A few months ago I moved from Gothenburg to Gold Coast, Australia, to work for Volvo Penta and enjoy a sunnier life style 🙂

I have only been here 4 months, but so far I really like it. The sun is almost always shining, people are for the most part nice and helpful, salary for engineers is higher (compared to Sweden), taxes are lower and it is much easier to find a good place to live compared to Gothenburg.

I was a bit hesitant about moving to Gold Coast since I knew nothing about the place, but it is starting to grow on me. Even though it is much smaller than Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, it is still large enough to host large events and have lots of ways to waste time. The city is right by the coast, and in the background you have large mountains. My main goal right now is to get my surf going which is one of the most popular activities around here.

Location, location, location! When I was searching for an apartment in Gold Coast, Australia, I wanted to have a tool that would list travel times to some important locations. For me it was travel time to and from work during rush hour, and time with public transport to the city centre. This python script does a few things:

1. You give it a start search.
2. The script will find the travel time to the locations (that you need to edit)
3. Output into excel

I was experimenting a bit with making it a web app but kinda gave up. It works though, but you need to manually edit the code in a few places. Hope you find it as useful as I did!

Source code:

https://github.com/sebnil/real_estate_finder

Prerequisites

Python 3, pip, .. Just use Anaconda. It is great.

Authors

• Sebastian Nilsson - sebastiannilsson.com

License

• All code is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

I was interested in the idea of writing cross platform C# app. What I found is that putting the common functionality is a shared project, and then every GUI platform in its own project. In my example I used WPF for windows GUI and GTK# for linux. Works kinda nice.

https://github.com/sebnil/CrossPlatformCsharpExperiment

Github repo

Example project showing how to create a custom control (UIView) with XIB so that it's available in Xamarin iOS designer. Custom UIView does not render in storyboard, but can be selected from the toolbox window. If you make rendering in storyboard work, please make a pull request and I will merge it into this repo. The reason to this example project simply is that I was looking for an example like this but could not find something that was working out of the box.

Design custom view in xib using Visual Studio or Xcode (less buggy):

CustomView is visible in Toolbox:

CustomView can be droped into your storyboard:

Simulator run. View can also be resized/rotated during runtime:

Getting Started

Clone and run .sln in Visual Studio.

Prerequisites

Visual Studio (Tested on Visual Studio CE 2017)

Author

• Sebastian Nilsson - sebastiannilsson.com

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Various forum comments in this thread - Initial work - forums.xamarin.com
• https://developer.xamarin.com/recipes/ios/general/templates/using_the_ios_view_xib_template/
• https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/user_interface/designer/ios_designable_controls_walkthrough/
• https://app.pluralsight.com/

Github repo (to download code)

My brother Jonathan Nilsson knows a great music guy; Viktor Envall, that agreed to create custom music with inspiration from Harry Brandelius ("det har kommit en båt med bananer"), and Fred Åkerström ("Gamla Nordsjön").

https://github.com/sebnil/shipper/releases/