Andrew Hutchings

If you’ve ever shared code snip­pets online, you’ve prob­a­bly heard of Pastie or Paste­bin. What you may not have heard about is GitHub’s Gist ser­vice. Basi­cally, take the fea­tures of exist­ing paste­bins, and add ver­sion­ing, SSL, and fork­ing. Very cool stuff.…

*[API]: Appli­ca­tion Pro­gram­ming Inter­face *[XSS]: Cross-​Site Scripting…

As devel­op­ment on my cms has pro­gressed, I have come to real­ize that I am not a pro­lific writer. How­ever, I do love play­ing with new web ser­vices and tech­nolo­gies, so I have decided to push Nis­aba towards a lifestream for­mat. This will allow me to have fresh con­tent on my site by inter­act­ing with online ser­vices I already use.…

Recently a friend of mine was want­ing to tin­ker with a ser­ial device on his Power­book. Since he was want­ing to even­tu­ally allow device input over HTTP requests, we went off look­ing for a PHP class to help out. Luck­ily, there was a GPL-​licensed PHP Ser­ial class on php​classes​.org by Remy Sanchez. How­ever, it only works under Linux or Win­dows. A few machine lock-​ups later, we appeared to have it working.…