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[#VS2015] #MachineLearning and Visual Studio? 3 platforms for a quick start
Hello! When you create apps using Arduino, Galileo or any of these platforms, the amount of data that you can generate is quite big. Yesterday I wrote a post where I commented an almost real example, about how the information on the consumption habits of a person and a series of connected devices can be the basis… — read more
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[#IOT] Glitter problems at home, Amazon #Dash and Azure #MachineLearning
Hello! A couple of days I was painting with my 5-year-old girl and we realized that we had been out of glitter. As a parent this is one of the moments more happy complicated ever. Glitter is something that girls love to use in their art work. However, I discovered in the bad way that GLITTER is impossible to… — read more
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[#VS2015] #Unity5 y Visual Studio? Ohh yeah :D
Hi! As an early adopter, you probably upgraded all your projects to Unity 5 a couple of weeks ago. And after this amazing moment, you realized that you’ve lost all the nice integration with Visual Studio 😦 Now happy days are back! You can go back to enjoy your life because the latest version of Visual… — read more
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[#HUMOR] #ToDo Lists, they usually ends like this one … :S
Hi! Yesterday I wrote about the importance on personal time management, with a ToDo list … sobre la importancia de saber auto gestionar nuestras tareas … But, I’m the first one to admit they usually ends like this one Greetings @ Home /El Bruno Source: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2010/11/todoxls.html — read more
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[#ALM] The importance of your #ToDo list
Hello! This post is not going to be related to a development methodology or even to developers. If you’re a person who uses some method to organize your daily tasks, this is where I want to go now. I’ll try to describe my own experiences about how you can improve your time management approach, simply improving the way in which… — read more
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[#VS2015] No more Premium or Ultimate, now is #Enterprise!
Hello! I’m not yet in a position to write a post for the April’s fools day, but it will come. Today what is new is that model licenses and versions of Visual Studio will finally start to get more human with Visual Studio 2015. The main change is that from now on, the main version name is Visual… — read more
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[#OPINION] My honest opinion about “meetings addicts”
Hello! I was reading this entry on Forbes “The Art and Science of Team Optimization” (link), and I remembered a talk we had a few days ago with a few coworkers about those people addicted to meetings. I’m not a SME in biology , but if you want to identify them is very easy. The following… — read more
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[#OPINION] Be ready for a #hackathon like you’ll do for a half marathon
Hello! Yesterday I ran the Madrid’s Half Marathon and now that spring is here, those 21K in Madrid are quite funny. In Avanade we have a Yammer group for runners, and in the past days before the race someone shared a list of 10 tips for the day of the race. (By the way, I already wrote about… — read more
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[#OPINION] The non easy path from Managers to Leaders
Hello! There is plenty of books, posts, etc. related to the “managers problem”. Besides the unnecessary bureaucracy and hierarchy levels that are usually added within an organization, managers jobs tend to be the main rope to the neck which a professional can face at some point in this career. I usually told the story of… — read more
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[#VS2013] Node.js tools V1.0, much more important than you think
Hello! After a couple of posts about the plugin in Visual Studio to work with NodeJs, we reach to final version 1.0.So here is a not so “great” news if you’re a Visual Studio developer. However, from another perspective: There are formal channels that echo on how Microsoft is changing and opening / promoting these… — read more
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[#VS2015] Where to look to start a little dev for #Windows10? course in #GitHub
Hello! The official launch for the Windows 10 Dev tools was yesterday. It goes all around from Visual Studio 2015 to Team Foundation 2015, including some cool stuff like Visual Studio Tools, and other extensions. And that’s the easy one, you just only have download the bits. Now, as a good developer, our body does not need… — read more
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[#IOT] 2 options to save you backend work #LabOfThings and #ConnectTheDots
Good! One of the most important parts in a solution of IoT is the decision of the type of backend which we will use. If you are a craft person, chances are that you think your own hub based in WebApi and hostees on AZURE. Then it will be time to think on topics such… — read more
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[#HUMOR] RIP #InternetExplorer ;)
Hi! Después de 20 años uno tal vez debería tenerle un poco de cariño … veo que internet comparte mi opinión After 20 years together, you may probably think to have some love with IE, … internet thinks the same 😀 Regards @ Madrid /El Bruno Sources http://www.siliconbeat.com/2015/03/17/goodbye-internet-explorer/ http://9gag.com/gag/aYWL4Dv/rip-internet-explorer http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/18/we-wont-miss-internet-explorer-but-we-will-miss-the-memes-5109057/ http://www.cuantarazon.com/948381/internet-explorer — read more
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[#IOT] Microsoft IoT Azure contest by #CodeProject, $10000 … so cool !!!
Hello! CodeProject friends have launched a contest about Internet Of Things based on Azure wich is very nice. The prize is $10 K (subject to the typical restrictions), and the interesting thing is that it is open to any idea you have and use devices and Azure to collect, aggregate, and explote data. From what I understand, can range… — read more
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[#OPENSOURCE] Now is #MSBuild time !!! ^_^
Hello! It was hoped that after the launch of Roslyn, MSBuild will become an Open Source tool. Not so long ago Roslyn was published on Github, and of course >> MSBuild is the next step. In addition to being “a tool / platform / something else” the release of MSBuild is special for Microsoft. During the… — read more
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[#AZURE] Azure #IoT Suite, really Cool !!!
Hi! I’m offline only one day and that’s it, Convergence event start and some cool news are all around. As example, Office 16 preview is here; however I think a cool one is the release (in preview mode) of the Internet of Things Suite for Azure. The main difference from the IoT Developer Kit de Intel, is… — read more
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[#VS2013] Project Rename Tool !!! Shut up and take my money !!! ^_^
Hi! I’ll be in Roma for a couple of days, so a quick post will be better explained with a video. In this one an amazing extension to rename projects, renaming also the project folder, updating the solution, etc. Greetings @ Rome /El Bruno Download: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a76bd66e-d021-45fe-952a-c393e81912ca — read more
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[#VS2013] HowTo: Use debugging features in #Arduino with #VisualMicro
Hello! For a while, I’ve been using VisualMicro as an alternative to the Arduino IDE to create sketches directly in Visual Studio 2013. After the MVP Open Day of a few days ago, someone asked me If working with Visual Micro and Arduino we have a 100% functional debugger . Actually, when we add a break point… — read more
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[#VS2013] #VisualMicro, #Arduino 1.6.1 and some configuration hell
Hello! I’ve already write a couple of posts about Visual Micro, this excellent addin allow you to create Arduino projects with Visual Studio 2013. Well, now that Arduino has already released an update of your IDE to version 1.6.1, if you had any previous configuration as it is time again to apply some magic to make it… — read more
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[#KINECT] #Kinect Adapter for Windows
Hello! One of the big differences between Kinect V1 and V2 is that in version 2 we can use XBox One Kinect with our computer without any problems. If we go back a little, with the Kinect V1 we used to had 2 versions Kinect for Windows Kinect for XBox Officially, you could use the Kinect for… — read more