Preface

I’ve been involved in technology most of my life, and every year is more exciting for a technologist than the last. Innovations keep coming faster and faster, making it sometimes hard (and always expensive) to keep up. One of the most exciting innovations of the last decade has been the rise of the smartphone. The technology world changed the day Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, and it has been going from strength to strength ever since. I’ve been an avid iPhone user from the start, and I even wrote a couple of apps using Objective-C during the iPhone’s early years. The biggest thing I learned from that experience was that writing mobile apps is cool, but using Objective-C is painful.

Fast-forward a few years, and I was a bored C# developer. ...

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