El Bruno

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[#OPINION] The non easy path from Managers to Leaders

Hello! There is plenty of books, posts, etc. related to the “managers problem”. Besides the unnecessary bureaucracy and hierarchy levels that are usually added within an organization, managers jobs tend to be the main rope to the neck which a professional can face at some point in this career. I usually told the story of… — read more

Mar 27, 2015
[#VS2013] Node.js tools V1.0, much more important than you think

Hello! After a couple of posts about the plugin in Visual Studio to work with NodeJs, we reach to final version 1.0.So here is a not so “great” news if you’re a Visual Studio developer. However, from another perspective: There are formal channels that echo on how Microsoft is changing and opening / promoting these… — read more

Mar 26, 2015
[#VS2015] Where to look to start a little dev for #Windows10? course in #GitHub

Hello! The official launch for the Windows 10 Dev tools was yesterday. It goes all around from Visual Studio 2015 to Team Foundation 2015, including some cool stuff like Visual Studio Tools, and other extensions. And that’s the easy one, you just only have download the bits. Now, as a good developer, our body does not need… — read more

Mar 24, 2015
[#IOT] 2 options to save you backend work #LabOfThings and #ConnectTheDots

Good! One of the most important parts in a solution of IoT is the decision of the type of backend which we will use. If you are a craft person, chances are that you think your own hub based in WebApi and hostees on AZURE. Then it will be time to think on topics such… — read more

Mar 23, 2015
[#HUMOR] RIP #InternetExplorer ;)

Hi! Después de 20 años uno tal vez debería tenerle un poco de cariño … veo que internet comparte mi opinión After 20 years together, you may probably think to have some love with IE, … internet thinks the same 😀 Regards @ Madrid /El Bruno Sources http://www.siliconbeat.com/2015/03/17/goodbye-internet-explorer/ http://9gag.com/gag/aYWL4Dv/rip-internet-explorer http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/18/we-wont-miss-internet-explorer-but-we-will-miss-the-memes-5109057/ http://www.cuantarazon.com/948381/internet-explorer — read more

Mar 22, 2015
[#IOT] Microsoft IoT Azure contest by #CodeProject, $10000 … so cool !!!

Hello! CodeProject friends have launched a contest about Internet Of Things based on Azure wich is very nice. The prize is $10 K (subject to the typical restrictions), and the interesting thing is that it is open to any idea you have and use devices and Azure to collect, aggregate, and explote data. From what I understand, can range… — read more

Mar 20, 2015
[#OPENSOURCE] Now is #MSBuild time !!! ^_^

Hello! It was hoped that after the launch of Roslyn, MSBuild will become an Open Source tool. Not so long ago Roslyn was published on Github, and of course >> MSBuild is the next step. In addition to being “a tool / platform / something else” the release of MSBuild is special for Microsoft. During the… — read more

Mar 19, 2015
[#AZURE] Azure #IoT Suite, really Cool !!!

Hi! I’m offline only one day and that’s it, Convergence event start and some cool news are all around. As example, Office 16 preview is here; however I think a cool one is the release (in preview mode) of the Internet of Things Suite for Azure. The main difference from the IoT Developer Kit de Intel, is… — read more

Mar 17, 2015
[#VS2013] Project Rename Tool !!! Shut up and take my money !!! ^_^

Hi! I’ll be in Roma for a couple of days, so a quick post will be better explained with a video. In this one an amazing extension to rename projects, renaming also the project folder, updating the solution, etc. Greetings @ Rome /El Bruno Download: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a76bd66e-d021-45fe-952a-c393e81912ca — read more

Mar 16, 2015
[#VS2013] HowTo: Use debugging features in #Arduino with #VisualMicro

Hello! For a while, I’ve been using VisualMicro as an alternative to the Arduino IDE to create sketches directly in Visual Studio 2013. After the MVP Open Day of a few days ago, someone asked me If working with Visual Micro and Arduino we have a 100% functional debugger . Actually, when we add a break point… — read more

