Trigger the Automatic Cat Laser Pointer Toy Remotely
You made it here to part four because pushing that button isn’t enough. No, you want to trigger this cat laser pointer toy remotely, or even on a schedule. Well you’re in luck, because I too wanted...
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Assemble the Raspberry Pi Cat Laser Pointer Toy
In part one we discussed what exactly we’re trying to build, and what’s needed to begin assembling our cat laser pointer toy. Here in part two we’re going to take all the pieces we’ve gathered and...
View ArticleAutomatic Cat Laser Pointer Toy Using the Raspberry Pi
Living in the city has shown me just how hard it can be to find an affordable apartment with a reasonable amount of space. Having two cats in such a small place doesn’t really give them much room to...
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Polaroid TV Turns On by Itself
We went out on a limb and purchased the Polaroid 4K Ultra HD TV. For the most part this TV was a good buy: great picture, sound and built-in functionality. One feature, however, made the TV appear to...
View ArticleXamarin iOS MT1007 Failed to Launch the Application
After going through the free provisioning profile article I’ve been able to debug my Xamarin iOS app on a physical device. I wanted to verify what happens when the application gets installed for the...
View ArticleDownload File with jQuery and Web API 2.0 IHttpActionResult
I came across a need to download a file through an AJAX request to a Web API 2.0 endpoint. A quick search revealed a fairly straightforward way to tackle this problem, which is to implement a custom...
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K2 Blackpearl Re-Resolve Group to Users
We have a system built around the K2 Blackpearl workflow engine that routes requests to the appropriate destinations. We switched a number of users from one active directory domain to an entirely...
View ArticlejQuery Validation Rules for Dynamically Generated Content
jQuery Validation is a very convenient client-side validation framework that has made the implementation of client-side validation much more streamlined. For many web applications, introducing...
View ArticleXamarin iOS UITableView GetCell Method Called for Invisible Cells
In my Xamarin iOS application I’m leveraging the UITableView control to page through a collection of items in a performant manner. The UITableView uses the GetCell method of the UITableViewDataSource...
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Xamarin iOS Detect if Ringer Is On Silent or Muted
There’s currently no native support for detecting whether or not the device ringer is set to silent. This poses an issue when you want to leverage the state of the ringer to trigger some action within...
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