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Category Archives: Software Development
Door Lock APIs
I was reading about August Door lock API, and got curious…a google search only turned up the lockitron API…so no idea where documenation on this is. https://api.lockitron.com/
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GitHub adds support for FIDO
FIDO is a two factor autehntication method (standard too) that is slowly gaining ground. Apparently GitHub now has native support for it. http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/01/github-launches-support-for-u2f-security-keys/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
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Cool stand to automate touches on a phone
Nice build on an automated “touch” for a cell phone. The author built it for his game that he plays, I am thinking this may make a good physical tester for touch screens. http://www.instructables.com/id/Physical-Phone-Automation-Stand/?ALLSTEPS
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Interesting opensource tools from Facebook
I have to give props to Facebook for opensourcing several of there tools. A few out of the list that caught my eye are: Buck: for building small resuable modules in Android Orgami: A tool to build modern user interfaces … Continue reading
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MIT App Inventor 2
This looks interesting. Its a tool from MIT to write simple apps for Android. The tool is a basic WebUI IDE for Android and looks like its mostly “wizard based” for apps. I haven’t gotten too far in using it … Continue reading
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GitHubs top Coding Languages
I found this an interesting article. It shows some trends that are expected, C going down in the past few years and Objective C. Perl took quiet a nosedive and seems to have fallen off. I was surprised at the … Continue reading
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Github for the desktop
YEAH, a github desktop client that works in windows and mac (in theory windows too) and doesn’t suck. One of my biggest issues with github, is its CONFUSING AS ALL HECK when you need to do complex things with it. … Continue reading
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How the increase in minimum wage could bring in a robot revolution
Good article. It does a good job pointing out how the increase in minimum wage could trigger a sudden burst in robotics as companies find they have to do more with less. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/minimum-wage-offensive-could-speed-arrival-of-robot-powered-restaurants/2015/08/16/35f284ea-3f6f-11e5-8d45-d815146f81fa_story.html
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Looking to show off your tech skills
Hackatons seem to be the way to do this now. Thought most of them are geared towards kids/college. There still is some interesting stuff you can pull from the article. I have not heard of hackaton.io for example. or devpost.com. … Continue reading
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Hacking Twitter Contests
Why didn’t I think of this? A software developer wrote a python script to search for contests that require him to retweet and follow something, and do that work. He ended up winning alot of contests (of course the success … Continue reading
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