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Continue ReadingThe IX4-300D NAS device can be configured for SSH access by following these steps: Log in using the administrator account Navigate to the Diagnostics screen: [http://ix4-300d/manage/diagnostics.html][1] Select Support Access -> Allow remote access for support Enter the root password twice and click apply Now you will be able SSH into the NAS, using the root user, and with the password you entered, prepended by soho.
Continue ReadingIn trying to streamline my workflow I wanted to be able to run the Docker Quickstart Terminal from ConEmu. I’ve been working in ConEmu for all of my command line activity and it’s a way better experience overall. This post describes how to configure ConEmu so that you can get the Docker Quickstart Terminal to run inside of it.
Continue ReadingInstalling Docker on Windows is a fairly simple and straightforward process. It is very well documented here. However if you have Hyper-V installed as I do, the instructions will not work right out of the box. If you try to start the Docker Quickstart Terminal, you’ll get the following error message:
Continue ReadingMy affordable education kit finally arrived! To be honest it actually arrived a couple of weeks ago but with all the holidays and a new project I’m working on, it has taken me a while to get to it. Today I opened the box and took a peek at what it looks like.
Continue ReadingA while back I heard about the affordable education robot. I thought it was a very interesting approach and I wanted to build one and see if I could get my daughter interested in it. I tried to buy one but my search for it turned out nothing, so I contacted Justinjustin, who is listed as the contact on the bottom of the page about getting my hands on one.
Continue ReadingI’d like to introduce you to a project I’ve been working on over the past year. It’s called ResumeChef and it’s meant to help you create customized Resumes with a few clicks. You can view the marketing site or try the application out. Why Build ResumeChef? There are several reasons why I went down the path of building ResumeChef.
Continue ReadingI went poking around the Quartz.Net repository while trying to answer some related questions on StackOverflow. I noticed that there is now a quartznet-3 branch present (although it’s apparently been there for a couple of months). I pulled the branch but I was unable to build it. It was interesting to see that some things have changed, so you should expect to hear more about those in the form of blog posts.
Continue ReadingI’ve been working with Raspberry Pi hardware for a while now, but mostly using the tools that are more common in the space. That means that my devices have all been running Raspbian as the OS and that the programs I’ve written for them have all been written in Python. Now that the official release of Windows 10 for IoT is out, I thought I’d give it a whirl and talk about my experience.
Continue ReadingWhile searching for a way to add TFS integration to Hipchat, I came across a bunch of posts that were not particularly useful. In my particular case, I was looking to integrate Visual Studio Online’s TFS with Hipchat, so using a separate service to manage this integration seemed like unnecessary pain.
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