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Much respect to all inventors of #QUALCOMM #WhyWait Invent-off!
The last episode of the invent-off is available to view! Regardless of the results, I feel privileged to have had an opportunity to work with all of those incredibly talented and passionate inventors. The competition was really fun and I finally got to dip my toes into IOT/IOE. http://whywait.kinja.com/and-we-have-a-winner-the-invent-off-finale-is-here-1723341729 As promised, I created a video…
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Success!! Ok and some failures with AllJoynJS #WhyWait #QuallComm #AllJoyn
The third episode of the hackathon has been published. As the deadline of the contest is looming, I’m definitely creating synthetic stress upon myself. There are awesome advantages to using AllJoyn in our project, but also a few problems created by friction of complexity. Regardless, we’ll push through! http://whywait.kinja.com/what-bright-idea-will-the-teams-create-in-the-whywait-1718090122 I know the episodes are short,…
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Shocking surprise in the 2nd Episode of the #WhyWait #Qualcomm challenge!
Episode two has been released and this “voted” component thing truly is a shocker! I’m already losing sleep without any additional features, but I suppose you play with the hand that you are dealt with. More things to read up on and in the end, that means more content to create tutorials for! Enjoy all!…
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Episode 1 of the #WhyWait Hackathon is available to watch!
The first episode of the hackathon is out. I’m not entirely aware of how much of the build it will show as the episodes are brief, but fear not! Once it’s all done, I will create tutorials and walkthroughs! http://whywait.kinja.com/watch-two-teams-of-innovators-compete-in-the-whywait-i-1716856087 Otherwise, enjoy!… Read the rest
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Selected to be part of the #Qualcomm #WhyWait Hackathon!
Recently I was selected to be a contestant of a hackathon sponsored by Qualcomm to build basically any green fielded idea pairing an Arduino Yun and an Android phone. The first episode will be aired online in the next week or so. Please support me by spreading the word, to any nerd! I’m super excited…
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Resurrecting Persistent Windows
Well, my amazing Wife gave me the green light on ordering 3x Dell P2415Q 4K monitors. So I enthusiastically connected them all via DisplayPort on my NVidia 970GTX card on my desktop and low and behold the windows are exhibiting the crazy re-arranging behavior! Thus, I’m reviving the project and now since I’ll be able…
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Displayport & AMD Radeon with latest Catalyst drivers
Thanks AMD! The DisplayPort issue is fixed and no longer re-arranging windows across my monitors when I lock my screen! It seems as though my PersistentWindows utility is no longer necessary for ATI cards. I’ve just validated it on multiple machines and life is returning to normal with DisplayPort! Looking at the feedback from the…
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Persistent Windows 1.0.7 released – NotifyIcon mingling with WPF
Recently, I’ve been distracted from my pet projects due to various life events and also Diablo 3 – Season 2. While I still haven’t been able to get new Random Coding or Top Coding content out, I did find a convenient survey plug-in for Word Press to get some feedback on Persistent Windows. Based on…
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** Update ** EntityFramework detecting complex type with database first
Originally, I posted a question on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21630431/entityframework-detecting-complex-type-with-database-first While we’re still not using complex types, we’ve worked out a mechanism to preventing our developers from breaking the autogenerated models when re-generating from the DB. We’ve altered the T4 template generated by EF. First we’ve created a method in the CodeStringGenerator class public string BaseClassAndInterfaces(EntityType entity)…
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PersistentWindows 1.0.5 and other updates!
Well 2014 has come and gone in a blink of an eye! Updates have been delayed due to various priorities as I was blessed with the birth of my second child the past year. I haven’t posted a new video, nor made updates to my little pet projects because it’s really hard to when you…