We are all guilty of procrastinating from time to time--here's always something more interesting than the work in hand. We usually think it's no big deal, since deadline is our biggest inspiration, and we do our best work when we're inspired. We may even joke about it. However, procrastination is a massive waste of time as it turns out. A survey in 2015 found that on average, a person loses over 55 days ...
Former United States President Dwight Eisenhower was responsible for putting together one of the most important yet fundamentally simple to understand concepts in time management. Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle is a tool to help decipher what tasks need to be addressed more immediately than others. Anyone who uses the principle will be better able to organize and orchestrate their ...
Today I want to briefly write about kivy. kivy is an Python library intended for developing Mobile Apps. It is a cross-platform library that runs on Android, iOS, Linux, OS X and Windows. It is licensed under the MIT, so it is free and open source. Kivy is the main framework developed by the Kivy organisation, alongside with Python for Android, ...
We use it for receiving junk e-mails (i.e. for those times where we need an e-mail address for sign-up to a service). E-mails are of the form: [email protected] TODO: Extend postie: ...
If you use multiple USB drives, you've probably noticed that the drive letter can be different each time you plug one in. If you'd like to assign a static letter to a drive that's the same every time you plug it in, read on. Windows assigns drive letters to whatever type of drive is available. This can be annoying especially if you use backup tools or portable apps that prefer to have the same drive letter every time. ...
portable console Set scrolling region: printf "\033[1;24r" Reset scrolling region: printf "\033[r" However, it is easier/better to do: ...
This trick lets you run X-Windows within an X-Windows session. This is kinda like running VNC. It is useful for testing scenarios. #!/bin/sh Xnest :1 -name "Bla" -ac -geometry 800x600 & sleep 1 export DISPLAY=:1 ...
Development travis cordova build ...
So we bough a Philips 50PFK6540. This is a 50" TV with Ambi Ligh and Android TV. One of the things I wanted to do from the very start was to load my own APKs. This was not possible until a recent (2016) update that enabled the "Install from Unknown Sources" setting option. ...
Building signed APK's for Android is easy if you know what you are doing. This article goes over the preparation steps and the additional build instructions needed to created signed APKs. Preparation First you need to have a keystore. Use this command: ...
Since now I have a Android TV I put away my HTPC and with that the capability to view DVDs or listen CDs directly. So I converted my entire CD and DVD library to media files and stored in my home NAS. Since we are talking hundreds of DVDs and CDs, I was using some tools. CD ripping For CD ripping, pretty much everything can be done with abcde. ...
Writing shell scripts leaves a lot of room to make mistakes, in ways that will cause your scripts to break on certain input, or (if some input is untrusted) open up security vulnerabilities. Here are some tips on how to make your shell scripts safer. Don't The simplest step is to avoid using shell at all. Many higher-level languages are both easier to write the code in in the first place, and avoid some of the issues that shell ...
At the end, I switched to geany GUI TextAdept Bluefish Editor editra ...
This article outlines the bare minimum to get a MariaDB or MySQL database up and running. It covers a CentOS/RHEL and an ArchLinux installs. Make sure your system is up to date: ...
Jaxon is an open source PHP library for easily creating Ajax web applications. It allows into a web page to make direct Ajax calls to PHP classes that will in turn update its content, without reloading the entire page. Jaxon implements a complete set of PHP functions to define the contents and properties of the web page. Several plugins exist to extend its functionalities and provide integration with various PHP frameworks and CMS. ...
Building CHROOTs with Yum in a single command: yum --releasever=7 --installroot=/chroot/jail2 -y install httpd Will install httpd with all its dependancies. If you are on x86_64 and want a 32 bit chroot: setarch i386 yum --releasever=6 --installroot=/chroot/jail32 -y install httpd ...
For my own purposes I have written a number of WordPress plugins. S3Copy - Makes backup copies of your pictures to an S3 Compatible server. I use sirv.com myself. It also mangles tags so files are server from the S3 bucket. wptools - A collection of WordPress related functionality. ...
vr boilerplate threejs vr chrome experimets google cardboard google cardboard ...
So I finally moved my WordPress web sites to OpenShift. OpenShift is a cloud based Platform-as-a-Service offering from RedHat. And while there is a learning curve I would say that so far it works great. My implementation is a fully cloud based solution. Makes use of the following services: GitHub for code hosting ...
Work improvements NFR Javascript single page application JS GUI ...