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A Brief History in IoTime
March 31, 2019 12:38 David Jones MVP azedge iot azure iothuib iotedge azmoibileservices
A brief look at the development of IoT from the content of of a a bolted on Microsoft (Embedded) Developer. I hope Stephen Hawking can excuse my pun, from up there, or from whatever multiverse or blackhole he is in. More ...

Azure Sphere Samples
March 30, 2019 23:29 David Jones MVP azedge azsphere azure iot iothub
Some links to sample projects for the Azure Sphere on GitHub. More ...

My Azure Sphere Scripts
March 30, 2019 22:26 David Jones MVP azedge azsphere azure iot iotedge iothub
This GitHub repository contains a number of scripts, as DOS batch files, that do simplify the setting up of an Azure Sphere device. Where user input is required a user prompt for input occurs. Where the user needs to make a choice from existing Azure or other resources, a numbered list is auto-generated, with selection being made by choosing the item number. More ...

Jekyll : Next and Previous Post Links
March 30, 2019 18:47 David Jones MVP web jekyll next previous html links
On a blog site, a must have is the ability to click on a link to the chronologically next or previous post, particularly if the current post is is a part of a sequence of posts on a specific topic. This post show how to do this for a Jekyll blog site for all posts and for within a specific Category of posts. More ...

HSQLDB.Net : .Net interface for HSQLDB Database
March 29, 2019 22:56 David Jones MVP db hsqldb dbms dotnet csharp codemesh juggernet java
HSQLDB.Net is a library for HSQLDB that wrapper that DBMS engine’s Java classes and so provides an interface for C# Windows Forms and Console apps to existing HSQLDB databases. The library is provided on GitHub along with a sample console app that creates and exercises a database. More ...

AzureIoT-CoreUtils
March 29, 2019 01:13 David Jones MVP azedge iothub edge azure
Some PowerShell scripts for setting up containers on Win 10 IoT-Core: In particular, setting installing and uninstaling requires a local PowerShell script; that is, one copied to the device. More ...

ClickOnce Hosting on Azure
March 21, 2019 16:06 David Jones MVP appdev appdev visualstudio clickonce bobstorage
I’ve often thought that it would be useful to make an app install available for GitHub projects that developers can run to test if they want to look into the project code. Generally, repositories are not the place for built apps. Azure Blob Storage Static Web Sites office a simple platform for hosting ClickOnce app installations. You can easily use a custom domain to point the static site’s Azure URL. Also, Azure CDN enables the TLS protocol (aka SSLs) for a custom domain without having to get an external SSL certificate. Pricing for the TLS capability is based upon volume so can be quite cheap for entry level. More ...

Create a Blob Storage Static Web Site with SSLs enabled
March 03, 2019 16:06 David Jones MVP web web azure cdn https ssl tls blobstorage dns cname
Covering how to create an Azure Blob Storage Static Web Site. The second part shows how to configure https for a custom domain for the site. More ...

Creating this Blog Site
February 27, 2019 16:06 David Jones MVP web jekyll web devops markdown disqus azure github
This blog site is a customised Jekyll blog site using Markdown content authoring The layout has an expanding menu of Categories on the left with post content in the main pane on the right. For phones, the menu makes use of the glyph menu style (menu only shows when activated). The blog index page shows a summary for each page in reverse chronological order (latest first), along with its category, tags, date and author. There are also index pages for each category, and each tag. Comments for pages has been implemented using Disqus. Azure Devops is used to reposit the site content and to generate the site as an Azure Blob Storage Static Web Site. More ...

Requirements for a Blog Site
February 20, 2019 15:03 David Jones MVP web web blog jekyll markdown
My other blog site on embedded101.com has gone into archive mode. I wanted more control over content functionality and presentation. Also the editor, LiveWriter, is defunct. I liked Mardown for editing, as experienced on GitHub. I initially started creating a new blog on GitHub Pages but have now migrated that to here. In doing so I came up with some ideas for added functionality. So here are a list of those features as available through Jekyll-Markdown, the initail site and those taht I have engineered. More ...

JekyllFilter App
January 10, 2019 01:29 David Jones MVP appdev jekyll yaml dotnet windows-forms markdown csharp
This app is a C# .Net Windows Form app for authoring Markdown files specifically for a Jekyll blogsite. Includes a preview mode. Whilst its not as efficient as the editor and preview in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio IDE, it does have the added feature of being able to capture and and translate Microsoft Word documents to Markdown, including handling images. Also it can do same for a local HTML page and for a remote web page. More ...

Space Filler devops
January 01, 2019 15:12 devops
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Space Filler azure
January 01, 2019 15:12 azure
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Introduction : What is this sequence of posts about?
September 02, 2018 11:12 David Jones MVP xam uwp xforms sqlite uwp csharp
OK so you have been creating Windows apps for ages including UWP. You have developed apps that run on the Windows desktop and the phone. You understand the rudiments of developing a modern UI app MVM etc. You understand PEM, properties events and methods for classes and GUI elements. You understand database CRUD can attach a database to an app using formal database invocation methods. You might even have mastered the Entity Framework and/or have a deep understanding of ORM. Overall, in coding terms, when confronted with a new programming context you know what you want to do and how you do with UWP or Windows Forms; you just need to do it in the new context. Xamarin Forms, bring it on! More ...