I 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.
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.
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