Standard Deviation with Arduino

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

My brother and I were playing around with Arduinos as part of my epic road trip this summer. He was trying to get a stable temperature reading from a sensor.
The issue was that the sensor was fine, except when it was rapidly transitioning from one temperature to another. For example, if the ambient temperature was [...]

local::lib: Better perl when you don’t have root.

Monday, October 19th, 2009

These days as we move increasingly to ‘the clouds’, it’s becoming common to get a server where you’ve got local root. However, those (from a provider and a user perspective) aren’t always the best way to go. Those are more expensive to provide (dedicated IP’s, more dedicated resources on the server) and thus more expensive [...]

FlickrPress now available: Turns Flickr RSS to Wordpress Posts

Friday, October 16th, 2009

My wife and I like to post a lot of photos of our son to his blog.

After using WordPress from both the browser and the iPhone client, I just wasn’t that happy using it for our pictures. On the other hand, we both love (and already use, and have Pro accounts on) Flickr.
Having the photos [...]