Heroku: Publishing a Sinatra App
When it comes to publishing web (or API-only) apps, I either pick Openshift [https://www.openshift.com/] or Heroku [https://dashboard.heroku.com/] for hosting. Both services are...
Chris Mendez
453 postsDigital Product Manager & Social Entrepreneur. Mostly write about AWS, Swift, R, and Ruby.
Writing Raspberry Pi to an SD card on OS X
Step 0 - Download Raspbian OS The first thing we need to do is download Raspbian OS [https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/]. Once the disk image has been...
Basic blinking LED on Raspberry Pi
Here's a simple python script for Raspberry Pi. Step 1 - Install sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-dev sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step...
Map API's
Geographic information system (GIS) is the umbrella for cartography, geo, and anything dealing with the science of location. Although you might be asking, Cartography * Google Maps * Apple Maps...
Turning Raspberry Pi into a web server
I've been tinkering with Raspberry Pi for two years and it's pretty remarkable what you can build with a $35US computer. Aside from being...
Rails: Authenticating with Devise
I've been working with the Stripe API lately and I thought it might be handy to write a simple Ruby on Rails application that integrates Ruby...
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Computer science is all about answering the question, "How can we tell a computer what to do [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming] and what to...
Open Datasets
As a market researcher, app producer and software entrepreneur, I use a lot of different data sets for either research or tell stories. Here are a few great...
Curated list of audio frameworks and libraries for iPhone and OS X
A curated list of awesome audio frameworks, libraries, and software for iOS, Mac OSX and tvOS. Audio Production * AudioKit for iOS and OS X [https://github.com/audiokit/...
Curated list of audio frameworks and libraries for Web
A curated list of awesome HTML + JavaScript frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-php [https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php]. Audio Production * Melody Maker [https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Melody-Maker]...
Curated list of audio frameworks and libraries for Android
Creating an audio app for Android requires you to use libraries written in Java. This curated list is aimed at helping developers (both new and established) discover the...
Alcatraz the package manager for xCode
As a full-stack developer, I find myself using more and more package managers every year. For example, here's my current set-up: * homebrew or apt-get for downloading...
Learning Swift Lang
I first started writing HTML + Javascript when I was 17 years old. No one told me that I should be a coder nor did anyone bother to tell...
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