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STOP SOPA
From Wikipedia on STOP SOPA DAY Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking…
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BDD/TDD test cycle for beginners
I sent this message to a RailsMentor Protege of mine : A couple notes on BDD testing : 1. Never test “the glue”. “Glue” means anything that Ruby or Rails should be doing “automatically”. That means, database querying, sending values from controller to view, etc. So, in a view test, you should be able to…
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Brown Shoes Introduction
I will be writing about lessons-learned as I move through the implementation of Shoes on Jruby.. known as Brown Shoes. Repo – What’s what where The Brown Shoes Repo is at : https://github.com/shoes/shoes/tree/brown_shoes – a branch on Shoooes Github project. Right now there are two parallel implementations within the brown_shoes branch. At ./lib/shoes is the…
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How to find what you’re looking for – a Google adventure.
So, I have been searching for a long time to re-discover the correct location of my children’s original orphanage in Carrefour, Haiti, “Heart of God Ministries, Haiti”. We have repeatedly found the nearby “Auberge du Quebec” Hotel, which is where we stayed on several trips to Haiti to see our future adoptees and “check things…
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Lego Mindstorms NXT-G moving from 1.0 to 2.0 – TriBot : Part 4 – Sound Sensor
NXT-G 1.0 – TriBot : Sound Sensor, a set on Flickr. How the bot will wait to return with its bounty until I clap!
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Lego Mindstorms NXT-G moving from 1.0 to 2.0 – TriBot : Part 3
NXT-G 1.0 TriBot Grabber, a set on Flickr. Part 3 of my series on migrating from NXT-G 1.0 to 2.0. TriBot – Grabber. With these steps, the model is complete ready for the next step!
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Lego Mindstorms NXT-G moving from 1.0 to 2.0 – TriBot : Part 2
Continuing with the NXT-G 1.0 TriBot Series, here is Part 2 – Bumper Instructions for NXT-G 1.0 TriBot are found at Mindstorms Support – 8527 -TriBot TriBot Bumper, a set on Flickr.
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Lego Mindstorms NXT-G moving from 1.0 to 2.0 – TriBot : Part 1
I discovered after installing Lego Mindstorms 2.0 NXT-G software that no one on the interwebs has captured this information before. The Lego Mindstorms NXT 1.0 building instructions are found at Mindstorms Support 8527 -TriBot So, without further ado, here is the Programming Guide for the Lego Mindstorms 1.0 TriBot : Part 1 – Driving Base
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This is an experience of a lifetime. I truly hope each and every one reading this post has the opportunity to experience a sunrise like this for real. Blessings to you.
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This Magnolia is on my walk to/from work. Every spring is a joy to watch it come alive for another year!
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