Jay, Trying To Remember...

While trying out a Ubiquiti wifi solution, I ran into one AP not getting installed correctly. It was showing as either disconnected or…

In order to get Platformio to build a project based on ESP8266 release candidate, I had to do the following - basically these instructions…

These are the settings that got me up and going- before this I was getting warning: espcomm_sync failed error: espcomm_open failed error

While looking around for a good library to parse JSON on an Arduino, I bumped into PlatformIO . This seems to address a problem I've been…

I'm continuing to try and 'cheap-ify' my per effect cost for my Halloween decorations. I ran into some issues last night trying to get an…

To get a Adafruit Trinket Arduino sketch running on a straight-up ATtiny85, I did the following: I set the fuses of the ATtiny85 to what I…

I added the following to /Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/avr/programmers.txt and restarted the Arduino IDE and…

This is all made possible by a nifty little Java app written by armzilla . Here's a quick explanation of the setup: Amazon Echo Raspberry…

Since jekyll is a ruby tool, I'm using rake to manage it. Here's my Rakefile

This seems to work- it opens up the markdown file in vi (which I suppose is what my bash editor is set to) so that will take some getting…

Moving this site over to Jekyll

After trying to sort out what a toolset should be for standard JS / HTML / possibly Node development, I'm narrowing on just using npm. Here…

Stumbled across Codeship and decided to give it a shot. Works a little similar to deploying to Heroku which I'm already doing, so it…

Ugh, this is a bear, but after many empty Googled alleyways, I stumbled on this post that fixed the issue... She can explain better- http…

This is what I'm using as a Makefile - based on what was included in a downloaded XCode template project - Can't remember where I downloaded…

Yeah, it's simple but useful. Since I'm using sqlite at the moment, it's just a copy but you could run any command in a similar way. I'm…

Going to start reviewing what went down with my little app though.

This MOSTLY is working, so, here's what I found when trying to connect to Facebook with OAuth. It needs some serious refactoring because…

Pretty simple, but wanted to log here so I can look this up in the future... I wanted to deploy to both a stage and a live site. Here's how…

I've been fighting this issue the last couple nights. I wrote earlier about how Rack::PostBodyContentTypeParser can automagically turn a…

This could undoubtedly be more elegant, but it's late and I want it to work now. May take another stab at it later... Setting up a before…

This looks like a solution: sinatra-respond_to

In attempting to AJAX-ize the site, I had the desire to handle JSON as if it were form post data. Queue a Rack middleware solution. <a href…

Working on making the site more app-like. In doing so, found the Prototype.js-based library, LivePipe . The documentation is poor, but what…

Title pretty much says it all.

Looking for a reason that autotest is skipping some of my test files.... I think I'll just comment the exception line out for now as I don't…

Rack::Test uses last_response and last_request objects instead of Rack's typical request and response objects. This is probably…

Check that you didn't copy / paste / didn't change the test class definition line. example: My BlogPost class was mis-titled... There…

I should have done this earlier. To do a number of tests, I have to repeat the same actions like create a user, log a user in, etc. I was…

working on storing files to Amazon's S3 web service. Here's what I've come up with so far: then a: Will upload the the file to the Amazon…

Well, I've been working on this thing, but have not making the kind of progress I would like. I blame this on a few things, but mainly we've…

In my case it was an OAuth request token and when it was serialized it must have been larger than the cookie limit. Spent too much time on…

Summary of what's going on with OAuth:

And OAuth is winning

I first thought that I would have to use ERB to render non-HTML-like templates. Not true. Haml let you do a :plain filter which is pretty…

This may not be the best way to do this, but this is what I used at the top of my test file so that a helper method has a value for Rack's…

This is simple, but I'm dumping it here anyway... I'd like to use the Twitter model of account access: http://example.com/USERNAME So, if…

Email is going to be used to activate an account, and I'm leaning towards using the Pony gem to simplify the creations and sending. Here's…

I'm now working on user creation process... This was what I was trying to eliminate by using OpenID - but realistically, while OpenID may be…

and I'm not sure how I feel about this. Maybe I should use <a href="http://github.com/defunkt/mustache">Mustache</a> for tempting because…

Here's a list of big-time OpenID providers that are discoverable. This means you don't need an exact URL, which is cool... Additionally, if…

So it looks like I have to create the whole user model anyway. Blast. I could use Facebook Connect or Twitter OAuth, but then users without…

How do you test your helper methods in a Sinatra::Base app? Include them in your tests...

According to this , it appears that Facebook is NOT an OpenID provider.

Leaning towards using OpenID for the login for Fund-A-Stache.

Here's a slightly dumb way to test Rack::Flash in a Sinatra app...

This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are…

I'm going to document the building of Fund-A-Stache so I know what's going on next year. Here goes nothing...

Here's some code as a test: and I want it to look nice. How can we do that with Wordpress?