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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
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
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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Restful services in Java – 360 degree of restful client
Always try and use the most appropriate tool for the task. The Apache HTTP server or web server is a program for serving the html web pages to the client who requests them. Tomcat is a application server that is actually … Continue reading
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Restful services in Java – 360 degree of restful server
This is the blog final entry for a restful service web server. I have attempted to create more than your typical “foo” “bar” type example program. My final blog on restful services will be a fairly complete service that could … Continue reading
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Restful services in Java – client and server
My previous restful client example and server example were perfect, well, not exactly. They worked but they pretty much assuming a perfect world. That is to say that there is never a communication error or a server error. This small … Continue reading
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Restful services in Java – simple client example
I suppose that a restful server isn’t all that useful unless there is a way to query this information back and use it in some useful way. It is easy enough to test this out the server from the command … Continue reading
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Restful services in Java – simple server example
There are probably a lot of ways to create web services programs but the simplest way I could think of was to create a project using Eclipse and Jersey. It turns out that restful services are really easy to summarize but … Continue reading
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