Lately I’ve been throwing around the idea of writing an app for my wedding, and started thinking of what I’d want to put in it. One feature that I thought could be fun would be to let guests upload photos directly from the app and display them both to other guests and on our site in real time. In this post I’ll go over how I was able to quickly put together a…

I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about my SignalR fork, so I wanted to just take a few minutes to give some quick updates on that. The reason I had been maintaining my own fork of SignalR was that I wanted to use the client library in Xamarin.iOS and Android apps, but there was no official support. Obviously maintaining this kind of fork can be difficult and time consuming in order to…

If you haven’t checked out SignalR yet, what are you waiting for? SignalR is a .NET library that makes it really easy to build realtime applications. The server can be hosted inside a web application, or even in a simple console app. On the client side, you can access the server from the browser through JavaScript, a console application, or even from mobile apps. Naturally my first instinct was to try and get a SignalR…