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2016

Announcing HackDay.io is proudly supporting Magikcraft

Proud to announce that HackDay.io has partnered with supporting Magikcraft

What is HackDay.io

HackDay.io is focused on running community focused events by developers, for developers, on a range of different technologies.

Wrapping up the first Angular Hack Days with Brisbane

After the event had packed out our space in the other states, it was very encouraging to see Brisbane do the same.

Kicking off the first Angular Hack Day Sydney

More than a fourth of all attendance got up at the end of the day and showed the angular apps they had developed on that day.

See what we got up to at the first Angular Hack Day

It was incredible seeing so many people in attendance. We packed out our presentation space and completely sold out of tickets.

Getting Started developing UWP apps for Xbox One

In this tutorial, we will enable the new Developer Mode & create a simple Universal Windows App that will run on the Xbox One.

Xamarin going free answers the 2nd most common question at every Xamarin Hack Day

This is one of the few time I am exicted to be wrong...Xamarin in Visual Studio at no extra cost.

Angular 2 101 - Getting Started with the Angular-CLI

In this upcoming presentation, learn how to save yourself from repetitive Angular 2 boilerplate code by leveraging the Angular-CLI

2015

VIDEO – Presenting at the IoT/Win10 double header event

Check out the recordings from this special Sydney .NET User Group featuring Dave Glover and Chris Briggs

VIDEO – Windows Internet of Things development starts to sizzle – Learn the Universal Windows Platform

Windows 10 is here and will be powering a billion devices shortly!

Securing AngularJs & Asp 5 Web API - Auth Fundamentals

In this upcoming presentation, a step by step journey through the fundamentals of security implementing authentication and authorization when working with a ...

VIDEO – Supercharging your Xamarin app! 3 must use libraries

In this presentation, learn how to solve common problems, effortlessly by adding 3 must have libraries to your Xamarin project!

VIDEO – What is Gamification and how it could work for you

Zac Fitz-Walter and I discuss all things Gamification - from improving user engagement to shallow VS deep Gamification while highlighting common pitfalls to ...

Windows internet of things development starts to sizzle at YOW Connected 2015

Thank you YOW Connected, you were a great audience it was great fun talking about UWP IoT apps running on a Windows 10 RaspberryPi 2

Setting up Dependency Injection for Universal Windows Platform using Autofac

No matter if its a Windows IoT, Xbox One or Desktop app, Dependency Injection is the secret ingredient for having a having maintainable solution.

How to connect Application Insights to Power BI via Azure Stream Analytic

Sadly, there is no out of the box way to connect Power BI and Application Insights, unless we harness the power of Azure Stream Analytics

VIDEO – The Internet of Things - Ilija Injac on all things IoT and .NET

Jeremy Cade and I discuss all things Azure, .NET Micro Framework & Windows IoT with Pluralsight author and Microsoft Azure MVP Ilija Injac.

Gulp 101 - Automatically update your TypeScript definitions in Visual Studio 2015

Do you use Visual Studio 2015 & Want your TypeScript definitions to automatically update?

Gulp 101 - Move your front end packages from nuGet to Bower in Visual Studio 2015

How to use easily move from using nuGet to Bower using Gulp.

How to get started using WiFi on your Windows 10 IoT Raspberry Pi 2

How to take advantage of the new WiFi support for the Windows 10 IoT Raspberry Pi 2

Jumping into Windows Internet of Things development at DDD Melbourne 2015

Whats that It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Windows10 IoT using UWP on a Pi at DDD Melbourne 2015!

Add robustness to your Windows IoT, by using Polly for easy transient exception handling

We face a range difficulties when taking our IoT creations out of the lab. Transient exceptions have the potential to cause difficult to solve issues.

VIDEO – What’s on the horizon of the Internet of Things with Stuart Corner

In this interview SSW’s Chris Briggs speaks to the creator of Internet of Things Australia, a website about all things IoT.

VIDEO – Jumping into Windows Internet of Things development by using the Universal Windows Platform

Take a simple “hello world” and turn it into a useful IoT citizen!

Beginners guide to GPIO in Windows 10 IoT Core

Windows 10 IoT is about more than just code in this post we discuss explain both sides of the equation

Using SQLite in Windows 10 IoT Core

Why use Sqlite? Small memory footprint, easy to use and reliable!

Gulp 101 - Getting LESS Up and Running in Visual Studio 2015

How to use Gulp to compile all .less files to .css automatically.

How to Consume SignalR in Windows 10 IoT Core

Especially in IoT, we never want to have our devices constantly polling for updates, rather we would greatly prefer to have the server push updates.

Getting Started with Windows 10 IoT Core

Wondering if your Pi is secretly Skynet or HAL? Stay calm and read on!

Have you heard about Leaflet?

Leaflet, plug and play JavaScript mobile-friendly map, which just works out of the box.

Integrating SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) with Web-API and AngularJS - Part Three

Using PDF.JS to display reports nicely within an AngularJS SPA

Integrating SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) with Web-API and AngularJS - Part Two

How to render an SSRS report inside a web API.

Azure Machine Learning Difficulties Deserializing JSON Response

Only part of the JSON string returned deserialized into an object.

Integrating SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) with Web-API and AngularJS - Part One

What if I separated the report generated by SSRS form the report viewer component?