Nathan Broadbent - Made By Nathan (Page 6)

compaq-evo-t20

RFID apartment lock (& iPhone app)

Octopus cards in Hong Kong can be used to purchase almost anything, such as groceries, McDonalds, and public transport. Since everyone has one, a lot of apartments are using them for access control. One of my first projects after moving back to Hong Kong was installing an electronic lock on

art

My attempt at an embossed metal box from beverage can

I was inspired by a makezine.com article I was reading this evening, and decided to follow a tutorial to make an embossed box out of an aluminium can. I haven't done anything creative for a long time, and I really enjoyed it. I'm not sure

greasemonkey

Grooveshark - Set Current Song as Browser Title

I like Grooveshark. Its like last.fm, but you can choose the songs & albums you want to play. I would like to get a subscription one day, but I'm not sure when the RIAA is planning their attack, so maybe I'll hold off for now

iphone

Trying to use l1merain but it doesn't work?

You are trying to use l1merain to jailbreak on windows xp, but your iPhone doesn't take it.. You should see a green rain drop if the jailbreaking process is successful, but you just see the apple icon. What you need to do is press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Sort

git

Make 'git status' put filepaths into numbered variables

I like my shortcuts for git (ie. gst for git status, gca for git commit -a -m, etc.) But I wanted more, so I thought it would be nice if I could somehow create 'shortcuts' to the filepaths of modified files whenever I run git status. I created

bash

Search and replace in multiple files on linux with bash, egrep, sed function

Here's a simple function to add to your shell if you ever want to replace a string in multiple files at once. It ignores everything in .git, otherwise you get 'bad index file sha1 signature' errors. function gsed () { if [ -z "$3" ] then echo "

wordpress

How to preserve indentation in wordpress [sourcecode] tags

Dont use the visual editor. Copy the code into your 'HTML' view and it will preserve indentation. Copy it into 'Visual' view and your code will be all left-aligned... Examples: Code pasted in 'Visual' View <indent> <indent> <indent>

rails

How to use bundler with multiple Gemfiles in plugins / extensions

Bundler makes it very easy to point to a gem folder on your system, and I definitely recommend this approach a lot more. The plugin can be a gem that we can just require, and it can specify its own dependencies in its .gemspec file. But if you really don&

bugfixes

Configure SMTP - SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

If you are trying to configure your wordpress installation to send email from your gmail account: 1. Install the 'Configure SMTP' plugin, and check the 'Send e-mail via GMail?' box. 2. Send a test email to make sure everything is working. You might get the error

rspec

RSpec tasks on Rails 3

Problem: uninitialized constant RSpec::Rake Solution: You are using Rails 3 (and RSpec 2), and trying to define a custom rake task with Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new Instead, do: RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec) do |t| ... and make sure to change: t.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb'

rss

wimp.com rss feed

I found out about http://www.wimp.com last year, and have been watching their daily videos ever since. Its a simple website that offers 5 or 6 daily videos on a range of topics, such as science, comedy and innovation. And thats all there is. No bells and whistles,

git

How to upgrade git on legacy Ubuntu

Follow these steps to get git 1.7 + on ubuntu 9.10 or less. (10.04 comes with the latest version) sudo apt-get install libcurl4-dev # (for new http[s] support) cd /tmp wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.2.1.tar.gz tar -xf git-1.7.