Using Node.js to control your Raspberry Pi

Introduction The Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It is a capable little computer which can be used in electronics projects, and for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word processing, browsing the internet, and playing games - raspberrypi.org Of course, there …

A Websocket Implementation

Websockets are an advanced technology that enable a interactive two-way communication between a client and a server. This means that the client can remain upto date with the server without the need for ajax polling. For more information of websockets read my Introductions To Websockets post. This post will mainly be about how to implement …

An Introduction To Websockets

WebSockets is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open an interactive communication session between the user's browser and a server. With this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to poll the server for a reply.

Using a drilldown with Angular Chart’s

Want to have a drilldown using angular charts? I have a solution for you!

$cordovaPushV5 not firing on(‘connection)’ event

This was my latest project which was an cordova project using the Ionic framework and I had to integrate push notifications into it. To do this I used the $cordovaPushV5 plugin provided by ngCordova. The older PushPlugin is now deprecated. The plugin is easy enough to setup and use as this part is well documented on the ngCordova page …

Making REST calls with Arduino

I recently did a small hello world project on arduino, the basic use case was to read a students RFID tag and cross-check it with our own server to check if the student was registered or not. Pretty simple right? Not when it's your first project! Anyway, there are enough of tutorials about scanning RFID tags using …

HTTP Response Status 406: Not Acceptable

I was recently writing a mobile application using Apache Cordova along with Ionic framework. I kept getting a status 406 response when I was trying to post some data to the API. Since the API was not written by me and I had no access to it either I ended up wasting a good hour …

The Singleton Pattern

The Singleton pattern is one of the simplest design patterns around there, so far at least. It's like the hello world of design patterns