Category Archives: Technical

Computer or Internet related with very technical or in depth content

Arduino Prototyping Shield

I finally finished soldering the Arduino Prototyping Shield from the kit that Lada Ada sent me. Before I started soldering The back of the finished board The finished board

10 March 2012 – 20:28:35 | By Jonathan | Posted in Electronics, Programming |

List of AJAX element on a Facebook New Feeds page

If you are up for a little pop quiz, and you have a Facebook account, visit the “News Feeds” page and make a list of everything on the page that you consider to be using AJAX.

11 January 2012 – 16:09:11 | By Jonathan | Posted in Programming | Tagged , |

Prisoner Restitution

Citizens of the United States of America have rights. Such as the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When a citizen commits a crime, they do so in trade for some of their rights. In other words, were I to kill someone, I would give up my rights to liberty and the …

20 July 2011 – 11:44:58 | By Jonathan | Posted in Economics, Energy, Philosophic, Political, Religious | Tagged , , , , , |

Git Notes

I have recently taken the plunge into learning Git. These are my notes thus far. I know there are plenty of git write-ups out there on the web. I started this one mostly for myself as a quick cheat sheet. I figure it may be useful to someone so I am sharing it. My typical …

14 June 2011 – 08:42:10 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, Programming, Software, Unix/Linux | Tagged |

My Vim Cheatsheet

A while ago I read some Vim tutorials that were written by Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier and found them to be an excellent source of quick tips for a cheat sheet. So I set out to create a cheat sheet I could hang near my computer. I finally got around to finishing it. So I am …

25 February 2011 – 15:08:55 | By Jonathan | Posted in Programming, Unix/Linux |

AWS Free Tier Micro Instance 101

I recently decided to hop on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Tier, and see what it was all about. I use regular AWS services at work quite a bit so I am not a newcomer to the AWS world. However, this was my first foray in to the Free Tier offering. I created this …

17 February 2011 – 14:29:20 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, System Administration | Tagged , , , , , |

HTML Signatures in Gmail

Last month, Google released rich text signatures for their Gmail product. When I read this I was excited that I may be able to get rid of the plug-in I had been using for this same purpose. While the plugin worked, most of the time, there were times when it did not. I also personally …

04 August 2010 – 12:40:19 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, Software | Tagged , , , , |