You can use an Arduino as an AVR Programmer to upload a program onto another miniprocessor microchip (in this document, an Arduino UNO and ATMega328p). (Much of the following information can be found on arduino.cc’s tutorial pertaining to this topic. More of it can be found at high-low tech’s tutorial. Here I combine all the […]
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Taking Control (Back) in Google Website Optimizer
What do you do when you want to decide which variation a particular user sees? That’s a question that just doesn’t come up in most GWO tests, but suppose, for instance, you want to run two tests on your site and wish the users who saw a particular graphical theme in experiment 1 to see […]
Watch Star Wars on the command line
Let’s exult in the excellent transcendence of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope across barriers of media. It’s on telnet, all animated in ASCII characters. You can watch it from your command line. (Instructions follow.) /~\ |oo ) We’re doomed! _\=/_ ___ # / _ \ # /() \ \\//|/.\|\\// _|_____|_ \/ \_/ \/ | […]
Ruby on Rails on Notepad++
For everyone who doesn’t use emacs or vim to write code, Notepad++ (alias: npp) is a great text editor. With the following instructions, you can adapt to Ruby on Rails, correcting a syntax highlighting issue that occurs in .erb files (viewed as HTML). download replacement SciLexer.dll (2011) What we’re fixing I use Notepad++ for Ruby on […]