Merge Conflict

This week we take an inside look at what it takes to actually maintain an open source project or in James' case 50 open source projects. How do you handle issues, PRs, CI, and how to stay sane when that blue GitHub notification bubble will never go away? Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

It is that dreaded time in every iOS developers life when you get that rejection notice from app store because you broke one or eight of the App Store guidelines. This week we look at how to deal with these rejections and how to handle phone calls with Apple! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

Why bother with ARKit when you can learn all about the machines with CoreML! This week we explore all the goodies that Apple has for us in iOS 11's CoreML. We also attempt to demystify exactly what is machine learning and how to get started. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

Apple has blessed us with a beautiful API for augmented reality with ARKit and this week we investigate all of the awesome baked in, what you can and can't do with it, and look at all the awesome things people are already building. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

It is that age old debate... Mac vs PC! What is the most optimal operating system for development, what are the ups and downs of each, and what are our favorite tools to keep us productive regardless of where we are working? Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

iOS 11 is packed full of awesome with machine learning, augmented reality, and a full file system, but who cares about that? Let's talk about our new favorite feature: Drag & Drop! This week we dive into why drag and drop matters, how it is implemented, and what you will get for free out of the box when you simply recompile your app! We also dive into several other iOS 11 goodies. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

It has been said that if a feature has not been documented, than it might as well not exist. It could not be more true from our findings and this week we finally take a look at all things documentation! We also get to your listener feedback and debate the future of progressive web apps, async/await, and a whole lot more. In addition to all of this AWESOME it has been officially been 1 full year of Merge Conflict! Thank you so much to our amazing listeners!

Will Frank ever update his apps in the app store? When, how, and what should go into that super important app update that your users are expecting? We investigate what has changed for us and the app stores in the last year. How about open source projects and libraries? Do these fall into the same criteria of an "app release"? We also take a look at how Apple, Google, and awesome CI services have helped us be more successful. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

.NET on Linux? Yes we can with .NET Core! This week we tackle what it is like to develop for the server and the web using the new fancy Core tooling with .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. Frank stress tests .NET on Linux servers with the ultimate button clicking experience and James attempts to figure out how the internet and ASP.NET MVC works all from VS for Mac! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

It is that time again, lightning talks! We cover 6 different topics in under 30 minutes! This week we talk coding standards, documentation, E3, app reviews, and so much more! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

We are back to talk architecture with MVVM, that is right Model-View-ViewModel, and all of the awesome stuff that comes along for the ride with the fantastic frameworks available. Before we talk about those frameworks, we go through why we love MVVM itself, what it is, how to use it, and why it is not just data binding. We take a look at popular frameworks and how to use MVVM with no framework at all. So sit back and get ready for architecture! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

WWDC has come to a close and we are here to fill you in all the news from the largest Apple Developer event of the year. From iOS 11 and amazing new machine learning APIs, to brand new Mac hardware to start development on, to yes renaming in Xcode 9, we break down each and every announcement that you need to know about. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

To create design time data or not to create design time data, that is the question? Or is it better to mock out all of your interfaces or say heck let's code straight to the API end points? When you are developing a large project and desire the "blendability", what approach is best to take, and what works well with design time tools like Blend and the Xamarin Live Player? We discuss all this and more on this week's episode. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

C# 7 is here! The most functional version of C# to date with pattern matching, tuples, local functions, and so much more! This week we break down every single new feature and let you know what we love and what we think is just okay. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

The dream of continuous deployment and debugging your Android and iOS apps from Visual Studio with nothing more than a device is now a reality. We talk shop on what the Xamarin Live Player is and how we built it. Frank goes into the inner workings of his genius mind and the bits and bytes of how the Live Player player works. James on the other hand got to work on the app and IDE integrations with the Xamarin team and discusses the intricate parts of running an app inside of an app. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

The past few days at Microsoft Build 2017 have been filled with wonderful news for .NET and Xamarin developers. On this weeks pod we have a full recap of the event, announcements, and a few predictions. Additionally, we deep dive into a few stand out topics such as XAML Standard, .NET Standard 2.0, the Xamarin Live Player, and of course Fluent Design. Sit back and relax for a Build 2017 packed show. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

This week we tackle the TPL, that is right, the Task Parallel Library. We dive into one of our favorite features of C# and .NET, async/await programming. We take a walk down memory lane to talk about thread pools, completion handlers, locks, and just about everything else we had to do for parallel programming. Sit back, relax, and enjoy some TPL! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

DevOps, that is right Developer Operations, all the things that you don't want to do manually, so you automate them! This week we talk about build, test, and deploy for all of your mobile applications and .NET libraries. As solo developers it all seemed like a pipe dream to have everything magically happen when we committed code to GitHub, but the services available streamline the entire process. Frank and James walk through not only their solo DevOps solutions, but what it means when you start working on a team with serious applications. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

It's everyone's favorite topic... TESTING! That's right we tackle the world of unit testing, code coverage, user interface testing, acceptance testing, and so much more. Even though Frank and James are solo developers and there may not always be time to write a full suite of unit tests, that doesn't mean they don't dream of 100% code coverage. What does that even mean though? Does that mean your app will be flawless? Where do you get started and what should be your goals? We discuss on this week's show. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

Is 3D printing poised to change how we prototype and build parts and full machines or is it just another toy? Both Frank and James have been long time 3D printing advocates and with prices coming down to consumer friendly levels it seems like it is a great time to jump in. However, as James just recently experienced it may still be early days filled with tons of headaches and thrown away print failures. We discuss the past, present, and future of 3D printing on this week's Merge Conflict. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface