17 July 2016
On my Raspberry Pi 3 I would get locale warnings when using Perl commands. This blog post explains the steps I took to fix these warnings.
Read More...11 July 2016
I installed a beta version of a Debian package on my Raspberry Pi 3 and received the following error:
dpkg: error processing archive remote-syslog2_0.18_arm.deb (--install):
package architecture (arm) does not match system (armhf)
Errors were encountered while processing:
remote-syslog2_0.18_arm.deb
The suggested solution was to add the arm architecture as follows:
dpkg --add-architecture arm
and then re-run the install command:
dpkg -i remote-syslog2_0.18_arm.deb
I did so and the package installed and worked as expected. However, this made me wonder:
dpkg --add-architecture arm command do?After several hours of reading, experimenting and writing this blog post, I think I know. I’ll start by breaking the command down.
Read More...02 June 2016
I have been playing around with hubot and slack. This post describes the steps I used to setup a hubot that uses the slack adapter.
Read More...15 May 2016
The twitter documentation indicates that t.co lengths can be obtained from the help/configuration API. This post gives an example of how to use the Tweepy Python library to obtain those values.
Read More...20 April 2016
I created a simple twitter bot that consumes data from a REST API and tweets on certain conditions. The data from the REST API changes infrequently so the bot is set to run every half hour. The bot is written in python and uses a virtualenv so the crontab entry needs to use that virtualenv as well. This post describes what I did to achieve that.
Read More...07 March 2016
I recently created a script package (hubot-lmgtfy) for hubot. This post describes what I did to create the package.
Read More...29 February 2016
I created a script package for hubot and followed the developer guide for publishing a package. I received an unmet peer dependency build warning when I did the install. This post describes what that is.
Read More...21 January 2016
Travis CI will run npm test by default, so you will need to add the following to your package.json file:
11 January 2016
I recently had an issue where a CoffeeScript unit test I had written started throwing “Error: Cannot find module”. Here are the steps I used to resolve the issue.
Read More...29 November 2015
The release of Jekyll version 3 changed the default syntax highlighter from Pygments to Rouge. In a previous blog entry I described how I formatted code snippets for this blog which uses Jekyll version 2, Pygments and Bootstrap. That code does not work with the new version of Jekyll. This blog post will describe what I did to format code snippets when using Jekyll version 3 and Bootstrap version 3.
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