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TeensyDSC - it works!

So last night I was finally able to test my custom digital setting circles setup on my AD12… it worked great! Â I used the AstrosystemsÂ 10K encoder kit with the TeensyDSC and SkySafari on my iPad. Â Here’s the photos of my setup:

Cassandra + Hector + JRuby == Awesome

So a few months ago I started looking into using Cassandra for a project. Not being fluent in Java or Python which have excellent client libraries for interfacing to Cassandra (Hector and Pycassa respectfully), I looked into the Perl and Ruby clients. At the time, none of the native Perl

OSS sit-rep

I figured I’d write a quick situation report on the three open source projects I’m involved with: * Tcpreplay Pretty much in total maintenance mode right now. I’m more then happy to help users and fix any bugs which people report, but I’m not working on any

Ruby: JBYCDMYS

So a co-worker sent me this link of “cool Ruby tricks“. After looking at them, I’ve come up with the Ruby equivalent of Perl’s TIMTOWTDI (There is more then one way to do it.) JBYCDMYS – Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Seriously, anyone who thinks

PHP & Rails

I just made a number of small tweaks to the site layout and format which I think cleans things up a bit. The biggest change is the new Archives widget which makes organization a lot cleaner. On a side note, I’ve switched gears a little and put tcpreplay on

Reinventing the wheel...

So I’ve been working on the bits and bytes of SSL a lot lately which has required me to look at the OpenSSL code. Long story short, it’s not the prettiest code I’ve ever seen (by a long shot). But it does have a few gems. This

I hate proprietary formats...

I don’t understand why Samsung decided to use a semi-proprietary file format for their X205L/X210L series of camcorders, but they did. Obviously, they wised up to this mistake since they’ve released the X300L which uses standard DIVX encoding. But for those of you like me who have

Well that was just a little harder...

Upgraded to WordPress 2.1. Was mostly a smooth upgrade, but of course not everything was plug & play. Apparently there were some slight API changes which broke the right sidebar, but after reading the developer docs things fell into place. Anyways, things seem back in one piece. Doesn’t

Multithreaded server in 5 lines? Damn.

Ok, last post was a rant was about how Ruby sucks. This post is about how damned cool it is. Long story short, I needed to switch some code from a fork() model to multithreaded or select(). I really wasn’t excited about working with threads or Ruby’s rather

No destructor? WTF?

Ok, I’ll the be first to admit that I’m no OO guru. Most of my OO coding has been done in Perl for heaven’s sake. I’ve also dabbled a little in C++. Now I’m learning Ruby. Ruby has some really cool idioms and features which