Hey Corey,
The robotics application I'm working on is a SRV1 from trossenrobotics.
It's a really neat little device.
I actually DONT use the serial stuff now that I have wifi working, I
know use that to communicate w/the device.
The RXTX link I provided has decent information on using the Jav
Hi Ben,
Yup, tried sudo. I still get a hang...
How complex would it be for me to implement the Java you are working on... I
cant believe there isn¹t a Unix command line serial communication system
that just accepts arguments and spews them across the serial port... Course
I guess it isn¹t all tha
Hi Ben,
I would be very interested in talking with you. I am trying to move from a
VB front end to my home built robotics application to something web driven
and running on a Mac. I am just much more familiar with PHP then VB or Java.
What type of robotics app are you working on?
> Hello Cor
Corey Fogarty wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to connect to /dev/tty.USA28Xb2P1.1 which is a Keyspan USB
to Serial adapter. I have had success using the screen utility,
#screen /dev/tty.USA28Xb2P1.1 but I would like to use PHP to create a
web interface to a microcontroller.
Hi Cory,
With wha
Hello Corey,
Did you try running sudo
Maybe you need root to write to serial...
- Ben
Corey Fogarty wrote:
Hi again,
I spoke with Keyspan and they assured me the USB to Serial device was
working if I could use the Screen tool.
I asked why I was unable to redirect stdin/stdout to and from
on 2008-04-17 16:32 Joseph Crawford said the following:
I agree there are times it would probably be better to be in the office,
however I am not a lone coder. I work with a team of 10 other
developers. Generally there are 2-3 developers working together on a
project. Working from home I sti
Well, I can safely say that not a day goes by without an ad hoc design debate
springing up, and believe me when I tell you that the folks who are not here
for it - well, they miss it. And when we do get home based employees on the
phone, we deal with barking dogs, doorbells, screaming children,
Hi again,
I spoke with Keyspan and they assured me the USB to Serial device was
working if I could use the Screen tool.
I asked why I was unable to redirect stdin/stdout to and from the /dev/tty.
device and was told there was no reason I shouldn¹t be able to do so.
I have tried:
#echo ³A² >
Jerry,
I agree there are times it would probably be better to be in the
office, however I am not a lone coder. I work with a team of 10 other
developers. Generally there are 2-3 developers working together on a
project. Working from home I still manage to collaborate with them
just fin
Jason Scott wrote:
As a single developer there isn't much of a reason.
For a development team - needing to coordinate activities and debate designs on whiteboards - on site presence is required. Unless I were to spend lots of money on collaboration and video environments to facilitate a home-bas
on 2008-04-17 16:05 Joseph Crawford said the following:
with the days of video conferencing i really do not see the point of
going in-house for anything. My employer likes to bring me down here so
i go with the flow.
Well, that's very nice. But not every company *has* video conferencing.
And
Jerry,
with the days of video conferencing i really do not see the point of
going in-house for anything. My employer likes to bring me down here
so i go with the flow.
Joseph Crawford
On Apr 17, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
on 2008-04-17 15:46 Tim Lieberman said the followi
As a single developer there isn't much of a reason.
For a development team - needing to coordinate activities and debate designs on
whiteboards - on site presence is required. Unless I were to spend lots of
money on collaboration and video environments to facilitate a home-based
workplace.
Pe
Tim,
I completely agree with you. Although it does take a lot of self
discipline to work from home. A lot of employers want to make sure
you are getting the work done and not wasting time sitting at home
doing nothing.
I personally work from home while they fly me into the office every
on 2008-04-17 15:46 Tim Lieberman said the following:
Why people insist on on-site work is a bit beyond me. If you're willing
Because, well, sometimes hard and fast specs aren't available, and
working face to face with someone allows better communication.
It's as simple and as profound as th
Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
on 2008-04-17 09:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following:
This may have been mentioned already, but maybe the best people out
there are independent?
From just coming off of (and still trying to) hire PHP programmers, I
have to say that a great many resumes and intervie
Dr Jerry u know I am svorn to neverrr reveal ze location of ze secret
laborator ;)
> on 2008-04-17 09:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following:
> > This may have been mentioned already, but maybe the best people out
> > there are independent?
>
> From just coming off of (and still trying to
on 2008-04-17 09:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following:
This may have been mentioned already, but maybe the best people out
there are independent?
From just coming off of (and still trying to) hire PHP programmers, I
have to say that a great many resumes and interviews I've had are with
peo
Hey Jake -- SUNY Albany (1985), here -- zero student loans!!! SUNY
rocks!
