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Why Cake? 4 Reasons.

When building a devops pipeline you can go two main directions: put logic into a text-based make-like tool such as Cake [https://cakebuild.net/], or embed your logic exclusively in a Continuous Integration server like Team City or Visual Studio Team Services.  The CI route provides an incredible amount of

How To Push Updates to Raspberry Pi UWP Apps In Prod

Updating Raspberry Pi apps in the field can be tricky. This post covers the general problem and address some specific side-loading problems you are likely to run into.

Securing Communications via Certificate Pinning in UWP

If you're writing an app, your risk of man-in-the-middle attacks isn't limited to curious developers willing to install a Fiddler root certificate in order to hide all HTTPS snooping errors.

Your Code Sucks, Get Over It

Horrifying. That about describes my first art class. As a computer science major with virtually no art experience I was surrounded by students who had devoted nearly every waking moment to drawing, painting, sculpting, and bending metal into non-functional shapes. The second class was the worst. Our assignment was to

What is the Xamarin platform?

We love tools that help our clients save time, but some of them are easily misunderstood. Here's the scoop on Xamarin.

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