As I mentioned recently in parts one and two, I recently had the pleasure of writing a series of guest posts for Microsoft's App Center blog about mobile DevOps and our experiences at Olo. The third (and final) post in the series is now available, enjoy! A Mobile DevOps Retrospective, Part III: Measurement, the Last Mile…
A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part II: Automation
As I blogged about recently, I had the pleasure of writing a series of guest posts for Microsoft's Mobile Center blog about mobile DevOps and our experiences at Olo. I'm happy to share that part two is now available, and the third will be out soon. Enjoy! A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part II: Automation…
Using Akka.NET Actor Systems in Xamarin Apps
Akka.NET is a great toolkit for building concurrent and fault-tolerant systems by way of the actor model. Most think of actor systems as something you would just do on the server side of things, as part of building large distributed systems, but the approach works great for all sorts of applications. The recent release of Akka.NET 1.3 brought with it support for .NET Standard 1.6, so naturally I needed to try using…
A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part I: 150+ Apps Later
I recently had the pleasure to write a series of guest posts for the Microsoft's Mobile Center blog about mobile DevOps, and our experiences over the years at Olo. I'm happy to say that part one of the series is now out, with parts two and three coming soon. Enjoy! A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part I: 150+ Apps Later…
Looking Ahead to Xamarin.Forms 3.0
It's been a few years now since Xamarin.Forms was released into the world, and it continues to be a popular and evolving framework choice for Xamarin developers. Later this year Microsoft is planning to release Xamarin.Forms 3.0, its third major release of the framework, which is slated to ship with a lot of exciting features and improvements. While it certainly won't be comprehensive, as the feature set is large and still in motion,…