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Using uPort For Authentication On Blockchain To Improve Standards On The Food Logistics Chain

Zach Miller March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019 03/29/19

Background Supply chains – made up of individual suppliers, shippers, warehouses, and customers – are extremely complicated conglomerates. When something goes wrong along a supply chain, knowing where and how a shipment went bad can be a huge use of time and energy. This is especially true in the food logistics industry. While ...

Giving meaningful context to social media influence with Microsoft Cognitive Services

Rachel Weil December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17

Background In understanding social media, context is key. Current social-media analytics can tell us what topics are trending, but they don't provide insight into the tenor of the conversation or who are engaged in it. We recently joined with social marketing startup m-oracle, based in Atlanta, for a two-day hackfest to develop a solution ...

Deploying bots using the Serverless framework

Ville Rantala June 1, 2017 Jun 1, 2017 06/1/17

Introduction Microsoft recently partnered with the makers of the Whim service to experiment with conversational user interfaces. Whim is a Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) solution that allows people to leverage multiple kinds of transportation options with a single monthly fee. The makers of Whim found conversational interfaces interesting...

Integrating Payments with Bots

Bhargav Nookala October 31, 2016 Oct 31, 2016 10/31/16

Background At a recent collaboration with a customer, we learned about a few integrations they had wanted to build for Bots running with the Microsoft Bot Framework. One such integration was with a payments service provider, like PayPal. We had created an example of this integration with the C# SDK for Bot Framework, but no such example ...

Showing Native Windows Notifications from Electron Using NodeRT

Nadav Bar October 30, 2016 Oct 30, 2016 10/30/16

Electron enables JavaScript developers to easily develop cross-platform apps using existing JavaScript and Node.js libraries. While the main premise of Electron is the ability to run the same JavaScript code on different desktop platforms, in certain scenarios, developers might find it necessary to use native and specific OS capabilities to ...

HDInsight orchestration using Azure App Services

Mor Shemesh August 28, 2016 Aug 28, 2016 08/28/16

Sometimes we need to use the processing power of an HDInsight cluster for infrequent processes or events. In such cases, a constant availability of the HDInsight cluster is redundant, and scale-down options do not enable scaling down completely. To optimize costs it is possible to reduce the availability of the HDInsight cluster as long as the...

Compiling Electron Apps for the Windows Store

Anthony Turner May 8, 2016 May 8, 2016 05/8/16

Electron apps are a powerful cross-platform solution for developers: Combining Chromium, Node.js, and a thick layer of APIs to integrate with the operating system, Electron enables developers to build Desktop apps using JavaScript and Node modules. Electron applications run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux - but they are not able to take ...

Reading and Writing to the Windows Registry in-process from Node.js

Anthony Turner November 9, 2015 Nov 9, 2015 11/9/15

A single npm module that enables Node developers to update the Windows Registry, create file associations, and much more! As cross-platform application developers, we often need the ability to update the Windows Registry when installing our applications on Windows. Common features requested by app developers include reading and writing keys...

Upgrading to npm@3 on Windows

Anthony Turner September 30, 2015 Sep 30, 2015 09/30/15

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 ...

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