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Rival Messenger

Its late, but I got the entire object tree figured out for chat windows, tabs and chat sessions!  It will be an adium style tearable tab chat window interface, but with chat/call headers much like skype does.  The header will expose participants as well as extra functions

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0 Comments 17 March 2014
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I got up early and managed to get some code down. Started on the chat interface for Rival Messenger. I am basing it roughly on how Adium does chat windows with tabs. It’s amazing how quickly even skeleton code balloons as you start something like this!

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0 Comments 16 March 2014
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Rival Messenger

I finished the pending friend request logic tonight.  We now bounce the dock, show the dock badge etc. Clicking the dock with a pending request will show the pending friend requests window, accept/decline works as expected and updates the applicable states of everything.

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0 Comments 08 March 2014
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Rival Messenger

We have a website!  I used this opportunity to get together a website and work on integrating the Sparkle updater framework to allow testers to automatically upgrade as I push out new development builds.  I have my project scripted to increment the build number, and I have a

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0 Comments 07 March 2014
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Rival Messenger

It has been a LONG time since I worked on a project with that name.  I started Rival Messenger as a Windows app written in Visual Basic, way way back at the end of 1999!  After much fussing, pushed by my own dislike of Skype, and everyone’s

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0 Comments 06 March 2014
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NeoPixel Desk - I ordered 4m of NeoPixel strip a while back. I decided to finally attach it to my desk. Setup is pretty simple, ill eventually make it do cool things. The NeoPixel Uberguide has everything covered. 

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0 Comments 23 January 2014
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Transducer wiring for the sectional. I thought that using xt60 rc power connectors would make this whole setup a lot more maintainable and less error prone. It all came out nice! There are 2 transducers attached to the couch, wired in series (as per documentation). The couch is now sitting

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0 Comments 14 December 2013
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Cheap vibration isolation for your couch/sectional for bass transducers!

I was looking online for a good solution for vibration isolation for our sectional. I was looking at bass transducers such as the Clark Synthesis or Buttkicker LFE. Both companies offer rubber solutions of varying expense, all far too expensive

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0 Comments 13 December 2013
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Project Dyson v2 - Time to revisit this project, the last one failed when the stock impeller melted solid due to the speed of the brushless motor I had attached.  This time around I will be mounting an EDF inside the housing, and blowing right out the back it.  With

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0 Comments 12 October 2013
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Time for me to start making stuff again… It has been FAAARRRR too long. I whipped this together at lunch time today, simple 3 channel PWM using TIP142s. It is driving a 30W RGB LED at 30V, and at peak it runs around 1.8A of draw.  

My goal

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0 Comments 10 October 2013