Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Discover the market share of CMS and the hegemony of WordPress infographic made by : http://ift.tt/SbuOOV...

Discover the market share of CMS and the hegemony of WordPress



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+YouTube, if I have watched a video, why does it stay on my what to watch page? And, if I scrolled past...

+YouTube , if I have watched a video, why does it stay on my what to watch page? And, if I scrolled past a video on several consecutive days, why don't you know I'm telling you "No, I'm not going to watch that."?




Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Monday, April 28, 2014

Two projects got done tonight. First, we finished the make-the-Solidoodle-tweet project. It tweets ...

Two projects got done tonight.



First, we finished the make-the-Solidoodle-tweet project. It tweets as @ltl_solidoodle.



Second, I have my Ethernet Cheerlights in working order. I had to grok Strings a bit, but it works. Next steps are redoing it with $5 eBay Ethernet modules and the LoDo, then making a nice housing for it.




The Solidoodle barfed again. I think we need to retweak the bed.

The Solidoodle barfed again. I think we need to retweak the bed.




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At Lafayettech Labs

At Lafayettech Labs




Remember, kids: LTL meets tonight! 7pm at GLC!

Remember, kids: LTL meets tonight! 7pm at GLC!




Started an LTL Github Organization. Will put the coming tweet-a-print script there, plus whatever org...

Started an LTL Github Organization. Will put the coming tweet-a-print script there, plus whatever org-specific code we end up having. Tell me and I'll set you up as members.




Sunday, April 27, 2014

Wondering how YouTube decides what to show me. I get why they don't make it public, but wonder when ...

Wondering how YouTube decides what to show me. I get why they don't make it public, but wonder when it'll say "I succeeded this video 20 times and he scrolled past several times; let's stop suggesting it and come up with something else."




Quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever seen.




All the Power of GitHub in Your Terminal GitHub command line tools made with NodeJS. --- Image / ...

All the Power of GitHub in Your Terminal



GitHub command line tools made with NodeJS.



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Image / Source:

http://nodegh.io



Demo:

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GitHub / Download:

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License:

BSD 3-Clause License

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In my feed today: Captain America fan art referencing Frozen, and Frozen fan art referencing Captain...

In my feed today: Captain America fan art referencing Frozen, and Frozen fan art referencing Captain America. I've seen neither movie.




Thursday, April 24, 2014

Think it would make sense to have a GitHub organization for LTL? Throw our tools' config files and such...

Think it would make sense to have a GitHub organization for LTL? Throw our tools' config files and such in there?




Got my Cheerlights with Ethernet working last night, to the tweaking point, and decided that 2am was...

Got my Cheerlights with Ethernet working last night, to the tweaking point, and decided that 2am was not the time to tweek if I wanted to be up in the morning. Plugged it direct to power this AM and it is not working. Need to go to work, so I can't figure out what's wrong.



Did find that the Arduino Ethernet library does DHCP with Ethernet.begin(mac), which returns 1 or 0 depending on connection. Perfect for an if statement. If ( connects ) { do it } else { blink_all_day }




Tuesday, April 22, 2014

I saw a post recently with an image saying something like: To edit the config file, type: vi ~/foo...

I saw a post recently with an image saying something like:



To edit the config file, type:



vi ~/foo/config.cnf



If you're an emacs user, type:



sudo apt-get remove emacs

vi ~/foo/config.cnf



I don't really begrudge emacs folk their choice of editors, but as a vi guy, I laugh. Anyone know where I can find it?




Monday, April 21, 2014

This is a Python library which allows me simple access to MySQL databases. I have a library that does...

This is a Python library which allows me simple access to MySQL databases.



I have a library that does much the same for #Perl, except that the database identifier we use is stored as $DB::Database, so if you want to have two databases open at the same time, you just can't. So, if I want to copy a table from DB 1 to DB2, for example, I use Python.



If you know me, you know I'm a Monger, so you know how painful that is for me.



So, I'm (finally) learning Moo, and I'm trying to reimplement mydb.py as a Perl module. Not seeing the equivalent of _init_, though. Any pointers? Is that something I need Moose for?




Citizens of Lafayette, Springtime will soon be here and it is time to spruce up OUR community. THIS...

Citizens of Lafayette,



Springtime will soon be here and it is time to spruce up OUR community. THIS was a hard winter and we have some extra cleanup to do. Our Clean Sweep event will be May 17, 2014 this year, but we need to get a jump start on making our community beautiful. A citizen contacted me a few weeks ago and was concerned about all the litter. The citizen has started a challenge on their Facebook page asking everyone to pick-up at least 5 pieces of litter a day. What a great idea! Working together we can make a real difference and with a great Clean Sweep event we should be in good shape by Memorial Day weekend. Will you join me in participating in and spreading this challenge on your Facebook page or Twitter account? Let’s make Lafayette Beautiful!



