Noise from the Basement

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 about the EDMUG survey.  If you are part of the EDMUG group, or are thinking of joining, please take a couple minutes to fill out the survey.

Finally we are always looking for engaging and passionate speakers for the EDMUG meetups.  If you, or someone you know, would like to present please let us know by e-mailing chris.cumming@saturdaymp.com or info@edmug.net.

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 step was to install the TeamCity build agent on the Mac.  The official TeamCity documentation on how to do this can be found here.

First a little bit about my setup.  My TeamCity server is on a Azure virtual machine (i.e. it’s in the cloud).  My Mac build machine (Mac Book Pro) is sitting beside me in my basement office.  Some of the steps below might differ if your setup is different, such as having the TeamCity server and Mac build machine on the same network.

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 fill it out during your next coffee break by clicking here.

Don’t live in Edmonton?  Then you should join your city’s local friendly .NET group.  Not a .NET developer then join a local friendly group that talks about technology you are interested in.

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 myself mobile phone development and working on Arduino projects with my daughter.  While I enjoyed my sabbatical I’m looking forward to working again.  It feels good to serve others and be rewarded with multi-coloured certificates of appreciation with The Queen or Prime Ministers faces on them on them (i.e  money).

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 longer has time to work with Saturday MP.  At least in the immediate future.  That means there will be a drought of cartoons and a decrees in qualty qulity quaity quality of the blog and social media posts.  We are as sad as you are but also happy Liv was able to accomplish her goal.