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- Ascension bench router checklist
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Ascension 2026 landed on a quiet Thursday, which is the kind of day I use to reset the bench before the next class. I walk the LAN first: open the router admin page, confirm the gateway, then try the phone.
Read more. - DHCP labels on the teaching LAN
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Oct 2023 was the month I finally named every reservation on the teaching LAN instead of trusting a generic iPhone hostname in the DHCP table.
Read more. - First pass at 192.168.1.1
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On 13 Feb 2020 I wrote the first one-page handout I still reuse: how to reach the bench router at 192.168.1.1 before we open Xcode.
Read more. - Remove the Heroku Toolbelt
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If for some reason you installed the Heroku Toolbelt and want to remove it. You can do so by running these 2 commands:
rm -rf /usr/local/herokurm -rf /usr/bin/herokuUnfortunately, these aren't documented on the site yet and it gave me some issues with my heroku accounts plugin and heroku ruby gem.
Read more. - Factory Girl Blocking Rake Database Migrations
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I use a couple of items for doing Behavior Driven Development. Primarily, Cucumber and RSpec. In conjunction with those, I use Factory Girl and Shoulda.
Sometimes, it seems that Factory Girl can get in the way of running
rake db:migratewhen you push your code up to your source control system,... Read more. - Android UI Patterns
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I previous wrote about iOS UI Patterns resources. There were 3 that I curated. At the time, I was having a hard time finding some for Android. I still am, but since thing, a new one has popped up. These 2 are the resources I've found:
- Fuzzy and Document Searching with Solr
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Recently, I needed to get add Searching into a web app. I decided to use Sunspot and Solr. Luckily, Ryan Bates has already done a Sunspot Railscasts, which got me started. However, I needed Fuzzy and Document Searching. The first part is actually fairly trivial thanks to the Wildcard searching with ngrams and... Read more.
- New Google APIs Client Library for Objective-C
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A while back, I wrote a small tutorial on how to use Google's GData Client library for iPhone. It's a pretty popular tutorial that constantly gets questions. Today, Google announced a new version of the Google Data library for Objective-C. I'm pretty exicted about this for a couple of reasons. The new... Read more.