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We are back with lightning talks with topics submitted by our amazing listeners. We take a look into performance, cross-platform UWP XAML with Uno, deep dive into the world of Xamarin.Forms, and give our thoughts on the future of app development. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSponsored By: Visual Studio Live!: Visual Studio Live!: The development world's trusted educational provider of developer-focused content since 1993, focusing on .NET and Visual Studio. Join us at an upcoming 2018 event: * Chicago – September 17-20 * San Diego – October 7-11 * Orlando – December 2-7  Promo Code: MERGECONFLICTLinks: Platform-Specifics - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs Layout Compression - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs Xamarin.Forms Fast Renderers - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs Xamarin Profiler - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs Azure Active Directory B2C | Microsoft Azure Uno

It is that time again for more machine learning! This time it is actually something that you can totally build and something that Frank shipped inside of his application to do code prediction using Python, Keras, PlaidML, and CoreML! We talk about the main use case, the route Frank took to create the machine learning model, what hardware and software he used, and the final outcome to predict code while you type. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfm Special Thanks to Syncfusion: Download their e-books: Xamarin.Forms Succinctly Xamarin.Forms for macOS Succinctly Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: praeclarum - Code Prediction with a Neural Network Subscribe to James's Newsletter and RSS Continuous C# and F# IDE for iPads and iPhones plaidml/plaidml: PlaidML is a framework for making deep learning work everywhere. Lifetime Sales For The Nintendo Switch And Nintendo 3DS

This week we have a quick followup on System.IO.Pipelines that leads into a deep discussion of what we want in .NET Standard vNext. We then investigate the motivation, optimizations, and reality of porting a Win32 Application to run inside of a UWP container for the Microsoft Store. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSponsored By: Instabug: Thousands of companies including Lyft, eBay and T-Mobile rely on Instabug to receive comprehensive bug reports from users and testers, helping them iterate faster and enhance their app quality. Signup now, integrate the SDK for free, and get a special Instabug t-shirt.  Bitrise 2018: Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. **Sign up for Bitrise** and deploy your app in minutes.  Links: Desktop conversion for UWP apps - Windows app development .NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications | .NET Blog Immo Landwerth (@terrajobst) | Twitter NuGet Gallery | System.Numerics.Vectors 4.5.0 Calca - The Text Editor that Loves Math Squirrel praeclarum - Calca in the Microsoft Store The Visual Studio Image Library - Visual Studio | Microsoft Docs Forecast: Podcast MP3 Chapter Encoder — Overcast

We tackle a listener submitted topic this week of how we make decisions between performance, frameworks, and convenience when building applications. It is an interesting question when choosing a framework or library and their trade-offs. Frank sees it a bit differently than James does when building apps. We look at how we have built apps from our present, past, and future when we look at developer productivity. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Ghost - The Professional Publishing Platform praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web Home page - FuGet Gallery Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs

We get a little crazy this week and dive into three topics that we know almost nothing about. First up is a little web development for Ghost with gulp, handlebars, and sass. Then we dive into more machine learning with ML.NET and wrap up with our new favorite way to read in streams with Pipelines. To be honest, we do know something about them and think they are super cool, so you should check them out. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSponsored By: Bitrise 2018: Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. **Sign up for Bitrise** and deploy your app in minutes.  Links: Ghost - The Professional Publishing Platform ML.NET | Machine Learning made for .NET Handlebars.js: Minimal Templating on Steroids gulp.js Announcing ML.NET 0.3 | .NET Blog dotnet/machinelearning: ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET. System.IO.Pipelines: High performance IO in .NET | .NET Blog Roderick on the Line

The time will soon be upon us that we can start shoving all of our UIKit based applications on to macOS! What a glorious day that will be once Apple opens up those APIs to developers... or perhaps that day is today with a few hacks! We discuss everything we love about Marzipan and the potential that it has on our applications, frameworks, and the industry. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Visual Studio Live!: Visual Studio Live!: The development world's trusted educational provider of developer-focused content since 1993, focusing on .NET and Visual Studio. Join us at an upcoming 2018 event: · Redmond – August 13-17 · Chicago – September 17-20 · San Diego – October 7-11 · Orlando – December 2-7  Promo Code: MERGECONFLICT Links: Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) | Twitter steventroughtonsmith/marzipanify: Convert an iOS Simulator app bundle to an iOSMac (Marzipan) one (Unsupported & undocumented, WIP) Apple Events - WWDC Keynote, June 2018 - Apple

This week we are diving into one of the final parts of DevOps, which is continuous monitoring and learning about our apps and our users. Frank has gone all in on integrating crash reporting and analytics into his apps and we discuss his outcome. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSponsored By: Bitrise 2018: Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. **Sign up for Bitrise** and deploy your app in minutes.  Links: Translating Mobile Apps With The Multilingual App Toolkit with Cameron Lerum | The Xamarin Show | Channel 9 Visual Studio App Center | iOS, Android, Xamarin & React Native

What more do we need to say? We sat down with Miguel de Icaza to pick his brain about the past, present, and future of .NET. Miguel gives his insights into where the entire industry is moving and why GUI based console applications are so important. We start first with how .NET and Mono are changing the world and evolving quickly. We then move on to what WebAssembly is and how it is set to change the web forever. Finally we discuss his vision for Console# and his four pillars for building great apps for the console. This is a legendary episode that you do not want to miss. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSpecial Guest: Miguel de Icaza.Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Miguel de Icaza - Wikipedia Mono GitHub: migueldeicaza (Miguel de Icaza) migueldeicaza/gui.cs: Console-based user interface toolkit for .NET applications. Mobile App Development & App Creation Software - Xamarin Visual Studio and Xamarin: The future of app development | Microsoft Build 2018 | Channel 9 Mocast migueldeicaza/NStack: New Stack - Explorations on Unicode, IO, new idioms and error handling for .NET

