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James Montemagno
Co-Host of Merge Conflict
James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Developer Tools at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005 working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Prior to becoming a Principal Program Manager, James was a professional mobile developer and has now been crafting apps since 2011 with Xamarin. In his spare time, he is most likely cycling around Seattle or guzzling gallons of coffee at a local coffee shop.
James Montemagno has hosted 431 Episodes.
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426: Designing, Developing, Testing, & Productizing a Board Game with Ben Ruiz
September 2nd, 2024 | 54 mins 38 secs
James sits down with his good friend Ben to talk about how he designed, developed, tested, and fully productized his new board game Age of Angra. We go deep into what the process is like, how it compares to video game development, and of course all about Age of Angra!
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425: The NEW .NET MAUI Binding System
August 26th, 2024 | 43 mins 1 sec
We take a look at the brand new Native Library Interop for .NET MAUI developers to easily bind native libraries to C#!
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424: Xamarin 2025, New Apple Tax, & Mega .NET MAUI Update
August 19th, 2024 | 44 mins 58 secs
Let's talk about keeping our apps going forever... or until the app store stops us. How long can we keep publishing our Xamarin apps? We talk the new and improved apple developer tax, and .NET 9 Preview 7 is here with tons of awesome updates!
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423: Should we be building TV apps?
August 12th, 2024 | 39 mins 14 secs
Google TV Streamer is here.... which has us thinking... should we care about building apps for connected tv devices?
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422: An Introduction to Continuous Integration & Delivery
August 5th, 2024 | 51 mins 31 secs
Let's take a step back and talk about CI/CD.
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421: .NET Aspire 8.1 Is Here! Let's GOOOOO!!!!
July 29th, 2024 | 40 mins 41 secs
Python support, new dockerfile support, and so many new components! We discuss .NET Aspire 8.1's release
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420: Life, VS Code, All The TOPS, and .NET 9
July 22nd, 2024 | 53 mins 19 secs
It is time for lightning topics! We talk about .NET 9 and the latest previews, finalizing Mac development setup, too many pop ups in VS Code, Life off Twitter, Dark Icons, and new HP AMD laptops!
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419: An Ideal Mobile Developer Setup on macOS
July 15th, 2024 | 38 mins 36 secs
James is setting up a fresh macOS install and is ready to get .NET MAUI ready to go. Now the question is how... Xcode, VS Code, Android Studio, SDKs, emulators, simulators, and so much more!
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418: Is AI Really Intelligent?
July 8th, 2024 | 35 mins 17 secs
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417: How Starlink Really Works
July 1st, 2024 | 37 mins 22 secs
After a year of Starlink was it worth it? How do you set it up? How does the technology work? Frank breaks it down.
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416: Going Light + How Spatial Video Really Works
June 24th, 2024 | 43 mins 48 secs
We talk about James going "light" with the light phone and also going big on 3D and taking an in-depth look at Spatial Videos.
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415: Apple Intelligence & WWDC 2024 Recap
June 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 18 mins
It is that time of year again and it is infused with AI... Apple Intelligence and all sorts of goodies for iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, macOS, watchOS, and more! Let's get into WWDC 2024!
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414: x86 is BACK!
June 10th, 2024 | 32 mins 34 secs
Intel and AMD are back with their latest CPUs and NPUs and are Copilot+ PC Ready!
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413: Google Takeout in Action
June 3rd, 2024 | 43 mins 21 secs
It's time to cut the cord... I mean streaming music service? James is going on a journey of getting rid of all music services. How is it going?
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412: Copilot+ PCs & Everything .NET at Build 2024
May 27th, 2024 | 48 mins 31 secs
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411: AI 4o, Google I/O, .NET Aspire, & #XamarinGaveMe
May 20th, 2024 | 42 mins 5 secs
OpenAI and Google are back with some new AI models that can talk to each other! .NET Aspire is getting close to release and Xamarin end of life is here, so we reflect back.