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what beer you are taking right now? 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Charles Petzold is sometimes known for producing large and wordy tomes. I started with Creating
Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, and several days later am only on chapter 9 of 27, and all he has done is basic hello world apps, and written a million words the Xamarin student must wade through, discussing how great XAML is.
Any recommendations for a book to quickly get up to speed producing mobile, especially Android, apps using Xamarin would be most welcome.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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I've been building native Android apps (using Xamarin) for a little over a year now. The productivity and ability to share code using C#/VS is awesome! Apart from a foray into Xamarin Forms about 2+ years ago, I decided to stay away from it for a while. Instead, I focused on learning the Android platform, which I did by reading most of this book before writing a single line of code:
It worked out pretty well! 
/ravi
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Thanks, Ravi, that book looks ideal.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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It's an easy read - well written and useful. I think you'll like it.
/ravi
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My book is a lot easier if you skip a lot of exercises. The time it takes to print "Hello world" with "Hello" in bold, on my emulator just isn't worth it. The build and deploy time is much more than the coding time. I am getting to some nicer exercises now that he's spent n chapters telling us how good XAML a fit is for cross-platform.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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How about reading every 10th page only ?
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Can't wait to hear how many chapters he has on publishing an app on the Play Store. Let me guess, that's chapters 10-27. 
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I've gotten more useful information about programming from Charles Petzold than any other writer I've read. I doubt I'd be doing this for a living now if I hadn't had the good sense to buy his early Windows books.
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And I'm sure I'll say the same about Xaml Forms (at least) when I eventually get round to finishing his Xaml Forms book. I already know more than average about the deeper workings of WPF, because I started there with a Petzold book.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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You know, #34 - take a picture of the sun and use it as a flashlight, is not a bad idea!
And #24 - put your wipers up to avoid a ticket -- hahahaha, brilliant! Then you can sue them for breaking your wipers when the meter maid puts them down!
And the bagel one - I cringed just looking at that, having sliced my fingers enough when cutting things.
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#33 is pure genius - I wish I'd thought of it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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'life hack'.
What an utterly pointless and incorrect misuse of a word.
How is ones life being hacked? Identity theft, now that is life hacking, or manipulating your DNA to regrow a severed limb, that is serious life hacking!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: that is serious life hacking!
Impressive, but X-Man you are not.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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This is precisely the point of these images, making fun of a concept so ridiculous that even its name does not make sense.
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#46 - I use mine as a sleeping bag.
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I remember a comedian:
We were poor growing up.
My dad gave me a clear plastic bag and a rubber band...
Told me it was a space helmet...
For some reason... These reminded me of that.
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Is the urge to eat more fruit just pear pressure?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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No pressure, I just grape them by the pussycat. 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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that is just purée nonsense
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Go ahead - anjou yourself and bosc in you laurels. Well, this may comice a surprise to you but some of us like it.
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No that's getting your dock sucked.
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Did your duck get sick lately?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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