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  <itunes:subtitle>It 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.</itunes:subtitle>
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SUPPORT US ON PATREON: &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm"&gt;patreon.com/mergeconflictfm&lt;/a&gt;
Follow Us
Frank: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/praeclarum"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://praeclarum.org"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://github.com/praeclarum"&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt;
James: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="https://montemagno.com"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno"&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt;
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Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by &lt;a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface"&gt;Adventure 
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    <![CDATA[<p>It is time to release some &quot;real&quot; software and &quot;real&quot; 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.</p>

<p><strong>SUPPORT US ON PATREON</strong>: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">patreon.com/mergeconflictfm</a></p>

<h3>Follow Us</h3>

<ul>
<li>Frank: <a href="http://twitter.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="http://praeclarum.org" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>James: <a href="http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://montemagno.com" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>Merge Conflict: <a href="http://twitter.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" target="_blank">Website</a></li>
<li>Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface" target="_blank">Adventure</li>
</ul><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bitrise.io/?utm_source=merge_conflict&amp;utm_medium=podcast_pre&amp;utm_campaign=w16">Bitrise 2018</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bitrise.io/?utm_source=merge_conflict&amp;utm_medium=podcast_pre&amp;utm_campaign=w16">Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. **Sign up for Bitrise** and deploy your app in minutes.

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<p><strong>SUPPORT US ON PATREON</strong>: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">patreon.com/mergeconflictfm</a></p>

<h3>Follow Us</h3>

<ul>
<li>Frank: <a href="http://twitter.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="http://praeclarum.org" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>James: <a href="http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://montemagno.com" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>Merge Conflict: <a href="http://twitter.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" target="_blank">Website</a></li>
<li>Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface" target="_blank">Adventure</li>
</ul><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bitrise.io/?utm_source=merge_conflict&amp;utm_medium=podcast_pre&amp;utm_campaign=w16">Bitrise 2018</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bitrise.io/?utm_source=merge_conflict&amp;utm_medium=podcast_pre&amp;utm_campaign=w16">Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. **Sign up for Bitrise** and deploy your app in minutes.

![Bitrise](https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/0/02d84890-e58d-43eb-ab4c-26bcc8524289/DtwpoiNR.png)</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.mfractor.com/">MFractor</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.mfractor.com/">MFractor makes Xamarin app development in Visual Studio for Mac much easier; use the Xamarin.Forms code analysis and generation tools to make working with XAML a breeze and take the sting out of Android development with resource intellisense or mobile specific C# code analyzers. Use coupon code MERGE-CONFLICT for 10% off!</a> Promo Code: MERGE-CONFLICT</li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm">Support Merge Conflict</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Async/Await - Best Practices in Asynchronous Programming" rel="nofollow" href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj991977.aspx">Async/Await - Best Practices in Asynchronous Programming</a></li><li><a title="Linking on iOS - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs" rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/deploy-test/linker?tabs=vsmac">Linking on iOS - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs</a></li><li><a title="Access Modifiers (C# Programming Guide) | Microsoft Docs" rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/access-modifiers">Access Modifiers (C# Programming Guide) | Microsoft Docs</a></li><li><a title="praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/praeclarum/Ooui">praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web</a></li><li><a title="xamarin/Essentials: Essential cross platform APIs for your mobile apps." rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/xamarin/Essentials">xamarin/Essentials: Essential cross platform APIs for your mobile apps.</a></li><li><a title="Announcing the Docs Markdown Extension for Visual Studio Code | Microsoft Docs" rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/docs-extension?WT.mc_id=docsmsft-twitter">Announcing the Docs Markdown Extension for Visual Studio Code | Microsoft Docs</a></li><li><a title="StyleCop/StyleCop: Analyzes C# source code to enforce a set of style and consistency rules." rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/StyleCop/StyleCop">StyleCop/StyleCop: Analyzes C# source code to enforce a set of style and consistency rules.</a></li><li><a title="MDoc | Mono" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mono-project.com/docs/tools+libraries/tools/mdoc/">MDoc | Mono</a></li><li><a title="Documenting your code with mdoc · xamarin/Essentials Wiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/xamarin/Essentials/wiki/Documenting-your-code-with-mdoc">Documenting your code with mdoc · xamarin/Essentials Wiki</a></li></ul>]]>
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