I was digging around for information about the Canon Dial 35 and I discovered that it was used to take an award winning photograph of Leslie Nielsen as part of an advertising campaign for Red Rock Cider. I haven’t been able to track down the picture, but I have managed to find a collection of the adverts. Well worth a watch. Back when advertising was clever and funny.
I’ve made a new screencast. This one is all about the use of Azure Functions with IoT devices. I find it quite magical that I can press a button (in this case the Joke Button above) and have a function run in the cloud in response to that action. And the code to make it work is tiny. Find out how it works and how to get started in the video.
Rob Miles is technology author and educator who spent many years as a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hull. He is also a Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP. He is into technology, teaching and photography. He is the author of the World Famous C# Yellow Book and almost as handsome as he thinks he is.
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