Creating a web app using Enyo
Palm Inc's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm,_Inc.] vision of the future was a mobile web where users could experience an "app" without...
Chris Mendez
453 postsDigital Product Manager & Social Entrepreneur. Mostly write about AWS, Swift, R, and Ruby.
Mapping county, city and venue data using ArcGIS + ESRI
This single-page web app shows you how to publish a map using ArcGIS for mapping, ESRI for publishable data, and a JSON file for custom data. I took...
Reading RFID with Raspberry Pi
Step 1 Install Serial lib sudo apt-get install python serial Step 2 Find the RFID reader within Raspberry Pi ls /dev/tty* import time import serial delay = 0...
Arduino & Rasberry Pi - Sensors
How to get Arduino and Raspberry Pi working together.
Javascript: JSONP requests through DOJO
Usually, I use jQuery framework for Javascript development, but I recently worked on a project that required to make a website using ArcGIS for map visualization. ArcGIS requires...
NodeJS: Return Elevation from Google Maps API
Here's how to use Google Maps API to get the elevation of a specific location. /** Use Google maps API to return the elevation of a given...
CouchDB beginners guide
CouchDB starting guide [http://www.andyjarrett.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2010/3/29/CouchDB-quick-refstarting-guide] GUI (Futon). From the browser go to http://127.0.0.1:5984/...
How to render a single HTML file within ExpressJS on Openshift
Deprecated Openshift v2.0 has now reached End of Life [https://blog.openshift.com/migrate-to-v3-v2-eol/] and will be replaced by v3.0. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step 1 index.js exports....
Surf rock, space pop, and all things Spotify
The "What's new" section of Spotify isn't doing it for me. It offers very little considering how open I am to them,...
Ruby: Sum of Fibonacci odd numbers
What is the sum of all odd numbers in the Fibonnoci sequence that are less than 5000? class Fibonacci def initialize @a = 1 @b = 1 @total = 0 end...
Headless Spotify Player
This is such a great idea. I've got to make this one day. Headless Spotify player [http://tapmantwo.blogspot.com/2013/04/building-headless-spotify-player-using.html]...
Ruby Sinatra
Rails is terrific, but if you're new to web development, I suggest you give Sinatra a try first. Not only is it excellent for building small...
Express: Strip out port from req.headers.host
I doubt anyone will ever need this but just in case. I had a scenario where I needed to deliver the hostname (without the port) through an .ejs...
Interaction Design
I really appreciate this definition of interaction design. As a producer, it gets me to think about creating an selling an experience as a product or service. >...
Grab data from a Twitter Proxy
Pull cached Twitter data from http://socialproxy.classicalkusc.org [http://socialproxy.classicalkusc.org/] and present it as HTML. /** * ------------------------------------------------------- * KUSC.org Twitter Feed * ------------------------------------------------------- * * Modified: 6/12/2012...
Creating an Express app with MongoDB on Openshift (Deprecated)
Deprecated Openshift v2.0 has now reached End of Life [https://blog.openshift.com/migrate-to-v3-v2-eol/] and will be replaced by v3.0. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's how to...
Cloud-Based Radio Using Adobe Media Server
Adobe Flash may be dead, but Adobe Media Server carries a lot of compelling features. This entry aims to identify a few of those essential features so that...
What to Do When Spotify Is Acting Weird (for Developers)
Sometimes Spotify starts acting weird. The easiest way to fix this is to clear your Spotify preferences and delete the application's cache. Here's how...
Tinkering
> Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don't quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagination, and curiosity. When you tinker, there...
The challenge of for-profit platforms
> For all our talk about the social web, what we're very often sharing on for-profit social platforms amounts to nothing more than narcissistic rumination. * Jimmy...
Simplicity
> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Steve Jobs...
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