I’m David H. Wilkins, a Linux and Web developer living in Pelham, AL
There’s nothing that says Christmas Time in the South like a Red Velvet cake. Made from the same goodness that powers Santa’s suit itself, it’s the centerpiece of your Christmas party, that one dessert that everyone will leave talking about
Comparing regex performance between MongoDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL
MongoDB has a very rich regular expression (regex) interface. Regex is available in many of the places that ordinary character strings are accepted. While convenient to use, I had some questions about how MongoDB regex performance stacks up to regex performance in other (SQL) Databases.
mkduino
is a small ruby script for building a GNU Automake environment for your
Arduino development.
The Intel Sandybridge i7-2620M processor is capable of overheating Linux
I’ve been plagued for the last few months with problems with my Intel Graphics on my Lenovo T420. I originally bought this laptop specifically because of traditionally great Linux support for Thinkpad hardware. I had the option of Intel vs Nvidia graphics, and I chose Intel because Gnome3 was reputed to work better with the Intel graphics.
This laptop has pretty impressive
specs
An excerpt from
/proc/cpuinfo
on Linux
Cubieboard-1 - powered by the Allwinner A10 Arm SOC
When I received my first Allwinner A10 board it lacked support for hardware PWM. Without a driver for hardware PWM it’s very hard to use this very powerful SOC for controlling motors
This article describes the design of one such hardware pwm driver interface.
A Mini PC with Arduino type Interface powered by ARM Pro Spec
I had a heck of a time getting a Rails + Unicorn + nginx deployment going on Fedora 17. The problem was, I could get it running using TCP sockets but not using unix sockets. I loosely followed these instructions for deploying a Rails 3.2 app but kept having problems with the unix sockets.
Don’t put the socket file in the /tmp directory.
