Cheap Controllerless VR
Recently, I’ve taken a bit of an interest in VR thanks to Ready Player One. I’ve had a Google Cardboard and a Leap Motion controller for a while now and thought it would be...
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One year Anniversary
About one year ago I started writing articles for this blog and making videos. I wanted to record what’s happened in the past year and share it with others. This article will focus on...
Defining a JavaEE DataSource in your WAR file
In a previous article, I walked through adding MySQL’s JDBC driver into WildFly. This seems to be the preferred way of using JDBC Drivers and defining DataSources for your applications. The advantage this has...
Add MySQL Docker Image to Unraid
In the previous post, I walked you through setting up your Unraid server to pull images from Docker Hub and also set it up so each Docker container will receive its own IP address....
Setup Unraid to pull from Docker Hub
My aunt and uncle gave me an old HP a6400f a few years ago that was just sitting in my closet collecting dust. Last year I decided I’d use it for something so I...
What is a Data URI and how do I use it?
What is a Data URI? A Data URI is a URI that starts with the “data” scheme and allows you to easily embed all kinds of objects within your web page. Much like Blob...
Auto-updating an Android Project’s versionCode
This is a quick tip I’ve enjoyed using over the past few years in some of the Android apps I’ve worked on. Instead of having to manually update the “versionCode” of your build.gradle script,...
Adding SQL Server’s JDBC Driver in to Wildfly
Update: 7/26/2018 – Corrected path for JDBC driver. In a previous blog post, I walked you through installing MySQL’s JDBC driver into Wildfly. This post will show you how to do the same thing...
Creating Blobs and Blob URIs
In the previous article, we talked about Blob URIs, which is just a reference to a Blob in a web browser. A Blob, as previously mentioned, can be anything. In this article, we’ll walk...
What is a Blob URI?
Recently, I started working on a project that extensively utilizes blobs and blob URIs. Wide-spread browser support for blobs has been around for more than several years now. If you aren’t familiar with blob...