Service Discovery, to use the basic definition, is the mechanism in which services, residing at a non-static address, can be found on a computer network. There are, in a basic nutshell, three types of service discovery, modeled after…
Read more →This design has been on my back-burner for quite awhile, but its time to write it up and continue pressing on.
Read more →As part of an effort to share more designs, I've decided to start writing a continuing series of blog articles on my hardware design efforts. This first article covers the NixieBoost of a NixieView.
Read more →I got this unit for free recently, and decided to do a teardown for all fans of various vintages of test equipment. It is functional, but the buttons on the unit are absolutely terrible (hard to push, don't stay pushed, etc etc).
Read more →So, you have a Supermicro server somewhere remote. Thats cool, they have a nifty IPMI module (either bridged to the primary interface or on a separate port). One of the features is a remote IP-KVM over what is mostly VNC. Of course, you…
Read more →Effective August 15th, we will be closing the EVE-Central SMTP market push service (http://dev.eve-central.com/evec-api/startmail_smtp_push).
Read more →The EVE-Central API service was refactored on top of a new framework, both as an aid to scale (for performance reasons), and an exercise in using new tools for web development. Except for a few growing pains, the stack has been reliable…
Read more →To start, I moved all of the existing API documentation to the EVE-Central Wiki. You can find documentation (with less typos, etc) here:
Read more →I have just updated the servers used for the EVE-Central API calls. As DNS updates propagate, you will be running on a new stack which funnels requests between the old and new servers.
Read more →I would like to reach out and find a few users of the existing EVE-Central API in order to perform regression tests against the new API service. If your website or application uses the API and you would be willing to test under a new…
Read more →After a test period by the EVE-Central Google Group members, I am pleased to announce Contribtastic 2.1.1 for EVE-Central. Contribtastic is our cache-scanning no-nonsense upload client.
Read more →Here is a prototype “home page” for EVE-Central, the top-portion only. Opinions?
Read more →Contribtastic 2.0.3 (the EVE-Central.com upload client) is now available, and far less crashy than before.
Read more →I’ve loaded a part of my back-catalog of software to github. Included into the transfer is:
Read more →In iOS, there is no way to slug a background image into a `UIView` - making it slightly trickier to style your new iOS application background (and who doesn't like the new iOS 5 linen?). However, you can apply a `UIColor`. Did you know…
Read more →When you think of user documentation authoring systems, a couple of traditional tools often come to mind: FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, InDesign, RoboHelp, LyX, TeX files, MadCap Flare. Some are fully proprietary, while others embrace…
Read more →As you may have heard, EVE-Metrics is planning on moving to bigger and better things. This leaves (the older, more battle scared, and way less slick) EVE-Central as the only remaining EVE-Online market data aggregator. Despite not being…
Read more →A new version of Contribtastic, the 100% open source cache reading uploader, is now available. If you’ve been hit with the data.pickle corruption bug from previous versions, this is an essential upgrade.
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