Come as you are, do what you loveI've been asked a few times for thoughts and tips around getting an internship at Microsoft. So in the spirit of "I didn't have time to reply to you so I wrote this blog post", I thought I'd provide a stack of resources useful to folks wanting to know more about the process. ApplicationInterested in an internship he…
Read MoreLearn how to show an Azure Maps control on a web page, and add pins and paths to the map…
Read MoreA Geofence is a virtual boundary defined using an area on a map. Azure Maps has tools for checking if a coordinate is inside that Geofence. This post looks at how to do these checks.…
Read MoreThe MXChip board has 2 serial ports - one using the USB which is great for debugging, and one you can use to stream data from third party modules. This article shows you how! TL;DR - connect the TXD on the module to 1 on the MXChip, RXD to 2, then create a new Serial using UARTClass Serial1(UART_1); You can then call this in the same way as the Ard…
Read MoreI've been playing a lot with the Azure Custom Vision Service - a great service to build image classification and object detection models with just a few images. To make it easier to test my models, I wanted to build a mobile app that connects to a custom vision project and uses that to classify or detect objects in images captured using the camera.…
Read MoreLearn how to build a live captioner using Python and the Azure Cognitive Services…
Read MoreLearn how to launch Try .NET from VS Code using the debug menu instead of the terminal.…
Read MoreTry .NET is a new thing to come from the .NET teams that allows you to, well, try .NET. In a browser. You can think of it as a way to create interactive .NET documentation using .NET Core. What is Try .NETThe experience or writing code in a browser itself isn't new, developers have been able to try out C# coding snippets in the browser for a while…
Read MoreLearn how to connect a PyCom board to Azure IoT Hub…
Read MoreWant to use VS Code on a Raspberry Pi to code in Python? Here's how to do it.…
Read MoreLearn how Jim used Azure Media Services to fix his dumb mistakes when recording video!…
Read MoreI've been playing with a Raspberry Pi for a while, and I'm getting fed up with changing the input to my monitor and using a second keyboard/mouse (yeah, yeah, 1st World Problem I know). I decided to set up a remote screen share so I can share the screen. This means I can use the same monitor/keyboard/mouse that I use for my Mac, but it also means I…
Read MoreXamarin and Xamarin.Forms need no introduction. I'm sure by now you are well aware of these technologies and have seen many examples of building cross-platform mobile apps using C#. If not, I can highly recommend my book Xamarin in Action which if you follow this link and use code 'xamarininaction' you can get 40% off the cover price. What you many…
Read MoreLearn how to build an internet connected fan using the MXChip Azure IoT dev kit and Azure IoT Hub…
Read MoreA discussion came up at work the other day on flying long-haul with very young children (toddler age), so I though it would be good to share the tips that I shared with the discussion. My daughter is 6 and has been on over 40 flights, including a lot of long haul as a toddler so I've managed to build up a selection of tips that have worked well for…
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