Android Wireless Debugging

Android debugging usually involves connecting your phone to your development machine and debugging via the IDE or Chrome Dev tools. This is a great solution however it requires that you be physically tethered to the device via USB cable. We all know the issues involved with this, bad USB cable, connection disconnection etc. The good…

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Barbados Network Program – Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs needed was desirous in implementing an automatic process for Nationals who are applying for “Returning Nationals Status” which would allow them concessions provided under Law and facilitated via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This was done currently using physical or downloadable pdf forms. To reduce the repetitive and arduous process of…

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Website monitoring using headless Raspberry Pi

As a webmaster, there is nothing more embarrassing than a client calling you to tell you that their site is down, when you’re the one that should be monitoring it can calling them instead. I had this happen to me once and that was enough for me to formulate a solution. I had a raspeberry…

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Barcode Check-in using google forms

I was enlisted to help with technical setup of a conference with approx two hundred (200) attendees over seven days. We were faced with a problem of tracking all meals taken by the conference attendees, essentially a meal check-in system, mostly for billing purposes and capacity planning. The main requirement was a simple automated or…

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Magic squares

Problem Derive a 3×3 grid with random arrangements of number from 1 to 9 inclusive, where the sum of the diagonal, vertical and horizontal numbers are equal. A | B | C D | E | F G | H | I A+B+C = D+E+F = G+H+I = A+E+I = C+E+G Most people may not…

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Windows Bluetooth Locker

Every had that need to lock your computer whenever you have to talk away from it. Maybe it’s a policy where you work or maybe just for security. This can come in VERY handy when you’re at an airport for example. well i set forth to solve that problem one day when I got fed-up…

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CRM Desktop

CRM Desktop for windows allows you to search through customers and also gives an alert for tasks based on the due date and time. It iterfaces with the hosted SugarCRM instance using the web services via REST API Features Customer Search Launch website from desktop app Task alert popup Installation Download CRM Desktop Unzip CRMDesktop.exe…

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Static IP address on OSMC

The standard place on Linux for the network configuration is /etc/network/interfaces , but OSMC uses connman which is a lightweight network controller designed for embedded devices. Connman uses different files to the traditional Linux network configuration files. To define a static IP address one should create a config file in the /var/lib/connman directory with a…

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Email my public address

As by now you would have known that I have a RaspberryPI connected to my TV running OSMC. I recently had to need to connect to this RPI remotely. So as we all do I punched a hole in my router to the device on the ssh port. I also signed up for DynDNS so…

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