Home Automation – Turn A Power Switch On/Off At A Given Time
My boyfriend started growing some indoor plants from seed that require a specific photosynthesis schedule. He asked me to remember to turn a…
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Implement Soft Deletes With Entity Framework’s Code First Approach
In order to maintain historical accuracy, data should not be truly deleted from a database. A soft delete can be used to signify…
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Yield: Understanding how ‘Yield’ works in the .NET Framework
I first noticed the yield keyword on some shared code at work about a year ago. Befuddled, I read MSDN’s description of the…
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Scrape A Facebook Page And Turn It Into WordPress Posts Using PHP
A friend of mine, who runs the facebook page borkborkiamdoggo, approached me a few months ago wanting to set up a WordPress site…
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Detecting Motion Using A Raspberry Pi, Adafruit Motion Sensor, And NodeJS
I am working on a side project which involves a Raspberry Pi (model 2B) and an Adafruit PIR motion sensor. I decided early on…
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Create Deep Copies Of Object In C# Using AutoMapper
A Quick Preface A shallow copy of an object is one that points to the same place in memory as the original. Any changes…
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Mount Your HTC Vive Base Stations Without Drilling Holes In Your Walls
I first tried virtual reality at a maker’s fair in Denver, where one of the stands had a pre-release Oculus Rift set up….
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How To Properly Return JSON From Your PHP Code
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is nothing more than a string with a specific format. It enables JavaScript to easily send and receive data…
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Angular JS – Binding The Default Value To A Select (Drop Down) List
Select lists can be tricky in any language. Typically there is some data source providing a human-readable list of options, a machine-readable value (unique identifier), and…
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Using MuseScore To Get Any Trombone Sheet Music You Want For Free
I grew up playing the trombone quite a bit. Although I only pick mine up a few times a year at this point,…
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