As I blogged about last weekend, I got a ChromeCast and had a simple-enough time creating an iOS-binding library for Xamarin.iOS, allowing me to program the ChromeCast in C# (or F#, maybe next weekend…).

This weekend, I wrote a simple Home Media Server that allows me to stream… well …

Code to follow...

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NEANY Inc. to Exhibit Unmanned Solutions at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America 2013

\~ Arrow UAV, Ground Control Station, and Unmanned Surface Vehicle will be on display\~

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NEANY Inc., an industry leader in providing time-sensitive tactical solutions for a variety …

ChromeCast Notes

I guess I got under the wire with the Netflix deal, so the net cost of the thing was \\(11. Even at \\)35, it's a no-brainer for a developer to pick up and see if they can target.

Experience

Very good OOBE: plug it in to HDMI port …

You cannot rely on the value of UIWebView.CenterCoordinate after setting UIWebView.SetCenterCoordinate and I don't know of any event that is raised when it is finally set. To be more specific:

var map = new MKMapView();

var ctr = new CLLocationCoordinate2D(37.8, -122.4);
map.SetCenterCoordinate(ctr, false);
map.SetRegion …

This post contains links and references to subjects discussed in my MonkeySpace 2013 talk.

Naturally, the talk was grounded in Xamarin Studio.

Xamarin's Field Service App is a reference implementation for cross-platform MVVM.

The Xamarin DCI example source code can be found here.

Essential books on software-architectural patterns:

• Design Patterns …

Scala has several nice language features, including the elegant use of val for immutable variables and var for mutable, but the feature that I miss the most on a day-to-day basis is "traits."

Traits allow you to implement one or more methods of an interface. The canonical use is to …

According to Evans Data, the worldwide developer community will reach 29M by 2019. The largest growth is expected to come from China and, to a lesser extent, other developing economies.

I tend to be very skeptical about quantitative analysis of the developer community, and more-so when it comes to global …

Giles Thomas makes the case that the Python programming community numbers in the low millions. This seems right to me: that's a large community, but it's not quite at the level of the most popular programming languages. That size is supported by this chart, which has impressed me as "feeling …

Yes, it's worth it.

It's a pity that the phrase "…in their natural habitat," is so boring. The difference between this:

and this:

is the difference between a pixel and the Sistine Chapel.

Deciding to spend the money on this trip was the hardest part of our Alaska trip. My …