(Sorry for one line response but it was substantive! :) )
-- Kristina
> > I know a lot of 20-somethings who need to make a huge payment
every
> > month on their student loans... They're under a lot of pressure to
From: Jason Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Nope, I think MOST of you are full of sh*t. Unfortunately, such
is the bell curve of li
> I know a lot of 20-somethings who need to make a huge payment every
> month on their student loans... They're under a lot of pressure to get the
> first job that's "good enough"... Taking the risk to find "something
> better" could land them in default.
As a very recent graduate (2006) I'
A note on this thread in general:
Please keep it clean and the one-line responses to a minimum, or take them
off-list - there's too much traffic for posts that don't have real content.
Hi Kristina, et al,
Wow, what a thread... I remember a similar one years ago, and obviously
these types of issu
At 9:24 PM -0400 4/16/08, Christopher R. Merlo wrote:
>So, anyway, I felt compelled to write, because I'm afraid that
>people trying to choose whether to get a college education or not
>might be misled into thinking it's something it's not. The service
>we provide is not something you can get a
Tedd --
That's the kind of gizmo that really could have freed up some time for
me...I remember going through reams of carbon paper and tubs of
whiteout and making just a huge mess and having to retype things at 3
AM...things that were already written out in two drafts on legal pads...
Then aga
Nope, I think MOST of you are full of sh*t. Unfortunately, such is the bell
curve of life – 7 out of every ten people fall below the curve. Two of the
three in the upper half are respectable. And then there’s the one. The one out
of every ten who can outperform them all with his or her eyes clos
I think the problem isn't just the social status of IT workers, but the
social status of IT itself:
http://advice.cio.com/why-it-sucks
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At 9:24 PM -0400 4/16/08, Christopher R. Merlo wrote:
So, anyway, I felt compelled to write, because I'm afraid that
people trying to choose whether to get a college education or not
might be misled into thinking it's something it's not. The service
we provide is not something you can get anyw
At 9:40 AM -0700 4/16/08, Kristina Anderson wrote:
Probably I would run into issues with licensing myself as my degree was
in Literature & Linguistics (1985) ...and I used an old manual
typewriter to do my research papers! LOL.
--Kristina:
I received my last degree in 1984 from Michigan State
Oh, I did read it.
> I wish you would have read the fullness of my post. =D
>
> Kristina Anderson wrote:
> > Oh I assure you that I'm not "angry or whiny" and am completely
> > sincere, and also assure you that in NYC, secretaries DO make more
than
> > 46K...not sure why you found that "angry
I wish you would have read the fullness of my post. =D
Kristina Anderson wrote:
Oh I assure you that I'm not "angry or whiny" and am completely
sincere, and also assure you that in NYC, secretaries DO make more than
46K...not sure why you found that "angry or whiny", it's simply a fact.
At 12:31 PM -0400 4/16/08, Jim Hendricks wrote:
Guess 24 years experience programming in all kinds of environments
with 15 or so languages does not constitute a profession then based
on your position that it requires a degree. I have no degree. I
have very little formal training.
Well... I
To Jason @ InnovationAds.com
Jason, from the tone of your email, you think we developers are full of sh*t.
If I understand correctly, you can’t get a decent resume across your desk and
you are frustrated and desperate to find people to work in “perhaps the best
environment you’ve seen in NY”.
Oh I assure you that I'm not "angry or whiny" and am completely
sincere, and also assure you that in NYC, secretaries DO make more than
46K...not sure why you found that "angry or whiny", it's simply a fact.
> Let's be intellectually honest Kristina,
>
> It's hard to take your emails with a d
To clarify two things re: the below response:
1. I most definitely DO NOT WANT TO LEGISLATE pay scales for
programmers (not even sure where anyone got the idea that I did!). I
feel we need to improve the SOCIAL STATUS of the field, so that market
rates increase in and of themselves.
2. I ca
rada says:
...However, facts are facts - IT people make less than others when compared in
terms of education and skills, and you did go a little bit Ayn Rand on us when
you said that we should be looking to excel instead of complaining. I'd love to
live in a world where working hard gets me a p
Jake,
Things are going very well, thanks. Growing like crazy, made some very exciting
acquisitions, and building out some really nice new tools and features, have a
whole new team made up of a bunch of great guys, and who are producing some
very solid code and designs. It is nice to watch a tru
Tom,
As someone who grew up under a communist regime, I absolutely love your
anti-protectionist attitude. However, I have a factual issue with what you said
about IT salaries:
Look at your market. The "big" consulting firms
charge much more and pay their people much more.
