Technology

NDepend - Part 1
NDepend - Part 1

Patrick from NDepend reached out to me today to ask me to review NDepend. Having dabbled with it a …

Setting the font for an Entry control using Xamarin.Forms
Setting the font for an Entry control using Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Forms depsite being very cool is stil a bit lacking when it comes to not only a good range …

Continuous deployment with JimLib
Continuous deployment with JimLib

Today I’ve finally moved to the world of continuous deployment - albeit for one of my projects …

Securing a Heroku site with SSL
Securing a Heroku site with SSL

For my mobile app development work, I’ve been building a Node.js website with a REST api that …

JimLib.Xamarin now available
JimLib.Xamarin now available

My second NuGet package is now available: JimLib.Xamarin. This contains a selection of helpers to …

Grouping in ListViews with Xamarin.Forms
Grouping in ListViews with Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Forms provides a lot of cool features to use for mobile app development, and the …

Symbols for NuGet packages
Symbols for NuGet packages

Since releaseing JimLib onto NuGet, I’ve been dogfooding it as much as possible for my own …

Images for an iOS app
Images for an iOS app

When developing for iOS there are a number of different image sizes needed. Just for the springboard …

My first NuGet package
My first NuGet package

For pretty much every project I’ve worked on I’ve used the same set of extensions and …

Creating a NuGet PCL that works with Xamarin.ios
Creating a NuGet PCL that works with Xamarin.ios

I’ve been playing with Xamarin.Forms recently to develop an iOS app. The aim is to use my …

Complexion - an open source API for Plex
Complexion - an open source API for Plex

I’ve just released the first alpha version of Complexion, available on my GitHub page. This is …

Why can't all laptops use the same charger?
Why can't all laptops use the same charger?

As the title really, why can’t all laptops use the same charger - including laptops from the …