Well, the moment is finally there! I am now a proud Mac user, as I’ve recently bought a MacBook Pro. Martijn was already using a Mac and after working with his Mac a few times (and getting used to a LOT) I decided to take a plunge.
Now, does that mean I won’t be running Fedora [...]

I started developing iPhone apps a couple of months ago. I started with no object-c knowledge at all. So all is new for me. Although I’ve learned a lot, I still do not get some of the ‘inconsistency’ of apple regarding the simulator and device difference. I’ve written down some of my notes below. Keep in mind that [...]

A few days ago i got the spaceNavigator as a present. Although i use both operating systems OSX and Windows i spent most of the time in OSX. Unfortunately the spaceNavigator is not supported widely by mac programs. Therefor i started developing a little cocoa app that makes use of the spaceNavigator. My goal is to use [...]

The concept is simple: We all know the benefits of a laptop computer. But what if you are working in a large office for example, and just want to show you work, have a quick presentation and discuss some concepts in a meeting room? Or what if you want to browse the web or [...]

The Fedora 10 Alpha was release today, offering testers an opportunity to test drive this release and get a ‘preview’ of its new features. While reviewing the release notes, I could not help but notice the mentioning of a new Security audit tool called Sectool. Now this is something I really feel like trying!
Unfortunately I [...]

Today i succeeded in completing a small Visual basic program that can send instructions via bluetooth to a Nokia (or other AT-commands) cell phones. AT commands where used to communicate directly to the Nokia cell phones. I was struggling for a long time to make a proper connection, i have tried some different Nokia protocols, [...]

It won’t be long until we can welcome Fedora Core 9 into our PC’s onto our hard disks. I’ve already written about the Fedora Core 9 Alpha release, where one could start testing with KDE 4 on Fedora.
Besides KDE 4 there are a lot more interesting things planned for Fedora Core 9. Let’s pinpoint a [...]

In this small tutorial or better called experiment we take a look at touch sensors.
Touch sensors are used for faucets, industrial switches and so on. You can imagine a nice solution..
So to get started we look at the components
- QT113-D Touch Sensor (parallax)
- 5 V voltage regulator (if you use a 9V battery
- 1 led [...]

I’ve upgraded my previously mentioned version of wp-update. A simple bash script that only updates the files that were changed in the latest wordpress release.
The following bash script works with Wordpress 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 and upgrades it to the latest 2.3.3 version.

Today i was wondering if it’s possible to developing a low cost GPS tracking device. After playing around with the basic stamp, I found a GPS module that outputs the standard world coordinates in NMEA0183. For more details read the wikipedia page.
The GPS module can send coordinates of your current position by means for an [...]

In this article we are programming the basic stamp to trigger a remote switch for your home lights or any other power switching device, like a garage door, fireplace and so on. We are controlling it through the web or the ipod (the ipod also has a web browser)
How does it work?
After programming the basic [...]

I’ve been using Apache for quite some time, having many custom scripts that do chores for me. Recently I was asked to install Apache on a machine, a few yum installs and some editing of the Apache vhost files later I was all set.
Because the site being served by Apache started to grow I noticed [...]

This is a short preview of a open-source script we wrote. It allows you to acces your content, like music or video to your iphone or ipod touch, streaming. So if your 8GB or 16GB is not enough, there is hope!
Note: this is not the final code but to keep you updated i decided [...]

I’m pretty sure all the other WordPress bloggers out there noticed the shiny bar in their WordPress admin panels, announcing the release of Wordpress 2.3.2, about 18 days ago.
If there is one thing I hate at the moment, it’s having to upgrade my blog while I’ve done custom modifications and copy all those files by [...]

Before we start throwing you guys into the deep we first talk a little about what microcontrollers are and where you can use them.
A microcontroller is an computerchip including a ‘little’ microprocessor. Microcontrollers are frequently used in automatically controlled products and devices, such as automobile engine control systems, remote controls, office machines, appliances, power [...]

Although I was initially struggeling, I finally managed to build a PHP4 RPM for CentOS 5
Initially I planned to make tutorial on how I managed to build my RPM (which you can still use), however due to some issues with the original PHP 4.3.9 RPM for CentOS 4 I decided to create a [...]

The next webapplication we discuss allows you to control itunes and winamp running on windows. without jailbraiking!
In the previous post we explain how you can set up a connection and how you simply launch an app.
But whats the use of that? So in this chapter we learn how to control iTunes and Winamp.
To keep the [...]

Today we are gonna take a look at how we can control your Windows or Mac with the Ipod touch.
Because I just bought the ipod I don’t want to start jailbreaking it. So we first take a look at the possibilities of a web application.
The ipod touch supports most of the funcions of the safari browser. [...]

At the office we use Pound as a reverse proxy for Microsoft Exchange 2007 (and previously Microsoft Exchange 2003). This has been working fine with Exchange 2003, but with Exchange 2007 we were having some challenges.
Basicly when you would use Internet Explorer to log into OWA, you would most likely get a 500 Internal server [...]

Johnny Chung Lee has come with a new and simple solution for a (multi) point screen. The idea is to track the IR point with an wiimote.
Look at Johnny Lee’s website for details..
Obiously, we from Labcoding.com love playing with the Wiimote, so we’re going to try Johnny’s experiment!
At first we need to download the software.
- [...]