Author: Shawn Jackson
I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.
Recently Microsoft announced that general availability of their V12 Azure SQL servers. In a previous post I wrote about some of the issues I had with the V12 Preview after being forced into it due to issues upgrading my SQL Server. My primary concern was the ability to utilize DACPAC’s with Azure SQL. This is
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Virtualization, who doesn’t like to talk about virtualization? No one I say. So you have 3 choices for virtualization when running on a Mac for your Windows VM’s, Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox. Over at TekRevue they did a great performance write-up comparing all three platforms and their comparative performance. Here I’m not really
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Recently I started working full time on a Xamarin app for my job at Paylocity and for Resgrid a fair amount of my development especially when traveling has been on a Macbook Pro. So I’m approaching my new Xamarin environment with my previous scars and while it’s fresh in my mind I’ll share my experiences.
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