How co
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David, I'm shocked that a CS MS would require anything outside of the
field, that seems very odd to me. Maybe things have changed since the
*cough, cough* years since I got my Bachelor's, but even when I was
getting my Bachelor's (Mechanics and Materials Science, essen
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Biermann, Gary (02940)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Speaking from the side of the "Evil Ones", and having been one here in
> Manhattan for a few years now, I would have to agree with Jake and Jason.
> In the last 1.5 years even surprisingly average developers ar
For a great study in the ebbs and flows of an online conversation, check out:
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000633.html
- jake
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Speaking from the side of the "Evil Ones", and having been one here in
Manhattan for a few years now, I would have to agree with Jake and
Jason. In the last 1.5 years even surprisingly average developers are
getting multiple offers with in a week of being on the market and most
of them are using m
OK OK, STOP giving Peter LSD guys... :P
Peter Sawczynec wrote:
Think of the quickly growing popularity of tags on the internet which
show graphically the (expected and often unexpected) relationships
between ideas and concepts in the results of a topic search.
Or think of the movie Cube (also
*looks around nervously*
I'm not insane... I'm not insane!
:P
csnyder wrote:
This is a tough industry.
You are writing software for an openly hostile environment (the
internet), using a grab-bag of hashed-up "standards", that has to look
good and work right on at least 3 different platforms
Yes, but maybe the best opportunities are not available to independents? Just a
thought
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> No sane engineer would actually choose to be a web developer.
Save for the fact that this is where a majority of the growth in
software engineering has been happening for the past 8 years. Despite
all the whining and moaning, this is where IT is at! During my last
job search, LAMP developers w
This may have been mentioned already, but maybe the best people out there are
independent?
Steve
In a message dated 4/17/2008 7:38:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok, so with all this talk, and everyone wanting to make some money, why can't
I get a decent resume acr
Good point Keith (BTW, hi - I met you at DCPHP BS last month) -- if you're
over 40 hours/week, then it's time to increase the rate incrementally on the
next few bids.
But if you're under 40hrs/week (or whatever hours you seek), then you may
have to reduce the rate. Supply and demand.
Stev
Let's be intellectually honest Kristina,
It's hard to take your emails with a dose of sincerity, when your
scholarship seems random and a result of passion. Phrases like
"Secretaries make more than this" and posting what you "feel" is the
average income for a particular profession (without cit
David, I'm shocked that a CS MS would require anything outside of the field,
that seems very odd to me. Maybe things have changed since the *cough, cough*
years since I got my Bachelor's, but even when I was getting my Bachelor's
(Mechanics and Materials Science, essentially Mechanical Engine
This is a tough industry.
You are writing software for an openly hostile environment (the
internet), using a grab-bag of hashed-up "standards", that has to look
good and work right on at least 3 different platforms (MSIE, Gecko,
and WebKit).
On top of all that, unless you work as a cog in the whe
chair if you know what they were paid for a one page (but very
interactive) site. You have to ask yourself why they are getting it
and you are not.
Basic economics. The output of a "big company" is more desirable,
for a variety of reasons, that the output of an independent contractor.
Think of the quickly growing popularity of tags on the internet which
show graphically the (expected and often unexpected) relationships
between ideas and concepts in the results of a topic search.
Or think of the movie Cube (also Cube 2, Cube 3) which is essentially
about some mathematical const
[...] US universities focus way too much on a broad education
You have missed the point. You went to college to get a
degree, not an education.
Search Google for "What is an educated person"
Urb
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And Jake McGraw, we've never met, but IA is not the same company you worked at
in the past. Please know that.
Better yet, why don't you come on by and see for youself? :-) I'd love to
finally meet you in person, and ask you a few questions about why the heck
certain things are the way they are
Ok, so with all this talk, and everyone wanting to make some money, why can't I
get a decent resume across my desk?!
I am offering - imo - perhaps the best and most challenging work environment
I've seen since I got to NY, and the only people who are handing me decent
resumes are recruiters who
"I want to be a programmer. I just want to get paid what my skills
are WORTH as a programmer."
As a hobby economist I have to respond to this one. :D
It sounds to me like you'd like to legislate what you're worth. That
approach causes even more problems than it solves because it means a
lot of p
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