ruby
At work, we use software called Atlassian Bamboo. It does CI (continuous integration) for us, so whenever a developer updates the code, it will run all of the software's tests, and makes sure everything still works. We had a USB Missile launcher lying around, and I thought it
compaq-evo-t20
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
compaq-evo-t20
I've finished most of the work I'm going to do on my shell.fm ruby server. Its written on sinatra + jquery + jquery-ui (so, a lot of ajax calls). It also requires my custom shell.fm fork if you want the volume control to work. You can
ruby
http://github.com/ndbroadbent/youtube_jukebox A ruby script that downloads youtube videos, converts them to mp3, and plays them in a vlc playlist as they are processed.
ruby
Been a fan of jqgrid for quite some time, but wasn't looking forward to the struggle of getting it to work with Rails. Thankfully, someones already done it for me: http://www.2dconcept.com/jquery-grid-rails-plugin It did take a little while to debug some things that were going
linux
My Compaq Evo T20 running tinycore linux, playing shell.fm, displaying track info via lcd4linux on a Pertelian X2o40 USB LCD display. Uses music software Reaper to play audio and generate MIDI events. Midi events are sent to the 'output' of MIDI Yoke, which patches them to a
lcd4linux
I recently found a bunch of DSP-420 LCD displays, like the ones that you see on POS terminals in grocery stores. After a fruitless battle with the proprietary protocol of an LED wallboard (that I also found at work :) ), it was good to find so much protocol documentation on these
shell-fm
So I have practically finished the last.fm player. Its running as I type this, and the sinatra server running on the machine is keeping me up to date with the tracks that are playing. But I'm not quite finished with this little project yet. At work, I
compaq-evo-t20
I've finished the software research stage of my Compaq Evo T20 experiments. I have settled on the Tinycore 2.7 distribution. So I now have a 300MHz thin client that: * can connect to a wired or wireless network. * can play audio through its onboard sound device. * has the