“Background” vibes on Pebble smartwatch
Matt Thompson from Pebble G+ community asked a question that got me curious: Is there a way to buzz Pebble vibe at regular intervals in the background, while a regular watchface is displayed in...
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EffectLayers gets (long overdue) remove function
EffectLayer for Pebble Smartwatch is a library that allows you to easily add special effects to your watchfaces or watch apps. You can even add multiple effects (up to 4 by default) to a single layer....
View ArticleSprite animation on original classic Pebble smartwatch
Your browser does not support the video tag. SDK 3.x for Pebble Time smartwatch offers cool and very convenient set of functions to create animation from your existing GIF or MP4 via APNG support....
View ArticleFire on High or Framebuffer in Rocky.js
First things first. DISCLAMER: Everything described here is a hack upon a crude hack and most likely, barring a divine intervention, won’t work in final product. And I apologize in advance to Pebble...
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Unblock my heart, i mean, iPhone for Pebble geocoding
I’ve recently updated code for Cobblestyle Pebble Watchface to take advantage of very cool geocoding service called Nominatim by Open Street Maps. Nominatim is used in two places: Direct lookup is...
View Article[Video] Cancel long running SQL Command in ASP.NET WebForm application
A while back I wrote an article on how to Cancel long running SQL Command in ASP.NET WebForm application Webucator ASP.NET training was kind enough to turn it into video-lesson. Enjoy! Related...
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Pebbles, rectangles and stack overflow
While working on my Pebble watchface “Future Time” I have encountered persistent annoying problem – watchface would run for a while and then crash – and not only crash, but actually restart the watch....
View ArticleFlicker-Free IFRAME refresh
One of our projects consists of single parent page and “widgets” that display secondary (classic ASPX webform) pages. A recent feature request was to auto-refresh widget information at given intervals....
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Full control of your Limitless LED/Milight bulbs from Amazon Echo
Limitless LED offers full color RGBW light bulbs that you can control over Wi-Fi/4G from your computer, phone or smartwatch. They’re an inexpensive alternative to Philips Hue and they look really...
View ArticleAPI keys for weather providers
Many apps and watchfaces for Pebble smartwatch provide weather information and many of them require you to have your own key, unique for each weather provider. Here’s how to obtain API keys for 3 major...
View ArticleCobbleStyle 2 – watchface for Pebble smartwatch
http://tinyurl.com/cobblestyle2 CobbleStyle is back! This time with THREE modes to display the time: analog, digital or BIG TIME! With complete customization on what information you want displayed....
View ArticleFuture Time – watchface for Pebble smartwatch
http://tinyurl.com/timefu This is the face of the future. Two faces actually – because you get both analog and digital face – and it’s up to you which one to use. You also get eight predefined color...
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Simulating Pebble GPath in Rocky.js
RockyJS is a black magic voodoo from Pebble Dev team. It allows you to run your JavaScript code on the actual smartwatch (unlike PebbleJS that runs on the phone). When RockyJS debuted it ran as a...
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Using FusionCharts in SSRS reports
Microsoft’s SSRS is pretty advanced reporting system with multitude of advanced features. SSRS also has charting capabilities, but it’s somewhat lacking compared to more advanced desktop or web...
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Tweet images with Scriptr and IFTTT
Looks like everybody is doing Twitter bots these days so I decided to try my hand on one as well. And it had to be something lighthearted – to let people’s mind off things for a while. Way back in...
View ArticleCopy/Paste image into an editable DOM element in Chrome
All major browsers allow to paste image directly into a DOM element with contentEditable property set to true. They automatically convert it into IMG element with source pointing to base64 encoded...
View ArticleCopy/Paste image into an editable DOM element in Chrome
All major browsers allow to paste image directly into a DOM element with contentEditable property set to true. They automatically convert it into IMG element with source pointing to base64 encoded...
View Article[Video] Cancel long running SQL Command in ASP.NET WebForm application
A while back I wrote an article on how to Cancel long running SQL Command in ASP.NET WebForm application Webucator ASP.NET training was kind enough to turn it into video-lesson. Enjoy!
View ArticleCopy/Paste image into an editable DOM element in Chrome
All major browsers allow to paste image directly into a DOM element with contentEditable property set to true. They automatically convert it into IMG element with source pointing to base64 encoded...
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