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When I was first figuring out how to port the BEMCheckBox to Xamarin I built the framework manually.  This is obviously not a good long term solution so I set about figuring out how to automate the build.  The first step was to install the TeamCity build agent on the Mac.  The official TeamCity documentation on how to do this can be found here.

First a little bit about my setup.  My TeamCity server is on a Azure virtual machine (i.e. it’s in the cloud).  My Mac build machine (Mac Book Pro) is sitting beside me in my basement office.  Some of the steps below might differ if your setup is different, such as having the TeamCity server and Mac build machine on the same network.

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The leaves are starting to change, the days are getting shorter, and the garden is ready to harvest.  That means fall is here in all it’s glory.  It also means my summer sabbatical is over.

I spent my sabbatical teaching myself mobile phone development and working on Arduino projects with my daughter.  While I enjoyed my sabbatical I’m looking forward to working again.  It feels good to serve others and be rewarded with multi-coloured certificates of appreciation with The Queen or Prime Ministers faces on them on them (i.e  money).

After almost a year hard work Liv has reached her goal and been accepted to the Edmonton Police Service (EPS).  Needless to say she was a bit excited when she got the call.

Unfortunately joining the EPS means Liv no longer has time to work with Saturday MP.  At least in the immediate future.  That means there will be a drought of cartoons and a decrees in qualty qulity quaity quality of the blog and social media posts.  We are as sad as you are but also happy Liv was able to accomplish her goal.

I hope you had a great summer vacation.  We sure did and are trying squeeze in a mini-vacation before the summer is officially over after the Labour Day long weekend.

Now that your summer vacation is over you want to share your pictures with friends, family, subscribers, and strangers on the Internet.  How do you do that?

Today you just login to Facebook, Flickr, Snapchat, iCloud, Google Photos (formally Picasa), Shutterfly, etc, and upload your pictures.  If you took the pictures with your phone your picture might have been auto-magically uploaded to iCloud or Google.  You don’t need to worry about the size of the picture or how much memory it consumes.  Often the service will compress your picture on the fly as needed.