Author Archives: Pablo
JAJavaSSS (JustAnotherJavaScriptSlideShow) Revisited
Thirteen years ago I wrote a simple Javascript “slideshow” web app that preloaded images and was easily viewable on the tiniest of displays, such as my favorite microwave transceiver at the time, my Blackberry Bold 9780, with its 2.44 inch, … Continue reading
Sudoku in VueJS
Sudoku (数独), which means “single number” in Japanese, is a well-known and popular game that was invented in 1986, 2004, or 1892 depending upon how one thinks of it. It can be played on paper, or electronically. Classic Sudoku uses … Continue reading
Kernal Land
Recently I was asked to write an “OS device driver” a.k.a. Linux kernel driver, or as I came to find out, really just a kernel module since there was no hardware involved. After locking up my system completely twice (glad … Continue reading
HackerRank “BASh Recursive Trees” Solution
This BASh script was written during the process of solving the Functions and Fractals – Recursive Trees – Bash! problem on Hacker-Rank. Yes it is slight overkill for that problem, but adds neat interesting features that no sane developer should … Continue reading
Home-Made Hobbit Leakdown Tester
Recently my Hobbit PA50ii blew a crankcase bearing.. Fun Stuff! So I was forced to either ditch my heavy, powerful motorcycle, or fix it. I chose the latter. After some fun times on treatland.tv (closest shipper to my town and … Continue reading
Quick-n-Dirty Mobile Browser Regex Test
<script type=”text/javascript”> var rege = /Amstrad|Android|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Brew|Cricket|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine|Gamma|HD7|HP iPAQ|HTC|IEMobile|iPhone|iTunes|j2me|LG[/\-]|Linux arm|Mobile|MOT-|MSIE|Nintendo|Nitro|Nokia|nook browser|Opera Mini|Opera Mobi|Palm|PDA|phone|PLAYSTATION|PS2|Samsung|Sanyo|SEC-|SonyEricsson|Sprint|SPV|Symbian|SymbOS|Tablet|Teleca|Trident|Tungsten|Vodafone|WebPro/i; var is_mobile = rege.test(navigator.userAgent); </script>
Give Your Web Services a REST
REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer. A REST-ful web service is one that emphasizes the ideals of the REST architecture – flexibility (scalability & generality), low coupling (client and server can manage their resources however they want as long as … Continue reading
JAJavaSSS: Just Another JavaScript SlideShow
Lately I’ve been working a lot with modern JS frameworks like JQuery, MooTools, and Prototype. Coming from a procedural programming background the emphasis on anonymous functions, chaining, and some other things took some getting used-to. Although these frameworks are powerful … Continue reading
ssh-keygen, ssh-agent, ssh_config, and their password-less buddies
Like most command-line habitués, I’ve been using SSH and it’s buddies (scp, rsync, svn+ssh, sftp, vpn, tunneling), since around the time I wrote my first #include “stdio.h” main(){printf(“hello world\n”);} , and just got used to typing in username/password pairs every … Continue reading
Diff’ing Data Needles Across 2 MySQL Haystacks
Recently I needed to compare a specific set of tables in two MySQL databases on a remote system where I did not have Admin privileges (but DB user credentials). Both databases had the same structure, just some different data. I … Continue reading
