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Jim Bennett

Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, Xamarin Certified Developer, author of Xamarin In Action, blogger, speaker, father and lover of beer, whisky and Thai food. Opinions are my own.

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Xamarin in Action is now on the bookshelves!

Featured Jim Bennett 21 May 2018 xamarin, book, xamarin in action, technology

Finally, after 2 years since I first put pen to paper (well, put keystroke to Atom), Xamarin in Action is done and available from your favorite bookseller as a printed, paper book, with a forward from my good friend, the amazing James Montemagno! You can buy this book in one of two ways - an eBook in PDF, kindle, iBook format, or a printed book. If…

Introduction to UI Testing with Xamarin

Featured Jim Bennett 20 Aug 2017 xamarin, xamarin.android, uitest, test, Technology, xamarin.ios, book, xamarin in action

This article is an excerpt from Xamarin in Action. Save 37% off the cover price using code fccbennett at http://xam.jbb.io. One of the great things about the MVVM design pattern is that it allows us to maximize the code in our cross-platform model and view-model layers. This means we’ve written the bulk of our code and we’ve also written unit te…

Xamarin In Action

Featured Jim Bennett 20 Sep 2016 xamarin, xamarin.ios, xamarin.android, mvvm, mvvmcross, book, Technology

Over the last few months I've been busily writing away on my first book - Xamarin In Action for Manning publications. Manning are a pretty serious publisher, they count Jon Skeet amongst their authors so it was quite an honor to be asked to write for them. The first 3 chapters are now available to buy under the Manning early access program - under…

Reviewed - Xamarin Mobile Application Development

Featured Jim Bennett 27 Jul 2015 xamarin, xamarin.forms, review, book

Xamarin Mobile Application Development By Dan Hermes (@ lexiconsystems) Recently I was lucky enough to get my hands on an early draft of Xamarin Mobile Application Development by Dan Hermes. This is a book aimed at the .Net developer who wants to get started with Xamarin, primarily with Xamarin.Forms. Let me start by saying this isn't a 'read it o…