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  • Building a Raspberry PI Robot Car part 2

     
    In the last post we talked about the electronics, in this post I will talk a bit about the 3D design and printing of the components. I have recently acquired an Ultimaker 3D printer and after quite some experimenting has led me to be able to start de...
  • Top 5 free Andriod Apps for Raspberry Pi

     
    Below some great Andriod apps that you can use for working with your Raspberry Pi. All 5 Andriod apps are free to use and should work with the Raspbian operating system 1. RaspManager This app enables you to view what is happing on your Pi. Ov...
  • SDL Web/Tridion – How could the hot fix process be smoother?

     
    All software needs updating at some point due to unforeseen customer configurations, security updates or fixing bugs that slipped past QA. SDL’s software is no different. There are many ways to deliver updates to installed software. The challen...
  • Publishing Queue metrics in CloudWatch

     
    This post is part of a bigger topic Autoscaling Publishers in AWS.In order to define autoscaling of some servers, we need some metrics that we can use to create the autoscaling logic, i.e. when t...
  • Inspect the DXA Localization object

     
    Sometimes you just want to look under the hood and see what DXA is doing. Here is a tool to inspect the Localization object for DXA .NET. This also gives insight in all the published resources and configuration parameters. I use this when I have to u...
  • SDL Web 8 – DXA “admin refresh” on Load Balanced Servers

     
    DXA has a nice feature which caches labels, settings and mapping information on disk when it first loads up. This increases performance of model mapping and commonly used resources. These are published by the Publish Settings Page in SDL Web/Tridion....
  • Oracle backplane for SignalR

     
    A lot of people are using Oracle as their database of choice, in which case, they cannot just use the same database as a backplane just like you can use SQL Server if that was your database of choice. An option could be just to use REDIS or some othe...
  • Building a Raspberry PI Robot Car part1

     
    In the recent few months I have been very focussed on a few topics like humanoid robotics and robot interaction. Recently I have had some extra time and decided to take the next step and really design a robot from scratch. I thought for my first from...
  • UI Notification framework

     
      Last week in TDS India I have presented a session on UI Notification framework. Since then I have received few request to share the code, so I think it is best to write a blog on this and share it with everyone. SDL Web 8.5 has introduced a ne...
  • Using and debugging DXA (Java) with Web 8.5 on Amazon

     
    So I finally got around to having enough time to set up a Java-based DXA connecting to a Content Service in the Amazon cloud. It was a fun adventure, to say the least, and most of it is due to … Continue reading →