Phone Numbers for Examples and User Identification
When testing a software system or mocking up examples for documentation you often want realistic values, but you shouldn’t simply make these up. »
Service Workers vs. AppCache
I’ve used the Application Cache (AppCache) successfully in many projects (such as InstaBail) but for my recent book I wrote about JavaScript Service Workers, as AppCache has been deprecated and Service Workers have replaced it, almost. »
Block BBC Breaking News on All Devices
Update The second part of this hack will stop working when the BBC get around to rolling out HTTPS at some point in the next year (second update: over a year after this post was written and it still hasn’t been done). »
My book - ASP.NET Core 1.0 High Performance - is out
I’ve written a book on how to build high performance web applications with Microsoft’s new open source and cross-platform framework; ASP. »
The New Microsoft
Microsoft now ♥ Open Source and Linux. What’s going on? I gave a short lightning talk on this topic at a local tech gathering. »
Pi Glowbe - Raspberry Pi Wake Light
There’s a new version of my Pi Glowbe (with more lumens) that you can read about here. This post was also featured in projects volume 2 (p108), without the environmental monitoring bit at the end. »
5 Years of Pragmatic Tube Statuses
It’s been 5 years since I started this blog. So I thought I’d take a look back at my first post and see how times have changed. »
Windows 10 IoT Core on a Raspberry Pi 2
I’ve tried out Windows 10 on both an old MacBook Pro and on a Raspberry Pi version 2. This post is a more in depth look at interfacing the two together. »