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Happy 2018! We made it, so let's recap the best in tech, development, life, coffee, and so much more that happened in 2017. We expose our top picks of the year and of course what we are looking forward to in 2018. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

In this holiday special we thank our listeners by getting to all of your great questions that you have been asking about python, Visual Studio, DevOps, and so much more. We discuss our holiday hacks that we plan on doing this year along with how we have fallen in love with .NET Standard's new auto NuGet packaging. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amet...

When having SQLite isn't enough for James he has to go and try to solve offline data caching again with Monkey Cache. We discuss why this open source library happened, where it is going, what are best practices for data caching, and so much more. We also follow up on Ooui's status and where Xamarin. Forms on the web is going as well as a bit of follow up on C# 7.1/7.2/8. Follow Us Frank: Twitter ,...

Have you ever thought about coding to a live audience? How about producing video content such as How-To guides? We discuss what goes into this long process, what equipment is needed, and several tips and tricks on this week's podcast. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

How do you get your app into your testers' hands? App Center, TestFlight, HockeyApp, Google Play, E-mail? So many options exist, but how do you do it right and get testers signed up fast? We take a look at all the options and some tools fastlane offers. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zenca...

Keeping up with different operating systems is hard enough, but how do you keep up with all of the new awesome features in C#, Swift, and all of the other amazing languages out there? We discuss how we do it and what is new in C# 7.1, 7.2, and take a glimpse into 8! Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly reco...

Xamarin. Forms on the web? XAML powering your ASP.NET applications? How can this be so? Well with Frank's new Ooui library the life long dream is now a reality. While still early on, developers are loving it! We discuss where it came from and where it is going next. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly reco...

James is on a DevOps kick after going on tour with Donovan in South America and he wants to automate everything! It is different this time as he wants full control with Visual Studio Team Services and he even wants to manage his own build machines! Is he crazy? Probably, listen in to find out. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine b...

It is that time of the year once again! That is right, lightning talks on Merge Conflict. We cover 6 different topics submitted by your, our listeners, in under 30 minutes! This week we discuss IoC, Dependency Injection, Cloud service costs, release management, coded user interface, and our awesome podcast setup. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Ameth...

When is the right time to fork a repository and send a pull request for a feature request? Or is it better use a submodule in your own repository? Or maybe just copy and paste the code into your solution? We discuss all the possibilities. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

We know how to share our business logic between our applications, but what about some of the user interface. We aren't talking Xamarin. Forms, we are talking cross platform views in native iOS, Android, and Windows apps. What type of architecture is needed and what technologies enable us to do this? Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Cit...

In a quick follow up, James finally breaks down and learns how to properly learn the profiler. This last weekend Frank & James participated and helped organize a mobile app hackathon for charity. What went right? What went wrong? And will they ever do another hackathon again? Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventurefac...

Google announces a slew of new products including the brand new Pixel 2, which means James has finally placed an order for a new phone. We break down the full Pixel event, but go deeper into our topic of the week of 2D and 3D cross-platform drawing libraries with SkiaSharp. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Prou...

A quick follow up on Frank's Hot-dog or Not app he tried to create in a week. After that we take a look at what it takes to completely plan an actual application by yourself or with a full team. We discuss our management style, tools we like, and how we plan out releases. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudl...

If we aren't talking about machine learning then we are talking about machine learning on Merge Conflict! This week we go through several services and resources to find out what exactly it takes to build hot dog or not! We review several free and paid services to create your own machine learning models and how to train them all online! Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog...

It is that time of the year when Apple unveils all of the brand new toys for consumers and developers. Sure everyone is talking about the new iPhone X, Apple Watch Series 3, and Apple TV 4K , but what about the launch of Xcode 9, iOS 11, and watchOS 4? We got you covered and discuss it all! Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by A...

We have survived the beta summers and Android 8.0 Oreo is finally out with a plethora of beautiful APIs. We discuss all the delicious bits of this lovely release for both developers and end users. From enhanced notifications, picture-in-picture, and tons of crazy API enhancements Android Oreo is packed full of features. Some changes are huge and can potentially break your app with behavior changes...

We just can't get enough of augmented reality and the awesome new SDKs that are being created for developers to use. This week we discuss Google's attempt for Android and web developers with ARCore. Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

We are back with lightning talk week here on Merge Conflict. We cover 6 awesome topics in 30 minutes! This week we look at C# 8, Bottom Navigation on Android, Hacking Frank's Apartment with Serverless Compute, and so much more! Follow Us Frank: Twitter , Blog , GitHub James: Twitter , Blog , GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr

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 Zenc...

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...

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 Fr...