keithwarren

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Xamarin introduces mobile app monitoring tool(xamarin.com)
2 points by keithwarren 12y ago|0 comments
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Xamarin builds their own Android Emulator(xamarin.com)
18 points by keithwarren 12y ago|0 comments
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by keithwarren 12y ago
yeah, my cost with flight, hotel etc will approach 2k dollars. Throw in lost billable time with clients and this is a 5K investment for a one day conf I could watch online. The key is going to be what I make of the hours that I spend not si
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Got accepted, not sure whether to be excited or not. Could be one of those things where most everyone who applies gets accepted because most people don't end up coming. (anyone know numbers on that?) Pretty sure I will go...2000 miles
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I am still waiting for a customer to tell me they don't like my application because it uses a common UI framework. Not holding my breath. Tech people care about this, but only barely and only very few. A fresh and engaging UI with grou
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by keithwarren 12y ago
How do you quantify that (is there really an accurate count of how many of those farms exist?)
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by keithwarren 12y ago
The problem I have with this is that I end up using the gross take on projects to float my receivables. In theory your idea has merit, but in practice we all have cash flow challenges and the money I owe uncle sam can bridge those challenge
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Why do you think you need VS support. Care to expand? Just a preference or something else; I am just genuinely curious.
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I think 'feel fully native' is a misnomer. They are fully native. When you build for iOS you use xib or storyboard for layout (or native code adding views/subviews directly) and the same for Android, you use layout files. The
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I have come to the conclusion that people A) this sentiment is an edge case and B) people will never be happy. The last time there was a thread about Xamarin on here the top comment was complaining about the cost of a license, several weeks
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Call me old fashioned but surge pricing seems like another term for price gouging.
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I would also venture a guess that Apple may know a percentage if not even a majority are only interested in trying a Mac because the x86 proc gives them a bridge from Windows. If you take that away then mac sales may take a hit and possibly
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I am actually working on a project that I started for personal use, it lets me define a bunch of ideas and some metrics about those ideas (like market size, revenue potential etc) and then weight and score each of those metrics. I can then
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I love me some 538 but I cannot read it without noticing how they gloss over some major factors that create variables in the systems they are trying to examine. Feels like Malcolm Gladwell for Statistics.
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Google buys Airware
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Microsoft buys Rackspace
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Ask HN: What acquisition do you predict will happen next?
11 points by keithwarren 12y ago|6 comments
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Have you actually built a universal app? There is actually quite a good pattern for the separation of concerns here, you should check it out. spoiler: It is not like what you are thinking, quite clean actually.
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Instead of looking for someone else with an idea I would just build for something you love. For example, lets say your hobby is hiking. Build the hiking app you wish existed. Imagine the future, 10 years from now - what would a hiking app d
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by keithwarren 12y ago
The bogus delivery story at the end made the whole thing worth it. This day and age it might even merit a visit from Homeland Security!
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by keithwarren 12y ago
You would have a case if he said PC first, Phone first as they are both client consumption mediums. Mobile first, cloud first is a rehashing of spector if priority for their devices and services. They are saying when we build new versions o
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I almost gave up when he said "I don’t mean to be a pedant but which is it — mobile first or cloud first? Only one thing can be first." If you don't recognize that those are two different areas then you are either dense, or b
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Microsoft CEO Email to Employees, July 10 (MJF summary)(zdnet.com)
3 points by keithwarren 12y ago|0 comments
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by keithwarren 12y ago
I completely agree, when I read that part it virtually invalidated everything else specious that was said, that is simply nonsense.
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Another thing that colors my perspective - I have been on my own for 15 years. I don't have to consider the company, legacy or other devs in the shop. It is me, whom I choose to sub-contract to and what jobs I choose to take on. There
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by keithwarren 12y ago
30 days. 100% Risk Free, Unconditional money back guarantee. Lets just get expense out of the way because that argument is actually invalid. For professional devs like us, if you cannot learn something new enough to make a decision on it -
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by keithwarren 12y ago
Being honest, there will be very little learning curve going from VS to Xamarin Studio. They tried to make that switch as painless as possible. You are right, there is a factor of learning that needs to be baked into your consideration but
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by keithwarren 12y ago
It amazes me that the constant complaint on here is the price. Seriously folks, if you are a professional developer (by that I mean your primary ability to earn money for you and your family is the development of software) then the cost of
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by keithwarren 12y ago
YMMV but for me, there was not 'learning' of Xamarin. There really is no Xamarin framework - there is the mobile frameworks themselves for which there is an almost 1:1 translation. CalculateFoo in ObjC or Java will in nearly every
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by keithwarren 12y ago
As a C# developer, have you looked at Xamarin? I have done several apps with it, shared code between iOS and Android. I highly recommend you give them a try.

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