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All about Free Geek Providence

By Sara On February 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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9 Connected Hacks Covered By O’Reilly

By Sara On February 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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

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Two Way Communication Via Post with a RESTful Web Service in Android

By Sara On October 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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, [...]

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jQuery Deferred is an Ajax Coder’s Dream

By Sara On January 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Javascript: Finding the First Monday of the Month

By Sara On August 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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, [...]

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Two Months in … Working at Axeda

By Sara On July 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Train Your Brain to Code

By Sara On June 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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The Art of Breaking Your Design

By Sara On June 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Not Enough Time? Try These Tools

By Sara On June 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

 

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 [...]

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Growing out of Crisis Mode

By Sara On June 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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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