Intro to Application Pools in IIS
If you want to learn IIS you can go from beginner to expert with my courses in the IIS Skill Path. Check it out! Application Pools in IIS can be somewhat of a mystery. Since they’re created for you automatically many times …
Easy CRUD for your Web API with Dapper
Full disclosure here: I don’t like ORMs. If you’re building an enormous enterprise project, you should absolutely use an ORM. If you have data you really care about and a complex, monstrous system using something like Entity …
Setting up the Adafruit Huzzah ESP8266 Breakout
Recently I showed a friend of mine some of the projects I’ve working on with Arduino and Wifi, and he introduced me to the ESP8266 chip. I found them all over the internet ranging from $1.50 US to $20, with a variety of configurations …
Failed Request Tracing with IIS
If you want to learn IIS you can go from beginner to expert with my courses in the IIS Skill Path. Check it out! A great tool I’ve discovered recently is the Failed Request Tracing Tool is IIS. If you’re building an ASP.Net …
Getting Started with Adafruit IO
There is an updated article showing the features of Adafruit IO here Check it out! Earlier this year Adafruit Industries put their IoT dashboard Adafruit.IO into Beta, and it looks pretty cool. I’ll show you how to set up a dashboard …
How to add WiFi to your Arduino
If you want to add internet connectivity to an Arduino, you have quite a few options. Since most Arduino models are not bundled with Ethernet or WiFi a market has developed for it, and I decided to try one out and share my thoughts. For …
Arduino Project: LCD Shield Kit
I recently picked up an Arduino LCD shield kit from Adafruit. I’ve wanted to play around with some LCD screens and since this was a self contained kit for $20, I thought I’d try it out. Here’s my thoughts on it. For this …
How to set up the Raspberry Pi 7 Touchscreen
I recently purchased the 7” touch screen for the Raspberry Pi and thought I’d put something together to show how it’s set up and share my thoughts on it so far. This has been a really popular item and I had to check it …
How to Build a REST API with Python
this article I will describe the process I used to create a new endpoint for my Raspberry Pi weather station, and how I set it up to to use Python and MariaDB for storage. I set this up as an endpoint for one of my IoT projects and thought …
Make a Weather Station with a Raspberry Pi
Today I’m going to show you how to make sort of a mini weather station with a Raspberry Pi. This is an ongoing project of mine that I’ve been tinkering with so I’ll share my learnings with you. It started with a project I …