Mayor Tony Roswarski




Friday, April 18, 2014

Any interest in an Open Hack Day this weekend?

Any interest in an Open Hack Day this weekend?




The Graphics Interchange Format in Conversation For me, it's a solved issue. When the inventor of a ...

The Graphics Interchange Format in Conversation

For me, it's a solved issue. When the inventor of a thing says it's pronounced a way, I give that weight. Similarly: For me, it's a shibboleth . I have been involved in web development since 1996, and if you pronounce it "Gif" instead of "Jif", that's a sur...




Monday, April 14, 2014

The rules of Lafayettech Labs (From Spouses): 1) Don't talk about Geek Club 2) Seriously, don't talk...

The rules of Lafayettech Labs (From Spouses):



1) Don't talk about Geek Club

2) Seriously, don't talk about Geek Club




Краткая и достоверная история развития приборов ночного видения.

Краткая и достоверная история развития приборов ночного видения.




Borrowing +Jeremy Glasgow's Ethernet Shield. Have it set to get www.purdue.edu right now, but the next...

Borrowing +Jeremy Glasgow 's Ethernet Shield. Have it set to get www.purdue.edu right now, but the next step will be sending some environmental message, maybe a light sensor, maybe not, to some other place via some networking protocol. Maybe HTTP, maybe MQTT.




The student team from the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers is once again national champions ...

The student team from the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers is once again national champions after winning the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest Saturday (April 12) in Columbus, Ohio. (File photo by Vince Walter)



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Sunday, April 13, 2014

+Jeremy Glasgow, looking a bit into MQTT and would like to play with it and Arduino. Any chance I could...

+Jeremy Glasgow , looking a bit into MQTT and would like to play with it and Arduino. Any chance I could hold onto your Ethernet Shield between meetings? I will certainly give it back whenever you want it.




Friday, April 11, 2014

About Me I've been working on my resume recently. No reason, really. (If you have questions, ask elsewhere...

About Me

I've been working on my resume recently. No reason, really. (If you have questions, ask elsewhere. I'm fairly easy to find.) A recent response to my resume tells me it sucks at telling the story of me. Not too surprised; the form sucked before, and has beco...




Monday, April 7, 2014

Program Electronic Dance Music using HTML5 and JavaScript.

Program Electronic Dance Music using HTML5 and JavaScript.




Jim Cummings as Darth Vader as Winnie the Pooh. Brilliant. (h/t: +Scott Hanselman)

Jim Cummings as Darth Vader as Winnie the Pooh. Brilliant.



(h/t: +Scott Hanselman )




The other side has their get-togethers at 6pm, not 7pm. Personally, I like 7pm, as it gives me a chance...

The other side has their get-togethers at 6pm, not 7pm. Personally, I like 7pm, as it gives me a chance to visit the gym before LTL. But, certainly we could change if there's interest.



Is there interest? Do we like 7pm?




Friday, April 4, 2014

That's my Arduino R2 next to an R3 owned by +Chuck Schwarz. Biggest difference I see is that the reset...

That's my Arduino R2 next to an R3 owned by +Chuck Schwarz . Biggest difference I see is that the reset button is moved away from under shield space on the R3.




I soldered this 12-LED circuit together for our welcome sign. +Jeremy Glasgow put together a LoDo Arduino...

I soldered this 12-LED circuit together for our welcome sign. +Jeremy Glasgow put together a LoDo Arduino and wired it into place. I finished a sketch which cycles randomly through nine patterns, and a week from Monday, we'll have a lit sign pointing to our basement stairs.



Project completed!




Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Perl admin question: I've installed 5.18.2 in ~/lang on several machines. In most of them, I'm not admin...

Perl admin question: I've installed 5.18.2 in ~/lang on several machines. In most of them, I'm not admin, so no problem. But one is my desktop, running Linux Mint, where I am admin. Lang CPAN writes to ~/lang/lib and system cpan writes to /usr/local/share, etc. That's great. But they both share ~/.cpan. I had to sudo rm -rf ~/.cpan to allow lang CPAN to install, and I would like to set it to write to ~/.cpan2, so I don't have to worry.



However, I have no idea where that setting is. Help?




Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Greatest praise I can give this is that I never would've thought of it and DiResta pulls out off flawlessly...

Greatest praise I can give this is that I never would've thought of it and DiResta pulls out off flawlessly.




Great Game-Of-Thrones based video on Purdue. Boiler Up! (Game of Hammers?)

Great Game-Of-Thrones based video on Purdue. Boiler Up!



(Game of Hammers?)




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