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...
Introduction This is an additional post to my DevExpress review posted here. In this post I will focus on how you can add Windows 8 Hub Tiles to your app using DevExpress Windows 8 XAML component...
The sub title of this post is also; how to do pre-web.config assembly binding for Windows Azure. So I upgraded my ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application to MVC 5 and published to my Windows Azure Web Role/...
So Git doesn’t come with a GUI based merge tool out of the box, which is fine. It’s rather easy to configure Git to use a visual 3-way diff tool. Here’s some tips on how to setup a GUI merge tool ...
Thanks to this stupidity from Oracle, I needed to uninstall Java 7 and go back to the Java v6 runtime. (Hey, Oracle, this bug was reported 9 months ago.) Well, the official way of uninstall Java...