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Intro I recently gave a presentation last night on constructing an application out of user story modules. I presented my thesis to an audience of mobile developers. They found the idea to be interesting but ultimately impractical. They argued that a solution could be spread so thin with granular projects that it would be overwhelming …
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Intro Xamarin.Forms integrates well with SQLite. It also supports WCF and some other web service frameworks. Whether we are performing CRUD operations on the local database or on a network server, we need to be professional developers and not professional debuggerers. Hence, we should unit test our business logic. This article provides some ideas to …
Intro I recently experimented with bar charts for Xamarin.Forms. I tried to use Oxyplot, which is a popular open source tool for implementing graph charts. However, I ran into versioning issues between my Xamarin.Forms assemblies and Oxyplot. After an hour of frustration, I searched for an alternative approach. I soon found one. It was Syncfusion. …
Intro I have experimented with some architectural ideas for building applications and would like to share my thoughts. Quote Builder I wrote Quote Builder using Clean Architecture. I built the app with the lessons I learned from the last implementation in 2012. This app (Windows Store) has about 10,000 downloads. Clean Architecture I am a disciple of Martin's teachings. …
Intro I have improved my software development practice by building a Visual Studio extension. This extension has boosted my productivity by enabling me to rapidly generate user story modules to support my emergent design practice. Bizmonger Extensions One extension that I have built to support my development efforts is the UserStory project template. This project template …
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Intro I recently wrote an Android app using a framework called Xamarin.Forms. Xamarin.Forms is a cross-platform UI framework that enables developers to share code across all major mobile platforms (IOS, Android, and Windows Phone) that’s written in C# and XAML. After implementing this app, I would like to report my findings. Test Automation Writing an …
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