blog.zfeldman.com
Using Environment Variables to Safely Store API Credentials
http://www.blog.zfeldman.com/2014-04-07-Using-Environment-Variables-to-Safely-Store-API-Credentials
Using Environment Variables to Safely Store API Credentials. Written on Apr 7, 2014. As you begin to integrate third-party services into any application you’re building, you’ll probably need a set of “keys to the castle”, the API key and/or secret to tell this third-party service you are who you say you are. Let’s say that you’re configuring OmniAuth. To use Twitter as a login option with your Twitter credentials (API key secret):. Application.config.middleware.use. To set environment variables locally, ...
blog.zfeldman.com
Using Amazon Echo to Control Lights and Temperature
http://www.blog.zfeldman.com/2014-12-28-using-amazon-echo-to-control-lights-and-temperature
Using Amazon Echo to Control Lights and Temperature. Written on Dec 28, 2014. Coming off of their popular Fire TV Stick. Amazon is venturing further into the home with something in a completely new category. Amazon Echo. The feature on Amazon Echo. I wanted to tap into this transcribing, but I wasn’t sure how. My first step was to try Wireshark to see if I could intercept the transmissions back and forth, but the traffic was encrypted. Instead, I went with a far less elegant solution, for n...The followi...
blog.zfeldman.com
What Does Swift Mean for Programming Education?
http://www.blog.zfeldman.com/2014-06-04-What-Does-Swift-Mean-for-Programming-Education
What Does Swift Mean for Programming Education? Written on Jun 4, 2014. For those who may not have heard, Swift. Is the new programming language Apple released at their World Wide Developer Conference earlier this week to power iOS and OS X application development into the future. In the past, these applications were written natively in Objective-C. There have also been a few other ways to create an iOS application, including using a toolchain like Rubymotion. Import Foundation/Foundation.h
. When you d...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT