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Tracking coffee intake with touchatag and Lifestyleapps
I have bought a touchatag RFID reader and a couple of touchatag RFID tags and was wondering how I could use these to track my daily intake in lifestyleapps. I noticed a Twitter application already has been developed which post a message from a configured account. Since lifestyleapps already integrate with Twitter it was a simple matter of associating a direct message and prefixing it with “h” or “having” to let lifestyleapps know you are reporting an intake. Many cups of coffee are consu...
Today, we have taken over development of ConquerCam
Today, we have taken over development of ConquerCam. ConquerCam is a low-priced (less than twenty bucks) webcam software package for Windows having quite a few cool features such as built-in web server, motion detection and scheduled uploads via FTP. ConquerCam was initially developed by me back in 1998 and at that time it was surely one of the very best in its category. Lacking time I stopped active development in 2003 but didn’t really give up on it since I continued to get feedback. Con...
Upgrading Rails Engines Project to Rails 2.3.2
Our lifestyleapps project (still in very early beta) was running Rails 2.2.2 with the Rails Engines plugin ten minutes ago. Today, Rails 2.3.2 was released so I decided to try if I could easily upgrade it and avoid using the Rails Engines plugin anymore. It was beautiful simple and took me less than ten minutes. First, I had to update our Apache Passenger module with a version supporting Rails 2.3 so I did a $ gem update passenger and then run the install to build our apache module $ pas...
Extend your shell toolbox with pbcopy
We are developing Rails applications on Mac OSX and a command which isn’t used enough in my opinion is “pbcopy”. This command will allow you to grab the standard input from a terminal and put it on the clipboard. I find myself using commands such as pwd | pbcopy all the time. This will grab my current working directory and make it available in my clipboard allowing me to easily paste it into another terminal or application. This avoids the need for you to grab your mouse to paste a simple li...
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