by Dan | Mar 31, 2020 | News
A chatbot is a language interface to an AI. Chatbots give us a text box in which to type our questions in natural language and the AI will attempt to understand our meaning and respond to it intelligently and productively. The key word here is “attempt”....
by Dan | Mar 30, 2020 | News
Will the AIs take over in a Terminator-like scenario? We shouldn’t rule it out, experts tell us, so caution as we go is the best course. It’s apparently not likely that a machine will become self-aware and plot an AI coup. It’s far more likely that...
by Dan | Jul 16, 2018 | Mobile C# Cafe
A drill-down list is a list of tappable items selected to navigate to a new page. There are many ways to build them using Xamarin.Forms, and the following recipe covers the most common type: by item. Other common types include lists by page and grouped lists. A...
by Dan | Apr 16, 2016 | Mobile C# Cafe
Pages, layouts, and views make up the core of the Xamarin.Forms UI. Pages are the primary container, and each screen is populated by a single Page class. A page may contain variations of the Layout class, which may then hold other layouts, used for placing and sizing...
by Dan | Apr 6, 2016 | Mobile C# Cafe
This past month I’ve been interviewed for two podcasts on a range of topics such as Xamarin, my book, the book tour, and a little bit about me personally. 1. Yet Another Podcast #150 Technologist-of-note Jesse Liberty asks me insightful questions about these...
