Author Archives: Rajen

Pebble development with Visual Studio Code on OS X

February 6, 2016 no comments

It’s been a while since I last posted, due to my (not so) new job with Microsoft in Redmond, WA. Now that it’s been about 8 months since the move and things have settled, I find myself having some mo...

AllJoyn on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian) and Windows 10

May 26, 2015 6 comments

After the announcement of Windows 10 including out-of-the-box support for AllJoyn, I decided to try and connect my Raspberry Pi Model B+ running Raspbian to a Windows 10 PC to see how this all pans o...

Personal update: new job/relocation

April 24, 2015 2 comments

In this slightly out-of-place blog post (no technical tidbits to be found), I’d like to take a moment to update those interested of the changes in my personal and professional situation to also...

Setting up Raspberry Pi with RaZberry

February 4, 2015 2 comments

In my previous post, DIY Home Automation: The basics, I explained my motivations to build my own DIY Home Automation system and what my requirements were, leading to my purchase of a Raspberry Pi wit...

WinRT shared cookies between WebView and HttpClient

January 30, 2015 4 comments

I recently worked on a project where we needed to make hybrid apps, consisting of native Universal Windows apps that displayed a responsive web application in the app through the WebView control. The...

DIY Home Automation: The basics

January 17, 2015 3 comments

Home automation as a theme is rapidly gaining popularity in the consumer market. Manufacturers like Nest and SmartThings are being purchased by tech giants like Google and Samsung to compete in the r...

Play audio in a Universal App without interrupting the stream

June 12, 2014 22 comments

Over here at Microsoft in the Netherlands we have limited spots for employees to park their car right below the building. In collaboration with Schiphol and SkiData, we received access to the actual ...

Trigger a Background Task using Geofence on Windows Phone 8.1

April 29, 2014 34 comments

UPDATE May 2, 2014: I mentioned using the emulator’s functionality to test geofencing in the initial blog post with placing multiple pins. It seems (after asking around internally at Microsoft)...

Modernizing the original Microsoft Surface

February 27, 2014 68 comments

UPDATE April 17, 2015: Due to the many requests I’ve received, I’ve decided to share my compiled Multi-Touch Vista binaries and my own Surface’s calibration data. Hope this helps in...

Code sharing strategies with MVVM

December 5, 2013 3 comments

On September 25th and November 21st I talked about MVVM as a pattern to build apps, as well as code sharing strategies for Windows and Windows Phone projects through either Portable Class Libraries o...