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NConstraints v1.1.1 Released Now Targets .NET Standard 2.0

I’m happy to announce that NConstraints v1.1.1 has been released! This release updates the NuGet package from .NET Standard 1.6 to 2.0 and should work with all versions of NUnit 3. You can install NConstraints via the dotnet command line: … Continue reading

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Thank you for Attending my SQL Saturday 840 Presentation – Create a Time Travelling Database

Thank you to everyone who attended my SQL Saturday 840 “Create a Time Travelling Database” presentation. I enjoyed your questions and the discussion after the presentation. If you have any further questions feel free to reach out to me at … Continue reading

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Family Vacation is Over

Our family vacation is over and the basement is back open for business.  Actually we where open on Monday but I forgot to remove the digital closed signed.  Sorry about that. On this trip we visited Hong Kong and Shanghai, spending … Continue reading

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Today I Learned How to Lock a Dependency to a Specific Version in Project JSON

While upgrading the NUnitXmarin project the project maintainers asked me lock the version of NUnit to a specific version.  They where also kind enough to provided a link to a possible solution.  Lets test if it works. First lets review … Continue reading

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You Can’t Just Turn Creativity On Like A Faucet

Lately, Chris has been working on Xamarin notifications in Android, which you would have gathered from his recent blog posts. I have been tasked with designing an icon to go with this work. I’ve designed a few things before (Scary … Continue reading

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First Beta Release of the Xamarin Notification Plugin (Version 0.3.0-RC2)

The first beta version of the Xamarin Notification Plugin has been released.  This plugin allows you to send local notifications easily using Xamarin.  You can find the release on NuGet under “SaturdayMP.XPlugin.Notifications“. More details and documentation can be found on … Continue reading

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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017

The results of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017 are live.  Some surprising highlights for me: Most developers surveyed are white male web developers.  Just kidding, this was not surprising at all. More than 50% of developers’ parents had a … Continue reading

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The Vinyl Cafe – So Long For Now

A couple of weeks ago, we at Saturday Morning Productions learned that Stuart Maclean, of CBC’s The Vinyl Cafe, passed away of melanoma. It was a loss felt keenly by all of us (Liv, Ada and Chris). When I (Liv) … Continue reading

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Surprises Using Azure

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!

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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