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#Podcast – NTN 03. A more informal one about how we start on IT, Spectrum, Arduinos and more ;)

Hi ! Today’s post is a special one, but let me explain why. They said that we learn from errors, and I learned with a big one. 2 weeks ago, I manage to make a test skype group call with some friends from Argentina. The test was great, we have a nice time online and — read more

Apr 11, 2016
#Humor – The Entire company can be managed by a #monkey

Hi ! One more time, Dilbert makes my day And thanks to @lemoncoders on this one (sigh!) Shhhhhh !!! No le cuentes esto a tu jefe @elbruno vía @_deors pic.twitter.com/MLibsUFVMK — lemoncode (@lemoncoders) April 6, 2016 Greetings @ Toronto -El Bruno Source Dilbert, http://dilbert.com/strip/2010-01-18 — read more

Apr 10, 2016
#CognitiveServices – Text Analytics API, detect language, sentiment and more using #Azure

Hi ! Another sample for the Cognitive Services posts series. Today’s post is on Text Analytics API, and as always, let’s start with the official description Understanding and analyzing unstructured text is an increasingly popular field and includes a wide spectrum of problems such as sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, topic modeling/extraction, aspect extraction and — read more

Apr 8, 2016
#CognitiveServices – #Bing Web Search API, review feature and #Azure sample code

Hi ! Today’s post is still on the Cognitive Services new features, and today is for the main Bing feature: Search. Let’s start with the official description from the documentation The Bing Web Search API provides a similar (but not exact) experience to Bing.com/Search (overview on MSDN). The Bing Web Search API lets partners send — read more

Apr 7, 2016
#CognitiveServices–#Bing Autosuggest API, cool new feature and some sample code

Hi ! After my yesterday post on how to get the new Cognitive Services API keys, today I’ll review one of the new services: Bing Autosuggest API. So as the main documentation explains: The Bing Autosuggest API lets partners send a partial search query to Bing and get back a list of suggested queries that — read more

Apr 6, 2016
#CognitiveServices – How to start with some basic #Azure configuration (yes, cool and updated #ProjectOxford)

Hi ! Last week during Build 2016, Microsoft present a set of Artificial Intelligence APIs named Cognitive Services. These are the natural evolution of what we know as Project Oxford, and they include some interesting new features. Even if some of the features are very similar, I think is good (for me) to write a — read more

Apr 5, 2016
#Podcast – ALM with Visual Studio, Cloud development and some news before #Build2016

Hi ! Today is day for a new podcast for the NTN series. In today’s episode I’ll talk with Luis Fraile (@lfraile) (ALM MVP since I remember) about the history of some Microsoft Dev Tools until today. We will also talk a little about some capabilities that we have today if we want to creates — read more

Apr 4, 2016
#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

Apr 1, 2016
#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

Mar 30, 2016
#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

Mar 29, 2016
#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

Mar 28, 2016
#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

Mar 24, 2016
#Hololens – Tambien es posible crear #2D apps !!! (las que ya estabas haciendo!)

Hola ! Después de mi post de ayer sobre HoloLens Dev Center, he seguido leyendo un poco al respecto y he encontrado información interesante sobre HoloLens para Windows Apps Developers. La mejor forma de explicarlo es empezar por lo básico. Existen 2 tipos principales de aplicaciones que podemos crear para Hololens: Las super cool 3D apps Este tipo — read more

Mar 24, 2016
#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

Mar 23, 2016
#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

Mar 22, 2016
#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

Mar 21, 2016
#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

Mar 20, 2016
#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

Mar 18, 2016
#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

Mar 17, 2016
#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

Mar 15, 2016