March 4, 2021
I encountered a very unique challenge today - I needed to cut a part of a video hosted online with Azure Media Services for reference. The video in question is Into Focus, the 'show within a show,' that aired at Microsoft's Ignite conference earlier this week.
May 28, 2018
In our team (docs.microsoft.com - we are hiring), we extensively use both GitHub and VSTS, for a variety of reasons. The problem of connecting the two came along as we were thinking about our public feedback channel. We ultimately want to have all user suggestions directed to the PM and engineering teams; however, internally all processes revolve around VSTS and engineering work is tracked there. The idea was to build a bot that can create VSTS work items from suggestions in GitHub.
January 13, 2018
Last weekend I hacked together a solution that allows Nest stream capture locally. This weekend I got a chance to improve it a bit and make the entire solution cloud-ready.
November 3, 2017
Today, we are once again talking about builds, and pushing for more automation in your software creation process. Before we get started, make sure that you have the following pre-requisites handy: A Visual Studio Team Services account. Those are free. An Azure account. Those can be free for trial (1). Installed Docker. Installed Azure CLI. Pretty much all of the code and descriptions described below can be followed on macOS, Windows or Linux, as most of them will be done within the web interface, through your favorite web browser.
October 31, 2017
I am a big fan of doing a lot of the monotonous automation work through Continuous Integration (CI). Specifically, I work a lot with defining workflows for documenting managed (.NET-based) API reference documentation. In the process, we leverage several tools, as you can read from one of my previous posts. The reality of software is, however, that it changes. New updates are pushed, new NuGet packages are released, and with that, there is a very high probability that the documentation changed as well.
June 5, 2017
If you read one of the latest Ars Technica pieces about how Microsoft renewed its strategy on embracing developers across the board, you might've stumbled across this little tidbit about code sample testing.
October 30, 2016
If you already checked out the Intro to Azure Notification Hubs post, there is some new material ready for you, that describes how to build a push notification service for Chrome, Xamarin.Android and native Android.
June 7, 2016
A bit ago, Scott Hanselman and myself recorded a nice intro to sending push notifications with Azure Notification Hubs. Check out our session to learn more.
November 3, 2013
For most applications, notifications are not exactly critical. Granted, a scientific calculator will not benefit from having an in-app notification hub. On the other hand, there are cases when you want to let the user know about what’s new and what changes before an update or including information in the changelog. That’s where a custom notification hub control can come in really handy.
January 18, 2013
While working on Beem, I always relied on a static XML file to fetch me the list of available online radio streams. It’s a good way to keep the content dynamic, and when new stations are added, I do not have to re-submit the application for certification but rather just update the XML file.