Introduction On Thursday (July 4th, 2024) the UK held a general election. There are many, many blog posts, newspaper articles, podcast episodes etc covering the politics of it, and the lessons that the various political parties may need to learn. I, on th[...]

Introduction I don’t know much about my blog readership, so let’s start off with two facts that you may not be aware of: I live in the UK. The UK has a general election on July 4th 2024. I’m politically engaged, and this is a particularly interesting elec[...]

Nearly three years ago, I posted about some fun I’d been having with VISCA using C#. As a reminder, VISCA is a camera control protocol, originally used over dedicated serial ports, but more recently over IP. Until this week, all the cameras I’d worked wit[...]

I’ve been keeping an eye on MAUI – the .NET Multi-platform App UI – for a while, but I’ve only recently actually given it a try. MAUI is essentially the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, embracing WinUI 3 and expanding from a mobile focus to desktop apps as wel[...]

In part 1, we ended up with a lot of test data specified in a text file, but without working tests – and with a conundrum as to how we’d test the .NET Core 3.1 data which requires additional information about the “hidden” AdjustmentRule.BaseUtcOffsetDelta[...]

As part of my church A/V system (At Your Service), I run a separate local web server to interact with the Zoom SDK. Initially this was because the Zoom SDK would only run in 32-bit processes and I needed a 64-bit process to handle the memory requirements [...]

In the course of my work on our local church A/V system, I’ve spent quite a lot of time playing with Elgato Stream Decks and NDI cameras. It only occurred to me a week or so ago that it would be fun to combine them. The Stream Deck screens are remarkably [...]

As I have mentioned before, I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last two years writing code for my local church’s A/V system. (Indeed, I’ve been giving quite a few user group talks recently about the fun I’ve had doing so.) That new A/V system is ca[...]

.NET 6 was released in November 2021, and includes two new types which are of interest to date/time folks: DateOnly and TimeOnly. (Please don’t add comments saying you don’t like the names.) We want to support these types in Noda Time, with conversions be[...]

Background As I wrote in my earlier blog post about using OSC to control a Behringer XR16, I’m working on code to make our A/V system at church much easier to work with. From an audio side, I’ve effectively accomplished two goals already: Remove the intim[...]