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Today I Learned: You Cannot Transfer Ownership of iOS Applications

I have recently completed my first iOS application on behalf of Furnishly, the local furniture exchange. All the release bugs have been worked out and the app is available on the app store. Yesterday, I started looking into how to transfer all the assets over to the owner of Furnishly so he could continue development [...]

Using System.Threading.Tasks On MonoTouch

I ran into an issue this week where I was attempting to load data from a web service asynchronously using System.Threading.Tasks on MonoTouch. I was able to fire the task off but kept getting an error trying to update UI elements when callback was fired. After a little beating my head against a wall, I [...]

Using the Implicit Operator in C# for Maximum Nerdy Good Times

My current team works with a lot of data. We represent that data with explicit types. For example if a string represents a Name we create an explicit type called Name like so: This makes things nice for testing purposes as these value structs are comparable for free and are clearly named what the value [...]

PowerShell, msysgit 1.7.9 and Permission denied (publickey) Errors

TLDR: Add “$env:home = resolve-path ~” to your PowerShell profile. I recently updated my work Virtual Machine to the latest release of msysgit 1.7.9 to resolve some issues I was having with global settings not being obeyed. After the installation I noticed that I was no longer able to update repositories from PowerShell. The output [...]

Glenn Block Node.js on Windows Azure Video

Overview If I told you that you can build node.js applications in Windows Azure would you believe me? Come to this session and I’ll show you how. You’ll see how take those existing node apps and easily deploy them to Windows Azure from any platform. You’ll see how you can make yours node apps more [...]

SSDNUG Presents: Glenn Block – Unlock your inner node in the cloud with Windows Azure

The South Sound .NET Users group is proud to present Glenn Block on Thursday March tth at 7:00PM at the Olympia Center in the heart of downtown Olympia, WA. If I told you that you can build node.js applications in Windows Azure would you believe me? Come to this session and I’ll show you how. [...]

Sinister Bug is Sinister

Can you spot the bug in this flags enumeration? In case you can’t spot it with the naked eye (I couldn’t, coworker Alex caught it.), watch this video. Pay attention to the binary display as I enter in the values of my enumeration above. Notice how the bit is steadily walking down the display? What [...]

SSDNUG Presents: James Thigpen – Moar Cats Please: Software Development at Cheezburger

The South Sound .NET Users group is proud to present James Thigpen on Thursday Feburary 9th at 7:00PM at the Olympia Center in the heart of downtown Olympia, WA. There is a lot of talk in an abstract sense about how agile software practices work. James is going to talk about how Cheezburger does agile [...]

The Day the LOLcats Died

 

Displaying a Map of the Current Location with MonoTouch

Today, I started spiking on displaying maps in iOS using MonoTouch. I wanted to discover the minimum amount of code needed to get the users current location via the iOS GPS services and then display that location on the a map. To get the devices current location you need an instance of CLLocationManager found in [...]

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