This past weekend, I spoke at NCDevCon in Raleigh, NC about NativeScript. My session, 6 Minute Mobile Apps with NativeScript – A Race Against Time, was truly a race against time. Over 50 minutes, I attempted to build 10 mobile apps, while teaching the attendees how to get started with NativeScript. I mentioned various web sites, Github repos, and technologies…
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Integrating an Azure IoT Hub into the Particle Cloud
This is the second post in a series of posts on the IoT weather monitoring solution I built for Locust Hill Farm. If you haven’t read the first post, check it out. If you’ve read the first post, you’ll recall that I built the IoT weather station using a Particle Electron. I walked you through selecting the hardware and assembling…
Building an IoT Farm Monitoring Solution
Over the last 3 months, I’ve been busy building an IoT weather station for my father-in-law’s farm, Locust Hill Farm. We have always been fascinated by weather, and love watching storms. After acquiring the farm around 2009, we always wondered what the weather was like out there. It only takes about 30 minutes to drive out to the farm, but…
The Future of NativeScript in Action
A lot has been happening around our book, NativeScript in Action. Some bad thing, but more importantly, some great things. The Bad News: NativeScript in Action Cancelled If you had pre-ordered NativeScript in Action, you will have recently received an email notifying you that the book was cancelled. We’re sorry if you got this message. Many of you have reached…
Pre-keynote address at Code PaLOUsa
Back in June of 2017, I spoke at Code PaLOUsa over lunch, prior to the keynote. At first, I struggled to find something what I really wanted to say that could prompt everyone to think, yet be true to me. After a few days of deliberation with colleagues I was still undecided. I had a few ideas, but they felt…
Chat with Nick Branstein and TJ VanToll on NativeScript in Action
Last week, Nick and I spoke with TJ VanToll about NativeScript in Action, our new book from Manning Press. If you’ve ever been interested in what it takes to write a technical book, take a look. It’s a short 15-minute video.
Understanding the Basics of NativeScript App Layouts
This article was excerpted from NativeScript in Action. Understanding NativeScript layouts Creating pages for your app and navigating between them isn’t enough to make a good app. Mobile app development is also about creating compelling user experiences to accomplish a purpose. This means you need to present and organize your UI in different ways, depending upon what the users of…
Enable IoT Remote Server in Windows 10 IoT Core with PowerShell
This post is the eighth of a series describing our automation efforts for provisioning Windows 10 IoT Core on a Raspberry Pi. To recap, KiZAN has a lab of 26 Raspberry Pi 2 boards running Windows 10 IoT Core. On a regular basis, we need to re-flash, provision, and configure the boards. When we perform the re-flash and provisioning process,…
Disable SoftAP in Windows 10 IoT Core with PowerShell
This post is the seventh of a series describing our automation efforts for provisioning Windows 10 IoT Core on a Raspberry Pi. To recap, KiZAN has a lab of 26 Raspberry Pi 2 boards running Windows 10 IoT Core. On a regular basis, we need to re-flash, provision, and configure the boards. When we perform the re-flash and provisioning process,…