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Is the MacBook Pro 16-inch the Ultimate Developer Laptop?

It seems as though Apple has finally fixed the keyboard on the latest MacBook 16-inch and as a bonus, brought back the escape key! This seems to be what everyone is talking about, but what is really important is the return to PRO for the MacBook Pro. What I mean by this is that finally we can fully spec out a MacBook Pro with as much RAM and SSD space that we could ever want and at a decent price. If you head over to the configuration page [https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=…

James Montemagno

Easily Clean Bin/Obj Folders

In an earlier blog post I talked about how to clean up space on your Xamarin Developer machine [http://motzcod.es/post/158519702967/cleanup-up-space-xamarin-dev-machine] by deleting old installations, NuGet cache, and Android junk sitting around. We can take it one step further and delete all of that clutter that is built up in the bin/obj folders! This can be gigs of data. Here is my GitHub folder: Inside of each of my repo folders sits code and the bin/obj folders from each build, which can…

James Montemagno

Cleaning Up Space on Your Xamarin Development Machine

Today, I officially uninstall Visual Studio 2015 and upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 [http://www.visualstudio.com]!! Whenever I do a major upgrade I usually re-format my machine and get a fresh install, but this time I decided not to and just uninstall and clean up my machine as best as I can. While VS 2015 for sure installs tons of stuff all over the place and I can manually uninstall things, I figured it was a good time to help developers clean up space on their machines. I do this every few mon…

James Montemagno

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Is the MacBook Pro 16-inch the Ultimate Developer Laptop?

Easily Clean Bin/Obj Folders

Cleaning Up Space on Your Xamarin Development Machine

James Montemagno

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