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VoIP calls from the browser using WebRTC and FreeSWITCH
There was a time when making phone calls from the browser would have meant installing a native extension. Thanks to WebRTC, we can now make phone calls from the browser. This post is my recent...
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Dual SIM LG L40 (D175F) with Android KitKat
The cost-benefit of Android Smartphones continues to improve. LG L40 (D175F) is no Moto G, but it is cheaper, and a wonderful piece of hardware. I recently bought one for my wife. It currently retails...
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Monthly news review
This post reviews news in the month that has passed. DMV Lays Out Rules Governing Self-Driving Car Tests If you live in California, you’re now one step closer to riding a self-driving car. The rest of...
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USB CDC ACM driver for Windows 8
The LUFA library provides a template INF file that can be easily extended to create a serial port driver for your USB CDC ACM device. Here’s the template with CatalogFile added by me ; Windows LUFA CDC...
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Windows 10 Technical Preview
Windows 10 Technical Preview looks fresh and awesome. As someone who has adopted Windows 8 right since it was launched, Windows 10 helps reduce friction like Windows 8 never did. Here’s what I like...
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Recursively copy to output in msbuild project
I have this very specific need to copy all files and folders from a source folder, to the project build output, akin to xcopy. Here’s an AfterBuild target that does that. <Target...
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Lumia 630
A couple of years back I never thought I’d be buying a Windows phone. At R$ 320 (approximately US$ 104) I found a Lumia 630 to be a really good upgrade for my wife, after a LG L40 she’d been using....
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Generating a unique ID for a Windows PC
Software licensing usually works by tying a product to a single PC. Identifying the PC in a unique manner usually requires generating some kind of unique ID. Here’s a log of certain attributes of a...
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WebSockets with WCF
This post demonstrates an elementary chat service constructed using WCF and WebSockets. A custom binding that leverages WebSocket support in httpTransport is used. JSON is serialized and deserialized...
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Windows 10 Technical Preview
Windows 10 Technical Preview looks fresh and awesome. As someone who has adopted Windows 8 right since it was launched, Windows 10 helps reduce friction like Windows 8 never did. Here’s what I like...
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Recursively copy to output in msbuild project
I have this very specific need to copy all files and folders from a source folder, to the project build output, akin to xcopy. Here’s an AfterBuild target that does that. <Target...
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Generating a unique ID for a Windows PC
Software licensing usually works by tying a product to a single PC. Identifying the PC in a unique manner usually requires generating some kind of unique ID. Here’s a log of certain attributes of a...
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WebSockets with WCF
This post demonstrates an elementary chat service constructed using WCF and WebSockets. A custom binding that leverages WebSocket support in httpTransport is used. JSON is serialized and deserialized...
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Windows 10 Technical Preview
Windows 10 Technical Preview looks fresh and awesome. As someone who has adopted Windows 8 right since it was launched, Windows 10 helps reduce friction like Windows 8 never did. Here’s what I like...
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Recursively copy to output in msbuild project
I have this very specific need to copy all files and folders from a source folder, to the project build output, akin to xcopy. Here’s an AfterBuild target that does that. <Target...
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Generating a unique ID for a Windows PC
Software licensing usually works by tying a product to a single PC. Identifying the PC in a unique manner usually requires generating some kind of unique ID. Here’s a log of certain attributes of a...
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WebSockets with WCF
This post demonstrates an elementary chat service constructed using WCF and WebSockets. A custom binding that leverages WebSocket support in httpTransport is used. JSON is serialized and deserialized...
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Dealing with .NET’s messy WebBrowser control
I’ve been trying hard to coax .NET’s WebBrowser control to log in using PingFederate federation server. I particularly don’t want to mess with the registry to change Internet Explorer’s browser...
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Inquire Bluetooth service record on Windows
Linux distros have excellent built-in support for inquiring characteristics of Bluetooth devices around you, using hcitool and sdptool. The closest thing on Windows is the Bluetooth Inquiry Record...
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View USB device descriptors on Windows
I have occasionally fired up a Linux virtual machine just to view USB descriptors of devices using lsusb -v. This post briefly describes a couple of tools for Windows that can be used to view...
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