Wavemon Monitors Your Raspberry Pi's Wi-Fi from the Command Line Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API | Vinay Sahni Your data model has started to stabilize and you're in a position to create a public API for your web app. You realize it's hard to make significant changes to your API once it's released and want to get as much right as possible up front. Now, the internet has no shortage on opinions on API design. But, since there's no one widely adopted standard that works in all cases, you're left with a bunch of choices: What formats should you accept? How should you authenticate? Should your API be versioned? In designing an API for SupportFu (a lightweight Zendesk alternative ), I've tried to come up with pragmatic answers to these questions. ... or just skip to the bottom and signup for updates Key requirements for the API Many of the API design opinions found on the web are academic discussions revolving around subjective interpretations of fuzzy standards as opposed to what makes sense in the real world. Use RESTful URLs and actions But what can I make a resource? SSL everywhere - all the time
T3's top 10 hot gadgets of 2013 - and not an Apple in sight Apple has been excluded from a list of the top 10 gadgets for 2013. The Hot 100 list highlights gadgets rated the most wanted in the world by tech magazine T3,. Apple - which has previously topped the list on three separate occasions – fails to make the top 10 for the first time since 2009. Its highest-ranking product is the iPad mini in 15th place. 3D printers top the list for their “life-changing potential” with food printing already taking place and clothes, drugs and even mobile phones expected to be printable in the next 10 years. Samsung leads the way for smartphones, with the Samsung Galaxy S4 coming in at number two. This year’s list also sees a number of projects from Kickstarter - the world’s largest funding platform for creative ideas - getting recognition. 2013 is shaping up to be a big year for gaming, with the Sony PlayStation 4 coming in at number three and a raft of gaming products featured in the Hot 100. Here are the top 10 gadgets of 2013, as chosen by T3. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6.
A Raspberry Pi Powered Bulk Arduino Programmer Whilst building lots of robots to fulfill a recent Kickstarter project, I had the need to program a thousand or so Arduinos, which would take forever if I were to program them all individually. Situations like this are the perfect opportunity to work on those meta projects which can be just as much fun to build as the product itself. In this case I needed something that would: program a number of Arduinos in parallelwork without a screenlet me know if it had successfully programmed or notbe quick and easy to use Pogo pins are a great way of making a quick temporary electrical connection to a PCB so I decided on using those pretty quickly. I used a little laser cut toggle to hold the Arduino in place. I connected up a USB to serial converter to each set of pogo pins and then plugged all of these into a USB hub. I wrote a simple piece of software in Node.js, which is great for this kind of parallel event-driven workload. Related
19 Beautiful and Colorful Websites for your Inspiration In the Northern Hemisphere, summer is just around the corner, and to celebrate that, there’s nothing better than checking out some beautiful and colorful websites. Colors are a great way to get attention, and to add personality and interest to a design. Choosing the right color palette may change the whole outcome of a design, so today we will show you how some very talented web designers are using color to create beautiful websites. Butterfly Bark PR Dumbo Townhouses Simple as Milk Summer in Tennessee Ready to Inspire TriplAgent Julia & Artem Dear Mum Polecat Kick my Habits herrlich media Dubbel Frisss Design Embraced rdio Kluge Interactive Flourish Brand Stylists colourcode Wall Creations About the Author Gisele Muller loves communication, technology, web, design, movies, gastronomy and creativity. Related Posts 276 shares 11 Inspiring Typography Focused Web Designs We all know that typography is a very important element of a good design. Read More 510 shares Examples of Well Designed Contact Pages
The Google Glass feature no one is talking about — Creative Good (Also: en français, en español, 简体中文, 繁體中文, На русском, in het nederlands, em Português) Google Glass might change your life, but not in the way you think. There’s something else Google Glass makes possible that no one – no one – has talked about yet, and so today I’m writing this blog post to describe it. To read the raving accounts of tech journalists who Google commissioned for demos, you’d think Glass was something between a jetpack and a magic wand: something so cool, so sleek, so irresistible that it must inevitably replace that fading, pitifully out-of-date device called the smartphone. Sergey Brin himself said as much yesterday, observing that it is “emasculating” to use a smartphone, “rubbing this featureless piece of glass.” Like every other shiny innovation these days, Google Glass will live or die solely on the experience it creates for people. Except for the awkward physical design, the experience of using Google Glass has won high praise from reviewers. I’m still not done.
Discover Banana Pi, another Linux board for you to experiment with! Today we will introduce you to a board that replicates the approach of the Raspberry Pi but with increased functionalities, capable of running GNU / Linux and Android. We are talking about Banana Pi microcomputer, based on the SoC Allwinner A20 produced by Lemaker, a Chinese company based in Shenzhen. The first point of interest is the name of the card itself. Just open the box and you immediately understand the reason for the naming. Eventually, the story of the teaching microcomputer has gone well beyond the initial forecast, both in terms of functionality provided and in the volume of production and sales (currently over three million units sold) while the word “Pi” started identifying the product and became part of the name of almost all the accessories for the card itself. For us it is also an opportunity to make an overview on the SoC micro-computes present on the market, both for “teaching” and commercial use, based on the ARM RISC processor and hosting GNU / Linux. auto lo su make
40 Cool jQuery Animation Tutorials Since its arrival, jQuery has caught the web by storm and now it is one of the preferred solutions in creating fancy animations on web pages. jQuery provides great cross browser support, it is lightweight and easy to use. Right now, you can see jQuery effects applied in a number of ways that effectively demonstrate its power to define and control small-scale web animations. Until newer technologies like CSS3 fully mature with adequate support from major browsers and all, jQuery will continue the lead. We will still be seeing a lot of its application in navigation interfaces, sliders and other image display mechanisms, in enhancing web typography and more going forward. Therefore, to help you work your way around jQuery, I am sharing with you some of the best jQuery animation tutorials and plugins I have been able to find. As you will see, these tutorials will help you acquire skills in making various animation effects. Advertisement jQuery Animation Tutorials
My First Brainfuck computer | Johan von Konow My First Brainfuck is an educational computer built to be as minimalistic as possible. I’m sorry for the use of the offensive f-word, but it is the actual name of the program language the computer uses. Description The My First Brainfuck has the same basic features as a normal computer, but at an extremely low level. The impressive part is that you can still run, write and edit programs on it. It is easy to build, fun to play with and has an extremely low price. Watch in HD Features A “normal” computer (like a PC or a Raspberry Pi): My First Brainfuck:Processor 32/64 bit CPU 4 bit CPUInput USB keyboard 4 keysDisplay Monitor or TV 10 LEDsAudio Soundcard Play tones on a buzzerCost 50-500+ $ ~7$ Development Ever since I was a child, I have been fascinated by the idea that you can learn how a computer works by building one yourself. I wanted to create a minimalistic computer that you could build, program and understand. programmable microcomputers (maybe not the last one…) Ook.Ook! Future Documents