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Lazy Load 1.8.0 Released 3 Aug 2012 | 09:59 pm
Photo by Pierre Pouliquin This version of Lazy Load is just a bugfix release. Minor release number bump is there because I pulled a new feature in last minute and I did not want to mess up my git bra...
Lazy Load 1.7.0 Released 29 Jan 2012 | 11:30 am
Photo by Marise Caetano Previous version of Lazy Load gained traction pretty fast. Good patches were submitted to GitHub. This version of plugin mostly concentrates on speed optimization and event ha...
Driving 595 Shift Registers 3 Jan 2012 | 09:00 am
Photo by Windell Oskay 595 series shift registers come in many flavors. SN74HC595 is the most usual. TPIC6B595 is similar but can be used with more power hungry applications. Pin layouts are differen...
Lazy Load 1.6.0 Released 27 Dec 2011 | 02:00 pm
Photo by Guilherme Jófili After neglecting the code for a while I was finally able to release new version of Lazy Load plugin. Changes are not dramatic but there is one important thing. New browsers ...
Simple Serial Communications With AVR Libc 20 Nov 2011 | 10:00 am
Photo by Pete Prodoehl I like to use various Arduino boards for AVR development. What I do not like are the Arduino libraries. They are often just wrappers around libc functions or rewrites of functi...
How Does Led Matrix Work? 4 Nov 2011 | 11:25 am
Photo by Windell Oskay Led matrices are fun toys. Who would not love blinkenlights? Electronics is hard. Electronics is much harder than programming. I had hard time trying to understand how do the l...
Facebook POST for Canvas fix 17 Apr 2011 | 10:50 am
Latest usage and examples can be found from Rack::Facebook::MethodFix project page. In early 2011 Facebook started to send all iframe application requests as POST. Because of this most REST based app...
How To Make Facebook iFrame Tab Higher Than 800 Pixels? 21 Feb 2011 | 09:40 pm
One of the best things to happen in Facebook development lately was to enable iframe application tabs. This was widely welcomed by developers. However many blog posts wrongly assumed there was a 800 p...
Using Goo.gl With Ruby and HTTParty 21 Feb 2011 | 08:10 am
I had totally missed that Google recently opened the API of their URL shortening service. I love short and clean APIs. Accessing it using HTTParty is just few lines of code. Related articles: Using S...
iPhone Controlled HTML5 Logo and Color Cube 3 Feb 2011 | 06:35 am
When Apple released iOS 4.2 end of last year I was on a boat trip to Finland. For me the most interesting features were added to Safari browser. I wanted to learn about WebSockets. New DeviceOrientati...
