As I progress with my Django projects, I have been looking to Docker to help build, test and deploy the project. Below I describe why I am using Docker, and in future posts, I will document how I use it locally and with AWS. When building a project, I have the following goals: 1)... Read More

TLDR: Use Detekt, configuration is easy and you’ll get the static analysis benefits as well. If you are willing to change your project to match ktlint’s style it is a great choice, and avoids bikeshedding. To lint or not to lint?? Whether you choose to a linter or... Read More

Any time I need to see everything your iOS device is doing this website lists the commands you need to call to get it working: http://useyourloaf.com/blog/2012/02/07/remote-packet-capture-for-ios-devices.html Of course secure communications are still encrypted but you do see that... Read More

I saw the latest article by Eric Sink explaining the issues that he was having with multiple copies of SQLite running. His article mentioned that iOS is running 3.7.13 and the current version of SQLite is 3.8.4.3 and along with a bunch of other improvements it is... Read More

RFduino is a miniature (23mm x 28mm) version of an Arduino that includes a Bluetooth LE radio. The devices are incredibly small and provides a subset of the io pins you get on an regular Arduino. The basic RFduino board costs just $23 which can make it cheaper to add into a... Read More

The security guys at work love to find unlocked computers and ‘Hoff’ them, basically leave a browser open with a picture of David Hasselhoff. I decided to fight back and created the Spy Screen Saver. There are two ways to create a screensaver on MacOSX. One is using... Read More

This basic example will show you how to get submit data to a JotForm form from an iOS app. JotForm makes it extremely quick easy to setup a form, and it provides all the backend support you need to manage that data. If you have a need to submit some data from an iOS app back to... Read More

In the previous two posts (Connecting to Red Bear Labs Shield with Core Bluetooth & Getting going with iOS and Arduino using Bluetooth LE) I sent data to the Bluetooth LE shield on an Arduino, turning lights on and off. In this post I will look at receiving information from... Read More

In the last post I had an iOS device connected to a Red Bear Labs Bluetooth LE Arduino shield. In that process I used the BLE framework from Red Bear Labs, which got everything going but a fair bit of device control code to end up in the UIViewController. In this example I will... Read More

Apple has included the ability to communicate via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in recent iOS devices, including iPad 3 & 4, iPhone 4S & 5 and the 5th Gen iPod Touch. There is an increasing array of devices with which you can communicate (such as the TI Sensory Tag), but... Read More