Last time in this series, I covered turning a lamp on and off with a keychain. Today, I’m going to up the ante and describe how to control an overhead light with your same keychain. This will be accomplished by replacing the switch for the light that you want to control with a new switch…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Structural Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy Up Front Definitions Component: This is the abstract object that represents any and all members of the pattern Composite: Derives from component and provides the definition for the class that contains other components Leaf: A concrete node that encapsulates…
So, as I blogged previously, I’ve been re-appropriating some old PCs and sticking Ubuntu 11.10 on them. I had one doing exactly what I wanted it to do in the context of my home automation network with one small but annoying exception. Whenever I would play music through headphones or speakers, there would be a…
Writing maintainable code is for “Code Monkeys”? This morning, I read an interesting blog post from Erik McClure. The premise of the post is that writing maintainable code is sufficiently boring and frustrating as to discourage people from the programming profession. A few excerpts from the post are: There is an endless stream of rheteric…
I’ve recently started working on my home automation web server in earnest, and am trying to give it a nice look and feel. This is made more interesting by the fact that I’m developing a site intende specifically to be consumed by desktops, laptops, tablets and phones alike. With these constraints, it becomes important to…
