a developer's notebook
RetroPie allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi into a retro-gaming machine. It builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects to enable you to play your favorite Arcade, home-console, and classic PC games with the minimum set up. Setup To set it up you need the following: Raspberry PI 3 MicroSD card HDMI cable Powerbank or 5V 2.5A micro USB…
NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages. The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository used by all package authors and consumers. In order to install a package, you can do it either through Nuget Package Manager UI or through Package Manager Console using:
1 | Install-Package PackageName -Project ProjectA |
In case…
In the new Microsoft Azure Portal, you might have noticed that, next to some of your resources, appears the text “(Classic)”, for example Storage Accounts and Storage Accounts (classic). This happens in order to separate resources that have been deployed with the Classic deployment model from the ones that have been deployed with the Azure Resource Manager. Some Background Azure originally provided only…
If you are a developer on a Windows machine and you want to access a Redis Server while you build your application, you have several options; one of them is to use the Redis port on Windows project by MSOpenTech, download the latest binaries and have your Redis Server running on Windows. Another option is to have a Linux VM running on your machine and connect to it whenever you need it….
Windows 10 Anniversary update offers a new feature for developers, an Ubuntu-based Bash shell that can run Linux software directly on Windows. How to install it First of all, you need to enable the Developer Mode on Windows 10. To do so, open Settings app and head to Update & Security. Then on the left side click on For Developers option and finally, activate the Developer Mode…
In Azure if you have two or more SQL Databases and you want to perform a query across them, you might come across the following error:
1 | Reference to database and/or server name in '[database table]' is not supported in this version of SQL Server. |
In order to perform cross database queries among SQL Azure databases you need to use the elastic database query feature. What is the Elastic Database Query Feature? The elastic database query feature enables you to run a Transact-SQL query…
In our previous article we explored the option of creating, deploying and managing the Parse Server using a pre-configured VM image on Microsoft Azure. In this post we are going to describe an easy way for Parse developers to continue their work on Microsoft Azure by leveraging the following mobile services; Azure App Service and Notification Hubs. In Azure MarketPlace, when searching for Parse Server, you may come across…
What is it? EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs. The EditorConfig project consists of a file format for defining coding styles and a collection of text editor plugins that enable editors to read the file format and adhere to defined styles. EditorConfig files are easily readable and they work nicely with version control…
Node.js is updating quite frequently these days, so using your terminal on a Mac or command line on Windows would make update process faster. Updating Node.js on a Mac To update node.js on a mac, through terminal, you have a lot of options through popular package managers or node.js version managers. N N is a very simple node.js version management system. If you don’t have it,…
Parse was founded in 2011, in order to provide backend tools for mobile developers that help them store data in the cloud, manage identity logins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud. In 2013 it was acquired by Facebook and in 2014 it was reported to power 500,000 mobile apps. Parse Server is an open source version of the Parse…
