NTP Woes
For the past year or so, I’ve been battling trying to get NTP fed from GPSD. This has proven to be somewhat harder than I imagined. GPSD is supposed to feed NTP directly from shared memory, however this was not … Continue reading
For the past year or so, I’ve been battling trying to get NTP fed from GPSD. This has proven to be somewhat harder than I imagined. GPSD is supposed to feed NTP directly from shared memory, however this was not … Continue reading
Recently, I was looking into how to setup a Qt project with unit tests. The Qt-esque way to do this is to use the QTest framework within Qt in order to do this. While not a bad framework, the problem … Continue reading
I’ve been messing around with a Digilent Max32, and have been using Microchip’s MPLAB Harmony framework to program the device. The framework is rather nice, but it can be a little confusing at times. It took me a while to … Continue reading
At work, we use Jenkins to automatically build our software. We use it to build both Java and C++ programs. Since it’s useful to have a continuous integration server setup to build and test software, I figured that I would document … Continue reading
Have you ever had to checkout an SVN revision by the date and gotten an error like the following? (This is often the case with Jenkins, see this issue for some more details) Why Jenkins checks out revisions by date … Continue reading
The other month, I was working on some code where I had to be concerned about the endianess of the data. I came across this article from IBM which greatly cleared up some things(I got to the article at least … Continue reading
Have you ever used a library in a project, only to find that it depends on other libraries, only to depend on other libraries? I’m willing to bet that you have. Fortunately, there exist tools in the world to help … Continue reading
I have just spent the last few days and weeks trying to track down a very annoying, yet somewhat subtle bug in a program that I have been making for work. So, first a little background. We are making a … Continue reading
So I have been using JAX-RS for the past few months now, and it was a little confusing to get started with. To fix that, I’ve created a simple project on github that contains a minimal configuration for Maven in … Continue reading
I just had to write a udev rule for Linux to interpret between several different endpoints on a single cellular modem, specifically this modem. This shows up in Linux as 5 ttyUSB ports. In order to make sure that the … Continue reading