Welcome to Suave Streams at https://twitch.tv/suave_pirate where I’ll be taking some time twice a week to build some of the coolest, funniest, and also innovative pieces of software using real-world patterns, practices, and tools. Come for a laugh, come to build, and come to learn! We’ll be jumping into languages, and tools like: C# TypeScript Kotlin ..read more

This weekend, I spent some time getting some apps updated with the latest Xamarin, iOS, Android, etc. A lot of these apps make use of push notifications across platforms. I was running some automated tests against them to do the following steps: Register for push notifications on sign-in / startup Send registration update details to ..read more

This week I’ll be at CodeMash – an amazing developer event at the Kalahari Resort in Ohio. CodeMash holds a special place in my heart; It’s the first developer conference I ever attended, the first I ever sponsored, and now I have the honor of being a speaker! This year, I’ll be talking more about ..read more

In the age of Xamarin Hot Reload and Hot Restart, we are beginning to get spoiled with the tooling we use every day. I find myself spending less and less time dealing with workarounds for Xamarin issues, filing bug reports, or getting frustrated at not understanding why something isn’t working. Until today… The issue ..read more

I was lucky enough to be one of the early backers of the new Meadow board series from Wilderness labs and have since received my board as well as Hack Kit Pro! In this series, I explore and share some of the things I built for fun or for real. Check out wilderness labs here ..read more

If you’re in the Netherlands this week, come catch me at Techorama! I’ll be there from the 30th through the 3rd of October and presenting two different sessions: On the 1st, I’ll be speaking on Kotlin for C# Developers: Dive into the latest craze in languages and platforms – Kotlin. This time we will be ..read more

HackMIT is this weekend, September 14-15th. I’m happy to announce that I’ll be mentoring as one of the local Microsoft MVPs that were invited to help as part of the Microsoft sponsorship of the event. I look forward to building some incredible applications with some of the brightest students coming to Cambridge! Hack for a ..read more

In this Alexa.Tip series, we explore some little bits of code that can make your life easier in developing Alexa Skills in many languages including C# + .NET, node.jS + TypeScript, Kotlin, etc. We look at concepts, design patterns, and implementations that developers might not be aware of, and how they can be applied to ..read more

In this Alexa.Tip series, we explore some little bits of code that can make your life easier in developing Alexa Skills in many languages including C# + .NET, node.jS + TypeScript, Kotlin, etc. We look at concepts, design patterns, and implementations that developers might not be aware of, and how they can be applied to ..read more