Author Archives: Chris C

First Edmonton .NET Group Talk of the 2017-2018 Season is September 18th

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Chris C

The first Edmonton .NET User Group (EDMUG) talk of the 2017-2018 season is this Monday, September 18th.  The talk is by Shenyi Bao and is titled Web Site Performance Tuning.  All the details can be found here. Please also don’t forget … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Install a TeamCity Build Agent on a Mac

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Chris C

When I was first figuring out how to port the BEMCheckBox to Xamarin I built the framework manually.  This is obviously not a good long term solution so I set about figuring out how to automate the build.  The first … Continue reading →

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Edmonton .NET User Group Survey

Posted on September 8, 2017 by Chris C

If you are part of the Edmonton .NET User Group or are thinking of joining then please fill out this survey.  The survey will help us plan out the 2017-2018 year.  The survey will only take a couple minutes so … Continue reading →

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Sabbatical is Over, Looking for Work

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Chris C

The leaves are starting to change, the days are getting shorter, and the garden is ready to harvest.  That means fall is here in all it’s glory.  It also means my summer sabbatical is over. I spent my sabbatical teaching … Continue reading →

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Thank You Liv

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Chris C

After almost a year hard work Liv has reached her goal and been accepted to the Edmonton Police Service (EPS).  Needless to say she was a bit excited when she got the call. Unfortunately joining the EPS means Liv no … Continue reading →

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Do you Still Need to Compress Pictures?

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Chris C

I hope you had a great summer vacation.  We sure did and are trying squeeze in a mini-vacation before the summer is officially over after the Labour Day long weekend. Now that your summer vacation is over you want to … Continue reading →

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Looking for Speakers for the Edmonton .NET User Group

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Chris C

Are you passionate about software development and want to share your passion with others?  If so then the Edmonton .NET Users Group is looking for you. Specifically as the newly elected Program Director I’m looking for you to speak at one of … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Create a Xamarin iOS Binding for Objective-C Libraries – Part 4 The Actual Binding

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Chris C

This is the 4th and final part about incorporating an objective-c library in Xamarin.  In my case I’m binding BEMCheckBox.  In part 3 we used Sharpie to create a C# interface for the BEMCheckBox.  In this post we will show … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Create a Xamarin iOS Binding for Objective-C Libraries – Part 3 Using Sharpie to Create Binding Interface

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Chris C

This is the 3rd part about using the BEMCheckBox, an Objective-C library, in Xamarin.  Part 1 described how to compile the BEMCheckBox library using Xcode.  Part 2 showed how to combine the multiple libraries we compiled from Part 1 into … Continue reading →

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Kids Thinking Outside the Box – Favourite Cheese

Posted on August 13, 2017 by Chris C

Transcript of my wife talking to my daughter’s grade 6 friend: Wife: “What is your favourite cheese?” Friend: “Grated!”

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