Category: App Development
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Internet of Things (IoT) Project-Project Plan
Start with the End in Mind. Goals Understand the nature of the temperature gradient relative to a heated building with attached enclosed space Notify me when there is a risk of garage stores beverages freezing (and possibly bursting) Notify me when data logging has stopped Reactivate a long dormant project Use Wireless Mesh Network…
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Infrastructure The silent project plan killer
In theory, you get a piece of software and install it and begin using it. That works maybe 30% of the time. Invariably, you run the install and various messages begin to pop up. Maybe you have a permission problem, maybe there is a pre-requisite that you don’t have, maybe it’s a platform learning curve…
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Mobile App development with PhoneGap
A few years ago, I had an idea for an App. At the time, I did some research and felt that Appcelerator was the right way to go. I coded the core parts of the system but began to bog down in Graphics, scaling, screen resolution etc. Then other commitments took me away from my…
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Stumbled on a Javascript Bug
Wow, This is rare. While writing code, I stumbled on a bug in the language. In my application, I’m using the mod operator (%) and I have used it for decades successfully (although not only in JavaScript). So the thing I’m working on has a circular array so I need to move the index…