Scope creep is the bane of any software project, big or small. Anyone who has worked in the software field for any length of time has experienced it, and most of us will cringe at past memories just hearing the term. Here's an example of how it works: first, a client goes to a consultancy with a business need. Let's say that the client is a small maintenance company and they want a new mobile app for their field personnel to track site visits. They go over the requirements, a

At the last meeting of our Chicago .NET Mobile Developers meetup group, we had a series of 12-minute lightning talks on a variety of topics of interest to Xamarin developers. I gave a talk about an interesting graphics library called SkiaSharp. The Skia Graphics Library is supported by Google and is used as the rendering engine for both Chrome and Firefox. In other words, every web page you see in either of those browsers uses Skia. So, it should go without saying that Skia i