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Delete Site on Admob

2013-06-11T07:41:00.002-06:00

If you develop apps and use Admob, sometimes you might make a test "site", I was having trouble finding how to get rid of a test site. I thought I read there was a max admob site count, so I wanted to remove any misc, so I'll be able to use my max amount (whether I'll ever hit that or not, is another question). Steps: Login Click Sites & Apps heading (mine shows up there by default so no click

Tip Calculator

2013-05-24T04:41:00.001-06:00

In keeping with the madness I've written a tip calculator this week. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onaclovtech.tipcalculator

Temperature converter

2013-05-24T04:40:00.001-06:00

So I started out doing a simple converter for Celsius, Kelvin, and Fahrenheit, found a Wikipedia entry, kinda went overboard, now there are a ton of conversions, and the best part is they're simple to do, just drag the slider. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onaclovtech.temperatureconverter

Percent Off

2013-05-22T16:01:00.001-06:00

Percent off is my latest app, figure I'll go for breadth in the app store, not depth...lol https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onaclovtech.percentoff

Simple Perl Actions Template

2013-05-17T07:16:00.001-06:00

I wrote a simple template (runnable) that goes over some actions I commonly use in my perl scripts I write at home and work. Check it out below: Let me know if there are any other simple templates you'd like to see!

Project Idea: Self Learning Samba System

2013-05-15T16:01:00.001-06:00

Self learning Samba configuration. Tools which you include on client and server. Server steps through each set of settings, then spans the client to download files (or upload). Checks times that it takes to do such tasks. Finds the most efficient (fastest) speeds and bam. Best scenario. Anyone want to do build something like this for the betterment of mankind? (yea, 1st world problem right?)

Language Wishlist

2013-04-18T05:56:00.000-06:00

I have a wishlist, I came across today of a few things I would really like the language that I would love to write to be able to do. Write a foreach loop and use the syntax below (basically perl but a little weird looking) foreach , ,... (@variablearray1, @variablearray2,... @variablearrayn) { So I can loop through multiple arrays in the same iteration and not have to have arrays of arrays or

Twitter the next text messaging app?

2013-02-23T17:16:00.001-07:00

I was reading a tweet by @haacked and came to a realization, not sure if he has realized it but using twitter as your text messaging is brilliant..... Phil Haack (haacked): If you are with @shiftkey tell him we're waiting for him outside the lobby of the Hyatt by the valet! Here's why: Suppose @shiftkey doesn't check his messages often, but his buddies with him do, if they follow haacked they may

Speed up Eclipse in Ubuntu

2013-02-19T15:18:00.001-07:00

In an effort to keep old hardware running trying to build Android Apps, I was really looking for a way to speed up eclipse. The best improvement I've found is to run using the Sun (Oracle) JDK, it's impressively faster, but for some reason or another you can't just apt-get it anymore. I found a github site https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6.git that handles that, however it required a

Ripping DVD's in Ubuntu 12.04 -- Handbrake

2013-02-10T06:15:00.000-07:00

It took me a little while to figure it out, but these are the steps I use to setup a fresh install of Ubuntu with the necessary software to rip dvd's. Let me know if you have any additional tips and/or tricks to install that will setup everything!

Roku SSDP nodejs

2013-02-10T03:06:00.002-07:00

I tried using the SSDP to find the roku ip address using ncat as recommended by Roku, but using wireshark to moitor it just didn't seem to be working. In Ubuntu using sudo wireshark brings up the app, selecting your network interface under filter type in udp.dstport == 1900 and click apply, I was seeing my router and the roku box notifying the 239.255.255.250 ip of their ip addresses, but I

Music Glove Explained

2013-02-01T09:41:00.001-07:00

I realize (thanks to a twitter follower) that I never really explained how my music glove actually works. (Introducing Proof of Concept Music Glove) Here goes. The glove connects to the arduino over I/O. (basically just use some I/O pins to read a pressed state). I wrote some code (referenced by this post: ) to transmit over the arduino's RS232 (Serial) port. The RN-42 uses RS232 to

Using Nodejs as a fileserver

2013-01-31T09:44:00.000-07:00

Creating a Simple Fileserver. Tip #2 I wanted a simple fileserver, I tried looking for a variety of search terms, but finally came upon simple file server. I came across the post linked by Tip #2 above, but it wasn't exactly clear what it was doing exactly. The documentation isn't 100% clear so I played with it a little, (and added some comments to one of the posters). I used connect. Install

