Dual Screen or Foldable Screen

Saturday, February 8, 2020

Coming later this year is the next evolution of tablets. Windows 10X promises dual screen… er… single foldable screen… wait, both? But which do I choose? This is going to be tough. On the one hand you have the Surface Neo and on the other hand you have the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold. Ugh! Let’s start with Lenovo first. I had a first generation Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon back in the day.…

Hugo Page Resources

Friday, February 7, 2020

Hugo is a static site generator that takes markdown and turns it into a static HTML site. That’s how this site is running. I’ve been using it for another of my web sites, but I don’t like how it handles images. I found some code that would put a border around images and it looks nice. I use it on my other blog. But one of the hardest parts was figuring out how to handle page resources in Hugo.…

Hugo to the Rescue

Friday, February 7, 2020

In January I rebuilt my custom blog engine running on .NET Core 3.1. I pushed it up to a new Linux server in Azure. Everything appeared to be okay. So I left it and hoped I’d have the motivation to write some blog posts for it. Yesterday I wanted to see how to do CompactOverlay in JavaScript . I know I have a blog entry on that. I’ll just go to my website and find it.…

6502 Computer

Friday, February 7, 2020

Ben Eater has a series of videos building out a 6502 based computer. So far we have videos detailing how to print out “Hello, World!” on it. It doesn’t seem like much right now, but it was a really interesting process. Besides, just look at how cool this looks: There have been 5 videos detailing how to build this up from the processor to the ROM chip and the 65C22 interface chip.…

Installing .NET Core 3.0 on a Raspberry Pi

Friday, February 8, 2019

I went into this exercise thinking this would be a tough challenge. However, it turns out to be a very simple process. It’s just prepare, download, unpack, configure, and roll with it. Prepare First make sure that your Raspberry Pi is running the latest software updates with this command: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Once that is done, we need to install libunwind8 sudo apt-get install libunwind8 That’s it for prepare.…

Build 2018

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Another year and another Build conference. Last year I said I’d go this year given the opportunity, and I was given the opportunity. The original build conference was billed as //build/ Windows. You could bring whatever tools you knew to build great Windows apps. This conference has morphed over the years and is now //build/ Azure. This is disappointing to me. Like last year the first day keynotes were centered around the server and Azure.…

AppUrlHandlers

Monday, November 6, 2017

The promise of web-to-app linking is that a developer can associate an app with a website. That way when you load the website the app will launch. Really cool! However, the sad truth of the matter is that you have to do a Windows Key + R to Run the website. Normally I, and I assume most people, go to their browser to view websites. There’s simply no point in running the web page.…

Installing Windows 10 from a Flash Drive

Thursday, July 20, 2017

8 and a half years ago I wrote about Installing Windows from a Flash Drive . These instructions have served very well for all that time. Like most things, however, times change and instructions that used to work need tweaking. I recently got a Microsoft Surface Laptop and it’s a great machine. The first thing I did was to upgrade from Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro. Then I installed a Windows Insiders build on it and that’s when things started going bad.…

Build 2017

Monday, May 15, 2017

Microsoft Build is the ultimate conference for me. It’s a developer conference that focuses on Microsoft’s roadmap for the coming year. Every year after the keynote and first day of sessions I rush to a computer to try out what I’ve learned. It’s such a rush to, as everyone says, drink from the firehose. This year, however, was different. The first day was about server technologies. Normally they save that for the second day.…

Windows CompactOverlay Mode

Thursday, March 2, 2017

The Creators Update of Windows is coming soon. One of the new features coming with it is a way to keep your UWP app on the screen above all other windows. It’s called CompactOverlay mode, but you probably know it better as Picture-in-Picture. All of the examples that I’ve found online of how to do CompactOverlay mode (all? I mean all one of them ) is written in C#. In my work on a day to day basis I work in JavaScript.…