Why Reply All is an essential skill

One of the practices that I find essential for any member of any team is to use Reply All feature in the email communication. Why is that?

My favorite extensions for Visual Studio for Mac

5 extensions to transform Visual Studio for Mac to even more powerful IDE. Each of them, when discovered (or developed), allowed me to save my time and simplify my workflow.

Easy way to create Xamarin.iOS binding from CocoaPods

Hey, Xamarin developers! Developing iOS apps quite often includes using native libraries and Xamarin for iOS supports this by creating bindings. This was 100% manual process until ObjectiveSharpie. After, ObjectiveSharpie began supporting CocoaPods (it is NuGet for iOS developers, so everything is in there). However, it doesn’t work in many cases (it can’t build something or reflect ObjectiveC code correctly).

Also, sharpie doesn’t support dependencies within pods. This is where the new objc-automatic started.

But first, let me show you a demo how easy it is to create Xamarin.iOS binding for cocoapod.

Android Maps Utils for Xamarin updated with new features and NuGet

I’ve updated Xamarin Android Maps Utils recently and now one can get this as a NuGet package.

Install-Package Xamarin.Android.Maps.Utils -Pre

Easiest way to migrate from Xamarin.Insights to HockeyApp

Xamarin.Insights was and still is a great exception tracking system for Xamarin applications. However

… Do also note that Xamarin Insights is now considered to be end of life: since the acquisition by Microsoft, Insights has been deprecated in favour of HockeyApp.

Many of us have apps integrated with Xamarin.Insights. Now it’s time to ditch Xamarin.Insights and put HockeyApp SDK instead. HockeyApp has different integration points and API and some of the features from Insights are missing.

What would be the easiest way to migrate from Xamarin Insights to HockeyApp?