I once presented my vision for how a group could automate enough of a bunch of content publishing tasks to allow the people that created the content to take care of publishing site refreshes rather than requiring the involvement of engineering folks and doing code-and-content pushes.
The person I was talking to responded, “Are you trying […]
I’ve experimentally added a Flickr badge in the sidebar. If I end up liking it I’ll probably rig something up to draw from my own site instead.
I saw Greasemonkey a while back. Today I used it in anger for the first time.
Some friends of mine use a YaBB-powered web board. Unfortunately, YaBB doesn’t remember the last time I looked at a thread. So I had to read the dates next to each thread and […]
For as long as I’ve had this machine, I’ve been annoyed by relatively infrequent graphics wig outs. Windows XP was running out of GDI resources and everything went downhill. Nothing could paint itself, windows couldn’t be created, and generally things went very badly. I could delay the need to reboot […]
I signed up for an Amazon Web Services API key and wrote a script to read from the current version of my book barcode scanner station.
The barcode scanner reads a UPC and sends it to the STAMP. Code running on the STAMP determines if the code is an “bookland” UPC […]
The BASIC Stamp 2 has 32 bytes of RAM. Thirty two. That is a lot less RAM than I am accustomed to having available.
It’s taking some getting used to.
A while back I played with using a CueCat to try to do a book inventory (OK, so I just wanted to play with barcode scanning). It went .. badly because it turns out the free CueCat was a crappy bar code scanner.
A few weeks ago, a friend on Waterpoint […]
The Google APIs are neat but I was never really attracted to write anything to use it. The only application I could think of would have been too much work because the platform had no SOAP implementation and it wasn’t worth writing one for what I had in mind.
When I saw the announcement […]