Nic Wise

Nic Wise

The changing Microsoft: Nokia X and the Xamarin Maneuver

So Microsoft - oops, Nokia - has released a new phone [http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5440498/nokia-x-android-phone-hands-on]. And new Android phone, at that. It looks solid, as most Nokia hardware

Further adventures in PCL: Profile78 and Json.Net

So, I got a few replies on twitter from the previous post [https://fastchicken.co.nz/2014/02/22/post/]. Most notably from Paul Betts: > @paulcbetts: @fastchicken Yo I'm happy

Chip and PIN vs Chip and Signature

The Verge [http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/12/5405024/chip-and-pin-vs-chip-and-signature] on a topic that has bugged me for a long while: > Representatives from the banking industry say chip and signature is

Replacing Objective-C

Ash Furrow [http://twitter.com/ashfurrow], one of the developers at design powerhouse Teehan+Lax [http://www.teehanlax.com/], has a very relevant (to me) post titled We need to replace Objective-C [http: