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Submission + - Microsoft makes Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino open source (betanews.com) 2

Submitted by BrianFagioli on Thursday July 06, 2017 @08:44PM

BrianFagioli writes: Today, Microsoft releases yet another open source tool on GitHub — Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino. This MIT-licensed code should greatly help developers that are leveraging Arduino hardware for Internet of Things-related projects and more.

"Our team at Visual Studio IoT Tooling, researched the development tools developers are using today, interviewed many developers to learn about their pain points developing IoT applications, and found that of all layers of IoT, there are abundant dev tools for cloud, gateway, interactive devices, and industrial devices, but limited availability and capability for micro-controllers and sensors. In particular in MCU domain, there are millions of Arduino developers demanding advanced features to make their development with device easier. Keep open source and open platform in mind, we started the work to add an extension on Visual Studio Code, the cross-platform, open sourced advanced code editor, for Arduino application development," says Zhidi Shang, R&D and Product Development, Microsoft.

Submission + - Let's Encrypt: Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018 (letsencrypt.org) 1

Submitted by jawtheshark on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:09PM

jawtheshark writes: Let’s Encrypt will begin issuing wildcard certificates in January of 2018.

A wildcard certificate can secure any number of subdomains of a base domain (e.g. *.example.com). This allows administrators to use a single certificate and key pair for a domain and all of its subdomains, which can make HTTPS deployment significantly easier.

Comment Re:Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter (Score 1) 512

by SwellJoe on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @03:18AM (#28358547) Attached to: Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election

Probably due to repeated hammer blows (delivered by daddy) to their heads as they grew up.

Don't you mean "delivered by Jews"? Jews are always hitting children over the head with hammers, don't you know.

Comment Re:The real crime is... (Score 3, Interesting) 154

by SwellJoe on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @11:41PM (#26541369) Attached to: Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later

I've been shopping for old computer crap on eBay lately (for nostalgia rather than collectibility), and I suspect your 1983 NIB Atari 5200 trackball would bring ten, maybe fifteen bucks (but I haven't been shopping for Atari game gear, so I'm really guessing). If ten or fifteen bucks, and reclaiming the space it takes up in your house, is worth more than the trackball to you, you should sell it. Part of the fun of these old machines and things is that they are dramatically cheaper than when we were kids. We couldn't have every cool peripheral and game back then, because it would have been cost prohibitive. Today, with stuff going for tens of dollars, even things that were very expensive back then, we can pick up just about anything we like and satisfy those old lingering curiosities. And, then, when we get bored with it...pass it on to someone else at about the same low price.

Comment Re:I loved mine! (Score 1) 154

by SwellJoe on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @11:36PM (#26541331) Attached to: Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later

I just bought a Koala and a Commodore 64 on eBay this week. I've been feeling nostalgic of late, and started making chiptunes using VICE and GoatTracker (a SID composition tool for Linux and Windows), and got to thinking that I'd enjoy tinkering with the real thing. Saw the Koala going for like eight bucks on eBay and couldn't resist.

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