At Microsoft Build 2018 we sat down with the legendary Jb Evain. The man behind libraries and technologies we use every day including Mono.Cecil and the Mono linker itself. We discuss all this and his passion for creating the Visual Studio tools for Unity and everything new that Unity has to offer. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSpecial Guest: Jb Evain.Sponsored By: Bitrise 2018: Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. Sign up to Bitrise and deploy your app in minutes.  Links: Mono.Cecil | Mono mono/linker Linker | Mono 2018.1 is now available – Unity Blog Updated scripting runtime in Unity 2018.1: What does the future hold? – Unity Blog sebastienros/jint: Javascript Interpreter for .NET

What a way to start June! GitHub was officially acquired by Microsoft and Apple started off it's developer conference by announcing tons of great new software updates and developer APIs. We break down each and every juicy bit. Not only do we cover the main keynote, but we take a look at the developer state of the union and fully cover iOS 12, tvOS 12, watchOS 5, and macOS Mojave including soon to come UIKit to macOS!!! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSponsored By: Bitrise 2018: Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. Sign up to Bitrise and deploy your app in minutes.  Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers - The Official Microsoft Blog I’m Nat Friedman, future CEO of GitHub. AMA. : AMA

We did it! 100 episodes of Merge Conflict! Somehow with your support Frank and James rambled their way through nearly two years of podcasting. We celebrate with questions from our listeners, some inside info on the podcast, chit-chat about how we started, and a contest! Enter the Merge Conflict 100th Episode Contest Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventure Face ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSponsored By: Bitrise 2018: Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. Sign up to Bitrise and deploy your app in minutes. 

We got to sit down with the legendary Saqib Shaikh to talk about creating inclusive software for everyone. As a blind person Saqib not only has first person experience with using software that is accessible, but also designing and working on inclusive software as he is the Team Lead for the Seeing AI mobile application. During our chat we discuss what developers can do inside of their application to add accessibility features and how they can test them using the built in operating systems. Saqib also shared insights into how Seeing AI was created and where it is going next. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventure Face ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSpecial Guest: Saqib Shaikh.Sponsored By: Bitrise 2018: Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. Sign up to Bitrise and deploy your app in minutes.  Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Seeing AI 2016 Prototype - A Microsoft research project - YouTube How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio - YouTube Seeing AI | Talking camera app for those with a visual impairment Custom Vision Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 5, Plugin for on-device models jimbobbennett/Xam.Plugins.OnDeviceCustomVision: Plugin to allow custom vision models to be used from mobile devices

We sit down with the world famous Paige Bailey to discuss the state of machine learning and its impact on space exploration as well as on the coral reef. We of course get into artificial intelligence and how it is impacting every industry out there and we let Paige fill in all the pieces. James talks about his passion for the dwarf planet Pluto and how it should be everyone's favorite planet out there. Frank gets into his hidden passion for python and a lot more. Paige also discusses her favorite libraries and projects that everyone should know about and support. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventure Face ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSpecial Guest: Paige Bailey.Sponsored By: Bitrise 2018: Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. Sign up to Bitrise and deploy your app in minutes.  MFractor: MFractor makes Xamarin app development in Visual Studio for Mac much easier; use the Xamarin.Forms code analysis and generation tools to make working with XAML a breeze and take the sting out of Android development with resource intellisense or mobile specific C# code analyzers. Use coupon code MERGE-CONFLICT for 10% off! Promo Code: MERGE-CONFLICT Links: DynamicWebPaige | Twitter GitHub: dynamicwebpaige (Paige Bailey) Paige Bailey - Cloud Advocate LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon | NASA Beautiful, Bewitching Pluto Poses in New Images from New Horizons Probe Custom Vision Cognitive Services | Microsoft Azure Image Processing with the Computer Vision API | Microsoft Azure BB8 (@BB8) | Twitter Keras tensorflow/cleverhans: An adversarial example library for constructing attacks, building defenses, and benchmarking both kubeflow/kubeflow: Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes TFX Papter NumFOCUS

We are live from Microsoft Build 2018 with Nilofer Rajpurkar from App Center and Steve Winton from GitHub to discuss the new partnership between Microsoft and GitHub and how they are making mobile app developers' lives better with new integrations for continuous integration. We dive into the details of what exactly this means for developers, the new "checks" api and dashboard in GitHub, and so much awesome for any and every mobile developer! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventure Face ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSpecial Guests: Nilofer Rajpurkar and Steve Winton.Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Visual Studio App Center | iOS, Android, Xamarin & React Native Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio App Center · GitHub Marketplace Insomnia REST Client Microsoft brings its Visual Studio App Center lifecycle management tool to GitHub | TechCrunch Microsoft Build 2018 - Technology Keynote: Microsoft Azure - YouTube

We love architecture, but we also hate architecture... so throw it all away! This week we take a look at UI Driven Development to get stuff done! We chat about the reasons why, the positives, the negatives, and what James and Frank both have built using this approach all in very little time. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventure Face ⭐⭐ Review Us ⭐⭐ SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfmSponsored By: Bitrise 2018: Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. Sign up to Bitrise and deploy your app in minutes.  Links: Monkey.json Ink to Code - Microsoft Garage Drawing Apps to Life with Ink to Code | The Xamarin Show | Channel 9 Nintendo Dispatch