Quartz.Net 3.0

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.

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Running Windows 10 IoT on a Raspberry Pi

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.

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Setting up Visual Studio Online and Hipchat Integration

While 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. So, I poked around a little in the Visual Studio Online portal and found that it is indeed quite easy to set this up. Here are the steps I followed, more as a reminder to myself for the next time I want to do this, but hopefully it will help others as well.

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Introducing the Quartz.Net Feature Pack

I’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.

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