TheCodeJanitor
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- Comment on Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive 11 months ago:
Has this as a rental car a few years ago… guess which knob I kept reaching for to turn down the volume…
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake 1 year ago:
Basically, if you’re going to develop an app for different platforms (iPhone, Android, Windows desktop, etc), you usually have to have some/all of your code be specific to that platform. In some cases it may even have to be in different programming languages.
Xamarin is an attempt to let developers write code in one language (Microsoft’s C# language), with one common set of code that can then be installed on many different platforms.
In reality, it’s a little more complicated than that… but that’s the goal.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake 1 year ago:
It’s a cross platform UI framework using C#/.NET, mostly cross-mobile-platform, although technically it could make Windows desktop UIs too.
