworks/Libraries" and reusable code across all of your projects.
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117: Getting to the Metal of Metal
October 1st, 2018 | 45 mins 41 secs
ai, ios, machine learing, metal, performance shaders, raytracing, xamarin
We head down the deep dark rabbit hole of developing against the Metal APIs found in iOS including performance shaders and raytracing! We also talk about the new iPhone XS as it has finally arrived at the Montemagno house!
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113: The 30% App Developer Tax
September 3rd, 2018 | 42 mins 40 secs
30%, app store, apple, developer fee, epic, fortnite, google play, ios, netflix, tax, xamarin
This week we switch things up a little bit and talk business... app store business talk! Right now is an interesting time as there has been a revolt against paying the app store 30% tax with Epic and Netflix changing course. We discuss what this fee is, how it works, if it needs to change, and some ideas to change the revenue sharing process.
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111: The Three Equals of a Struct
August 20th, 2018 | 37 mins 49 secs
.net, .net core, android, c#, c# 7, equality, ios, operators, performance, struct, visual studio, xamarin
We get nerdy again diving deep into the world of struct equality and performance. Sit back and get ready for some operator overloading, IEquatable, performance implications, getting of hash code, amazing C# 7 features, and how ValueTuples save everything!
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109: Neural Network C# Predictions for Everyone
August 6th, 2018 | 38 mins 42 secs
ai, android, coreml, ios, keras, machine learning, ml, neural network, plaidml, python, xamarin
It is that time again for more machine learning! This time it is actually something that you can totally build and something that Frank shipped inside of his application to do code prediction using Python, Keras, PlaidML, and CoreML!
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108: .NET Standard Wants & Modernizing Win32 Apps
July 30th, 2018 | 43 mins 53 secs
desktop bridge, dot-net, dot-net standard, pipelines, porting, uwp, win32, xamarin
This week we have a quick followup on System.IO.Pipelines that leads into a deep discussion of what we want in .NET Standard vNext. We then investigate the motivation, optimizations, and reality of porting a Win32 Application to run inside of a UWP container for the Microsoft Store.
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103: .NET Everywhere with Miguel de Icaza
June 25th, 2018 | 42 mins 33 secs
android, console sharp, dotnet, future, ios, microsoft, miguel, mono, uwp, webasembly, xamarin, xamarin.forms
What more do we need to say? We sat down with Miguel de Icaza to pick his brainabout the past, present, and future of .NET. Miguel gives his insights into where the entire industry is moving and why GUI based console applications are so important. This is a legendary episode that you do not want to miss.
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102: Mono.Cecil, Linker, and Unity Updates with Jb Evain
June 18th, 2018 | 45 mins 38 secs
android, core, game development, ios, linker, mono, mono.cecil, standard, summer of code, unity, uwp, xamarin, xamarin.forms
At Microsoft Build 2018 we sat down with the legendary Jb Evain. The man behind libraries and technologies we use every day including Mono.Cecil and the Mono linker itself. We discuss all this and his passion for creating the Visual Studio tools for Unity and everything new that Unity has to offer.
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101: GitHub Acquired & WWDC 2018 Fully Recapped
June 11th, 2018 | 1 hr 5 mins
acquisition, android, apple, arkit, coreml, github, ios, ios 12, iphone, machine learning, metal, microsoft, tvos 12, uwp, watchos, wwdc, wwdc 2018, xamarin, xamarin.forms
What a way to start June! GitHub was officially acquired by Microsoft and Apple started off it's developer conference by announcing tons of great new software updates and developer APIs. We break down each and every juicy bit.
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Merge Conflict 99: Inclusive App Design & Seeing AI with Saqib Shaikh
May 28th, 2018 | 39 mins 17 secs
accessibility, android, apps, brail, inclusive, inclusive design, ios, seeing ai, touch, uwp, visual studio, windows, xamarin, xamarin.forms
We got to sit down with the legendary Saqib Shaikh, Team lead for Seeing AI, to talk about creating inclusive software for everyone. Saqib also shared insights into how Seeing AI was created and where it is going next.