Mike discusses what his business has noted after using Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. Plus we bust some myths, discuss use cases and advantages, the disadvantages.

Plus you great feedback, some follow up and more!

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Feedback / Follow Up:

• Glade

• How I learned to program Scala: The Nexus 5 Experiment

• Open Source Consulting in IT

Dev Hoopla:

• Xamarin Review | dominickm.com

Recently, we at Fingertip Tech, INC have been doing a lot of work in Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. All in all, things have been going fairly well and the tooling seems to get better everyday!

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Have Interface designers led us down a false path? Why is it when heavy lifting is needed our tools still fall short in 2014? Mike discusses the shortcomings of some of our favorite tools, who is on the right track, and what the real solution seems to be.

Plus some great feedback and Chris begins a new kind of challenge.

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• Thoughts on Node.js losing a LARGE community member

• Open Source Consulting in IT

• Lean is Mean-ingless

• Management & TDD

• How to Prevent Burn-out

• From Burnout to A little pocket change

Dev Hoopla: Do All Interface Tools Suck?

• Glade – A User Interface Designer

Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user
interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit and
the GNOME desktop environment.

• Xamarin.Forms – Build native UIs from a single, shared C# codebase. – Xamarin

Build native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows Phone
from a single, shared C# codebase.

• Category:tools -> qtcreator | Qt Wiki | Qt Project

Qt Creator is a cross-platform IDE (integrated development environment) tailored to the needs of Qt developers.

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As much as we might like to have different fully native applications for every platform we target — that can be more than a little inefficient not to mention expensive.

This episode is all about compromise.

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Feedback

• Sigflup writes in to disagree with me regarding finding bugs while porting apps and share his awesome project
• Community recommendations on source control books
• Source Control by Example
• Rellon or Ruby hacker writes in to clarify what he wants to do with Ruby and puts his vote in for a testing episode.
• Bill has been teaching himself some coding but wants to be a systems programmer and wonders if there is money in that.
• James is working in C# as an ASP.Net developer, is learning Python, and has to make a decision regarding design patterns.
• Github clarifications
• A lot of you came to the defense of QT; Chris and I clarify.

Code School Affiliate

This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

• Digia bought QT — please don’t go the way of Mono….
• Steve Yegge’s Liberal / Conservative Software Axis
• ZOMG TextMate 2!

Mikes a Sad Panda

• Sales progress….

Write Once Suck Everywhere

• Using the same code base across multiple platforms
• How Java fits in
• Other options?
• About those pesky designers….
• The Great Web Hope
• 20,000 Leagues Under Java!

Mike’s Plug

• Code Journal

Tool of the Week

• QTCreator

Book of the Week

• Foundations of QT Development

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By popular demand we have specially tailored an episode for fresh computer scientists who are about to enter the development arena. Things are different here, but if you follow some simple guidelines, you’ll have a much better time started out.

This episode is all about those little things academia forgot.

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Feedback

• Emmet has made his own solution and put it on Github — and David recommends Uranos for him.
• A number of you still love Codeacademy.com
• Rellon is moving from Windows to Linux development and has fallen in love with Ruby (good choice). He would like some Ruby resources.
• Adam says he’s loves the show (Awesome BTW!) but is having something of a problem wrapping his head around the arcane world of software licences. GPL? BSD? MIT? Apache? What does it all mean?
• Pablo suggests we take a look at test driven development and unit testing one day — not a bad idea.
• Fernando asks how I stay focussed enough on side commercial projects to actually complete them; I wonder if he likes tomatoes?
• Colin says, “I see your email written in C and raise you a message in Haskell”. Yes, he wrote the email in Haskell.

PSA on Manners and the Real World

• Nixie has a problem: you.
• And back to your regularly scheduled programming.

First Rule About Source Control: USE IT!!!

• Everything in Source control no exceptions!
• Centralised vs distributed?
• Gui or command line?
• Commit message formatting?

I Regret to Inform You that the Compiler is Almost Always Right

• Don’t start with assumption that there is a bug in the vendor’s compiler / framework…
• Having trouble? Consider writing test…
• Test before you push, please….

Forget About Being Perfect, Be Good Enough and Get the Job Done

• Don’t waste a week writing a “perfect” algorithm when a less perfect one will meet your needs and take significantly less time.
• To that point it is almost always a good idea to use accepted solutions / algorithms for most problems you will encounter, rather than rolling your own.

Code Journal Experiment Update

• Lessons Learned: Code Journal Early Release

The Horror!

• This one is all too common…

JB Community App Update!

• GitHub Project Page
• Phonegap is slow….

Book of the Week

• Effective Programming: More than Writing Code

Tool of the Week

• Stackoverflow

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• Live Monday 9am PDT
• Music by: Ronald Jenkees
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• Mike’s website
• Chris on twitter

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