Archive for the ‘My Projects’ Category

Happiness is a warm SCM

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Linus Torvald posted on his blog “Happiness is a warm SCM“:

Part of the problem is that ‘git’ is such a flexible tool that you can use it in various modes, and mix things up freely. The whole distributed nature means that there’s no gatekeeper, you can do whatever you want. And the flexibility and power is good, but it does mean that it’s also easy to make a mess of it – the old UNIX philosophy of giving people rope, and letting them hang themselves with it if they want to.

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Scripting on Android

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

There is a nifty new project for the Android phone: Android Scripting Environment.

This lets you use Lua and Python to write scripts on Android.  Not quite the same as writing a whole application in those languages, but a great start!

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PowerCup

Friday, May 1st, 2009

This is a really cool gizmo, the PowerCup.  It’s a power inverter for your car.  It has two 3-prong outlets and one USB port.  It’s rated for 200 watts (400 peak).

It’s awesome how it fits in your cup holders instead of having this clunky thing on the floor.

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Wifi Tethering via the Android

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

In my post “How to beat the iPhone” I mentioned that an ideal device would be a portable wifi hotspot.

Well, now one exists for the G1: android-wifi-tether project.

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My Site, the Yo-Yo

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

My site has bee having all kinds of fun the past week and a half.

Starting last Monday night the network was down for 4 and half days.  This was eventually resolved by Speakeasy.

It went down again yesterday.

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