I had always used Win32 Disk Imager to create my Raspberry Pi images because I was a windows person prior to my conversion to Mac. To be honest, Win32 Disk Imager was really simple v trying to understand command line such as: sudo dd bs=1m if=path_of_your_image.img of=/dev/rdiskn I finally took the leap and gave it… Read More »
This is a neat podcast that a friend of mine introduced me too. It is for a total newbie and talks about: 1. What kind of event to organize depending on the situation – Breakfast, Cocktail Hour/Happy Hour, Dinner 2. Whom to invite 3. How to get people to come when you’re still new to… Read More »
The secure copy command is: scp where_the_file_is where_the_file_should_be Or more correctly: scp source destination The trick with a raspberry pi, or any remote location in fact is to include the username@host/ip with a colon as the first part of the source address. eg scp pi@192.168.x.x:/home/pi/text.txt ~/
Ever needed to grab the public IP of the device you are on via terminal? This neat command will do the trick! curl ifconfig.me
As a developer, one of the worst problems to encounter is the white space problem. In recent memory I’ve encountered this 2 times. Once in 2013 when integrating with MYOB, a trailing white space at the end of a variable caused an http 400 error which was a complete mystery at the time. The second time… Read More »
I had the opportunity to present at the recent local Mulesoft user group meet up in Wellington and shared my experience with Mule ESB. In particular, a whacky project where I used Twitter to turn on an LED with a Raspberry Pi and Mule ESB. Check out the video below of the talk. The slides… Read More »