-
#VS2017 – Improvements in Server Management in Team Explorer
Hi ! I’m still using VS2017 RC as my main IDE, and today I’ll share one nice improvement. There is a new Server management view on Team Explorer. You probably realize now we have 2 different views, one for Team Foundation Server servers and the other for Team Services. The new UI is much more user-friendly… — read more
-
#VS2017 – Analyzing the performance impact of extensions, panels, and solutions in Visual Studio IDE
Hello ! A few days ago in my podcast review of Connect 2016, I talked about Visual Studio 2017 new features. One of the features that have caught my attention these days is the ability to analyze the performance of VS2017 IDE when we are using extensions, the use of panels and the Solutions load… — read more
-
#Humor – Reverse HTML?
Hi ! HTML users will know … If you don´t understand Spanish here is the translation </body> Computing Programming Experts <body> Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno Source: GDA – Grupo de Desarrolladores de Argentina — read more
-
#Hololens – Non official #Training videos on how to create Hololens Apps
Hi ! Everytime someone ask me about how to start developing Hololens apps, I usually answer the same: The best way to learn to create apps for Hololens is using the materials in Holographic Academy (link) And that´s it, the post shluld end here. However this is the perfect time so share a couple of… — read more
-
#Hololens – Unity 5.5 available! 2 emulation modes for Hololens
Hello! A few days ago I wrote a post where I shared about the current version of HoloToolkit, This version will be integrated and would support Unity 5.5 in December. As the timing required it, the Unity team has to hurry up the last sprint and they have released Unity 5.5 before December. Jokes aside,… — read more
-
#Office – Improve your presentation skills (Bonus: new co-authoring features in #PowerPoint)
Hello! Today we are going with a 2 for 1. Public speaking I still remember when David Salgado (@davidsb) showed to me the book Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences (see references). It was many years ago in Microsoft’s office in Madrid. This book helped me understand that behind every presentation, there can be a… — read more
-
#Podcast – news from Connect 2016: Google, Linux, .net Foundation, Samsung TVs, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio for Macs and more!
Hello! Today’s podcast have some updates from Connect 2016. The format is quick podcast, only with myself and I am pleased to share a little about what most caught my attention from the event. Topics as Google joining .net Foundation, Microsoft announcing it’s Platinum support at Linux Foundation, support for the development of apps for Tizen… — read more
-
#Hololens – HoloToolkit update for #Unity3D 5.5 on December
Hello! A fast post today, this week was a busy one so I had not time to work on my personal projects. And today is a response to a private question I have a couple of days ago related to the integration of Hololens, HoloToolkit and the new version of Unity 5.5. The response official… — read more
-
#Apple – Necesitas #AirPlay Mirroring? LonelyScreen es gratis y funciona perfecto!
Hello! Today I’ll use my blog as a toolbox to store a product which replaces an AppleTV and works really well: LonelyScreen. When I need to share my iPhone or iPad in demo scenarios, I always used some pay products to do this, this I’ve tested Lonely Screen (free), and I have remained quite satisfied.… — read more
-
#HoloLens – How to detect hands using #HoloToolkit
Hi ! Someone ask me about the objective of the HandsManager script (part of HoloToolkit).So, if we take a HUD like the one in my previous post, we can use this HUD to display information about hands. The next sample script shows the following hand information: Hands detected Hand pressed I’ll create a complete project… — read more
-
#HoloLens – How to create a HUD (3D text always visible without #HoloToolkit)
Hi ! Some time ago I wrote a post on how to create a 3D text and that is always visible for the user on an app for Hololens. For this example, I used a series of scripts from HolToolkit and a custom one to achieve movement and follow-up of the 3D text. Every day I… — read more
-
#Humor – #Microsoft, #Linux and #Apple in a single tweet
Hi ! https://twitter.com/GuyBarrette/status/799591120443416576 In case you can´t read the tweet -Microsoft joins Linux foundation. -Google joins .NET foundation. -Apple releases a $300 book of product photos. Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno Source: Tweet — read more
-
#Podcast – #Agile at enterprise level, and another couple of interesting experiences
Hi! After a couple of weeks of silence now is time to publish a new episode in my Podcast. In today’s episode, I am lucky to be with 4 great friends. And, after talking with them for a long time about personal experiences when we work with Agile projects, it was time to gather them… — read more
-
#VisualStudio – Visual Studio for Mac, a new family member (Bonus: Linux Foundation!)
Hello! Do you remember when Visual Studio was all you needed to create applications? It still the single tool you need. However now, you have several flavors to choose to depend on the application type, and your development style. Today at Microsoft Connect they confirmed the launch of Visual Studio for Mac. However, it seems… — read more
-
#HourOfCode – #MineCraft time again and now also #Designer mode
Hello! A year ago, I wrote about how we can use Minecraft to learn to program as part of the Hour Of Code program. This is a very good initiative and it will help a lot our children, they can start to understand the way in which a computer solves problems. Note: I… — read more
-
#HoloLens – Debugging Apps, HoloTip: Disable Intellitrace and Diagnostics Tools
Hello! Most of developers likes the chance to debug an application, this is something that comes as a plus and can help us in tons of scenarios. The case of Hololens is special since we could think in 2 models of debugging Visual Debugging. In addition to debugging, we could speak of 3D environments emulation… — read more
-
#Humor – You know you are in a software project when …
Hi ! Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno — read more
-
#Kinect – #KinectSdk is part of the #WindowsSDK on #Windows10 (almost …)
Hello! When Microsoft released Windows 10 Anniversary Version, one interesting news was related to adding part of the Kinect functionalities into the core of Windows 10. In addition to the camera, features such as IR or depth sensor can now be used with own operating system APIs. (my post on this) As well, this week… — read more
-
#Microsoft – List of almost all #Insider Programs (the ones I know …)
Hello! I will write this down here since I always forget something and at the end I started to work with inconsistent versions of environments and apps. It’s been a while since Microsoft began allowing users to be part of “XYZ Insider programs”. Insiders programs are focused to Early Adopters and offered the opportunity… — read more