Mike Irving
Cross-platform Software Developer. Speaker. Microsoft MVP. Co-organiser of Dot Net North and Macc Tech
Macclesfield, United Kingdom
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A professional developer for over 20 years, based in Macclesfield.
For the past 10+ years I have been heavily involved in mobile development, and have utilised both Native code (Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C, Java) and Cross-Platform app development systems including Xamarin, .NET MAUI, Uno Platform and Cordova on different projects.
A constant in my journey has been the use of C# / .NET.
I also do web development work, and I equally happy front-end in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Microsoft MVP. Co-organiser of Dot Net North and Macc Tech.
Regular speaker and presenter.
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Xamarin: Moving On
A look at how Xamarin evolved, the different things that ‘Xamarin’ came to mean (Native Apps, Class Libraries, much later Xamarin.Forms.. but also Xamarin Studio, plus tooling like HockeyApp / App Center and more) ..
- advantages of the Xamarin avenues, but also pitfalls and problems.
- where to turn now on each of those paths (not necessarily a case of ‘choose .NET MAUI’):
Native Apps in C#, but also a look at Swift and Kotlin, discussing advantages of either approach
And for Cross Platform: .NET MAUI, Uno Platform, Avalonia UI, or non-C# offerings.
IDE choices, and replacements for tooling like App Center
Intro to AI with .NET, OpenAI and Semantic Kernel
A technical demonstration of how to easily create a Conversational AI Chat App, using OpenAI and Microsoft Semantic Kernel. Once up and running we'll discuss the drawbacks of the AI model data, and see how we can add to that using Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), performing prompt engineering with some additional data.
.NET, IoT and Hedgehogs!
Using C# / .NET Technologies and IoT to curate and automate video footage of garden hedgehogs.
An experimental journey through device access, cloud storage, serverless functions, and a public website.
With an insight into problem-solving changes necessary to bring the code cross-platform to run on Linux on a Raspberry Pi.
Manchester Tech Festival Sessionize Event
Mike Irving
Cross-platform Software Developer. Speaker. Microsoft MVP. Co-organiser of Dot Net North and Macc Tech
Macclesfield, United Kingdom
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