Assessments
Is This Cheating? After clicking through the second LinkedIn assessment, I realized that what I was really assessing was how fast I could eliminate answers by searching for terms I was unfamiliar with on Google. A long time ago, after…
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Become A DateTime Master
Dates are about the worst thing ever, and I’m not talking about eating pasta with a stranger. I’m happily married, and my dates with my wife typically go pretty well every time. I’m talking about dates in programming. It’s no…
What Is Your Software Development Time Worth?
$575 million. In 2003, Markus Frind built the dating site Plenty of Fish in two weeks as part of a bid to bolster his résumé and to learn ASP.NET, and it gained traction unexpectedly, so he grew it into a…
What’s Next For Me: Saving Lives With SUAS
When Gordon Folkes III first approached me about joining Archer First Response Systems, I had a lot of questions. I had met Gordon through a hackathon in 2017, and I knew his company was working on delivering life-saving AEDs (Automated…
I’m Leaving The Best Job I’ve Ever Had
The best job I’ve ever had was my pizza delivery job at Pasquale’s. Well, in 2007 that was the best job I’ve ever had. What wasn’t to like? Tips are great. A free meal every shift. Driving a car around…
Smart Bronco: Choosing Sensors for the Real World
Going from proof-of-concept to prototype, aka my single 1988 Ford Bronco II, offers up some challenges. Rather than using Seeed Grove to prototype temperature using a simple generic temperature and humidity sensor (the DHT11, if anyone is asking), I need…
Smart Bronco: Prototyping Measuring Coolant Temperature
So while I was figuring out how to get my application approved for the Microsoft Store, I decided to move forward with actually writing some code. Eventually I want to read the temperature in the Bronco, but before I get there I wanted to just test out reading temperature at all.
Microsoft Rejected My App Store Submission
Being rejected is difficult. When I submitted my Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application to the Microsoft Store, I had no reason to think it would not pass with flying colors. I followed their checklist. I checked all the appropriate boxes, dotted all the t's and crossed all the i's.
Smart Bronco: Adding Continuous Integration for IoT
Today’s post is guest published at Nebbia Technology’s blog: Continuous Integration for the Internet of Things with Visual Studio App Center While you are there, check out all the other awesome posts!
Developing IoT Devices from Your Local Computer
Getting code from computer to device is a little bit different from just developing an application all on the same machine. Here's how the pieces fit together to get code from an IDE to a device!