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#WINDOWS10 â #IoT Kit for #Raspberry Pi 2
Hola! Great news for the makers community. Specially for those who wants to try the new Windows 10 IoT Core. Microsoft y Adafruit make an agreement to create and distribute an IoT Starter Kit for Windows 10 and  Raspberry Pi 2. With two main editions – Raspberry Pi 2 included at 114.95 (link) – Raspberry Pi 2 not included at 39.95… â read more
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#VS2015 – ShowMyGitBranch, quick view of the current #Git branch ;) #VSGallery
Hola! Again Visual Studio 2015 extensions Friday’s. Todayâs extension only performs one Task; Display in Visual Studio 2015 title bar, the name of the current GIT branch where we are working Maybe it seems to be a little one, but IMHO is great. Next, a video so you can understand this. 2 times I was… â read more
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#VS2015 – Do you need #Xamarin Forms Designer? This may help you ;)
Hola! Finally, I think Xamarin Forms begins to make sense in my head. A nice one in this training ride, is when I start to learn more about Xamarin Forms, at the end I learn a lot about Android and iOS. But still, I miss something as simple as a visual designer for Xamarin Forms… â read more
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#VS2015 – Timer for #Xamarin Forms? you’ve got some options to choose
Hola! If you also like to live on the edge, you probably also like a lot to deal with performance issues in your applications. One of the best ways to accomplish this is to add a bad management of concurrent tasks or deal with threads in the wrong way. If you don’t know much about… â read more
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#INNOVATION – How #diversity can be used as an engine fostering creativity (the good diversity)
Hola! Today the idea that diversity embrace creativity is accepted, and also that diversity can be used for the emergence of new ideas. In a team or company, if you push for more plurality of ideas, youâll find a creativity-oriented culture. To get more information, an excellent resource is [Where do new ideas come from?]… â read more
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#VS2015 – DebugStudio, You can Debug in GODMODE in Visual Studio
Hola! Again Visual Studio 2015 extensions Friday’s. Today is time for a very fun developer activity: "The debug mode". The senior developers or demigods mostly consider debugging an unworthy Act. I also am who think it’s much more productive to "think before to debug". However, I am also aware that if you goes into debug… â read more
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#INNOVATION – Teach to solve problems, not to use tools
Hola! In many people who I admire I usually find a very agile mind, which enables them to solve problems in a natural way. This usually occurs in those people who are deep experts in a special topic, and they are also constantly adding new knowledge to their skills. This type of people are formally… â read more
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#VS2015 – #Arduino IDE for Visual Studio 2015 #VisualMicro
Hola! Today again is Visual Studio extensions Friday. Today extension is a great one: “Visual Micro for Visual Studio 2015“. There is an update for this one today, and this weekend is going to be some Arduino work, so letâs go for it. I’ve written several posts about Visual Micro. Iâve got be honest: if… â read more
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#VS2015 – Some lessons learned working with #Android and #WindowsPhone Virtual Machines for development
Hola! The development experience using Visual Studio 2015 creating apps for Android or Windows Phone is amazing. Until you get to a point where you need to work with Bluetooth, the you realize that the emulator does not support this feature and you need to find a workaround. So far the best alternative option Iâve… â read more
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#INNOVATION – Back to the basis, or how can great ideas fall through due its high complexity
Hola! There is a moment in the LEGO history, that fascinates me. During some complicated years for LEGO as company, one of the policies which driven the organization, was try to copy models which are profitable for the company. Among those models were the LEGO RCX set (then LEGO Mindstorms). The basis of these sets… â read more
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#SPEAKING – Is a company #CEO the best person to speak at events?
Hola! Steve Jobs has been one of the most important public people in the past years. It has been a reference for many people, although always trying to emulate him is not usually the best idea. A clear example of this, is to see how many CEOs are the main Speakers at events and this… â read more
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#VS2015 – Code Lens Health Indicator, code metrics in the source code editor
Hola! Again Visual Studio Extension Friday. Todayâs extension allows you to get an online âmaintainability indexâ of your code. I need to go back to the year 2008 to find my firsts posts on Code Metrics in Visual Studio. The final value for this is a value between 0 and 100, which display the health… â read more
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#VS2015 â Icon Generator for #Xamarin Android app
Hola! All developers knows  that you must spend some time to ensure the usability in an App. A good app, with a poor user experience, is going to fail for sure. This topic is huge and those who knows have written tons of materials about it. Also, I’m quite lazy, so I won’t write about this. Caution!, being lazy is on of the top… â read more
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#INNOVATION – 4 tips for working as a #StartUp within a large #organization
Hola! Raise in a large company with startup or agile mentality is not always easy. If the company has thousands of employees and several years of experience, youâll often find a middle and upper Management layer who always try to use the âknown formulasâ to lead teams. This is not a problem (as my mother… â read more
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#VS2015 – Create a #Vsix installer for the Delete all comments in a file with #Roslyn sample extension
Hola! Some people asked about how hard is to create an Installer for the simple in the post â#VS2015 â Delete all comments in a file with #Roslynâ. Is very easy, so I´ll write a couple of posts with the answer to the question and also later, on how to publish this one to the… â read more
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#VS2015 – Associate Recent WorkItems, very useful extension if you perform #CheckIn actions again and again with the same WorkItem
Hola! Again Visual Studio Extension Friday. Todayâs extension is very useful when you perform Check-ins associated to the same WorkItem again and again. I learn the WorkItem id number, and I quickly add it into the Pending Changes panel, or can search for the WorkItem using a WorkItem Query. Anyways this extension make the CheckIn… â read more
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#VS2015 – This is the only way you´ll add comments in your code #EmojiVs #VSGallery
Hola! Source Code seems to be one of the most popular topics in my blog, today is ⌠different. You have only one reason to add comments, and I mean ONLY ONE: GitHubâs EMOJIs in VS IDE. Something like this ⌠Download you can get the VSGallery installer and also GitHub source code location. Saludos… â read more
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#GITHUB – #Intel released the #SourceCode of Stephen Hawking’s speech recognition app
Hola! When you are on holidays you must face the hard choice: run 10K or get into some amazing piece of source code. This one is very interesting, is Stephen Hawking’s speech recognition app developed by INTEL. The app name is Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT), and as you probably already know it was created for… â read more
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#VS2015 – Delete all comments in a file with #Roslyn
Hola! Today is time for some Roslyn code, one more time to delete all the comments in a C# source code file. The step by step on how to create a project of Roslyn, is in the references section in [Roslyn – Creating an enter and initialize field refactoring]. For this sample, we will seek… â read more
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#VS2015 – Solution Load Manager extension, if you are dealing with tons of projects, this will help you
Hola! Again Extension Friday. If you work with Solutions with plenty of Projects, you will find this one very useful. Most of the times, you donât need to have all the projects loaded, so this extension allows you to define the behavior used by Visual Studio 2015 to load the projects. In [Tools // Options]… â read more