Creating a Kindle EBook Part 1

2013-01-29T10:42:00.001-07:00

I was looking up how to create an ebook, now according to this website: How to Format Childrens Ebook it's a matter of creating a html file and including some image files, then zipping them all up and sending them to your kindle. It's not quite that simple these days. When you send that zipped file out to your kindle, amazon splits it up and you get each item pushed to your device, so if you

Using NodeJS as an Intranet Webserver

2013-01-27T11:10:00.001-07:00

I'll be posting tips as I come across them of using NodeJS as an intranet webserver. Long story short, I want to build a Roku app that will refer to the NodeJS server for where to find the files. I figure it'll be simpler than PLEX, and also faster (I'm hoping). Once I get the stuff running I'll plan on running it on my Pogo Plug as a media server for my Roku, totally awesome! Tip #1 When

How to quickly build amazon affiliate links on an android device.

2012-12-28T08:07:00.000-07:00

Mobile I was attempting to build an amazon affiliate link on my phone for a pogoplug I bought the other day. I found it to be quite cumbersome. I knew there had to be an easier way! Social Additionally the links coming from amazon are long, and don't post well to social networks (read Twitter). I thought there had to be a better way, i searched the android market but just couldnt

Syncing Picasa

2012-11-27T16:00:00.000-07:00

Anyone here have a Google Picasa account? How about 2? (I'm thinking families here) More? Sure someone can share an album with you, but if you want to view it, you have to find the link, until google allows shared albums to be visible in your account (and indirectly visible via your Android phone). You'll have to just deal with it. I got tired of dealing with it, I started working on a project,

Introducing Geek Book Club

2012-11-14T12:09:00.001-07:00

If you know me personally you probably have heard of "Geek Book Club", basically we are a group of people interested in learning more technical things. Some work in technical jobs where we don't feel like we're learning enough new techniques to really make us valuable, and some don't work in technical jobs but find it interesting. Either way we're all here to learn. I recently created a repo on

Unit Testing with Structural Coverage

2012-10-16T16:00:00.000-06:00

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 testing if possible. Sometimes I try to even make writing tests easier on myself by using some techniques I picked up from The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master Side Note: If you haven't read this book, stop what you're doing, go buy it, rent it from a

Christmas Lights

2012-10-08T18:00:00.000-06:00

Description I finally got fed up. We bought a Christmas light "timer". This thing would do essentially 3 functions, the first was simply turning the outlet on, the second to use a photo sensor and turn off when it's light outside, and the final was a set number of hours (there being anywhere from 1 to 8 hours). The Problem The problem with the hours one is that you have to manually turn it

Syncing ZSNES game saves across ubuntu systems

2012-09-03T18:56:00.002-06:00

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 for my game saves and made a copy of my current saves out there. Next I removed the contents of the zsnes folder located at /home//.zsnes. Steps: (Make sure you've saved the files from .zsnes folder below first cd ~/.zsnes rm * (this gets rid of the files) cd ..

Environment Tips

2012-09-01T23:59:00.000-06:00

This tip comes from Phil otherwise known as @civissmith on the interwebs. Often times you have to swap between screens, I usually use alt/tab or some combination of swapping between document/editor in order to read and update. A neat tip Phil alluded to was that if you set your command line to semi transparent, you can still read any commands or notes while typing your code or commands over.

Energia Setup

2012-07-18T20:05:00.000-06:00

There is a link in the "issues" section of the github site for energia. https://github.com/energia/Energia/issues/77 Setup Extract to a folder on your computer, inside that folder go to hardware/tools/mspgcc-4.6 Swap to super user. (may not be necessary but for sure need to use SUDO). Then finally run bash ./build-mspgcc A while later when it's done, you can navigate up a level

IAMHERE 2.0

2012-07-09T08:01:00.000-06:00

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 categories and if you have any suggestions let me know and I may add them to my list of updates to include. If you have any suggestions let me know and I'll definitely look into them. Thanks and have fun. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=

Introducing Proof of Concept Music Glove

2012-04-25T08:00:00.000-06:00

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 this case glove) device. It was a long and slow journey, I've often times got so many projects in the pipeline that it's really exciting when I get to see one finish up. This evening I finished up wiring my device, and asked @civissmith over to help with the