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Merge Conflict is a weekly discussion with Frank and James on all things development, technology, & more. After years of being friends, Frank and James finally decided to sit down and start a podcast about their lives as mobile developers using C#, Xamarin, and .NET MAUI. Much more than just another mobile development podcast, Merge Conflict, reaches all areas of development including desktop, server, and of course mobile. They also cover fun things happening in the world of technology and gaming and whatever else happens to be on Frank's and James' minds.

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Merge Conflict is a weekly discussion with Frank and James on all things development, technology, & more. After years of being friends, Frank and James finally decided to sit down and start a podcast about their lives as mobile developers using C#, Xamarin, and .NET MAUI. Much more than just another mobile development podcast, Merge Conflict, reaches all areas of development including desktop, server, and of course mobile. They also cover fun things happening in the world of technology and gaming and whatever else happens to be on Frank's and James' minds.

    407: What the heck are tokens, embeddings, and GPTs anyways?

    407: What the heck are tokens, embeddings, and GPTs anyways?

    We are talking AI this week and trying to get to the basics. We take a look at what goes into GPTs and how these models figure things out.


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    But what is a GPT? Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning - YouTubeOpenAI Platform

    • 37 min
    406: Creating Beautiful .NET Console Apps

    406: Creating Beautiful .NET Console Apps

    It is time to make our console apps look beautiful! There are some amazing libraries out there to help us out. We discuss!


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    Spectre.Console - Welcome!gui-cs/Terminal.Gui: Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET

    • 39 min
    405: 30 Seconds to Wow

    405: 30 Seconds to Wow

    Frank is getting ready to release an app and we talk through paid vs freemium, onboarding, and that magical 30 seconds to wow moment for his app.


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    • 37 min
    404: The Importance of Project Templates

    404: The Importance of Project Templates

    Templates, templates, templates. Project templates, item templates, default templates, custom templates, and beyond.


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    • 42 min
    403: That Time Apple Broke Java

    403: That Time Apple Broke Java

    Whoops Apple broke Java and some .NET local development in macOS 14.4.


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    Fix exporting certificate keys on macOS 14.4. by vcsjones · Pull Request #99768 · dotnet/runtimeJava users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should consider delaying the macOS 14.4 updatelibsosplugin.dylib: CoreCLR host crash on macOS Sonoma 14.4 on arm64 · Issue #4551 · dotnet/diagnostics

    • 33 min
    402: AI Made Easy with Smart Components for ASP.NET Core Web Apps

    402: AI Made Easy with Smart Components for ASP.NET Core Web Apps

    AI is here for your Blazor, MVC, and Razor pages apps with Smart Components and is super simple. Use a control and AI is infused and ready to go!


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    Dometrain: Get 20% of the new .NET MAUI courses on Dometrain! Promo Code: MERGECONFLICT20Support Merge Conflict
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    Getting Started with .NET MAUI - DometrainDeep Dive: .NET MAUI - Dometraindotnet-smartcomponents/smartcomponents: Experimental, end-to-end AI features for .NET apps

    • 32 min

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