Author Archives: (zaphinath)
Review of CAD U37 USB recording microphone
Description I have a couple of various websites that need to have lots of audio recordings in them. At first I tried using the microphone build into my computer screen. It’s great for video chatting, but when quality matters I needed a different solution. I spent time looking around on the internet for a couple […]
How to get google to crawl your angular application
Description I first discovered there was a problem when I went to google’s webmaster tools -> fetch as google -> and submitted a page of one of my sites to be crawled. It had a hash “#” in the URL as that was the default routeProvider using the yeoman framework. To my surprise google would […]
Using Curl In Bash For Endpoint Rest Testing
Description Sometimes I am shelled into an environment or server that I cannot revers proxy through and I can’t run programs like Postman or Advanced Rest Client, which are great programs. I use the following aliases inside my .bashrc files in every server I set up because of how useful they are. This way we […]
Single Line Program to Access a Docker Container
Description I have several docker images I have pulled down and running in several containers on my server. As images update I destroy the old containers, remove the old images, and bring up the new images in a new container. Instead of running the following as root: [bash] docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED […]
How to become a software developer
How to become a software developer I am a software engineer and I often have people, whether they are in marketing, customer support, business development, or any other various positions in companies I have worked for, ask me “How to become a software developer?” So you want to learn to code. One of my favorite […]
Using NginX Route to Plex Server Behind Firewall.
Description If you have a router and want to limit access from the outside world to all the computers inside your home, then you will probably want to set up a server in a DMZ or forward specific ports to it. This open server can then route traffic to anything behind the firewall for you […]
Node.js Webapp In a Docker Image – MEAN
Description Node js applications are great for proof of concepts and getting apps made in a short amount of time. Running them inside a docker container is a great security blanket and lets applications be versioned much like software version control. This is a quick code snippet of a nodejs server using express. This is […]
Organizing workbench tools
Overview I have been accumulating a few tools over the years and now is the time to start organizing them. I didn’t like the idea of loose hooks or not knowing where the tools belong, however, with some cheap black paper and locking hooks I have a solution. Supplies Two 2×4 white pegboards ($6-8) Three […]
Multiple environments through GEB
I’ve recently been experimenting with GEB, which is a selenium framework that uses the groovy language. One of first challenges I encountered was trying to switch between multiple environments, instances, subdomains, or base urls. GEB uses a config file called GebConfig.groovy that is a standard groovy configuration file. This file is read by the ConfigSlurper […]
VGA Synchronization Driver for FPGA
Description In order to use the VGA connection on an FPGA there needs to be a vga timer that can change the pixels as it goes across the screen. I won’t go into detail here about VGA standards, or how the horizontal and vertical refreshes work, but rather just give some example VHDL code that […]