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
QTest Project Setup
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
Microchip Harmony and Bootloaders
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
Thoughts on Star Wars and Jedi
So I saw Rogue One last week, and I found it to be quite interesting. It wasn’t my favorite movie, but it was a good lead in to A New Hope. Once I got back home, I had to look … Continue reading
Jenkins in the Cloud
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
SVN Commit Problems – Update
An update to my previous problem with checking into SVN. I had the same problem just now: I SSH’d into the server to try and figure out the problem. I then stumbled across this post on the SVN mailing list. … Continue reading
SVN Checkout By Date Problems
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
Endianess in Computers
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
Libraries and Dependencies
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
Debug Qt on remote device
Have you ever had to debug a Qt program running on a different computer? There are a few special things that you must do in Qt Creator in order to properly get all of the debug information out from the … Continue reading