September 2015 | CSE Developer Blog

Using Travis CI to Deploy to Azure

Anthony TurnerSeptember 30, 2015Sep 30, 201509/30/15

Travis CI is known as everyone’s favorite Continuous Integration system, offering free testing for open source projects. It also integrates seamlessly with GitHub, automatically testing all your branches, but also optionally pull requests. All around, it’s an amazing tool to test and build applications written in a variety of languages, ...

Upgrading to npm@3 on Windows

Anthony TurnerSeptember 30, 2015Sep 30, 201509/30/15

Despite it’s popularity, there were always two major issues with running Node.js on Windows: First and foremost, the operating system maintains a maximum length for path names, which clashes with Node’s traditional way of nesting modules in node_modules. The second issue was a bit more subtle: The npm installer had a set of steps it ...

Talking AllJoyn with Universal Windows Platform (UWP)

Jason PoonSeptember 15, 2015Sep 15, 201509/15/15

Windows 10 introduced support for AllJoyn giving any Windows 10 device – phone, desktop, tablet – the ability to connect and control multiple Internet of Things (IoT) devices like @HeavenFresh air purifiers and humidifiers. In this case study, we will delve into the process of how we added AllJoyn support to the HeavenFresh Universal ...

Using ManifoldJS to Get More Out of Web Sites

Ville RantalaSeptember 15, 2015Sep 15, 201509/15/15

Companies that have developed a Web app sometimes experience the limitations that pure Web sites have, but don’t necessarily have the resources to implement platform-specific apps or maintain multiple codebases to get rid of those limitations. For example, a startup might decide to build their product first as a Web app to reach a wide ...

Image Management in ASP.Net Using Azure Blob Storage

Michael LanzettaSeptember 14, 2015Sep 14, 201509/14/15

Recently, we were working with a large appliance manufacturer training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image recognition, which involved solving a wide variety of problems. Herein, we focus on the end result - when you have a deployed Neural Network ready to score images taken by your client, how do you get the images to the Neural ...

Visualize Large 3D Captures using Pyrite3D

Tracey TrewinSeptember 10, 2015Sep 10, 201509/10/15

Large scale 3D reconstructions created from aerial data captures are quickly becoming an important tool for many industries including commercial construction, agriculture and mining. Camera and reconstruction technology are continually improving, and as such the size of these data-sets continues to grow as well. These large 3D meshes and ...

Rotary Wheel Control with HeavenFresh

Jason PoonSeptember 8, 2015Sep 8, 201509/8/15

Windows 10 introduces the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) providing a common app platform enabling the ability to install the same app package onto every Windows 10 device: phone, desktop, Xbox, IoT, Surface Hub, etc. We worked with @HeavenFresh to create a UWP application and, in the process, a rotary wheel user control. This case study ...

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