Category: software dev
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Bookmarks from Connections
An export of the bookmarks that lived in the IBM Connections Bookmarks app.
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Bootstrap 5 and React – helpful links
For a newbie working with React, or JavaScript modules for that matter, it can sometimes take a little bit to wrap your head around working with web frameworks in a modular fashion. Here are some helpful links to using Bootstrap 5 natively with React. They include sass compilation steps to help customise bootstrap
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Creating services for Google Assistant
The start of something beautiful, coupled with Google Assistant. How do you build a smart home service that can integrate with Google Assistant? I’m not sure, but this blog entry will set out on a journey to get a better understanding
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Samsung Smart TV WebSocket control
So, some Samsung TVs offer a control API over WebSocket. This is unfortunately not well documented (as far as I’ve been able to find). This is a quick and dirty dump of what I’ve been able to learn so far
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ESP32 WiFi tips
Just some handy pointers for working with and managing WiFi on the ESP32
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Atlassian Status Page
Atlassian Status Page is a tool that provide an at-a-glance view of a site or application’s status through a visual means
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React JSON schema form
react-jsonschema-form is a simple React component capable of building HTML forms out of a JSON schema
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Compiling gcc
So, it turns out that compiling C applications requires a little bit of know-how. Here are some pointers to help young players. To get some compiler settings, give this a whirl: This error is the compiler complaining that it can’t find the header file mysql.h. After installing the mysql-devel package, and a quick search for…
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Compiling Paho binaries
The Eclipse Paho C Client library enables applications to connect to an MQTT broker to publish messages, and to subscribe to topics and receive published messages. The snippet below shows an example of how to compile the binaries from source. Making use of the library requires additional effort and is a topic for another discussion.