I was struggling with a rendering exception in Android Studio v2 Failed to load the LayoutLib: com/android/layoutlib/bridge/Bridge : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 Apparently this can be fi...

In my previous post, I walked you through on how to Install Python Azure SDK on Intel Galileo. Let’s now put that Python SDK into some work and post something to an Azure Service Bus Queue. It’s ...

This  post walks you through the steps to install Python Azure SDK on Intel Galileo. Requirements: An Intel Galileo board (Gen 1 or 2) The full Linux boot image Internet connection (either...

Xamarin Studio is a very buggy and flaky product. Having being used it on an every day basis, it’s getting rather frustrating to deal with Xamarins inferior QA. Here’s one example that keeps on co...

While experimenting with the Red Bear Lab Blend Micro, the board uploaded a sketch fine and then stopped being recognised by Windows — Device Manager showed “Device Descriptor Request Failed” and t...

In order to hide the status bar, one has to add 2 properties in the Info.plist file. Edit the file and switch to Source view. Add an entry named UIStatusBarHidden and set the value to true. Add ...

To run a VNC server on a Raspberry Pi, install TightVNC with sudo apt-get install tightvncserver, then create a small startup script that launches vncserver at your chosen resolution and make it ex...

SSH on Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) is disabled by default for security reasons, so you have to switch it on before you can connect remotely. The quickest way is sudo raspi-config → Interfac...

To install VNC on a BeagleBone Black, SSH into the board, install x11vnc with your package manager (opkg on Angstrom or apt-get on Debian), then start x11vnc against display :0. Wrap the start comm...

Introduction DevExpress is one of the leading providers of developer components for Microsoft Windows based solutions. In fact, this year they are celebrating their 15 year anniversary as a compan...