Mar 15, 2015
[#VS2013] #VisualMicro, #Arduino 1.6.1 and some configuration hell

Hello! I’ve already write a couple of posts about Visual Micro, this excellent addin allow you to create Arduino projects with Visual Studio 2013. Well, now that Arduino has already released an update of your IDE to version 1.6.1, if you had any previous configuration as it is time again to apply some magic to make it… — read more

Mar 11, 2015
[#KINECT] #Kinect Adapter for Windows

Hello! One of the big differences between Kinect V1 and V2 is that in version 2 we can use XBox One Kinect with our computer without any problems. If we go back a little, with the Kinect V1 we used to had 2 versions Kinect for Windows Kinect for XBox Officially, you could use the Kinect for… — read more

Mar 10, 2015
[#HUMOR] How important is to get things done quickly (or not)

Hello! If you think that doing your job quickly can bring you problems (like in Dilbert story) … then you should change the way that you do it or try to change the way you are rated when you do it 😀 A crack… 😉 Greetings @ Home /El Bruno Source: https://thedilbertstore.com/comic_strips/2007/10/14 — read more

Mar 8, 2015
[#INTEL] IoT Developer Kit 1.0

Hello! I still go on with some draft post after the MWC15, in this case I’ll change from facial recognition to Internet of Things. One of the news that impacted me was the Development Kit IoT released by Intel. An important one, don’t expect for a a single installer with everything inside. For this DevKit we have several… — read more

Mar 7, 2015
[#FACEDETECTION] Cool Iimprovements in the faces detection algorithms (now occluded faces also !)

Hello! Now that I have finally returned to Madrid after MWC, it’s time to update some draft posts. A couple of days ago many people was amazed when I mentioned the base algorithm for face detection is from the year 2001. That’s it, more than 10 years since the work by Paul Viola and Michael Jones. This algorithm has matured… — read more

Mar 6, 2015
[#EVENT] My quick appeareance in #DotNetSpain2015

Hi! Last February 28th, I was lucky enough to host 2 sessions in the biggest .net event in Spain “Spain Dot Net Conference”. I shared my Coding4Fun experiences and also I talked a little about Arduinos, Galileos, Netduinos, etc. As soon as I ended my sessiones I take a flight to Baarcelona to host and help in… — read more

Mar 4, 2015
[#GALILEO] Using non #Grove sensors with Grove, ie: #UltraSonic Ranger

Hello! If you work with Arduinos or Intel Galileo, you will surely be a fan of Grove. Grove is great, you only need to Plug and play sensors and lets you prototype very quickly with the boards. In a couple of seconds you can have a great layout with sensors and actors connected to each other. The funny… — read more

Feb 23, 2015
[#GALILEO] Recap posts, pre deploy mode for #MWC2015 and #dotnetspain2015

Hi! I’ll be very busy next week with the preparations for Mobile World Congress 2015 and e Microsoft DotNet Spain Conference. So I’ll make some advances today with the recap of my posts on Galileo from pasts weeks [GALILEO] HowTo: Perform a firmware update to an Intel Galileo [GALILEO] HowTo: install Intel Galileo drivers in Windows… — read more

Feb 20, 2015
[#HOLOLENS] C# and XAML? It seems so ;) thanks to #Windows10 symbols

Hello! Today I will enter a little in the world of assumptions and guessing. In this post (link), James is guessing with a good base to predict how we will be able to use some tools to create HoloLens apps. The first part is a little messy, however it becomes interesting at the end. Someone has taken… — read more

Feb 19, 2015
[#GALILEO] Add an app to the auto start for #Intel Galileo

Hello! Let’s move on with the Intel Galileo series of posts: [GALILEO] HowTo: Perform a firmware update to an Intel Galileo [GALILEO] HowTo: install Intel Galileo drivers in Windows 10 [GALILEO] HowTo: Create a SD bootable to work on Intel Galileo and Visual Studio [GALILEO] Connecting Windows 10 and Intel Galileo [GALILEO] HowTo: Configure credentials in… — read more

Feb 17, 2015