Opportunity has ended it’s mission
NASA’s Opportunity Rover looks back over its own tracks on Aug. 4, 2010. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Opportunity Rover looks back over its own tracks on Aug. 4, 2010. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
After 20 years in our existing home, we are getting ready to move to a new home. The new house is still being built and I had CAT6 run to the places where I ...
ACS ACR122U USB NFC Reader
Cross-platform Localization for Native Mobile Apps with Xamarin
It was time to install Windows 8.1 on my Acer Iconia W3-810. I received the tablet at the Build conference. The W3 came with the 32-bit edition of Windows 8 ...
Andy just tagged me. This is the geek version of tag. I share 5 things about myself, then I tag 5 other people. The hard is finding 5 other people who hav...
I have some code that uses Apple’s AppConnect API to query App store related things. I wrote a C# script that I run from LINQPad that gives me a weekly sta...
Welcome to Part 4 of a three part series. Last month, I did a series of posts on how to use Apple’s App Connect API to query the team membership list using C...
It’s that time of the decade when I get a new Macbook Pro. I use a Macbook to compile iOS apps with Xamarin which makes it required equipment. Even though my...
Back in July, I received a new Macbook Pro. A lovely little device, but I had this one problem. It wasn’t showing up as a trusted device under my iCloud acco...
I needed to grab the lists of registered devices and developers from our company’s Apple Developer portal. Unless I’m being particularly obtuse (an outcome ...
A quick PowerShell script for setting the Num Lock state
About a month ago, I blogged about an update to a webcam hack that I did called FocusUF. There wasn’t much to the code and I put it all up on GitHub. Someone...
Back in July, I received a new Macbook Pro. A lovely little device, but I had this one problem. It wasn’t showing up as a trusted device under my iCloud acco...
After Windows Home Server was more or less retired by Microsoft, I bought a new NAS server for home. After some deliberation, I bought a QNAP TS-451+, a coup...
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I needed to grab the lists of registered devices and developers from our company’s Apple Developer portal. Unless I’m being particularly obtuse (an outcome ...
So Apple updated Xcode on my Macbook from 13.4.1 to 14. I wasn’t paying much attention to the prompts or even the version numbers. After doing so, I could n...
While working on a demo mobile app for a course, I needed to know if the units of measurement on the app would be in Imperial units or Metric units. Since I’...
Some shortcuts accessing redis-server running under WSL via PowerShell
About a month ago, I blogged about an update to a webcam hack that I did called FocusUF. There wasn’t much to the code and I put it all up on GitHub. Someone...
I’ve been writing firmware for an RFID reader that connects over USB to an Android device. Our installers will need to upgrade the readers out in the field ...
I needed to make a small change to an Android apop that we have in the Google Play store. I made the change, generated a new apk and we submitted to the ap...
I have a new course that was just published this week on Pluralsight, “Xamarin.Forms 5 Fundamentals”. It’s seven hours of tutorials and demos for the devel...
ACS ACR122U USB NFC Reader
I needed to make a small change to an Android apop that we have in the Google Play store. I made the change, generated a new apk and we submitted to the ap...
I hit the “VersionCode 1.0 is invalid” error with .NET MAUI and resolved it.
Windows Terminal is so close to being out of beta. It’s been my default CLI on Windows for about a year. I still don’t think in PowerShell, but I try to use ...
Simple tip for adding your own memory aid to your PowerShell profile.
A quick PowerShell script for setting the Num Lock state
Windows Terminal is so close to being out of beta. It’s been my default CLI on Windows for about a year. I still don’t think in PowerShell, but I try to use ...
First post under the new regime.
A couple of weeks ago my blog was defaced through a security hole in WordPress. About 800,000 blogs were hit via something called the REST-API exploit. I saw...
A while back, I blogged about a command line hack to set the focus for a web cam. I was using a Microsoft LifeCam HD-5000 and it has the annoying habit of re...
Back in January, I ported the excellent usb-serial-for-android library from the Java source code to Xamarin C#. We have an Android application that needs to...
I needed to grab the lists of registered devices and developers from our company’s Apple Developer portal. Unless I’m being particularly obtuse (an outcome ...
Original image courtesy of Amtec Staffing
Image courtesy of Serge Melki
While working on a demo mobile app for a course, I needed to know if the units of measurement on the app would be in Imperial units or Metric units. Since I’...
Image courtesy of M. Adiputra via Wikimedia Commons
I had tweeted out the hashtag #BostonOrBust. Seriously, don’t do that. I tempted Fate, and Fate called me out on it.
I have a new course that was just published this week on Pluralsight, “Xamarin.Forms 5 Fundamentals”. It’s seven hours of tutorials and demos for the devel...
So Apple updated Xcode on my Macbook from 13.4.1 to 14. I wasn’t paying much attention to the prompts or even the version numbers. After doing so, I could n...
Back in January, I ported the excellent usb-serial-for-android library from the Java source code to Xamarin C#. We have an Android application that needs to...
I needed to grab the lists of registered devices and developers from our company’s Apple Developer portal. Unless I’m being particularly obtuse (an outcome ...
Bowie's READ poster from the American Library Association (1987)
Image by FiveRings [CC BY 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons Many, many years ago, I used to work with Jack*. Jack is a musician and at the time ...
If you haven’t listened to Rachel Maddow’s “Bag Man” podcast, you are missing a great tale of corruption.
A few things that I have done to improve video conferencing from home.
Windows Terminal is so close to being out of beta. It’s been my default CLI on Windows for about a year. I still don’t think in PowerShell, but I try to use ...
A quick way to color paragraphs in OneNote.
Some shortcuts accessing redis-server running under WSL via PowerShell
I hit the “VersionCode 1.0 is invalid” error with .NET MAUI and resolved it.
First post under the new regime.
First post under the new regime.
First post under the new regime.
We hit this strange bug in SQL Server earlier in the year. A single SQL Statement would just kill the connection. It would kill it 100% in any version of SQL...
We hit this strange bug in SQL Server earlier in the year. A single SQL Statement would just kill the connection. It would kill it 100% in any version of SQL...
While working on a demo mobile app for a course, I needed to know if the units of measurement on the app would be in Imperial units or Metric units. Since I’...
So Apple updated Xcode on my Macbook from 13.4.1 to 14. I wasn’t paying much attention to the prompts or even the version numbers. After doing so, I could n...
I have a new course that was just published this week on Pluralsight, “Xamarin.Forms 5 Fundamentals”. It’s seven hours of tutorials and demos for the devel...