When building software, you want to focus on… building software. One of the things we used to do when CI servers were not invented yet, was manually regression testing code changes in shared components. It was a error prone process and CI servers made this process a lot easier. When…
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I’m working on a Windows UWP webserver for hosting REST api’s. Today I tried to move from a headed to a headless demo application, but that didn’t go as smooth as I hoped. It should be quite straight forward: Download the background app template Create a new “Background Application (IoT)” project Implement…
3 CommentsIn these days of automated builds, automated testing, automated deployment, etc we tend to forget the importance of a good code review strategy. All this automation could easily mislead to the idea that you are in control. When those green balls appear, you get a smile upon your face, lean…
Leave a CommentCouple of days ago a colleague started a question with “wouldn’t it be cool if..”. This kind of start will always mean that:
- It’s something off the books
- It eat up your spare time
- You can’t ignore it, cause it’s too cool
That’s exactly what happened. He asked me “wouldn’t it be cool if we could use the raspberry pi 2 to view our monitoring systems”. Yes that would be cool, but there is one problem. Those monitoring system rely on pdf’s with information and the WebView xaml control doesn’t support pdf.
Leave a CommentLast week I installed Visual Studio 2015 RTM, after using the beta and RC versions. When I tried to build a solution I got a NullReferenceException when VS tried to restore the nuget packages. Some packages were restored fine, others didn’t. One of them was NUnit 2.6.3. The weird thing…
Leave a CommentA few weeks ago I started building a REST webservice as a Windows UWP app (if you’re interested, it’s hosted on github). This morning I wanted to add some unit-tests, but somehow couldn’t build anymore. I got this error: Type universe cannot resolve assembly: System.Configuration, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a That’s weird.…
Leave a CommentA few weeks ago the RTM version of Windows 10 IoT Core was released. Oh, was I filled with joy… only to find out that my serial to rs232 converter wasn’t supported. Officially we should wait for the manufacturer to release windows 10 drivers. Unless you buy the only USB…
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