El Bruno

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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

Mar 14, 2016
#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

Mar 13, 2016
#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

Mar 11, 2016
#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

Mar 9, 2016
#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

Mar 8, 2016
#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

Mar 6, 2016
#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

Mar 4, 2016
#IoT – What’s new in #Raspberry Pi 3

Hi ! These are busy days i my first days @Avanade Canada, so I’m kind of behind in my posts. Later I’ll finish my Azure-Garmin demos, my focus on today will be the launch of the new Raspberry Pi 3. Cool stuff about the device New architecture: 64-bit processor, almost 50% faster than Raspberry Pi 2 — read more

Mar 2, 2016
#AZURE – #AzureIoT Hub and Windows Universal Apps #SourceCode

Hi ! Yesterday I wrote a post with a sample of a couple of Windows Universal Apps interacting with an Azure Iot Hub. So someone ask me for the source code and here it is. Important, there is a PCL project where all the configuration information is stored. You must update the config class with your — read more

Mar 1, 2016
#AZURE – #AzureIoT Hub Sample using Windows Universal Apps #Windows10

Hi ! So, after a couple of week learning on how to use Garmin ConnectIQ SDK, now I got my Garmin device ready to interact with the cloud. In order to prepare my Azure IoT environment, I’ll write a couple of posts on the basic steps to perform this. This post is also based on — read more

Feb 29, 2016
#Humor – How to write device drivers with #Javascript

Hi ! You only need to know a little about software to understand this one … By the way, the book is really really good 😉 Greetings @ Toronto -El Bruno Source preorder now!!! @oreillymedia pic.twitter.com/9n7dfExjnV — Erich Eichinger (@oakinger) February 25, 2016 — read more

Feb 28, 2016
#Garmin – Display charts and several sensors information at once

Hi ! Today’s post is a quick one for Friday. My main goal in the past days was to complete all the necesarry stuff I’ll need to live in Toronto, and in the meantime I’ll continue to play around with the ConnectIQ Garmin SDK. As you can see in the next video, I get to — read more

Feb 26, 2016
#VisualStudio – #Microsoft buys #Xamarin

Hi ! So, long story short: Microsoft buys Xamarin, The better way to express this is Now we have to wait until Build to see if there is going to be changes in the licensing model, where the Xamarin team will be relocated, etc. So is time for great changes !!! Greetings @ Toronto -El — read more

Feb 25, 2016
#Xamarin – Resource list to create “nice apps” with #XamarinForms (Updated)

Hello! Update: This is an update from my previous post with some new resources and some suggestions people told me to work with XF! After investing some time on learning how to work with Bluetooth, beacons, and other technologies with Xamarin Forms, now is the time to create Apps. Someone (like me) could feel some disappointment, because the default — read more

Feb 23, 2016
#GARMIN – Read and display sensors data in a #ConnectIq app

Hi ! In today’s sample I’ll show how to create a WatchFace app which displays the current time and also the heart rate of the smart watch user. Most of the details will be added in the references section where you can find plenty of information on how the MonkeyC language works, or the different — read more

Feb 22, 2016
#Humor – Pandora’s #iPhone

Hi! Is not so funny after you read Tim Cook’s letter Greetings @ Toronto -El Bruno Source Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/46umvw/pandoras_iphone/ — read more

Feb 21, 2016
#Garmin – #Eclipse and #ConnectIQ as a good starting point to create #SmartWatch apps

Hello! After yesterday’s Hello world, today I’l write a post on a more friendly way to create Garmin apps. The Garmin Development team, has chosen MonkeyC as Development language and Eclipse as IDE for development, and the truth that fit the development environment is fairly simple. Setup Development Environment First we must download a version of Eclipse Luna. — read more

Feb 19, 2016
#Garmin – How to setup the #Dev Enviromnent and a quick #HelloWorld to try the Emulator!

Hello! In today’s post I will show how to configure the development environment to code and build an app for Garmin ConnectIQ SDK. The first thing we need is to have a Java development kit version installed on our computer. In the references section, I have put the link to the JDK 8. Now you can download and — read more

Feb 18, 2016
#Garmin – Next Challenge: #ConnectIQ SDK & #MonekyC

Hello! The process of installation in Toronto is taking shape. While I continue with the steps necessary to live here, I give me the luxury of jogging at – 10 ° C to learn a little. Best of all this, is that the past February 14, Pao gave me a Garmin Forerunner 235 to replace — read more

Feb 17, 2016
Hello! I’ve seen several emulators for old games which could be played in a web browser. Of course, behind these emulators there is a series of converters from C++ to JavaScript, or something more complex. And with this as base, is only a matter of time until someone with time and imagination integrates all these parts and we can have WINDOWS 95 in a WEB BROWSER! — read more

Feb 12, 2016