ZapCircle: Status Updates for Remote Teams I work with a lot of different companies and teams as a remote software developer – sometimes it’s just a handful of us, all in different cities, sometimes everyone is in Austin, but never goes into the office. I work remotely when I write code, and have done so for about six years now. TLDR:… Read More
New version of Twilio Client for PhoneGap/Cordova Released I recently updated the PhoneGap plugin for Twilio Client (a VoIP SDK for iOS and Android) to support Cocoapods. This means that you can use this plugin with automated builds now! cordova plugin add twilio-client-phonegap-plugin Version 1.1.0 is published to npm (https://www.npmjs.com/package/twilio-client-phonegap-plugin) See the GitHub repo for more: https://github.com/jefflinwood/twilio_client_phonegap… Read More
Building an API with Visual Studio Code and Node.js At the April Austin Microsoft Developer Meetup, I gave a talk about using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code to build web applications and API’s with Node.js. I also showed everyone how to quickly and easily deploy those Node.js web applications to Microsoft Azure’s App Services. We used both Express and Hapi to build web applications –… Read More
Running in all 50 States – 50 States, 50 Marathons Earlier this month, my wife Cheri and I finished running a marathon (or longer) distance in each of the fifty states of the US by finishing the Maui Oceanfront Marathon in Hawaii. It was a goal I’d worked on since my first marathon, in Maine, in October 2008. I gave a talk on running in… Read More
LittleBits/Matrix Color Rotator Code for Twilio Signal HackPack I made my twitter handle scroll across the screen, changing colors as it goes – pretty simple effect, but here’s the Arduino code: #include <Adafruit_NeoPixel.h> #include <Adafruit_GFX.h> #include <Adafruit_NeoMatrix.h> #define PIN 1 Adafruit_NeoMatrix matrix = Adafruit_NeoMatrix(8, 8, PIN, NEO_MATRIX_TOP + NEO_MATRIX_RIGHT + NEO_MATRIX_COLUMNS + NEO_MATRIX_PROGRESSIVE, NEO_GRB + NEO_KHZ800); void setup() { // put your setup… Read More