Ubuntu running .desktop application on boot
Occasionally you will need to run an application on boot. This could be a script or a full blown application. Root access or not, it does not matter.
Ubuntu desktop icon to launch scripts
If you would like to launch a script, or a collection of scripts from a desktop icon on ubuntu.
from ~/Desktop create a file with the extension of .desktop in my case I made start.desktop
AWS Lambda: Getting Started with NodeJS
Setting up for a lambda environment can take a few steps, I’ve throw together a quick start guide for my personal reference to get up and running
Raspberry Pi Email on boot debugging
Often when moving a raspberry pi project around it’s IP changes. whether it is on your home network or a new one, it becomes a task to figure out it’s IP.
Managing l10n localization files
Over the past few years, I have worked on a few projects that require internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) configuration files. The best way I have found is to use the domain key approach. This allows for fine-tuned control in your translations to each “page” or domain.
Angular html5Mode state refresh using Amazon’s ElasticBeanstalk
Angular’s built-in routing works wonders. you can do so by either registering the route with the hash in the URL or you can states ( html5Mode set to true ). This will leverage html5’s push state to route URLs. Unfortunately, this will cause some issues when attempting to refresh the browser.
Raspberry Pi: camera video stream to host
While playing with the raspberry pi camera I found it hard to know if the camera was working or trying to tweak settings. I was using raspivid -f to preview the video. This was limited with being open for 5 seconds ( can be adjusted using the -t flag and passing it seconds in milliseconds ). The solution was to open a streaming video from the raspberry pi and view it on my host ( mac ).
Raspberry Pi – Sharing file between PI and Mac
Mounting the raspberry pi home directory to avoid the push / pull game with git can become painful. It’s relatively straight forward to get shared folders using the appletalk protocol
Raspberry PI RC522 Setup
Connecting to Raspberry pi 2, 3 and zero to a RFID sensor, This summarizes my experiences using the tutorial found on Sunfounder.
