A blog by Thomas Cremers, senior software engineer and adventurer of the interwebs.
Suddenly I found myself in a strange world where I couldn't just click my heels and escape. A client asked me for a VBScript he could use to post JSON to his restful api. I told him I never wrote a line of code for the Windows platform but that I would have it done in an hour or two.
Read articleI thought that doing HTTP basic auth would be easy with the Capybara webkit driver. It isn't as easy as you might expect. I would have expected a authorize method of some sort but you have to actually set the header yourself.
Read articleA while ago I did a hardware hack project that used an old wireless doorbell unit and an Arduino to make a push notifications enabled doorbell. It actually started out as a joke but the video got more attention than I would ever expected with a lot of requests to do a proper tutorial on it.
Read articleAs a web developer in 2014 I'm sure you use jQuery or something similar, maybe Bootstrap or Foundation? Perhaps you need a nice carousel? And for templating you're using Handlebars, or maybe your prefer to go with a nice framework like KnockoutJS, EmberJS or AngularJS.
Read articleToday I spend about an hour figuring out how I could return jQuery generated nodes from an (ember) Handlebars helper and have it rendered as markup in the document. O boy what a battle. I was a bit surprised that this wasn't easier and/or better documented.
Read articleA new client asked if I could implement gallery functionality in their EmberJS app. I already implemented company logo uploads using Cloudinary so adding gallery functionality shouldn't be to big of a problem.
Read articleIf you ever tried to read document.cookie from your Chrome extensions background script you probably discovered that when you console.log() or alert() document.cookie you're greeted with a "false" message.
Read articleUsing jQuery in your Chrome extension as a content_script inorder to inject it into a webpage might be something you're scratching your head over especially if you're new to Chrome extension development (which at the time of writing pretty much everyone is).
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