A leading renewable energy developer partnered with Keyhole Software to design, modernize, and continuously enhance a suite of internal applications used to manage solar, wind, and energy storage initiatives across a growing national portfolio. For more than seven years, Keyhole consultants have operated as an embedded extension of the client’s team—building and supporting mission-critical systems that track project timelines, operational …
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A team of Keyhole Software consultants worked extensively on multiple mobile-related projects for one of the largest theater chains in the world. The team assisted in the development of a subscription-based offering for consumers in addition to ongoing initiatives. This included general feature work in support of the theater mobile application, including enhancements to the recently launched premium subscription-based rewards …
For more than a decade, we have been developing applications with C# and XAML. Throughout that time, the pair has really only been known for Desktop (WPF) and UWP applications.
Later came Xamarin, which utilizes C# as a unified language to share between all platforms. Then Xamarin.Forms was introduced, which was different in that it utilized XAML to develop the user interface with a single codebase for cross-platform (iOS, Android, UWP).
This progression has excited all the WPF developers out there. The only remaining platform left was web development. At one time, Silverlight was the option, but it was deprecated because of heavy loading and security concerns of browser plug-in solutions.
Then came the WebAssembly [also known as Web Assembly Modules (WASM)] that web browsers can directly execute without having to parse a source file.
In this post, we will discuss how to create a rich user browser interface using the cross-platform Uno Platform and WebAssembly technology. The example application will walk through building Models, ViewModel and View under a shared project that is common to all different platform-specific projects.
With the explosion of the internet of things (IoT), many companies are competing to create the best smart home ecosystem for consumers.
Amazon Echo, for instance, is a robust system that allows the user to interact with their smart devices via voice command. Alexa is the application that the Echo communicates with, essentially the brain of the Amazon Echo. It controls how your Amazon Echo communicates with your other smart devices and services. It can sync with a variety of smart devices including switches, thermostats, garage doors, sprinklers, door locks, music streamers, news outlets, and more. It also allows the third-party companies to create custom skills which are then accessible through the Amazon Echo.
In this blog I will discuss the Amazon Echo and its Alexa application. We will go through the process to create a custom Alexa skill about the Keyhole blog, paying particular attention to keywords you’ll need to understand when you create your own Skill. From there, we’ll show how to test a Skill via simulators and deploy it to your Amazon Echo.