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…
Tag: azure
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…
NativeScript Tweet Bot
I’ve spent the last month building workshop and presentation content for Music City Code, held in Nashville, TN. I spoke about NativeScript throughout the conference, met a ton of new friends, and had fun building apps, and automated products. One of the products of my preparations is a cool side project I call the NativeScript tweet bot. 6 Minute Mobile Apps…
Internet of Cows
In a world filled with an increasing number of Internet-connected devices, data is king. You may have heard of the Internet of Things (IoT), which is just a fancy way of saying I’ve got an internet-connected device. You’ve likely even heard of some of these devices: thermostats (like the Nest) stream temperature and humidity information, door bells (like Ring) stream video,…
BUILD Recap – Day 1
Keynote During the //build/ keynote today, there are several impressions Microsoft wanted to ensure everyone walked away with. The first impression is “Microsoft is listening to your feedback” – during the Windows 10 portion of the keynote, Microsoft spoke towards constantly changing how Windows 10 looks and interacts with users. I was happy to see start menu changes that make…
Visual Studio Online with Azure Active Directory
Previously, I have blogged about extending your on-premise Active Directory to Windows Azure by using the Azure AD Sync tool. In this post, I will show you how users can authenticate to Visual Studio Online with Azure Active Directory. Before We Get Started If you have not already configured your on-premise domain for Azure Active Directory synchronization, refer back to…
Use Azure Active Directory and Windows Identity Foundation to Authenticate in MVC
In my last post, I showed how to use Azure Active Directory sync to extend your local Active Directory into Azure. In this post, I’m going to show you how to use Azure Active Directory and Windows Identity Foundation to authenticate in MVC by leveraging the Brosteins.com Azure Active Directory. I’ll then configure my MVC site to use Organizational Accounts.…
Using Azure Active Directory Sync to Extend your Local AD into Azure
Hosting a website in Azure that is secured with on-premise domain credentials has never been easier. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to setup Azure Active Directory and Azure AD Synchronization (AAD Sync). In a future post, I’ll show you how to use your extended Azure Active Directory to authenticate users to an MVC application using ASP.NET Identity.…
Creating an Azure DocumentDB
Microsoft has been providing (in opinion) the best cloud platform for developers for quite a while, and their newest preview feature (DocumentDB) continues to add features modern developers have been asking for. Azure’s DocumentDB is a NoSQL document database service that supports JSON document storage and rich, native JavaScript query support. I’ll spend the next posts reviewing the new DocumentDB…