Sara Streeter
I’m on the Board of Directors for a nonprofit called Free Geek Providence based in RI. Free Geek Providence provides a call to refurbish, reuse and recycle older computers. The organization also promotes the use of Linux, an open source operating system, as well as the open source ecosystem [...]
The AT&T Hackathon in January was a blast, and my coverage of it as an M2M coach for the Arduino hardware gained some attention.
Check out the O’Reilly post at http://blog.makezine.com/2013/01/30/results-from-arduino-hackathon-at-atts-2013-developer-summit and the original at http://developer.axeda.com/community/blog/9-connected-hacks-rocked-mobile-app-space-2013
In order to create an Android app that could consume data from a web services call, I had to be able to post data to the web service.
I posted data via the DefaultHttpClient class, then parsed out the JSON-serialized response.
The code for the post was the following:
public String callServiceAsString (String webservice, [...]
As an Innovationeer, I seek out the interesting technological developments that can make my code more elegant. One of those developments has been jQuery’s Deferred object, implemented in jQuery 1.5 and after.
The Problem:
Imagine you’re the referee in a dumptruck race. The first one to reach the finishline and dump the trash [...]
Inspired by a PHP version of this found here, here is a Javascript function that takes the number of the month (0-11) and the year and returns the Date object of the first Monday in that month. I find it useful for determining weeks in the month.
// get first Monday of the month, [...]
Two months into being an Innovationeer at Axeda, I ace the “waking up to work in the morning” test with flying colors. Who wouldn’t want to be at the cutting edge of technology, with knowledgeable peers and mentors actively looking out for me, working on projects that are not only competitive, but compete [...]
A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
- Erma Bombeck
One could argue that writing code can be boiled down to writing a series of AND, OR, and NOT statements. Anyone [...]
ro·bust·ness: the degree to which a system operates correctly in the presence of exceptional inputs or stressful environmental conditions.
I had the bittersweet experience of watching my app break in a demo, bitter because everyone was watching and sweet because it was a demo. The failure resulted from my assumption that the wireless [...]
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
- Charles Caleb Colton
With blocks on your schedule filling up, it’s easy to overlook the nuggets of time that, with proper management, allow you [...]
A term I hear often at work is “fire drill.” Priorities get elevated until there’s a problem and suddenly all eyes focus on it, scurrying for a solution. This surplus of effort detracts from other priorities, allowing them to inflate and erupt in a chain reaction of multi-stress. Not fun, and not efficient. Much of [...]
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