Programming

At untapt measuring the success of our marketing campaigns across social media is important — to us and our clients. If we are going to put dollars into a campaign to find the best tech talent around the world, we need to know…

I am following Node:Up and Running to learn about Node.JS and extending what I have gleaned from this book, and learned on the excellent Javascript courses at O’Reilly School of Technology, so that I can deploy the book example apps on a Heroku dyno. I like the way the book is written, but…

The Lego Digital Designer is an awesome tool for designing a new creation on your computer and creating a build guide. You can then use the Lego Pick a Brick site to buy all the bricks you need. A Raspberry Pi case can be put together for ~$20.

• http://www.howtogeek.com/138281/the-htg-guide-to-getting-started-with-raspberry-pi/all/
• http://www.instructables.com/id/Lego-Raspberry-Pi-Case/
• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/arduino-v…

Following the steps on the Heroku site for getting started with python guide I ran into a few issue-ettes. Below are some scrappy notes that could be used to accompany the guide if you run into the same issues that I did.

• http://validator.w3.org/
• http://www.css-validator.org/

Colors ’n’ stuff

• http://www.drpeterjones.com/colo…

Twilio provides an API and platform that can send SMS texts, and text-to-voice messages, and costs very little to use.

Some 3rd party vendors already have hooks into Twilio — e.g. WrightCCS for two-factor authentication. If you want to roll your…

To connect to SFTP sites in .NET code, we use the excellent .NET assembly developed by Martin Prikryl — WinSCP.

One gotchya we found was that the code deployed on Windows 2008R2 servers downloaded files from a…

• http://www.myregextester.com/index.php

Good site to strip strings within a large chunk of text. Used this to find references to .png files on a Confluence page for the Publishing Team at C12 Capital. This was the pattern: [0–9]-[0–9]-2013 [0–9]-[0–9][0–9]-[0–9][0–9]…