Contributed by Arthur K Continuing from part 1, we will now setup Apache Ant, Android SDK and prepare our first application. Apache Ant The easiest way to install Ant is using “npm install –g ant”, but somehow on my machine it only installed version 1.8.4 and would not work with current JDK version... View Article
Contributed by Arthur K In my pursuit to further my experiences in the software development world, I have dived into the interesting world of Cordova. The concept is quite simple, build applications using JavaScript and use Cordova to convert them into native applications in various mobile platform. This means that as... View Article
I have been implementing Ember data for one of my projects and one of the most interesting handy features that ember data has is polymorphic models. As the name suggests, this is ember data’s implementation of polymorphism. The first time I use ember data however, requires me spending a lot of... View Article
Continuing on from part 2, here is the full script for the image resizer. Let’s call the script crunch2.py for now, so create a file called crunch2.py under /home/pi/image_cruncher. You can of course use any other directory but we will refer to this one in this article. We will go through the... View Article
Welcome to Part 2 of the Raspberry Pi Image Cruncher. We will talk about preparing the Raspberry Pi for our image cruncher. We know that we will use Python with ImageMagick for resizing and Own Cloud for the image sharing medium. To do that we have to make sure our... View Article
A Raspberry Pi image cruncher, this is something that I have been wanting to write about for quite some time. The plan is to get this article out weeks ago however I had to hold back and make sure that the script and processing actually works all the time. Most... View Article