Running WordPress requires an ability to run PHP and MySQL database for storing content and Azure Web Apps offer the ability to deploy WordPress instances in just a few clicks. Out the box, Azure Web Apps support PHP up to the latest version. However, your options for fulfilling WP’s dependency on MySQL in Azure Web Apps have consisted of using a third party…
Introduction Today’s post focuses on a five-part video series that will show you everything you need to know to get started developing with Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi 2. The series covers everything from Installation, an overview of the Operating System, Development tools, GPIO interaction, helpful extension libraries, interacting with Analog sensors, and finally concludes…
In this article, I will describe how to publish data from a Spark Core to an Azure Event Hub for real-time processing using Azure Mobile Services as a message proxy. Spark OS is a distributed operating system for the Internet of Things that brings the power of the cloud to low-cost connected hardware. Spark provides…
It looks like November is shaping up to be an event-packed month with various hackathons / coding challenges taking place at UH, Rice, and near UHD in the EaDo area. To participate in Mo’ Code Movember you will want to join the official Facebook Event and view the contest rules! Seeing these events laid out, I…
Microsoft’s App Studio portal allows developers to build rapid prototypes as well as full blown applications quickly and easily on any machine with a capable web browser. This has resulted in thousands of published apps from developers around the world! In today’s post, I am going to focus on one of the many provided templates, the Web…
You can install and run adblock on your devices at home and create an ad-free experience for users of those devices, or you can block ads at the router level and block ads for every device on your network. Using a WHR-G54 router flashed with DD-WRT I was able to implement such a solution in…
This year marked the 2nd annual Houston Hackathon held at the Houston Technology Center in Downtown Houston. This year’s event pitted 18 teams against each other to brainstorm up and prototype a technological innovation which benefits the city for the chance to pitch the idea to mayor Annise Parker. Patrick Wolf, Jesus Hernandez, Thomas Garza,…
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