Disqus - Latest Comments for migueldeicaza

Re: Creating .NET Bindings for C Libraries with ObjectiveSharpie

migueldeicaza — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:14:33 -0000

It is macOS specific, as parsing the header files requires the system header files.

Re: Xamarin comes to the Microsoft HoloLens

migueldeicaza — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:14:08 -0000

Hello,

The reason is because at the core, Xamarin is a .NET runtime, with API bindings for Android and iOS.

Windows already has a .NET runtime, and it already has its own API.

So Xamarin's documentation does not need to cover this.

https://developer.xamarin.c...

Re: Mono for Unreal Engine - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:18:25 -0000

yes.

Re: Microsoft Open Sources .NET - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:17:56 -0000

Until the open sourced .NET becomes available everywhere where Mono matters or where some specifics of Mono are used, Mono will continue to be used.

Feel free to stop using Mono today, if all your needs are covered.

Re: Microsoft Open Sources .NET - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:16:11 -0000

The reference source is being updated in the next few hours and will have a bunch more stuff.

Re: Microsoft Open Sources .NET - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:15:50 -0000

Hello,

That is Scott Hanselman, not ScottGu

I do not believe WPF is going out, I will mention this to him.

Re: Microsoft Open Sources .NET - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:14:37 -0000

It will be.

There is going to be some convergence period, so it should eventually all work.

That said, Mono no longer supports AIX or HP-UX, due to lack of demand, and the cost of maintaining those ports. The community for those systems never really materialized. Whether it materializes this time around, it is still up in the air.

Re: Five Cross Platform Pillars - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:57:36 -0000

Sorry, by native I meant to say a chunk of code that uses the Native APIs, not something that is built using Objective-c and Java.

That while possible, is a bit cumbersome to use at the moment.

The idea is simple: put your ObjC or Java code in a library, bind it, launch your app in C#, register any callbacks you need (to go from ObjC/Java to C#) and then call your native code.

Then at your convenience call the C# code that might be using either the native APIs (Xamarin.Android or Xamarin.iOS) or using the Xamarin.Forms API.

Look at our monotouch-samples for an example on how to call back and forth.

Re: Joining Xamarin — Daniel Cazzulino

migueldeicaza — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:24:41 -0000

Un abrazo Daniel!

Es un placer trabajar con el equipo!

Miguel

Re: How Leonardo DiCaprio Cost New York Taxpayers $30 Million

migueldeicaza — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:12:00 -0000

It is not a liberal argument, it is just a stupid argument.

Re: Greenwald clarifies, I screwed up

migueldeicaza — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:37:48 -0000

Dave,

Thanks for the update; Glenn states repeatedly on the piece that he has no monopoly on the documents. Not only does Laura has her full copy of the document, but a number of newspapers have some portion of them and they get to decide when/how they publish it, from his post:

[quote]
But beyond Laura, there are multiple organizations with tens of thousands of Snowden documents - tens of thousands! That includes the New York Times, the Guardian, ProPublica, and Bart Gellman/The Washington Post.

[/quote]

Personally, I think that the disclosure process that has been used so far (identify a story, document the story) and how it evolved (engage third party experts, like Bruce Schneier to ensure the technical correctness). Perhaps the distributed search/WikiLeaks approach would have been better. I am willing to give Glenn a pass here, on the grounds that these were the rules that he agreed to with Snowden initially.

Love,
Miguel

Re: Hiring Developers - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:26:55 -0000

Apply on xamarin.com/jobs :-)

Re: Xamarin's Tiny Cuts | Jonathan Peppers' Blog | C# .Net Developer | Bowling Green, KY | Jon Peppers

migueldeicaza — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:01:25 -0000

Another update: the betas for Xamarin Studio offer the ability to change the hardware being emulated from the menus.

Re: Xamarin's Tiny Cuts | Jonathan Peppers' Blog | C# .Net Developer | Bowling Green, KY | Jon Peppers

migueldeicaza — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:00:46 -0000

Another update:

The method that you did not find "stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding" is actually an extension method, and is available in the NSURLUtilities_NSString extension class (just like it is on iOS), the method you are looking for is called:

CreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes

Re: Xamarin's Tiny Cuts | Jonathan Peppers' Blog | C# .Net Developer | Bowling Green, KY | Jon Peppers

migueldeicaza — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:59:26 -0000

Hey!

Regarding the API completion proposal: We explicitly have chosen to not do a full binding when some of the idioms would be counter productive to the use of the strongly-typed APIs or when the underlying APIs do not bring much to the table.

In those cases, we have chosen to not bind certain features to discourage their use. These happen mostly on Foundation.

Some examples include: NSArray, limited on purpose; NSString, limited on purpose; NSXML, not bound on purpose. And so on.

In other frameworks, low-level NSString tokens and APIs are often hidden in favor of exposing strongly typed APIs for those.

Re: Xamarin's Tiny Cuts | Jonathan Peppers' Blog | C# .Net Developer | Bowling Green, KY | Jon Peppers

migueldeicaza — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:34:11 -0000

Jonathan,

Can you share the kinds of problems that you have been facing with Android bindings that require hand-tuning? We are trying to figure out what are those cases that you need.

Re: Xamarin's Tiny Cuts | Jonathan Peppers' Blog | C# .Net Developer | Bowling Green, KY | Jon Peppers

migueldeicaza — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:18:48 -0000

Jonathan,

Thanks for the great feedback, we will discuss this internally and come up with solutions to these issues, it is a great list!

One bit: PCL is not something we officially support yet; We have a series of hacks that give some illusion of PCL now.

We are actively working in completing this support which is made up of four different pieces, and the story only really works with all four pieces in place. The good news is that the four pieces have been completed and are going through our pipeline to have complete PCL support ready soon.

Miguel

Re: Richard Dawkins should revisit the letter to his 10 year old daughter

migueldeicaza — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:13:12 -0000

Two points:

First, his original comparison while funny and trollish (and some value the quality of a good troll) is scientifically poor. I expect more from a scientist, and even more from someone that establishes the "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science".

Second, that this did not end with a one-off tweet, but instead we got to understand how he really felt about it. He is annoyed that people bring up Islam's contribution to a debate, so annoyed that he felt he had to make this point public. Regardless of how poor scientifically his point was.

No scientific journal would accept any papers using claims like this. It would be rejected with the word "LOL".

He feels that because Islam is a religion with a number of defects that he gets to make that link.

You can replace "Trinity College" with MIT in his tweet and you can replace "Islam" with "Spanish Speakers" (language), "Women" (gender), or "Latinos"/"Blacks" (race), "Latin Americans" (regional), "Gay" (sexual) and the statement will be as "true" and factual as Richard claims his original tweet was.

Those tweets would both be equally offensive *and* equally wrong.

There are many other factors that lead to having a Nobel Prize which are not linked to a religion.

Could religion play a role? I bet there is a link, but how strong the link and effect are is far from what Richard is implying. What we know is that today's islamic countries are for the most part poor, and that is only the most obvious answer, there are probably hundreds of other variables that play a role that I did not even begin to cover.

A scientist like Dawkins should not resort to arguments that are at best suited for the front page of a tabloid.

For that matter, not only I would like more people to study science and spend less time on religion. But I would also like less people watching "E Entertainment TV", "America's Next Top Model" or play "Call of Duty", all distractions from the true calling for science, research and development.

Re: Richard Dawkins should revisit the letter to his 10 year old daughter

migueldeicaza — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:58:13 -0000

Simple, because the video is not referenced in his long post nor the original tweet I quoted.

Re: Richard Dawkins should revisit the letter to his 10 year old daughter

migueldeicaza — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:54:43 -0000

It is pretty clear from his blog post that his interest was not to see more muslim scientists. He is merely annoyed that people keep bringing up the point that Islam had a contribution to science in the past, so he wanted a quick come back.

Re: Richard Dawkins should revisit the letter to his 10 year old daughter

migueldeicaza — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:37:35 -0000

Try to get your thoughts in order and post again.

The above rant makes no sense to me. I am sure you had something interesting to say about Spain, the Industrial Revolution and perhaps even the fall of the Islamic empires.

But since you poorly made your point, all I can do is connect the dots in my head and imagine what you were trying to say.

Write the ideas down in paper, read it a couple of times, make sure you form an argument and then post again.

Here are some tips:

http://owl.english.purdue.e...

Re: The Making of Xamarin Studio

migueldeicaza — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:50:27 -0000

Xamarin Studio is: MonoDevelop (verbatim, from github) with addins for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.Mac development.

If you dont care about those three pieces, everything else is open source.

Re: How I ended up with a Mac - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:47:37 -0000

Already there if you use homebrew

Re: Why Windows lost to Mac

migueldeicaza — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:44:17 -0000

Your post stroke a chord, and I wrote up my own story of how I went from avid Linux desktop advocate to Mac user:

http://tirania.org/blog/arc...

Re: Monotouch - Tips and Tricks (Part 2)

migueldeicaza — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:00:55 -0000

Thanks for sharing these tips, just found them today!