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#News – #Xamarin for free, #VisualStudio for free and now #Windows is free !!!
Hi ! Long story short: So, last year Microsoft made a big bet when they announced that the “Professional” version of Visual Studio will be called “Community” and it will be available for free to use it. Yesterday, they shocked us again when they announced Visual Studio will include Xamarin, and you know: Visual Studio… — read more
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#AZURE – New PCL for #AzureIoTHub on #NuGet
Hi! Quick one for today. The Azure IoT Hub team has just released a NuGet package with a PCL implementation which supports Android and iOS (Xamarin), Windows 10 (UWP) and Windows Phone (WinRT) for the Azure IoT Hub Client. So, now is even more easy to add some IoT features into our apps. Greetings @… — read more
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#AI – #CNTK the #opensource computational network toolkit from #MSResearch #Microsoft
Hi ! CNTK stands for “Computational Network Toolkit”. This toolkit is a creation from the Microsoft Research team, which main focus is to describe neural networks as a series of computational steps via a directed graph (short resume I know) So, during the past days I spend some hours playing around with the toolkit. First… — read more
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#Channel9 – #Coding4fun, #USB Hacking time !!!
Hi ! Today is time to publish my 2nd video on Channel 9: USB Hacking! The format is the same, quick and short videos with an end-to-end topic and demo for a cool topic. Today’s video is 12 min, so this is an easy way to start with this subject. After my BLE and Windows… — read more
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#HoloLens – More #training materials: #Tutorials, #GitHub and Videos
Hi ! So, Microsoft is creating and sharing tons of materials to develop HoloLens Apps. So let’s share a recap Tutorials One nice sample is an 1 hour tutorial to create from scratch a HoloLens app which includes features for gaze gestures, voice input, spatial sound and spatial mapping. This one is part of the series… — read more
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#Hololens – You can also create #2D apps !!!
Hi ! After my yesterday’s post about HoloLens Dev Center, I start to read other sources and I found some interesting information for Windows Apps Developers. So, there are 2 main types of apps to be developed / used with the HoloLens: The ultra cool 3D apps This apps basically relies on Holograms. These are… — read more
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#Hololens – #Developers materials available now !
Hi ! Today is a great day for some developers. I was expecting some more advanced materials regarding Hololens and, lucky for us the Hololens Dev Center has updated and added tons of information. The main topics are nice reading materials for next weeks: Understanding HoloLens Hologram Hardware details HoloLens shell overview App views on… — read more
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#Podcast – Empezamos con todo: #Windows10, #RaspberryPi, #VisualStudio y #Karts!
Hi ! So, I’ll continue testing different ways to collaborate with the Spanish Technology community. I already have my own channel in Channel9, so now is time to try something completely new for me: Podcasts. In today episode I’m talking with Francisco Javier Fernández Piatek and Marcelo Villacorta Moreno about a very cool project of them, which involves… — read more
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#Humor – Good planning, nice instructions, bad execution
Hi ! A great sample, of good idea, good planning, good instructions to the team but … worst execution ever !!! Some X-Files fans must think that the “3 others” are part of a big schema against the main character … because you know, Mulder is back. However, if you work in IT, for sure some memories… — read more
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#VSGALLERY – Connected Service for #AzureIoTHub, a great time saver !!!
Hi ! Another Visual Studio Extension’s Friday, now with almost a repost from Greg Duncan original post in Channel9. However, this extension allows you avoid plenty of configuration steps if you want to work with Azure Iot Hubs. You only need to focus on your app business needs: Send or receive data from the Azure IoT… — read more
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#VSGALLERY – Microsoft Band Tile Designer for #VS2015
Hi ! Visual Studio Extension’s Friday on Thursday !!! This is great, and based on my little experience, this will save plenty of time to Microsoft Band developers. The name of the extension already gives you an idea of the main purpose. And after design some tiles using paper and later “translate” this paper design… — read more
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#AI – #Google finally won the battle against humanity (and they are also building cool #robots)
Hi ! If you think bog about Google latest accomplishments, is kind of scary. During these past days, plenty of people was following the match between AlphaGo, (DeepMind, acquired by Google in 2014) and Go world champion Lee Seedol. AlphaGo win the first 3 matches, then Lee put the scores 3-1, and at the end… — read more
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#Channel9 – Mi propio canal de #Coding4fun (genial!)
Hola ! La versión corta de la historia es la siguiente: Como estoy bastante lejos de las comunidades de España y Latinoamérica, este año tengo que buscar nuevas formas de colaborar y compartir información. Lo primero que haré es comenzar a publicar una series de videos en español (no muy largos, ~30 minutes) en Channel 9.… — read more
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#Channel9 – My own #Coding4fun channel (so great!)
Hi ! Long story short: I’m far far away from the Spanish and Latin America community, so this year I’ll try to learn new ways to do some remote collaboration. My first action will be create short videos (~30 minutes) in Spanish and post them in Channel 9. So the first one is a quick… — read more
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#Humor – Best office trick ever
Hi ! It’s been a while since I don´t have my own office space. As soon as I get one, I’ll try this (look carefully!) Greetings @ Toronto -El Bruno Source: Somewhere in the internet — read more
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#AZURE – Post data into an #AzureIoTHub using plain text and HttpClient
Hi ! Azure IoT has a great SDK which includes tons of samples for C# apps, Java apps, and more. However there are some scenarios where you only need to send data from a device using a simple HttpClient, and plain JSON data. So, for this scenario I created a simple Console app which send… — read more
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#AZURE – Pegasus Mission: #AzureIot on the cloud ! (yes, on the cloud with a baloon!)
Hi ! The road to the IoT is amazing. Even if I’m not in other platforms, only knowing the stuff which Microsoft have develop during the past years is great. I was playing around with Azure IoT, my Garmin Smartwatch and Windows Universal Apps. The result was great, the power behind the complete platform is… — read more
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#SQL – SQL Server Loves #Linux (Yes and today is not April fools day)
Hi ! I think that I’ll have more time once I get internet at home, however everyday I found new stuff to do. So I have left the blog, but not internet, where I still find amazing stuff, like today’s one: Yes, it seems like a joke but is real, so freaking good !!! I… — read more
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#Humor – This is why you must not comment lines !!!
Hi ! As always Geek and Poke explains our daily developer pains in a great way !!! Greetings @ Toronto -El Bruno Source Geek and Poke — read more
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#Fun- #IoT (very) smart devices at the bathroom ? Yes … :D
Hi ! So I still don’t have Internet at home, so most of my plans are still in PAUSE. However, every time I get some WiFi signal and review some weird stuff, I take notes for the future. I wrote a lot about Internet of Things, mostly on the technical part of devices like Arduino,… — read more