Fifty Little Projects in Fifty Weeks
I have not fallen into a black hole I have been busy coding Network Game Server First news I factored out the game code from the ad hoc Network Discovery play and wrote a stand alone server that I can run on one of my colo instances This allowed my hubsand I to play a hand despite him being
Read more →Yesterday for the afternevening shift I picked up where I left off a week ago to build this blogging system working on the project that led to a discussion that led to this entire publishing experiment A little background After I wrote the useful to me remote control app and transponder for my Android TV which is released in
Read more →As I mentioned in yesterday s blog post I needed to write a gadget that would create a mail gateway row in the database in response to someone asking for a comment link Writing the apache handler to do that took about six minutes three longer than it should because I had a pernicious typo that I failed to
Read more →I intend to step away from working on the blog software for a few days and get back to Android programming Hello Diabolical Industries I have a truckload of good intentions here in case you want a new road One of the negative aspects of my mania is When I get the urge to work on something it is
Read more →I intend to step away from working on the blog software for a few days and get back to Android programming With that in mind yesterday evening I did a little design work This morning I got an early start and cleaned up many little nagging irregularities The web server processes no longer run as myself but as nobody
Read more →And now you have it I just POSTed an article to the blog over the network This posting is technically the second the first was a test post to a non published feed Next step is posting more than a single file of HTML but an entire package Last time I looked into this there were two natural options
Read more →Last night I decided it was time to take another concrete step towards putting the part of the system called The Beast for what it s worth that writes the individual post content into the spool directory onto the colo machine This is a preface to having the post process actually involve an HTTP POST operation Yesterday the process
Read more →Not a ton of code today I spent most of the morning shift tweaking the site and exploring the world of Bootstrap a little more The biggest change is that nearly all of the content on the site comes via a handful of Atom feeds Some are world readable like blog and release and others are unpublished internal feeds
Read more →I found enough slack time during our friend s visit that I was able to do some amazing things Based on some advice from my pal KTS he recommended a Responsive HTML library named Bootstrap With that pointer and a little googling I found a libre blog template from a site StartBootstrap I downloaded it and it took me
Read more →UUID is better than SERIAL I really have a distaste for opaque identifiers in databases I understand that sometimes they are absolutely necessary and in fact sometimes an opaque identifier is required by an external force For example every atom entry is required to have a unique atom id element in it My toolchain of choice for the last
Read more →Third Blog Post I had another great day of hacking I spent the entire day on taking the data from the Atom feed and using it to populate the website I know that back in the day a lot of webmasters started with the HTML and scraped that to generate the RSS or Atom feeds I was helping a
Read more →Second Blog Post I had a good and productive Second Daypart Refactored the distribution and configuration of this website Started work on the tool that will accept news packages Build yet another web service Apache site Create the database tables that will per feed data Add methods to that class to produce the Atom XML Create a class that
Read more →First Blog Post This is going to become the first item to be published in my atom feed for Blog In general these stories will answer the likely unasked question of What did Lawrence do today My Morning Task List On the Android Card Game force a new network reachable game that does not get a name selected by
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