Sometimes life gets in the way and it takes a bit too long to update that OSS project. A few lessons learned from Frank on SQLite-net and some insight from James on his plethora of projects.

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So you want to develop apps.... or sell something... or do anything... you should looking starting an LLC or some sort of business. James and Frank walk you through their journey and James' recent battle with Apple.

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James struggles to release his app and walks through all of his fears while Frank tries to talk him into just clicking the button!

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200 Episodes and still going! Thanks to all of our amazing listeners that have been with us from the beginning and the ones that are joining for the first pod!

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Frank is having a debate on whether he should update iCircuit to the latest bits or rewrite the apps with Xamarin.Forms. We discuss his options and James throws a bunch of crazy ideas his way.

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Have you ever thought of creating your own social network? How about just having a friend system in your app? How would you implement it? How would you handle authentication? How would it all work? We discuss as James tries to implement it in his latest app.

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Launching an app, you need a website, but you are an app developer. What to do?

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Frank's family enters the world of video conferencing, and so do we! We break down all the options and spiral into random topics because that is our lives now.

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We dive back into machine learning with more automagical ML. James tries to pull off some sentiment analysis for his app and we discuss a few options.

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It has finally happened! The iPad now has a trackpad and a mouse cursor!!! We discuss for fun!

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