So, I made an app. A for real, runs on things app. More accurately, I followed a little tutorial to make an app, as part of the Xamarin Challenge over at Thurrott.com. The app itself is a little weather app, it even includes location based weather and forecasting. I know this isn’t particularly impressive but … [Read more…]
There was a post that came across on Medium recently, How to Make a Twitter Bot in Under an Hour. It’s pretty straight forward, though it seems to be pretty geared towards non “techie” types, mostly because it’s geared towards people making the bot on a Mac and it uses something called Heroku to run … [Read more…]
I just wanted to start off by saying, this isn’t a how to at all, it’s more some general ideas I’ve been looking over for how to add door and window security to my recently set up video monitoring system. Basically, I want a log of when and if the doors and windows are opened … [Read more…]
Just a note, this is not any sort of advertisement… So I know some basic programming syntax, generally centered around C and C++ which I learned in college. The C was through several Engineering based classes and the C++ was from a single Computer Science course I took when I had a semester to fill … [Read more…]
I almost always have a couple of dozen projects I’m working on. These are not projects for work or even household projects that my wife wants me to take care of. These are personal projects of varying importance though generally of little overall *real* importance. For example, at the moment I am working on: – … [Read more…]
If I earned a nickel for everything I’ve ever created that no one else cares about I’d probably be about to earn another nickel with this next post. Anyway, one of my many pet projects has been setting up a private internet radio stream. I actually toyed with the idea for a bit of building … [Read more…]
That has to be one of the lamest topics I’ve ever made for a blog post but it’s at least descriptive. This is a short guide for users of the Free RadioDJ software who want to automate the process of adding new podcasts to the rotation. This is mildly complicated but not overly so and … [Read more…]
I must admit, I’ve been inspired somewhat by Adam Curry and his crazy NoAgendaStream bot in this quest. I like the idea of using Twitter for “something more”. So I’ve set about to create my own Twitter bot. I already have a web server that is always on, and now that server has it’s own … [Read more…]
I promised a part two so here it is… The first post can be found here. As previously mentioned, my previous self taught programming experience involved BASIC and whatever the TI-85 uses. I had my first official taste of taught programming in College a couple of years after High School with C. My Engineering degree … [Read more…]
Hey, it’s pointless personal trivia day! Hooray. Anyway, I’ve never taken up computer programming in any official “this is what I’m going to do for work” sort of level but it’s off and on been a background hobby of mine. I’ve been considering getting back into it lately which has inspired this historical blog post. … [Read more…]