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I don't love spending time testing, so I try to make the best use of my time. I write Unit Tests when I can, and automate any other tes...

Description I finally got fed up. We bought a Christmas light "timer". This thing would do essentially 3 functions, the first w...

I was hoping to sync my ZSNES game saves across all my pc's. It turns out it take very little work. First I made a folder in dropbox f...

This tip comes from Phil otherwise known as @civissmith on the interwebs. Often times you have to swap between screens, I usually use alt/...

There is a link in the "issues" section of the github site for energia. https://github.com/energia/Energia/issues/77 Setup ...

Well I finally released an update, and IAMHERE has been improved. I added categories of texts, as well as a share button. There are a few ...

Well the day I never thought would come has arrived. I have finished a proof of concept of my android music control using an external (in th...

With the android music player you can change songs using the following broadcast. It's not guaranteed to work with any other music playe...

I started out trying to pull the android bluetooth chat application from the developer website....BAD IDEA. I spent quite a bit of time comm...

Eclipse has a really nice feature which allows through a keyboard shortcut the ability to update the imports required for your code. I lik...

Do I think that there is one language that is best? No. I can say that with a high degree of confidence. Each language has it's own idio...

New Apps Released! Well it was a busy couple of weeks, I have released 2 apps on the market in the last few weeks.   Pizza Area , and I Am ...

I decided to start playing around with GraphViz, here are a few of my notes: To call a file use the following command (works for me). dot...

I was having problems getting truecrypt to work on my ubuntu machine. Once I downloaded it and unzipped it there was no extension and for so...

While using sqllite sql software for android, I was runing into problems. I was able to do exact matches, but for some reason I couldn't...

Links of interest. http://hackaday.com/2010/08/11/how-to-launchpad-programming-with-linux/ http://springuin.nl/en/articles/launchpadwindo...

Well after much heartburn (and once again being burned by pull down resistors). I have managed to make some progress. I now have half of m...

I've been having problems with folder permissions on ubuntu, oddly enough, trying chmod 777 on stuff wasn't really working well, bas...

I was hoping to download boxee for my recently updated media server. Turns out that boxee has some issues with the package downloadable fr...

So getc is basically the same as getchar but to get the same effect getc(stdin) = getchar basically. http://www.cplusplus.com/ reference/cli...