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Month: May 2016

The Age of the Connected Scientist.

The Age of the Connected Scientist.

Paper, Paper everywhere as far as the eye can see. When I first started working in a lab fresh out of university everything was recorded in paper notebooks (OK I might be dating myself here). At the end of each day we wrote up the days experiment, pasted in printouts from balances, signed across the printout and the page (to ensure that the printout was not tampered with) and signed the bottom of each page. At the end of the week…

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Visual Studio 2015 Debug Tools

Visual Studio 2015 Debug Tools

Sometimes I just want to run my Universal Windows Application in debug mode and do some exploratory testing, or just test drive a new change. However, when Visual Studio creates a new project it enables the diagnostic tools and frame rate counter by default. To prevent the Diagnostic Tools from starting when you debug go to the Debug-> Options dialog and uncheck the “Enable Diagnostic Tools while debugging”. To prevent the XAML tools from starting, in the Debug -> Options…

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