I always seem to find myself reflecting upon the year during the holidays - where I was this time last year and where I am now. This year has been pretty good to me overall. I've gone on several adventures, moved to Texas, gotten a new job, started
Coming from Python, Node.js quickly blew my mind with the whole concept of asychronous stuff. I don't think I actually understood managing things asynchronously for a few months after I started writing Javascript (lets be honest, I probably still don't completely understand it). While the
After adding a couple things to Node-Libvirt one of the maintainers pointed out my original article on Node-Libvirt referenced the old callback style of using the library so I wanted to take a moment to write up a new guide for using Node-Libvirt with promises rather than callbacks. Since my
Recently I've been doing a fair amount of work with the libvirt API, specifically using the Node.js bindings found here. The bindings are great and work as expected but I was rather disappointed in the lack of documentation. The authors reference the tests for the project as
SpacePanel started as a learning experience primarily - I wanted to learn the in's and out's of virtualization using libvirt. Given the nature of the project, that basic goal was quickly met. However, during the early stages of development SpacePanel received a fair amount of attention
I recently started a project where I was tasked to use Bookshelf.js to interact with the database. The library its self is pretty handy, it is built on top of Knex.js, a great query builder that works with Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite, but my major gripe was an
I finally decided to take the plunge and jump on the 3D printing bandwagon. My new 3D printer was delivered Thursday last week (03/19). I settled on the Da Vinci 2.0 Duo after a fair amount of reading. The primary thing that sold me was a) the price
Since I purchased my SmartThings hub a few months ago I've been all about adding new sensors, lights and other smart things to my apartment. Most recently I have been experimenting with the GE Link Light Bulbs. Overall I love them, but the one thing I (and my
SpacePanel development is continuing to move forward - that being said, I'm super excited to announce the next step in making SpacePanel amazing, the SpacePanel Indiegogo Campaign! We are looking to raise $5,000 to go towards continuing to expand SpacePanel. Our primary goals with this campaign include:
I've been pleasantly surprised with the amount of positive response I received after introducing Space in a previous post, so much so that it really inspired me to keep working on the project. Over the past week, I've been living and breathing Space, and I am
When I first started working on Space I knew I would need to use something like libvirt to make all of the calls to the hypervisor its self. I had heard of libvirt several times during my tenure in the IT industry so I figured it would be realtively easy
One of my goals for 2015 was to learn more about virtualization - for me, learning requires a little reading and a ton of doing. I'd like to introduce my latest project that is a result of the aforementioned "doing" - Space. Space is a virtualization
