It took me a good hour to resolve this issue. I’m hoping that the search engines pick this up for you and save you some time. I’m thinking about switching from Blogger to Jekyll, which is built with R
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a Lync Status light called “beakn”. I joined the Windows IoT Maker team not too long ago and have been immersing myself in the Maker space – I’ve bee
I’m continuing to build out “beakn” my DIY Lync Status light. This is what I’m calling a “maker experience” project. I want to know what a maker goes through to build things so I’m building it with as
I’ve spent a good part of the last 15 years doing .NET development. When I joined IoT and started getting ramped up, I quickly discovered that it is largely an unmanaged non-.net non-Microsoft world.
As I am building out my “maker experience” product “beakn” I’m constantly thinking about ways to improve it with the goal of getting it to be completely wireless. I started with it being USB connected
I’m working on a “maker experience” project called beakn. It’s a Lync status light that lights up red, yellow or green based on your Lync status. beakn v0.1 was all about getting it working without it
Canon has a program called the “Customer Loyalty Program” that allows you to send in your broken Canon camera and get a refurbished camera at a discount. There’s nothing about it on the Canon website,
It took me a while to figure out the best way to automatically start a windows app when a user logs into their computer. There were a bunch of suggestions on StackOverflow, but the registry key approa
It took me a few mins to get the exact steps figured out to upgrade the firmware of the Arduino Wifi Shield. Hope this saves you some time. Here are the original steps: http://arduino.cc/en/Hacking/Wi
Part of my new job is to fully understand the process a maker goes through when developing their ideas into products. There’s no better way to do that than to build something. I believe that to truly
I was getting this error when deploying to Netduino Plus 2 from VS2013. Unable to communicate with device USB:Netduino It turns out that that particular Netduino had an old firmware version. Use the
This Intel page tells you to download the FTDI drivers and run as Admin. I appears that you first need to install the “Windows Driver setup 1.0.0” from this page. 1. Install Windows Driver Setup 1.0.0
It took me a few mins to get all the right firmware and sdks going for Netduino Plus 2 and Visual Studio 2013. Hope this post saves you some time. .NET Micro Framework and VS2013 Setup 0. Close VS20
I was running the following post-build scripts in VS2013… $(FrameworkDir)\installutil.exe /u "$(TargetPath)" $(FrameworkDir)\installutil.exe "$(TargetPath)" and was getting this error… "System.Securi
I’m working on an NFC project and to test things out I got a PN532 NFC shield working with a RaspberryPi via libnfc. Adafruit has a good step-by-step tutorial, but it’s not up-to-date and it’s for the
My career is progressing in what appears to be five year cycles. Back in 2004, five years into my software dev career, I made the move from independent contractor to Microsoft employee. Five years int
I was just messing around with Node.js Tools for Visual Studio and Azure and ran into a few gotchas while getting everything setup. Hopefully this helps you get going. 1. Install the Node.js Tools for
I’m still on Photoshop CS5 but haven’t had a DVD drive for many years, so I needed to find the online download version of it. I searched for a while and finally found the “Download and Installation He
The best developers optimize every aspect of their lives. Optimization is built into their DNA. We are always looking for ways to not repeat ourselves and strive to make everything we do faster. Ever
I have a ton of interests and not enough time to give them all enough attention to be an expert at anything. All of my interests have one thing in common - they all take lots of time and energy to pe
<tldr>I need Microsoft stack and JavaScript dev contractors for a 3 month contract. Must be able to start immediately. Send me your resume and I’ll be in touch: /contact</tldr> I started a
Solution to “Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item” c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\ink\tabtip.exe w
UPDATE 3/5/2014. I reported this issue to the Azure team shortly after I posted this blog. The issue has now been resolved. Go Azure! If you click on the “try it now” button on the Preview Services pa
I recently switched from a ASUS ZenBook Touch to a Lenovo X1 Carbon. All was well until a few days ago when I let the battery completely drain while watching a movie. Since then the X1 Carbon was slug
Many years ago, I resolved to get a handle on managing the plethora of email that is part of the Microsoft culture. Email is a very important communication mechanism – it’s just a messaging system -