Null Pointers

Xamarin.Forms 5 is announced to be the last major version of Forms in its current form. From here on out, it will evolve into the .NET framework and continue to bring us joy that way. But, what is actually in the Forms 5 package? What can we look forward to? Find out in this episode!

In this episode, we are discussing what approaches you can take to test your hard coded work. From TDD to BDD, we discuss a few of the common Acronym Driven Development approaches and what benefits you want to expect when writing automated code.

In this episode, we are talking about WebAssembly and a bit more specifically about Blazor as well. With this hot new technology, you can get rid of JavaScript and just write C# that runs everywhere. Frontend, backend, topend, bottomend, happy end! Oh, and by the way... Did you decide on a new iPhone yet?

In this episode, we finally talk about .NET Maui, also known as the future of Xamarin.Forms. What's coming and more importantly, when is it coming? We will tell you all about it!

In this episode, we talk about writing cross-platform apps. What are the approaches? What are the pros and cons you might want to consider? And is there a right way? Well tune in and find out.

In this episode we talk a lot about our love for Ubiquiti network equipment, Raspberry Pi's, backing up data, how Mark is always last to say his name and some smart home stuff. It was supposed to be about our Home Office Setup, but I think we drifted off into all things we find awesome.

Version control. A thing of beauty or a thing of frustration? Or maybe even both. In this episode, we try to demystify some of the things around Git, share our war stories of yesteryear and try to make sense of why everyone should be using it.

Artificial Intelligence or AI for short is all around us it seems. Is it here to solve all our problems or are we looking at the next Skynet? Ever wondered what is behind all of the AI talk? What would it take to add some AI to your apps? Well, in this episode we will talk about all those topics and how you can get started today without having to through years of study.

The next big thing since sourdough bread is here, and it's called GitHub Codespaces. With Codespaces, you can go from looking at a bug to contributing to the repo in a matter of minutes. Or how about onboarding a new colleague? Hours looking at installers to get the right workloads? No more! With Codespaces, you can get to a successful build before your first coffee is done. Learn all about it in this episode.

All episodes of Null Pointers are great, and this episode is no exception. In this episode, exceptions are what it's all about. Why should you care? How does exception handling even work internally? Should you care about handling exceptions? All good questions which are answered with a fair amount of dad jokes that get some pity laughs.