jstedfast

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by jstedfast 10y ago
You don't need to use an IDE in order to write Xamarin.iOS or Android apps. You can just use a text editor (although Xamarin Studio is free). The MSBuild logic, at least for Xamarin.Mac and Xamarin.iOS has been made completely open s
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by jstedfast 11y ago
It's also because Apple would be considered a distributor of the final application, thus according to the rules of the GPL, they'd be forced to provide the source code for any app that used GPL code. Since they don't have acc
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by jstedfast 11y ago
The open source version remains on their GitHub page here: https://github.com/robovm/robovm
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by jstedfast 11y ago
Wow, way to attack a straw man there.
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by jstedfast 11y ago
Then why did you say you couldn't if "yea, no shit" you knew you could? If you've already grabbed ENVELOPE info for all of the older messages (i.e. all of the messages from a previous session), you can just download the
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by jstedfast 11y ago
I think plenty of people have time to implement a good IMAP client, just not me because I have a job that is completely unrelated to writing mail clients.
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by jstedfast 11y ago
> I can show you, right now, a 500,000 message view across multiple folders infinite scrolling with JMAP and I can jump to the middle of that view and load a screenful of messages. You CAN NOT do an IMAP sort without fetching one record
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by jstedfast 11y ago
It'll take me longer than a month to implement my own IMAP client to do things efficiently. As it just so happens, the company I work for is having a "work on anything you want as long as it dog-foods our products" week next
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by jstedfast 11y ago
> * designed a lot more around server side sort/search, because UID ordering sucks in various ways - try moving some messages into your INBOX and noticing that iOS mail displays them in APPEND order rather than date order. Why not j
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by jstedfast 11y ago
An HTTP-based IMAP replacement makes me want to put a bullet in my brain. IMAP is actually really good for the most part. It just has a few legacy warts (like EXPUNGE notifications being index based instead of UID-based), but a lot of the n
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by jstedfast 11y ago
Agreed. I had to go back and re-read that sentence when I was reading the article. I was sure I must have misread it. Bush is about as suave as heavy grit sandpaper.
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by jstedfast 11y ago
It wasn't the journalist that described Bush was suave, it was the woman being interviewed.
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by jstedfast 11y ago
What happened to hiring people based on merit?
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Code Review: Microsoft's System.Net.Mail Implementation(jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com)
1 points by jstedfast 12y ago|0 comments
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by jstedfast 12y ago
Our IDE is free for anyone to use, whether you are using our iOS, Android or Mac products or not. It's also open source (except for the addins that work with our iOS, Android and Mac products). There are a lot of Unity customers on our
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Mono for Unreal Engine(tirania.org)
221 points by jstedfast 12y ago|90 comments
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by jstedfast 12y ago
Everyone on the Xamarin Studio team uses Xamarin Studio to develop Xamarin Studio. Smart Indent, afaik, has been fixed. The problem you describe was only an issue for multi-line lambdas, iirc.
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by jstedfast 13y ago
The more comparable license from Xamarin would be the $999 license, which works out to be $999 / 12 = $83.25
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by jstedfast 13y ago
$149 per month, yikes! And people say that Xamarin is expensive.
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.NET team makes Portable Class Library (PCL) available on all platforms(msopentech.com)
2 points by jstedfast 13y ago|0 comments
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by jstedfast 13y ago
Stop & Shop have an Android app (and an iOS app?) so you can use your phone as a scanner. The idea of putting your most common food items that require a code in a toplevel "menu" would be great, though. Maybe you should sugges
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Optimization Tips & Tricks used by MimeKit: Part 1 (jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com)
1 points by jstedfast 13y ago|0 comments
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Introducing MimeKit: A robust open source MIME and mbox parser(jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com)
1 points by jstedfast 13y ago|0 comments
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Porting existing .NET apps to iOS(blog.xamarin.com)
1 points by jstedfast 13y ago|0 comments
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by jstedfast 13y ago
The Mono project leaves it up to the packagers for each specific Linux distro do the packaging (just like nearly 100% of all other open source projects) because they are more knowledgable about the various packaging subtleties of their own
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by jstedfast 13y ago
Mono 3.2 isn't mobile specific. Sure, mobile has become a very important part of the focus, but a huge portion of the development is useful beyond mobile.
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A quick look at Dropbox’s new Datastore API(xamar.in)
50 points by jstedfast 13y ago|7 comments
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by jstedfast 13y ago
if it was so obvious, why did it turn you against him? did your delicate sensibilities get hurt or something? I honestly don't understand how this could have change your opinion on him based on something you not only acknowledge is tru
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by jstedfast 13y ago
I had the same experience.
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Xamarin Evolve 2013 Keynote(xamarin.com)
1 points by jstedfast 13y ago|0 comments

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