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Turn a Raspberry Pi into an iBeacon

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Earlier this year Apple added the concept of beacon region monitoring into Core Location. This is more widely known as iBeacon. Right now there isn’t a large...

Embed Ruby in Your iOS Apps Using mruby

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I’ve been playing with mruby for the past week or so. If you haven’t seen it yet it is an embeddable version of Ruby. The first thing I wonder about when I h...

Range Requests with Ajax

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I ran across something the other day that made wonder about doing range requests using ajax. For some reason it wasn’t obvious at first if this would be easy...

Using WebP to Reduce Native iOS App Size

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Last year Google released WebM as an alternative to h264 encoded video. They followed that up with the release of WebP as an alternative to JPG. Ever since t...

Using the Google Closure Compiler in Java

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I recently had a chance to try out Google’s closure compiler. The closure compiler is similar to the YUI compressor except that along with minimizing it may ...