Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Did I Mention I Hate Default Mail Notifications? We live in a world of spam, of free email accounts ...

Did I Mention I Hate Default Mail Notifications?
We live in a world of spam, of free email accounts and large mailing lists. You do not want to enable promiscuous notifications in such a world. That way lies madness. But never knowing that the important people in your life — those you love, those who pay ...

Friday, April 8, 2016

Purdue Perl Mongers - April 13 - "Starship Mongers" I wrote a quick five-minute counter in Javascript...

Purdue Perl Mongers - April 13 - "Starship Mongers"
I wrote a quick five-minute counter in Javascript just for this I don't think I've mentioned it here, but I'm one of the core members of Purdue Perl Mongers , which I've wrangled into a SIG of Greater Lafayette Open Source Symposium (#GLOSSY) to try to reac...

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

So I got a 5V Trinket Pro, with the goal of using it in a keyboard project. The "keys" part of the deal...

So I got a 5V Trinket Pro, with the goal of using it in a keyboard project. The "keys" part of the deal were not ready yet, so I wanted to test the Human Interface Device aspects.

So I wrote something that spat out the word "Hi" every second.

I know. Now I know.

So, I can't overwrite it, because I bring up the IDE and the script I want to send it keeps getting "Hi" appended to it.

A friend suggests wiring it up to a Uno and having it wipe the boot loader. I can do that, I believe, but I want to know if there are other "clever" ways to wipe a program off an Trinket or turn off it's HID aspects so I can program it normally.

Thoughts? 

Monday, April 4, 2016

Diagnosing A Problem: OddMuse I work in a lab in a large research-centered university. We use a wiki...

Diagnosing A Problem: OddMuse
I work in a lab in a large research-centered university. We use a wiki to serve as our lab notebook where we keep notes about the samples that go through. We're also a Perl shop, so we went with a Perl-based wiki named OddMuse (a fork of UseMod ). This has ...

Taking the Great Leap Forward with Dancer2 I am working on understanding a raft of technologies, including...

Taking the Great Leap Forward with Dancer2
I am working on understanding a raft of technologies, including Dancer and Bootstrap , in order to make our web presence look more current and, more importantly, be more maintainable.  I'm learning a lot, which is not the positive statement that it sounds l...