Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Minecraft 1.8.1: Creative Mode Gone Too Far
Posted in Fun, Software, tagged Minecraft on September 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
git checkout -b –no-track
Posted in Open Source, Software, Technique, tagged DVCS, git, git checkout, software configuration management, version control on July 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ever want to checkout a new git branch from another branch without setting up tracking? Here is the longhand way: git checkout old-branch git branch new-branch git checkout new-branch But there is a quicker way: git checkout -b new-branch old-branch … which does the same thing, albiet in one command.
HomeSchool Software: Placing Images
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Projects, Software, tagged Home School, Homeschool, HomeSchool Software, Rendering on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The ability to add and remove images from a Book Page is now working. Next step is to make the alignment buttons work. Final step is to plug it into the rendering…
HomeSchool Software: Getting Close
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Projects, Software, tagged Activity Tracking, Home School, Homeschool, HomeSchool Software on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve recently been working against a deadline this month to get our Portfolio rendered, printed, and turned into the local Altoona Area School District. The software has many improvements from the last couple days alone. A background page renderer runs at all times, and will re-render a book’s page if anything on it changed. The [...]
HomeSchool Software: Page Rendering (Also ImageMagick Text Example)
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Linux, Projects, Software, Technique, tagged Home School, Home School Software, Homeschool, ImageMagick, Productivity Software, Software Development on June 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last couple days have had me working on the page rendering functionality of the HomeSchool software. I’ve made some design decisions (for now) to speed up development like fixed 8.5″ x 11″ pages. Hopefully later I will be able to go back and improve some aspects, but for now, time is of the essence. Here [...]
Home School Software Update: Portfolio Time
Posted in Engineering, Interesting, Projects, Software, Technique, tagged Efficiency, Home School Log, Home School Software, Log, Portfolio, Software Development on June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year again… Time to get the log and portfolio to the Altoona Area School District. One problem — the software isn’t quite ready! However, I’ve been making daily progress on getting the “output” working. Here is how it is structured in this initial version: You can create a book, “Eli Daniel [...]
Home School Software in Production Use!
Posted in Engineering, Interesting, Life, Open Source, Projects, Software, tagged Geometry, Home School, Home School Software, Homeschool, Photography, Software on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Just an update on the use of our Home School software package… So far, we have entered 216 activities with 462 images/scans across 13 projects, 12 subjects, and 4 students. Nearly all of the photographs we take are with the Motorola Droid X. Provided you have sufficient light, the quality is very acceptable. Here is [...]
Fun with Arduino
Posted in Engineering, Interesting, Open Source, Software, Technique, tagged Arduino, Electronics, Projects, Robotics on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, so if you haven’t heard about it, Arduino is a really cool piece of “open source hardware”. In simple terms, it is a single board computer with a number of analog and digital inputs and outputs, that can be programmed from your computer, but run independently. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on [...]
Internet Explorer: Error – null is null!
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Software, tagged bugs, errors, Internet Explorer, JavaScript on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Only in Internet Explorer…
