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Music For a Hranj Day 003: The Concept of "The Good Album"

Music For a Hranj Day 003: The Concept of "The Good Album"

Today's weather calls for another installation of "Music For a Hranj Day". However, in this chapter I'm not going to provide the usual recommended listening for a day of crappy weather. This post is going to explore a concept that my band, Save Face [https://www.facebook.com/savefacenj/], joked

Using Environment Variables with Chicago Boss

Using Environment Variables with Chicago Boss

Chicago Boss [chicagoboss.org] is an awesome web framework built on top of the functional programming language Erlang [http://www.erlang.org/]. While working on a web application with CB that used the Twilio API, I needed a way to store sensitive data that could be accessed from any module

Music For a Hranj Day 002: Best Uses of Delay

Music For a Hranj Day 002: Best Uses of Delay

In this iteration of 'Music For a Hranj Day' instead of observing a single album we are going to take a look at my favorite examples of the delay effect in different songs. There's something strange about delay that, when used correctly, perfectly fits the mood that I find myself

BAWLS Out For Local Hack Day

BAWLS Out For Local Hack Day

This past weekend I had the privilege of organizing my first hackathon with the help of Major League Hacking [mlh.io]. Well, it wasn't a full-blown hackathon, but a sort of mini-hackathon called Local Hack Day [https://localhackday.mlh.io/]. The purpose of Local Hack Day was to bring together

Music For a Hranj Day 001: Still - Dionaea

Music For a Hranj Day 001: Still - Dionaea

In this new series of posts I'm going to share and discuss albums that I find particularly enjoyable to listen to on rainy days. I'm going to try to focus on lesser known albums from local and inactive bands. There's no better way of kicking off this series than with

Send SMS Messages with Processing and Twilio

Send SMS Messages with Processing and Twilio

Processing [https://processing.org/] is a relatively new framework used for creating rich visual-based applications in Java, Android, Javascript, and more. It's free, open source, portable, extensible, and well documented. In a recent effort to try out Processing I decided to see how difficult it would be to integrate Twilio

Debugging Twilio - Hangup All Active Calls

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Debugging Twilio - Hangup All Active Calls

If you're an idiot like me you might find yourself using Twilio one day and accidentally making way more phone calls than you intended to. I'm not ashamed to admit that this has now happened to me multiple times. I find myself scrambling for a way to clean up the

Debugging Twilio - HTTP 405 Not Allowed

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Debugging Twilio - HTTP 405 Not Allowed

There is nothing more discouraging than hearing “We’re sorry. An application error has occurred.” over and over again while debugging a Twilio [https://www.twilio.com/] application. I experienced this recently while rehearsing the five-minute Twilio demo I’ve given dozens of times before. This post will examine a

The Struggles of a MongoDB Newbie

The Struggles of a MongoDB Newbie

They say “don’t knock it ‘til you try it.” MongoDB is no exception to this rule. So I decided to try it, and I’d like to briefly share my first impression. For a database working to eliminate the need for relations, why does the functionality for subdocuments seem