When the Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 announced they were going to have a camera port I immediately bought one along with a camera. I got the pieces, put it together, took a few pictures and forgot about it for a while. Then, The PiHut came out with their ZeroView and I got a new idea for the camera. I had been...
I recently needed to set up a temporary network to test some ideas around microservices and proxies. I didn't want to run any of these tests on systems I use regularly because they were truly experimental hacks. I decided I could run them on Raspberry Pis and just use throwaway Raspbian images. I was looking through the closet in my 0ffice for...
Time for the yearly book parade! Here is my 2017 Year in Books [https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2017/14176304] from goodreads [https://www.goodreads.com]. The summary: * 88 books * 21,633 pages * Average length 246 pages This year I set my goal at 40 books, but ended up reading 88. I did "cheat" a bit because most of...
I attended Java One from October 1st - 5th. This year the conference was dominated by the announcement of Java 9, the new 6 month cadence for Java releases, and the synchronization between the Oracle and OpenJDK implementations. There were also a number of new open source projects released by Oracle. My favorites were JShell (part of Java 9) and Fn. The...
At $work we have started a project using Ionic [http://ionicframework.com/] and Ionic Native [https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/]. I didn't have any experience with it so I decided to make something fun and simple. I often play little song snippets during meetings so I decided to make a soundboard. There's a project on Github [https://github.com/rkalis/ionic-soundboard] that...