Design consistency between PCs and Macs

If you're a designer, odds are you stick to one platform or another. If you learned to design on a Mac, you probably only boot up your PC to make sure everything is coming out right. Some of you may not even own a machine with a different operating system on it.

Device::SerialPort on Redhat 8

The end of life for Redhat 6.2 security updates happened at the end of March. Because of this, I have been upgrading our remote buildings with Redhat 8. Since each building has a T1 router, I wrote a small program to log the routers messages to a text file.

No Pain, No Gain

I lift weights. (Hey, don't laugh...) Several times a week I get to go down to my local gym, put on shorts and a T and lift heavy pieces of metal attached to rods. And I love it.

Electronic currency using SIM Access Profile

You might remember an ad campaign in which a woman approaches a soft drink vending machine alongside a young male executive. The executive rummages through his pants pocket to find, to his dismay, that he has no change to purchase a cool drink on a hot afternoon. The woman then pulls out her cell phone, presses a few buttons, and a soda can drops down…