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[#ALM] #SCRUM, the #Atleti and the Cholo
Hello! If you don’t like soccer / football I recommend that you keep not reading this post. Although we must differentiate between people who don’t like football and people who are “anti-football”. The people of the 2nd group are characterized by trying to impose their vision in any place and with any group of people… — read more
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[#HUMOR] Happy BDay Visual Basic !!! (50 years, older the me!)
Hola! I have very very good memories of Visual Basic, it was the first “real programming language” for me, I mean the first professional one. After VB I’ll get to C, C++, Java, C#, etc. However (forgetting the stuff in university), Visual Basic 6.0 was the first language who make me very happy enjoying programming.… — read more
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[#CODING4FUN] No more boring costumes, you only need an #Arduino, a motion sensor and a LED Strip!
Hello! If your wife isn’t close to and you get to make the Space Cadet from your girl costume, likely that you leave a little bit of mold. In my case it was simple; Arduino, a motion sensor, led and Visual Studio 2013. Note: I never tire of repeating how useful that is Visual Micro… — read more
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[#PEBBLE] Working with buttons (III) and some animations
Hello! After my previous post on How to subscribe to the click event button in Pebble, today I will continue with the example, doing an app a little bit more interactive. The first thing is to add a couple of images that we are going to use in the app. Using MetroStudio (excellent app with… — read more
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[#OFFICE] Office Mix, amazing extension for #PowerPoint!
Hello! Since a few years ago we decided to minimize the use of PowerPoint presentations. Some people thinks in PowerPoint as a bad tool, when in reality it is an excellent tool!. What happens is that many times we find people who think that “the PowerPoint supports everything” and creates overloaded slides, in a way… — read more
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[#VSONLINE] HowTo: Migrate #TFS2013 or #OnPremise projects to Visual Studio Online
Hello! At last! The OpsHub people are amazing. In addition to having a great product for integrating TFS with other ALM solutions; “OpsHub Integration Manager“; now they offer free of charge, a specific version of this app to migrate content from a Team Foundation Server On Premise to Visual Studio Online. I still don’t know… — read more
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[#ALM] Agile Customers are a #MustHave (and of course this to use Microsoft Feedback Client)
Hello! Yesterday I make a statement: if we want to have visible results, the first distinction that we have to do; is not to be oriented in the technology trend (or architecture or development roles) but instead try to create a context orientated to the business itself; in this team work you’ll fin customers and… — read more
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[#PEBBLE] HowTo: Use #VisualStudio 2013 to edit Pebble projects (I)
Hello! While the Pebble community is not very friendly with Microsoft tools, that does not mean that we can’t use them to create our apps. Here you can see several entries in the Pebble Developers Forum talking about Pebble with WP integration, the use of Visual Studio, and other topics. A development environment (IDE) is… — read more
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[#PEBBLE] Working with buttons (II) and a bit of #debug mode using #CloudPebble
Hello! After the yesterday’s post, I have been able today to update the Pebble smartwatch and the SDK to the version 2.1. That means that I have everything ready for a demo. So, I’ll start with a video of a very simple app. For every button pressed, it sends a debug message to the cloud… — read more
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[#PEBBLE] Working with buttons
Hello! Just today the development environment in her cloud of Pebble, CloudPebble has changed to support the 2.1 SDK.So the example today comes without video until you arrive to Madrid and to “put everything in order”. First of all what we will do is to create an app in “minimal” mode, in PebbleCloud (because explained… — read more
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[#PEBBLE] #UX and Pebble (for simple people like me)
Hi! Marta, a very good friend of mine, is an UX expert. A long time ago she told me a phrase kind of impossible for me. However, if you repeat this phrase to some people you’ll get their attention and some cult, and you’ll become a hipster with beard, Starbucks fun and crazy clothes. When… — read more
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[#PEBBLE] Diferences between a watchFace app and a standard app
Hi! Another quick Pebble post. In today post I’ll try to explain the different betweem the 2 types of pebble apps: watchface apps and standard apps. Standard apps are like windows dektop apps. that’s mean you’ll get the status bar displayed along with the app and also the time in the top of the app.… — read more
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[#PEBBLE] HowTo: Setup the development environment on #Windows
Hello! Between trip and trip I will take some time to write a little bit about how to manage to develop apps for the Pebble SmartWatch in Windows. The first thing we have to know is that there is no official SDK for Windows; after asking this question in the forums you’ll find out that… — read more
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[#HUMOR] May the 4th be with you, #Yoda conditions and more!
Hello! And of course, on a day like yesterday I’ll go with a collection of… well this ones 1st a classic “conditional Yoda” Note: this looks like a joke, but there is a science behind languages such as Java, JavaScript, C, C++, C# and others that explain the difference between compare [a. == null] or… — read more
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[#KINECTSDK] Developer ToolKit Browser Kinect Kinect SDK V2 (or yeah!)
Hello! quick post now after the visit to the Oceanographic and some time in Valencia’s beach; now I have to feed my dwarves As soon as you install the latest version of the SDK V2 Kinect, you can see in the list of programs, the classic Kinect Studio, Kinect Status and KinectFirmwareUpdate. Now we can… — read more
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[#KINECTSDK] What’s new in April update for SKV V2?
Hi! If you are waiting for next months to get access to the new Microsoft Kinect for Windows V2 and start testing the SDK, you’ll probably be happy about this news. The current beta version of the Kinect SDK V2 has some very cool new features. Support for development of Windows Store apps KinectMonitor Service… — read more
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[#VS2013] Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 Beta
Hello! If you have not touched a line of python in your life, you’re missing one of the best scripting languages that exist.A few years ago MS opted for a custom called IronPython, Python version then also Python bet came to AZURE and it has slowly been getting everywhere. This version of Python for Visual… — read more
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[#EVENT] Slides for the #Coding4fun event in #Gusenet
Hi! Only slides for today [#EVENT] Coding4Fun in Gusenet from Bruno Capuano Source code and samples on next posts, too many topics! Saludos @ Paris El Bruno Google — read more
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[#HUMOR] #Gusenet, #OpenSource and #Microsoft
Hello! I won’t have time until tomorrow to get all this thing I share in the MEGA EVENT if Gusenet. If you want to know why, take a look at all the stuf I share in 30 (impossible task!) Caution! At the end, Arduino got out of the session and some people were amazed on… — read more
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[#VS2013] Setup projects are back to Visual Studio !!!
Hi! A couple of years ago, the setup project type was removed from Visual Studio (in Vs2012 I think) the main idea was to use WiX to create this type of project, but sadly this was not an option and the community start to raise their hands. Someone create an entry in UserVoice and today… — read more