In my previous post I talked about using NFC to communicate between devices and hopefully gave you an introduction to the capabilities of NFC. This post will cover the Proximity API in more detail and show you how to set up a persistent connection between two Windows Phones which will allow you to communicate without …

Near Field Communication has been seen demonstrated in two ways. Firstly scanning an NFC enabled card which can be programmed to perform a number of different actions such as take your device to a specific url, transfer contact details, start an app or take you to the store to install the app and a number of other …

This article aims to talk about Windows Store Notifications and the Windows Azure Notifications Hub and it will attempt to collate the various articles in a single place to help you build notifications into your app. In order for you to get an understanding of Windows notifications look at the following article …

After a good night in Hereford at the Smart Devs User Group and my presentation at DDDNorth Here are the links from my presentation and some from questions asked: Gadgeteer: http://www.netmf.com/gadgeteer/ Signal-R: http://www.asp.net/signalr/ Web API: http://www.asp.net/web-api The Signal-R chat example can be found …

I’ve just finished presenting my talk on “Successfully Adopting the Cloud: TfGM Case Study”and there were a couple of questions that I said I would clarify.

1. What are the limits for the numbers of subscriptions per service bus topic. the answer is 2000. further details can be found …

Whilst working on a project in which we we using the Topics on Windows Azure Service Bus, we noticed that our subscription queues (when viewed from the Windows Azure Management portal) didn’t seem to be empty even though our subscription queue processing code was working correctly. On closer inspection we found that …

Black Marble are participating in the Microsoft MVP Cloud OS Community Week. During the week commencing 9th September there will be daily events held at Cardinal Place, Victoria, London. Richard and I along with other MVPs will be participating in the event on Friday 13th Sept which is titled “Enables Modern Business …

Scott Guthrie made an announcement on his blog about changes to the way Windows Azure is priced http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/06/03/windows-azure-announcing-major-improvements-for-dev-test-in-the-cloud.aspx The main two changes that will affect most people are Per minute Billing No charge for turned off …

I’ve been playing with Gadgeteer (http://www.netmf.com/gadgeteer/) for a while now and I am a big fan of the simple way we can build embedded hardware applications with high functionality. We have a proof of concept device that includes a Colour touch screen, RFID reader and an Ethernet connections. This device is …

The Global Windows Azure Bootcamp is a one day deep dive session to get you developing on Windows Azure. This is a global event organised by the community for the community. There will be a number of events held at locations across the globe. This event will happen on April 27th, 2013 and Black Marble will be hosting …