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Category Archives: programming
Maven simple example
Maven was briefly described in my previous post. In this post I will do a few small examples for actually using Maven. One of the main things about Maven is the idea of the artifact. The artifact is a file, which … Continue reading
Maven the alternative build tool
Why maven Maven is a tool for building software. Doesn’t there already exist a number of tools for doing this exact task? Two different tools that do this are the classic make utility or the much newer Apache Ant. The make utility … Continue reading
command line fun – finding mistakes
I knew that I had mistyped but it was too late. I tried to exit out of vi in a hurry and accidentally exited but saved the file under a new name. This wouldn’t have been so bad if the … Continue reading
command line fun – temporary data
Most of the scripts that I need to write don’t actually need to manipulate a lot of data. It is usually enough to pipe that data through a command or two and use the result. When this isn’t acceptable then … Continue reading
virtualbox disk too small ?
The first few times I used VirtualBox it wasn’t clear why you would ever want to create a virtual disk that is dynamic. I could only envision having three machines each with a disk that wasn’t fully expanded only to … Continue reading
bash – More powerful than a speeding locomotive
(flashback) Our project was inching closer and closer to going live. On the evening before the Easter break some clod started a massive report which tried to process all the data since the beginning of time. My colleague’s inefficient program gathered … Continue reading
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From computers to microcontrollers
I kept telling Mikhail that the big advantage to using the Raspberry Pi was no matter what project I put it into I could set it on the window sill and ssh to it. It was a fast small and … Continue reading
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Tagged DIY, hardware
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Reuse a Pi – Air printing
When the Raspberry Pi came out I went a but nuts and ended up getting a few of them. I did give some away and did create some projects but unfortunately not all of my RasPi devices were a complete … Continue reading
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just making it – revisiting my cube
Some time back, I had a fair amount lot of free time. I spent the time working with a friend Mikhail in the evenings to create my own LED cube from scratch. It was actually quite a bit of fun, the … Continue reading
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interrogating your code – dipping your toes into java’s reflection
Perhaps the coolest programming language ability that I was never allowed to use was reflection in Java. Why? Well, thats another story. What exactly is reflection? Well, reflection is a set of low level methods that can be used to … Continue reading
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