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This post describes the application I recently created to send the location of an Android device to Apple Push Notification Service (APNS). We will use a nice mix of technologies, including ASP.NET WebAPI and Xamarin's Mono for Android.

In this post I'll address some issues I came across while trying to prepare the environment for Redmine 2.1.4 with Ruby 1.9.3 and RubyOnRails 3.2.9 running on VirtualBox.

Learn how to create custom UIButton views with MonoTouch, featuring custom drawn graphics, transparent backgrounds and dynamic appearance based on the custom application logic.

A few months ago we started developing a rather advanced augmented reality application for iOS, thinking that it would be a good idea to share our newly acquired knowledge with the rest of our community in a series of blog posts.

Every real-world project needs to be properly documented, and UML (Unified Modeling Language) provides nice means for generating documentation. Find out how to use Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and related tools to easily generate project documentation.

Using a strongly-typed approach in working with database lookups, where all lookup values are kept in the container classes, makes it super easy to work with and maintain my code. Learn how to automate the task of creating lookup classes using the Visual Studio T4 template generation tools.

T4 templates have been available since Visual Studio 2005, but in VS 2010 templates are much easier to create and use. Thiss introduction to T4 template syntax and tools will teach you how to implement the Repository and UnitOfWork patterns for EF4 DbContext.