Jim Bennett
Jim Bennett is a Senior Cloud Advocate working for Microsoft, and his area of speciality is Xamarin apps. Prior to working for Microsoft Jim was a Xamarin and Microsoft MVP, and worked all around the world building desktop and mobile apps using .NET with C# and F#. He is also the author of Xamarin In Action from Manning publications.
Talks I've Given
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Build Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Using Fabulous
Featuring Jim Bennett
In recent years there has been a shift in the way websites and mobile apps are being built - moving to architectures with immutable models and virtual UIs based on the MVU (model-view-update) pattern. This has led to great new frameworks like ELM and React for web, and ReactNative for mobile.
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A special Microsoft Azure and IoT workshop with Jim Bennett
Featuring Jim Bennett
IoT is cool, and getting an LED flashing is also a lot of fun, but what’s more fun is connecting an IoT device to the cloud to collect sensor data and control the device. In this hands-on workshop we will do just that!
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Building Cross-platform apps that run in iOS, Android... even Linux
Featuring Jim Bennett
If you want to develop mobile applications, you have a couple of choices. You can use Swift to write iOS apps and Java for Android apps and end up building your apps twice, of you can use a cross-platform tool and share code between platforms. There are many cross-platform tools and frameworks to...
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Lightning Talk: Dr FunctionalLove or: How EROAD learned to stop worrying and love F#
Featuring Jim Bennett
A couple of years ago Jim started working at a company that was mainly a Java shop, except for a couple of Xamarin developers using C#. One of the developers loved F# and wanted to use it, but the architects said no! This is the story of how Jim and his Team slowly introduced F# to the company in...
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