Several years ago I took a Raspberry Pi 2 B+ and turned it into SLRPi – the SETI listener for Raspberry Pi. It was a custom build of Debian Jessie and a custom build of BOINC for the SETI project. You can read more about that effort here. Earlier this year it was announced that this phase of the project was ending. After 20 years of collecting data it was time for them to do some data mining and look…
For the longest time this wasn’t an issue. There were just certain characters that weren’t allowed as file or folder names in the Windows world (%&#/\ and so on). Not too long ago, Microsoft decided it’s ok to accept files and folders in SharePoint with either the % or the # in the file or folder name. Great for end users who enjoy that sort of thing…awful for us developers. For example, in the past I’m sure you did something…
Just in case I ever forget (or if you get stuck on this), if you have a site you’re trying to either link to or shortlink to so you can post the link in a FB post and have the image automatically load, but for whatever reason it keeps saying “404 not found” in the FB post, do this: First, go to the target URL and delete the cache for that page. Either reset the OutputCache duration, delete the cache…
I love using VS Code, and i want to be more diligent about unit testing especially with JavaScript. There didn’t seem to be an obvious way to do this in VS Code, so I cobbled together a few resources that ended up working well. It does require you have node.js installed on your machine first, so get that then proceed. By the way, for those of you familiar with unit testing this may seem remedial and possibly outdated. It’s new…
Those of you who know me know in my spare time I write code, build solutions for things, etc. I like having a few “pokers in the fire” as the saying goes so I can bounce from side project to side project in case I get stonewalled and need a break. I’ve had a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B board laying around for a couple of years and couldn’t decide what to build with it. Many ideas crossed my mind…