Tony is a Geek

Okay, if you've been living in a cave or working in the backend of Denmark for the past week, you would have failed to notice the new Raspberry Pi has just launched and immediately sold-out! Check it out.... now , thanks to the size format it could be an Arduino replacement.  It's a lot more powerful and potentially is capable of doing a lot more for the IoT.  We'll see how it pans out and whether I can actually get my hands on one, or two....or three..... Now, randomly, PiHut will sell you one from £4 -> £18 depending on the SDCard size and Pimoroni will sell you one for £8 , but they don't mention SDCards. The only downfall I see is the lack of WiFi or BLE onboard, if they could have squeezed that in, then it would have been a killer-app, oh hang on, it's hardware, killer-hard, errr... killer-thing.  It would have been better.  :-)

So, you're a fan of using NodeRed, it's great for doing all sorted of IoT work. It's great.  But......well, it's running on your laptop and that kind of limits the usefulness beyond playing with things locally. Until now!  Now, you can deploy NodeRed to Bluemix .  Yep, that means you can run NodeRed in the Cloud.  Your IoT devices can communicate to the internet and interact with NodeRed.  Now, that makes it a lot more useful! CHECK OUT MORE HERE

I've been meaning to upload this for a while now.  Today, I'll finally get around to it, mainly for my own reference, but also to possibly help other people out. The scenario: 1) You are asked to make a demo application... 2) ...in as short a time as possible... 3) ...in a pressured environment... 4) ...did I mention "they" want it all finished 2hours before you even started You get the picture.  Nowadays, just because we have Design thinking and wonderful ways of quizzing a business user on how they feel and what they want a Mobile application to do and using all the Agile techniques you can throw at a buzzword bingo board, it still comes down to the basic element.  A coder, then has to code something and writing code takes time. I totally agree that making a prototype / mockup / wireframe app can be simple / easy / quick, but making a "real" application is not so, as there is so much more that you have to construct. Now, in previous coder w...

Continuing on from ArcTuRus v1.0 , here is ArcTuRus v1.1 Whilst it may seem like there were minor changes, it was actually more challenging than I had anticipated.  I also had far too many head scratching moments... CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE