Home Assistant and HA Bridge Today I decided to get home-assistant voice activated with my Amazon Echo. There are multiple ways of doing this, but I chose the easiest and laziest for now. What does it enable me to do? “Alexa, turn on my living room lights” My living room lights turn on and Alexa says “Okay”....
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Web Development With SCM Basics Pre-Amble I remember when I first started development. Even more fun was doing the same but over a remote ftp connection through Transmit, or just directly on the server. I got u...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Railties Error? If you’re like me and you skip reading a gem’s README when you install the latest, you’ll be seriously sorry when you don’t for inherited_resources because it is Rails 3 only. The same can be sai...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Where Are You, Jamie? I’m still alive! I’ve been contracting for a Healthcare company in Nashville. I’ve been doing a multitude of jobs, the timeline went something a little like this: A month of web develop...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Stubbing RubyMotion HTTP Coming from the Ruby and Rails world, I’m anchored in the paradigm that we should test our code. Our code should not only be tested, but it should be sure not to be hitting external serv...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. My CodeClub Assembly Today I gave a school assembly at Burley Oaks Primary School on the CodeClub class I’m a volunteer for. I was nervous! I was pitching my class to 106 Year 6 students, seeing who would be int...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Git Log Visualisation With PEW PEW! Gource is an OpenGL capable visualisation tool for difference SCM’s, it’s easy to install and looks pretty damn cool. If you have Homebrew installed it’s simply: 1 brew ins...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. Custom Triggers With the Bluepill Monitoring Gem We use Chef for automating our server infrastructure, but I’ll show you the manual way of installing Bluepill (either locally or remotely) so you can play with it...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. I’ve noticed a lot of people asking questions about ajax, rjs, scriptaculous and other whizzy cool effects lately. So I thought I’d document a couple here so there’s less confusion about some of the simpler effec...
This is a seriously old post. I’d probably not bother reading it, but I keep it here for nostalgia. I lied, turns out I like sushi! :-/ Home Code Tumblr Japanese Who? Aug 24 What’s Jamie been up to? General No Comments » As you may have noticed, there’s been a severe lack of posting lately. We...