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Refactoring Visualforce Controllers for Lightning Components
You might remember Mo Tester, the package that helps you Experiment Faster on Force.com. I’m tweaking it for some Lightning Component stuff (spoiler alert) and ran into this. (Posting to the Lightning...
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Experiment Faster with Lightning Components & Force.com (Mo Tester Update)
Update from 2015-03-06: Mo Tester Octothorpe TL;DR: Updated Mo Tester, install link on Github Repo. Back in the day I wrote a post called Experiment Faster on Force.com where I confessed to blatantly...
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Read Data from Multiple Arduinos with a Raspberry Pi B+ using I2C and Node.js
Last year I wrote about controlling an Arduino using a Raspberry Pi and I2C. I2C being, of course, a 30+ year old protocol that everybody and their brother still supports. I tried this again, for...
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Connect I2C Devices Using Cat5 and RJ45 Ports
The other day I shared my approach to reading data off a couple Arduinos with a Raspberry Pi using I2C and Node.js. Works great, but the wiring was ugly and brittle. Mess or not, the wiring did teach...
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Node.js IoT Host on Heroku: The Simplest Thing that Might Possibly Work
TL;DR – Look ma — CODE that stores DATA which becomes usable in SALESFORCE via OData. For the last couple of days, I’ve been talking about some hardware I’ve put together (here and here). These...
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Access IoT Data in Salesforce using Heroku Connect OData
Yesterday I wrote about getting IoT Data into Heroku. It’s pretty cool, but other than looking at a Heroku PostgreSQL Dataclip, there’s not a lot you can do with the super simple IoT host app I built....
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Mo Tester Octothorpe: Now with Lightning Process Builder & Lightning Connect...
I updated Mo Tester to include a couple more Lightning Examples. Install link and code are here. It now includes the External Data Source Pat created for the Lightning Connect Tutorial. Select the “LAB...
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Science Expo Lesson #1 (LEGO Mindcub3r Revisited)
Our local school district had our annual K-6 Science Expo yesterday. It was a blast! Surprising no one, I sold raffle tickets to help keep the expo free for all students. Surprising everyone (or maybe...
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No Watches at the Dinner Table
My wife and I have an important rule at the dinner table: no phones. Yesterday I tweaked that rule to include watches. I’ve had the Apple Watch for about a week. I’m not particularly passionate about...
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Great Playing Cards: Shuffle & Roll
In the “other adventures” department I’ve been geeking around with playing cards, and now have the tiniest e-commerce outlet you’ve ever seen focused on this. Checkout the Great Playing Cards at...
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