I have a sort of personality quirk that causes me to constantly play what I describe to others as the “what-if game.” This is where I have some kind of oddball thought about altering something that we take for granted and imagining how it plays out. Lest you think that I’m engaging in fatuous self-aggrandizing,…
If I had to guess at this blog’s readership demographic, I’d imagine that the majority of readers work mainly in the .NET space and within the Microsoft technology ecosystem in general. My background is a bit more eclectic, and, before starting with C# and WPF full time in 2010, I spent a lot of years…
I’ve had three variations of my home automation setup. The first incarnation was a series of Linux command line utilities and cron jobs. There was some vague intention of a GUI, but that never really materialized. The second was a very enterprise-y J2EE implementation that involved Spring, MongoDB, layered architecture, and general wrangling with java….
Here are the general steps to get a REST service going on your Raspberry Pi, using Python. One thing that I’ve learned from blogging over the last several years is that extremely detailed, granular how-tos tend to be the most yawned-at posts. So this is just a quick overview of how you can accomplish the…
I think everyone has encountered the micromanaging type at some point or another in their career. Most obviously or memorably, this might have been a boss who took the attitude, “no decision too small!” But it might also have been a coworker’s boss or just someone else at the company you had the misfortune to…
