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#FUN – Some cool non-pro #drones #drone4fun (and one for C# developers)
Hello! Today is another quick post with which I consider, are best drones that we can buy to “play at home”. Disclaimer: I am not a specialist on this topic, just think of the devices that I could test or I have wanted to try from a point of view of use for fun + — read more
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#Fun – A cool collection of #Lego creations
Hello! Today is also a day of off-topics and I will take to put some videos of LEGO that I use in my Robotics events in the past years. Always used to start with a LEGO Rubik Solver, this updated version is simply great! With 4 sets of Lego Mindstorms NXTand a Samsung Galaxy — read more
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#Fun – Lipstick Robotic Arm and the funny #RobotBug
Hello! The next few weeks I will be 100% dedicated to manage my transfer to Canada, so I don’t think that I will continue with the routine of a daily post dedicated to Microsoft Technologies. So, I will take some time to think in stuff to spend some dollars when I arrive to Toronto. One of the options was this — read more
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#Humor – #Cloud Issues
Hi ! Another cool cloud scenario 😉 Greetings @ Madrid -El Bruno References Dilbert — read more
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#VS2015 – Send tweets in an app #UWP #Windows10 using #TweetMoaSharp
Hello! Some time ago I wrote a post where I mentioned about a package to a Windows 10 Universal App to work with Twitter. In that post, I also mentioned that it was a shame that the excellent Daniel Crenna’s TweetSharp, does not support Windows Universal Apps. Yesterday I was updating an app with some — read more
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#MsBand – #FakeBandSdk, now you can create band apps without the real device !!!
Hello! Another quick post today. Yesterday I started to believe again, in public institutions where procedures functioned like clockwork. Today however, I went back to living in a Kafka book. Finally I’ve got all my papers, I really believe that with a smile and great discretion it is possible to take forward the interesting bureaucratic processes. I mess and — read more
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#KinectSdk – Hand and Finger, tracking and detection
Hello! Another day closer to my international move and another weird task done: today’s one is get approved to get an international driving license. This is why today’s post is also a short one (that’s a shame, this topic is really cool!). Our MVP friend Vangos Pterneas shared some time ago, a very powerful library which allows us to leverage the capabilities — read more
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#VS2015 – #SuperCharger, the #CodeMap evolution
Hello! Today is a quick post, because my international moving takes a lot of time Some time ago I tried CodeMap, I was was an excellent idea and a great tool. Although to really use it well, you had to have a “very bad” C# classes. I mean, we all dream of being those great talent developers who — read more
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#ProjectOxford – New features for #FaceAPI: beard, moustache, smile detection and more !!!
Hello! New Face API and Emotion API features: detection of beards, moustaches, smiles and much more. These days I have been reviewing some projects where I’ve used some Project Oxford APIs and I found that the APIs have changed a little. The Newtonsoft.Json is already a classic: updates all the time. However I made some research on the new features — read more
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#Xamarin – Live preview of #Xaml in #XamarinForms using #GorillaPlayer in #VisualStudio
Hello! Today I’ll write a quick review to another cool tool which allows us to have a real time preview of XAMLs views when we works with Xamarin Forms. Let me introduce to you to Gorilla Player, is a nice tool to have real-time XAMLs preview, however I also like the logo, is one of the best I’ve seen since the Octocat. — read more
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#Event – #DotNetSpain2016 everyone should be there !!! but not me :(
Hello! Last year I had the good fortune to participate as assistant and presenter to the DotNet Spain Conference 2015. The truth is that I have a great memory of this event. On the one hand, I went to a couple of sessions and they opened my mind to try some new things. I also had the luck of being — read more
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#UWP – Single source code line to find if our app is on Desktop, #IoT, Mobile, or #XBox
Hello! Working with Universal Apps is quite grateful. However, before the build 10.0.10240.0, trying to find out the kind of platform that our app was running was a bit complicated. Today we can solve it with a single line of code, using AnalyticsVersionInfo. In example: return Windows.System.Profile.AnalyticsInfo.VersionInfo.DeviceFamily; It returns us a value of the type: — read more
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#Xamarin – Resource list to create “nice apps” with #XamarinForms
Hello! 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 controls supported by Xamarin Forms are “kind of poor”. So I pack a couple of resources which I found on samples on how to improve the — read more
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#Xamarin – Let’s build an #Estimote #eBeacon Explorer in ListView mode
Hi! I’ve already wrote some posts on how to work with Xamarin and Estimote beacons. SO today I’ll share a small Xamarin Forms app which displays all the near Estimote Beacons. In the video above, we can see how in the iPhone (left) the app detects beacons and at the same time the app created — read more
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[#XAMARIN] Using and detecting #Estimote Virtual #eBeacons
Hello! In my previous post I wrote on how to add some code into a Xamarin Forms Solution so that it detects an Estimote beacon. In the below animation, I use the Estimote app in iOS to emulate a virtual beacon (left), and the Xamarin Android app show information of the detected beacon (right) However, to understand how — read more
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[#DEV] Amazing collection of free #development #ebooks on #GitHub
Hello! Today I read on Gisela’s feed (@0gis0) about an impressive collection of free ebooks for developers on GitHub. The general index with links is on GitHub, and the idea is that the community is responsible for collaborating with the same. Another interesting fact is that, not only are the books in English, but there are also — read more
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[#XAMARIN] First steps with #Estimote Beacons and #VS2015
Hello! Now that I have a pair of beacons up and running, next step is to create an app to see how you can interact with them. For this sample, I will create an app using Xamarin Forms and I will test the app with Android as target (my iOS build and deploy environment is on Luis — read more
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[#Tools] #JetBrainsRider, C# IDE from #ReSharper creators
Hello! Today’s plan was to post something related to Xamarin code and Beacons, however the following news deserves a full post. So here it is: The people of JetBrains has just confirmed that they are going to release an C# development IDE. It’s simple. According to the original story, the IDE will be based on the JVM so — read more
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[#XAMARIN] Estimote beacons + #StarWars = true
Hi! I’m going to share a couple of posts on Xamarin and Beacons in the next few days. I’m going to use Estimote for the first posts. So, today I realize that some beacons run out of battery. So, a normal tech dude will throw them out. Me, on the other side, think to open them — read more
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#HUMOR – Welcome to #DevOps
Hi ! And when it finally works you get a Greetings @ Madrid -El Bruno — read more
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