Who said Possum’s are cute?

Posted on July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

I’ve had my first ever encounter with a Possum (Opossum) the other evening. I took our dog out for her nightly walk through the back yard. As I walked between the pool and deck I hears some rustling in the leaves under the bushes in the corner. I stomped my feet as I approached the […]... Read More

A Sad Rabbit Hole

Posted on June 26, 2019June 27, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

So, this morning I was distracted by a thought of a home for sale in our neighborhood and looked it up on Zillow.com. Then decided to see how much Zillow showed our house for. Then I jumped to our first house in PA and wow has its value gone up (up $124,000 since we sold […]... Read More

Mobile blogging.

Posted on June 17, 2019June 27, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

Hey, it’s been a while since I’ve posted something to my blog. Caitlin has just begun her time at Governor’s School at High Point University and topics have been how to take pictures and share what she’s doing and learning while she’s there. Which made me think of blogging. And I wondered what easy tools […]... Read More

The code compiles… testing complete

Posted on June 12, 2019July 15, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

I recently had a contract developer brought in to help out for a while. Pickings were slim at the time so when we found someone with good breadth of experience we made a choice. He certainly knew code, C#, ASP.Net and MVC, most of the complete Microsoft Development stack. He tended to ask questions, too […]... Read More

Xamarin.iOS – The root assembly conflicts with another assembly

Posted on February 1, 2019June 27, 2019 by jrblack 1 Comment

This error got me for a while yesterday and this morning. It simply means what it states, but being new to Xamarin Forms mobile development, in multiple platforms (iOS, Android and Windows), I wasn’t exactly sure what it meant or how to fix it. The Error: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\Xamarin\iOS\Xamarin.iOS.Common.targets (794,3): error MT0023: The […]... Read More

Chris Pratt 9 Rules

Posted on July 14, 2018July 14, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

It is a breath of fresh air when a celebrity can do an acceptance speech without being politically correct, speak his mind, and show how down-to-earth and human he is. Chris Pratt recently accepted the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Award Generation Award. After his brief humbleness and thanks, he reviewed his 9 rules from […]... Read More

Sharing videos from Google Photos on YouTube

Posted on July 13, 2018January 16, 2019 by jrblack Leave a comment

In a previous post I had documented how to share your videos from Google Photos to YouTube, but as I discovered a few days ago, the method there (using Google Drive website, to get you videos on Google Photos to YouTube no longer works. I found that you can easily share them right from Google […]... Read More

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