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Free Student Software

When you go to college your most likely given a .edu email, this email address is your key to thousands of dollars worth of free software now that you're a student! GitHub Student Developer You get all of this for free! (Hint: click "

I'm Not (And Will Never Be) A "Programmer"

As I enter into my second year of college as a Computer and Information Technology major I realize that I will never be a programmer. There is a dynamic here at Purdue that goes like this: If you want to be a respected programmer

Crazy Times

As if moving back to college wasn't enough to make my head spin I decided to launch a project I've been working on for many months. BoilerBazaar will be launching August 28th, 2014. After months of redesigns, coding, blood, sweat, tears, and many many

DoS Attack: A Lesson

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I'll admit, I was dumb. I used to host this blog at my house, which was not equipped to handle the traffic it receives, or the riff raff that is script kiddies. Long story short the IP address of my house was under constant

Python Split and List

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Split One of the most useful string operations in Python is split. If we wanted to split "Free as in Freedom" into an array of words we would do. array = "Free as in Freedom".split(" ") We can pass

OceanBar: DigitalOcean Droplet Control for OS X

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Now you can control your DigitalOcean droplet from your Mac's Menu Bar with OceanBar! This awesome little app let's you Reboot, Shutdown, Power Cycle, and Power Off your droplet as well as see tons of information like IP Address, Cost, and Specs. OceanBar on

Feedly: Saving My Post

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Feedly is my go to RSS/News reader. Well it turns out they had articles from before CloudAtCost corrupted my VPS. So long story short some of my more popular and linked to post are back in place.

DigitalOcean!

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This blog is now PROUDLY hosted on DigitalOcean. If you need an awesome VPS host like I do, or if you think you're ready to learn Linux I encourage you to look at DigitalOcean. They have awesome starting rates. Also, another great offer from

Mt. Gox Bankruptcy Postcard

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I, like many others, had Bitcoins wrapped up in Mt. Gox when they halted all trading. Thus we were unable to get our BitCoins/Money out. Today I received this in the mail from Mt. Gox. View as PDF

AngularJS, BackboneJS, EmberJS: Stats

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I recently decided that I wanted to learn a full stack. MongoDB, ExpressJS, and NodeJS were chosen without question. Now the question of Angular v Backbone v Ember comes in. Here's the stats I have gathered so far. GitHub Angular: 24,431 Repos BackBone:

Control a Servo over the Internet

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Discontinued Note: If you are using Chrome and cannot see a live image here, hard refresh (shift plus refresh). Consider switching to Firefox if you're still having issues, Chrome has limited support of MJPEG. Command: set [0-180]. (Example: set 20) Details The servo is

15692% Growth

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What happens when one of your blog post goes semi-viral? You gain 4,080 users (from 26, ever) , and 5,416 page views (from 52, ever). My recent blog post AngularJS + HTML5 + CSS = Magic was only personally posted on HackerNews for eight points and

AngularJS + HTML5 + CSS = Magic

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.site-wrapper { background-color: {{bgcolor}}; } AngularJS allows you to do amazing things, couple that with HTML5 and CSS and it's borderline magic. HTML5 has an new color input ability, this allows us to choose colors, which returns the color code as text. Current selection: {{bgcolor}} One

Bootstrap CSS - Buttons Only!

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Have you ever wanted your buttons to look like Bootstrap's, but didn't want all of the styling that comes with having a full sized bootstrap.css file? Now you can! I went though and stripped off everything you need to have Bootstrap buttons, just

HTML5 Input: Numbers with Decimals

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HTML5 is a great leap forward, one of the many improvements is form control. When you wanted to allow only numbers with decimals you had to rely on jQuery or another tool. You couldn't use type="number" because it only allowed for

The Creative Gap

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If you've ever learned a programming language online you know there are a thousand resources to learn the basics. Sites like Codecademy, Kahn Academy, Treehouse, and Code.org all are great resources to get you started, but they only take you so far. For

Python Speed Testing

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Python has an awesome feature called timeit that allows you to test how long a snippet of code took to run. In this example were going to test another cool feature of Python, negative indexing. Negative indexing allows us to get an array value

How To: Control Arduino's Serial Monitor with Python

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Arduino is an electronics platforming tool that is as fun as it is easy to get into. That doesn't mean it's weak either. Arduino + Python Arduino is amazing by itself but the entry level board, the Arduino Uno (pictured above, ~35$) has some limitations.

Install Ghost on Ubuntu 14.04 Server

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With the recent release of Ubuntu 14.04 many new users will be wanting to install the "server" flavor of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Server is very bare bones and does not have all of the tools required to install Ghost, via the Ghost

Learn to Code: don't read this.

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If we had a dollar for every blog post, tutorial, video, and book on how to code we could pay the US debt. If you want to learn to code, code. Sure, these resources are valuable and will help you along the way but

Raspberry Pi, Python Servo Control

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The following python code, along with Adafruit PWM and Servo Kernel allows you to control a servo with the following syntax: python servo.py [degree] [degree] [degree]... Example rotation to 180 and back to 0 twice: python servo.py 0 180 0 180 0

A Blog Lost: CloudAtCost

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If, you've noticed this blog has been whipped and is brand new now. Thank CloudAtCost for being terrible, my OS was corrupted (as was many other's) randomly about three weeks ago, since then I have had to reimage this server, and thus this blog.

A Blog Lost: CloudAtCost

If, you've noticed this blog has been whipped and is brand new now. Thank CloudAtCost for being terrible, my OS was corrupted (as was many other's) randomly about three weeks ago, since then I have had to reimage this server, and thus this blog.

CloudAtCost: A Rant

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This webpage is hosted in Canada through CloudAtCost. They sell lifetime hosting for a one-time fee. It's really quite a deal for someone like myself (college kid), who doesn't have a stead income. That being said, you get what you pay for. I have

Summer 2014: Java

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It's summer. For many that means loads of free time, for me it means crossing things off of my roadmap. The school year came and went at an ever increasing speed. I started the year planning of learning Java, C#, and Python. Learning C#

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