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…
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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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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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Cron on Raspbmc
Here’s another little tutorial especially for people new to raspberry pi or linux in general (such as myself). Cron jobs are used to execute specific actions at pre-configured times. These actions can be executing scripts, writing data to a file, etc. (would be glad to hear of stuff you do with cron jobs in the…
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