Chris Claxton's Blog
A place to read about various things related to software development and technology
The Fitbit Ionic is the latest Health and Fitness/Sports tracking watch from Fitbit, it is considered as their first "smartwatch" as it is capable of displaying notifications from your smart phone. It is also capable of streaming music to Bluetooth headphones and in addition to the usual heart rat...
Ever since moving over from a Windows laptop to a MacBook as my everyday development machine, I have had to run Windows inside a VM to be able to use Visual Studio Pro which I used for all .NET development work. With the release of .NET Core and the light weight "Visual Studio Code" editor there was...
Having recently setup control of a light at home over the internet using a wired solution as detailed in my previous blog post, I started to investigate options for a wireless alternative; as running cables, although the most reliable option, is not always practical. Most of the commercial wireless...