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For a home automation project i had to connect a rdif reader (this one) to a Raspberry Pi 3 and then have the system execute a program each time a token is read by the reader:RFIDer is the tool i developed to do this job. RFIDer sources (GPLv3 license) are available, but you can also find precompiled binaries for some platform. Once compiled …
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Installing and configuring a surveillance camera is becoming an operation very easy and very common, strong technical skills are not required anymore. The question is: can we control a “home camera” with our RaspberryPi ? The short answer is: YES ! I’ll show how to use the RaspberryPi to control, using jus the linux shell, a D-Link DCS-960L .
If, like me, you are having troubles compiling projects (also Android Studio ones) after having upgraded Gradle you can try to delete cache files. I’m assuming you are working on a Linux box and that your Android projects are saved inside ~/AndroidStudioProjects/ How to delete general caches:
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find ~/.gradle -wholename '*/caches/*' -type d -maxdepth 2 -exec rm -r {} \; find ~/.gradle -wholename '*/daemon/*' -type d -maxdepth 2 -exec rm -r {} \; |
How to delete Android Studio caches:
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find ~/AndroidStudioProjects/ -wholename '*/.gradle/*' -type d -maxdepth 3 -exec rm -r {} \; |
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Starting from PhalconPHP 3.0 the old connector i wrote to allow me to use SQL Server stopped working. To let me use new versions of PhalconPHP i updated the old classes (both Adapter and Dialect). You can download them here , search for the two files named Mssql3.php
If you have configured many Thunderbird’s mail filters and you don’t want them to be applied when you are away from your computer, maybe because (like me) you want to have all the messages in the standard Inbox when you are reading them on the smartphone, you could try to suspend Thunderbird when screensaver is active. A …
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Do you add quite often files to your local working copy, forgetting to put them under version control ? Why not using a tool that, when used, add every new file it finds ? SVN-ADD-NEW (shell script) could be the answer (very simple)
Are you developing an Android application and have you to convert an image to a set of icons ? Do you want to avoid as much as possible repetitive manual operations ? Here you can find a tool to convert a single image to the set of icons needed by Android for various device screen …
Every time you update manually the kernel of your Linux distro you have to rebuild the modules used by VirtualBox: this process can be made automatic. Let’s see how.
Do you need to add a cross platform push notification system to your App ? Do you want to make it as generic as possible without having to implement specific versions for each platform ? You have, at least, 4 possibilities to do so: AMAZON Simple Notification Service (SNS) Push Woosh QuickBlox BoxCar
SimpleOrm is a set of PHP classes to let you interact with tables and views in a database using an object oriented syntax (as the name implies it’s a simple PHP ORM). Key features are: 1- Database abstraction 2- Query builder 3- Table-Model mapping 4- Fully iterable Resultsets