FITC Amsterdam 2012 – jQuery, jQuery Mobile & MyDataFurnace.com
FITC Amsterdam has been a blast and I have met a ton of great people while attending this conference. During my time here I presented two presentations as well as hosted a full day workshop. In case you were looking for examples files or reference material I used during my presentations, look no further. If you have any questions, concerns and or comments please feel free to contact me anytime either on Twitter or by e-mail (fisher.matt@gmail.com). I would like to also thank Shawn and the rest of the FITC crew for putting on another epic event. Be sure to also checkout the Opening Titles for...
Read MoreLinux Screen Tutorial
If your a SSH, or command line user and haven’t used screen before be sure to look into it. Ever been transferring a file or running a program in a command line interface and accidentally close it or disconnect? The result will be a termination of the running application and possible loss of work. When Microsoft released Windows 3.1, the world was wowed with the fact that you can just open another window and run multiple applications at the same time. Well, you can easily do this on the command line as well. By launching each application or command in a screen session, you can...
Read MoreSimple XBee Communication with Arduino
Call me blind but there just isn’t an easy to find tutorial to understand how to use XBee wireless modules with your Arduino micro controllers. I imagine it is because once you realize how simple it is, you wouldn’t think there would need to be a tutorial. Well I have had enough people ask me about this, so I figured I would post a demo. Over the couple years I have been using Arduino’s, I have embedded these wireless modules to many of my projects and found out many interesting quirks, mostly from trial and error. In this post I will be showing how to wirelessly control...
Read MoreSimple Automated Backups Using rsync
rsync is a software application for Unix and Windows systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. If your are on a Unix based system here is a simple snippet of code for crontab to automate backups or duplicate drives on or offsite. I sometimes refer to this as fake RAID0 as it keeps perfect replication of one drive on another and if you set a quick timer interval for backups, it almost is always duplicating your data for backup. Pending your second drive was offsite, this is a very safe way...
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