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Arduino Game Of Life on 8×8 LED Matrix

I was messing around with some Christmas toys and threw together a Conway’s Game Of Life implementation together on my Arduino.  I just love how quick it is to get things up and running on this platform.  It took me longer to solder a platform for the LED matrix to raise it up off the [...]

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PHP 5.3 + XDebug + NetBeans + Mac OSX Leopard

… or how I got all the toys to play nice together … If you’re working in PHP and are echoing out your variables to see what’s going on, please stop that right now.  Graphical Debuggers are here (in fact, they’ve been here for some decades) and now they work really nicely with free IDE [...]

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More natural BDD with PHPUnit

I’ve always been a little jealous of RSpec.  Those Ruby kids and their natural language BDD testing and plain text stories…  It always just seems more awkward any other way.  Cucumber looks pretty cool but getting it to play nicely with PHP is a little over my KISS threshold today. Well, PHPUnit does have an [...]

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