Category: Technology

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Exploring Astronomy with Internet connected telescopes

As a teenager I was very curious about stars and galaxies. Only time we could get to see something related was an yearly school trip to Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore. As I grew up my interest moved to technology from science. Mostly because technology gave me an opportunity to tinker with. When I...

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Introduction to Querying JSON using JSONata

Table of Contents1 Getting Started1.1 Using JSconsole1.2 Into an HTML Page1.3 Using Try JSONata2 Let’s begin with some data3 Let’s write some more queries JSON is the defacto data format for web APIs. Usually getting the data you want out JSON means iterating through the arrays, find if the key exists and then...

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Authenticating to BLE device Offline

Let’s say I have a Bluetooth Low Energy device which is a GATT server and is not connected to internet.  I have a phone which can connect to this BLE device, authenticate itself and do some data exchange. The problem I am trying to solve authentication. The condition is both BLE device and...

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Upgrading in Process

I am upgrading multiple things. So things might break. Comment below if you find any broken stuff.

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Going Serverless with OpenWhisk

I have been using Webhooks for a long time now. Webhooks are HTTP callbacks. They usually get called with HTTP Post request on an event. For example system one does a POST request on system two when something changes on system one. These are typically used by heterogeneous systems for plumbing. In my...

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Using DataTables with CouchDB

DataTables is an Open Source jQuery plugin that adds controls to any HTML table. Usually DataTable takes an existing HTML table and adds functionality to it. It can also pull data from a remote JSON and create table on the fly. It’s a useful feature. Although for big datasets it doesn’t work as...