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…
Read moreWebsite 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…
Read moreBarcode 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…
Read moreAutomatic Vehicle License Plate Recognition
Given an image of a number plate or vehicle with a number plate, use computational photography principles to extract the number plate and identify the text on the plate. Project PDF
Read moreCRM 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…
Read moreStatic 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…
Read moreMake your Raspberry Pi speak!
I found an article online once that taught me the “say” command on OSX – which i think was pretty cool! The command line function allows you to activate the speech to text feature of OSX and can be used for a variety of fun project. You can try it by firing up terminal (Applications…
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Bittorent Sync is the future of sharing
Two years ago I was a dropbox advocate, one year ago I said forget dropbox, google drive is the way to go, now i’m blown away by Bittorrent Sync. Now don’t get me wrong these incumbent technologies are still useful and is in no way phased out but bittorent sync is nascent, raises the bar…
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SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) subscription jobs
Anyone who have worked with reporting services have run into the problem of a report subscription not executing a report correctly and the usual response is “how do I re-run this report”. For the novice, we know that all the subscriptions are actual jobs under SQL Server Agent on SQL server. But going there will…
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