by Chris Pietschmann | May 7, 2019 | Big Data, Blockchain
It’s been about a year and a half since Microsoft first announced the Coco Framework they’ve been working on. It’s been about a full year longer than Microsoft stated when they were originally planning on releasing their Coco Framework for Blockchain...
by Chris Pietschmann | May 6, 2019 | Internet of Things
The Azure IoT DevKit (MXChip AZ3166) is a really cool board for prototyping Azure IoT solutions. However, it’s a physical board and having the board is required. Or is it? Actually, no, you can use the Azure IoT DevKit Simulator from any web browser. You can...
by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 28, 2018 | Featured, Infrastructure
Some time back I wrote about doing Visual Studio development with an Azure Virtual Machine (VM). In that article, I showed how you can setup a Windows VM for Development purposes to extend your local development machine with the help of the cloud. In this article, I...
by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 21, 2018 | Development, Featured, Open Source
Keeping track of file versions has been a long time issue in the world of software. This remains true if you’re writing source code for an application, command-line scripts, or even authoring a book or documentation. Sure, you could just create .ZIP files with a...
by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 13, 2018 | Book, Data Science, Development
The book “Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data” published by O’Reilly and written by Jake VanderPlas is available for purchase in print, as well as being offered completely Free as an online eBook. Here’s the book...