January 2021 – Kiel the Coder

Soup to Nuts: Cisco Codec – Part 2

In the last part, we got a basic SSH connection working to our Cisco codec. Now we’re going to try sending and receiving some commands!

When Worse Is Better

Let me pull back the curtain a bit on how my work week ended up. I think this is a good example of Worse Is Better that’s worth sharing.

Soup to Nuts: Cisco Codec – Part 1

In this series of posts, we’ll develop a basic module for controlling Cisco Room Kit devices. It can be used in SIMPL Windows or SIMPL# Pro programs. It won’t be as exhaustive as the official module available from the Application Market, but it will be enough to handle most video conferencing tasks.

Delegates vs Events

Trying to glean some notes from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/distinguish-delegates-events. All text is from that page (emphasis is mine).

Debugging SIMPL# Pro (3-series)

I’ve run into a problem in my Standard UI program: a button that used to work like a toggle is now toggling on and off immediately. Is it getting called twice? How am I going to track this error down?

Short Take: Button Presses

I’ve been working on rewriting our Standard UI in SIMPL# Pro and have tried a couple different approaches to map button presses to program logic. I figured a short post about what I’ve been exploring might be helpful.