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.
Cloud Developer Advocate

  Reading, UK

See me soon at:
NDC London
FSharp Exchange
Techorama BE

My book:
Xamarin In Action

My podcast:
The Jim And Tonic Show
The Jim And Tonic Show on iTunes

Contact me:
  Xamarin In Action
  Twitter
  The Jim And Tonic Show
  GitHub
  LinkedIn
  YouTube
  Email
  CV

Portable class libraries

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, xamarin, plex, xamarin.ios, pcl, httpclient, portable class library, REST

Portable class libraries (or PCLs) are the flavour of the month at the moment. They are a .net library designed to be cross platform - so they work just as well on Windows 8 as they do on Xamarin. Where Microsoft are supporting Xamarin as much as possible, they are releasing a number of their core libraries as PCL. Unfortunately, where they are o…

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ComPlexion and legal issues

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, plex, REST, technology, legal, beta test, restandrelaxforplex

I've been working on an open source Plex REST library. The idea behind it is to provide a simple way to connect to a Plex media server and get info on the currently playing movie or TV show. The most important info being a link to IMDB - pretty much every time my wife and I watch something we dig out of phones to look up an actors name or what el…

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Portable class libraries

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, xamarin, plex, xamarin.ios, pcl, httpclient, portable class library, REST

Portable class libraries (or PCLs) are the flavour of the month at the moment. They are a .net library designed to be cross platform - so they work just as well on Windows 8 as they do on Xamarin. Where Microsoft are supporting Xamarin as much as possible, they are releasing a number of their core libraries as PCL. Unfortunately, where they are o…

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