Developer Tools • Oct 26, 2013 Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop Why Linux Desktop? It helps me be more productive. Neither Windows nor Mac have all the windows-management features I like.
Developer Tools • Oct 11, 2013 TDD a New Class in NUnit & Visual Studio without Ever Using the Mouse I've discovered a way to write NUnit TDD tests in Visual Studio using only keyboard commands.
Extracurricular Activities • Sep 28, 2013 Hacking EVE, Part 1 – Reading SDD Data An introduction to using ActiveRecord and RSpec to read EVE's static data dump from a MySQL database.
Web Apps • Sep 06, 2013 My Experiences with Ruby off Rails Don't assume that Ruby is only useful for making websites with Ruby on Rails, because I've been using it for years without shipping a Rails app.
Developer Tools • Aug 15, 2013 Sharing Binary Assets with BTSync Managing large binary assets can be challenging. We've tried a few methods, but finally settled on BTSync for ease of use, security, and reliability.
Embedded Systems • Aug 10, 2013 ARM Cortex-M Toolchain – The Easy Way ARM packages an entire GNU/GCC toolchain for their Cortex-M and Cortex-R processors, and makes it available on launchpad.
Embedded Systems • Jun 23, 2013 Aliasing Serial Baud Rates in FTDI Drivers for Mac OS X I needed to interface my computer to an embedded device, and I found a way to configure a relatively cheap USB UART bridge to support it.
Platforms & Languages • Jun 19, 2013 Behind the Scenes with CHICKEN Scheme and SPOCK (Part 2) An interview with Felix Winkelmann about CHICKEN Scheme and SPOCK, a Scheme-to-JavaScript compiler.
Developer Tools • Jun 01, 2013 Embrace Your Keyboard – 4 Ways to Work More Efficiently with Less Wrist Pain Development causing wrist pain? Here are four ways to use your mouse less and your keyboard more.
Extracurricular Activities • Mar 20, 2013 Writing C on Raspberry Pi with Test-Driven Development How to write C code on your dev machine but build the code on the Pi, removing the need for a cross-compiler and simplifies getting back the test results.
DevOps & System Admin. • Mar 12, 2013 Preparing Machines for Workshops with Vagrant, VirtualBox, & Puppet If you're giving a workshop, I recommend checking out Vagrant, VirtualBox, and puppet or chef for creating the workshop development environment.
.NET / WPF • Mar 06, 2013 Using XAML to Set Focus on a Textbox in WPF Desktop Applications Instead of one TextBox control for the code, we have 4 TextBox controls. As the user types in each digit, we move focus to the next TextBox for them.
