I’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.
Continue ReadingI’d like to introduce the [Quartz.Net feature pack][qnfp] project to you. It’s hosted on GitHub and it’s main purpose is to provide some features that are not currently part of Quartz.Net. Traditionally, Quartz.Net has been a direct port of the Java implementation of Quartz and so it doesn’t typically add new functionality that might be useful if it is not part of the Java version.
Continue ReadingThis is the fifth post in the Quartz.Net Listener Tutorial series. In this post we’ll be looking at the listeners that are shipped with the Quartz.Net distribution. Scheduler Listeners If we search through the Quartz.Net codebase we’ll find two classes that implement the ISchedulerListener interface: SchedulerListenerSupport and BroadcastSchedulerListener. Let’s look at these guys in detail now.
Continue ReadingThis is the fourth post in the Quartz.Net Listener Tutorial series. It’s also the fourth part of the introduction to listeners overview series. You can find Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here. Today we’ll be looking at trigger listeners and how to implement one. As we mentioned in Part 1, trigger listeners get notified of trigger level events.
Continue ReadingIf you visit my blog frequently, you may have noticed that the layout of the site has changed drastically. Can you guess why? Yes, I switched from using wordpress to using Jekyll. Why switch? Speed Basically because I wanted my site to load faster. I moved off shared hosting and into Azure to speed up the site and there definitely was an improvement.
Continue ReadingThis is the third post in the Quartz.Net Listener Tutorial series. It’s also the third part of the introduction to listeners overview series. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Today we’ll be looking at job listeners and how to implement one. As we mentioned in Part 1, job listeners get notified of job level events.
Continue ReadingThis is the second post in the Quartz.Net Listener Tutorial series. It’s also the second part of the introduction to listeners overview series. You can find Part 1 here. Today we’ll be looking at scheduler listeners and how to implement one. As we mentioned in Part 1, scheduler listeners get notified of high level scheduler events.
Continue ReadingThis post is the first post of a series called the Quartz.Net Listener Tutorial. Today we’ll be introducing you to listeners in detail. We’ll cover what they are and what they could be used for. Part 1 will only cover listeners in general. Parts 2-4 will cover the details of the specific types of listeners.
Continue ReadingThis multi-part tutorial will describe Quartz.Net listeners in detail and will provide examples of how to use them. We’ll cover the following listeners and topics in this tutorial: A listener overview: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,Part 4 Quartz.Net's Built-in Listeners I think that we’ll have one post for each listener type.
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