Author Archives: Chris C

Today I Learned Xamarin Push Notification Plugins

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Chris C

I learned this week that there is no built-in support for Push Notifications in Xamarin Forms.  On the plus side there are several open source projects trying to fill this hole.  The one that has caught my eye is edsnider/Xamarin.Plugins. … Continue reading →

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Notes on Converting Mini-Compressor to UWP Application (Trying to at Least)

Posted on October 23, 2016 by Chris C

I was inspired to get Mini-Compressor to UWP into the Windows 10 Store a while back this summer. I saw this video several months ago when it was called Project Centennial: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/2-692 Then a couple weeks ago there was a … Continue reading →

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Fixing MSBuild not Exiting

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Chris C

After upgrading to Visual Studio Xamarin 4.1 from 4.0 our TeamCity build suddenly stopped working.  Actually it was working but won’t stop working.  The build would get hang after rebuilding out solution to create the IPA file. The step in question … Continue reading →

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Best Productivity Article

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Chris C

As we continue to work on Goal Buddy I’ve been reading books and research papers about goal setting and its cousin productivity.  Productivity is just a fancy word for saying “get stuff done”. Some interesting articles/podcasts about productivity I recently … Continue reading →

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Connect to Android Emulator from VirtualBox

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Chris C

I do all my development inside virtual machines.  This allows me to keep separate development environment for different projects and clients.  I wanted to keep this tradition for developing mobile applications but that turned out to be a bit of challenge. … Continue reading →

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Surprises Using Azure

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Chris C

Are you a MSDN subscriber?  Thinking about using Azure because of the sweet sweet credits you get for being a MSDN subscriber?  Maybe you want to switch because they are one of few cloud providers that have Windows operating systems. Well … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 24, 2015 by Chris C

Chris, Ada, Alice, and Liv will be taking some time off to spend time with our family and friends over the holidays.  And hopefully find some time to see the new Star Wars movie. The basement office will be dark, … Continue reading →

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Mini-Compressor Install Error

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Chris C

Update: The below issue has been fixed in Mini-Compressor version 1.6.1 which can be found on our Download page.  Thank you for your patience. We have confirmed an error when installing Mini-Compressor.  If you get one of the errors below, or something … Continue reading →

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Migrator 0.9.2 Beta Released

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Chris C

Version 0.9.2 (beta) of Migrator is now available for download. This release fixed a show stopping issue where Migrator would not work on some older versions of SQL.  It also fixed an issue with the order dependencies are scripted. See … Continue reading →

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Why I Created Migrator

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Chris C

Once upon a time in the far off land there a young handsome software developer.  This developer married the fairest maiden in the land and together they formed a company to slay problem monsters that prevented others from getting stuff done. … Continue reading →

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