For future reference. Set up Raspbian: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/ Set up Node.js: https://learn.adafruit.com/node-embedded-development/installing-node-dot-js Set up Johnny Five: https://github.com/rwaldron/johnny-five/wiki/Getting-Started Install Raspi-io: https://github.com/bryan-m-hughes/raspi-io/wiki
I’m playing around with the idea of creating an interactive storyboard for agile development, and one of the requirements that came up is the ability to easily track the physical cards in an electronic system. To that end I figured the easiest way would be to print out barcoded story cards.
Some quick Googling showed that this is not a unique problem – there are many solutions for Excel and Google docs. I actually use openoffice, and after a bit of fiddling, it looked like too much effort to get the Excel macros working in Openoffice, so I figured I’d go for Google Docs.
When I decided to move to Costa Rica, I knew there would be some interesting changes. At the time I was the only developer working…
To find commented out code, the key is to remember that commented out code will usually contain semicolons.
If you keep that in mind, it is quite simple to come up with regular expressions to search for commented out code.
I’m working on a project where no logging was done, but a lot of information is printed out to System.out and System.err (Most exceptions print out their stack traces as well).
While this is not ideal, it is much better than nothing, and this is why: You can redirect the standard output streams to any java.io.OutputStream.
In an ideal world, the answer would usually be a resounding yes. In an ideal world I would also get paid more to do less work – That isn’t happening either.
It can be difficult to know when you should rewrite and when you should just leave it alone.
Most programmers will at some point have to answer this question. We all like to think that it won't happen to us, but unless you…
Like I mentioned in my previous post, there are no generic software development plan templates. In the same way, there isn’t really some simple software development plan that you can just take and run with. Each company has different needs and each development team does things differently. In the long run, patterns will develop and development methodologies will tend towards the same established methodologies, but they are always subtly different.
Most small development companies tend to go through the same chaos when they start out, and then eventually (If they survive this phase), they start…
I recently rediscovered rails when I needed a holiday project and decided to build a management dashboard for the company I work for. With it…