One of the things I showed at NDC was a Raspberry Pi 2 with a FEZ Cream Hat (I know that sounds just so wrong, but that is its name). The FEZ Cream offers Gadgeteer ports out of the Pi, which is just awesome. What this means in reality is you get objects to program against not ports and lines which is mush easier; for …

The Intel Edison unit is great for building IOT, people have been asking where to get the bits and for more general information http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html I would suggest getting the Arduino kit to get started with. I enjoy the Xadow(below) much more but I struggled to get the …

I strongly recomend you watch a great security talk on IOT by Clemens Vasters and Dan Rosanova https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/2-625 NDC London 2016 Talks (Videos not up yet, will update as soon as they are ready) Barry Dorrans + Troy Hunt b.

This is the list of recomended books on IOT I shared in my session Enterprise IOT O'Reilly http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039433.do Abusing the Internet of Things O'Reilly http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033547.do I will update this as I find and approve of new books b.

I had a great time at NDC 2016. It was a very well organised event, everybody enjoyed the event, content and the food. Huge thanks to the great and efficient organisation by the NDC team. Also thanks to the great people with clearly great taste who attended my talk. I am separating the post into a few areas so I can …

As I discovered during my BlogEngine upgrade, there is an effort within the project team to focus the codebase on three possible usage models on any given BlogEngine server instance: Single blog with a user – a personal blog (default) Single blog with many users – a team/company blog Many blogs each with a single user …

I have just completed the upgrade of this blog server to the new release 3.2 of BlogEngine.NET. I did a manual upgrade (as opposed to the automated built in upgrade) as I needed to make a few changes from the default settings. The process I used followed the upgrade process document Downloaded the latest release and …

If you want to run CodeUI tests as part of a build you need to make sure the device running the test has access to the UI, for remote VMs this means having a logged in session open and the build/test agent running interactivally. Problem is what happens when you disconnect the session. UNless you manage it you will get …

My primary blog editor has been Microsoft Live Writer for years, but it has always been a pain to install via Windows Essentials (as I don’t want the rest of the product), also I was never able to find the right version when I rebuilt a PC. This was not helped by the fact there has been no development of the product …

We are currently working on updating a Windows 8 application to be a Windows 10 Universal application. This has caused a few problem on a TFS vNext automated build box. The revised solution builds fine of the developers box and fine on the build VM if opened in Visual Studio, but fails if built via the VSTS vNext build …