XMPP and home automation
[Matthias] from Intuity Media Lab put together a nice bit on controlling office lights with XMPP from his Android phone. In the article, he explains the components involved in the project, why he chose XMPP & nokia e90, and lists everything you need to replicate it. The project makes use of a wide variety of tools and libraries, weaving together code from multiple languages to achieve its goal. Overall, his project is a welcome change in a world full of Twitter-based solutions.
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Yeah, this is a nice little thing to get used to using. I’ve got a shortcut for all my standard searches (g google, wp wikipedia, am amazon) plus a few for my bugzilla at work, dev server stuff, media server stuff… the list goes on. I’m an absolute minimalist for my firefox, TBH, so this trick was one I started to use when I wanted to find a way to eliminate my search bar… especially great for my netbook. I literally have nav buttons (because I’ve found that flash, annoyingly enough, oftentimes steals keyboard focus to the point that shortcuts for forward/backward don’t work), a force stop button (for similar situations), and my URL bar… they’re all on one line. That, plus URL tooltip (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12015) to eliminate the need for a status bar has drastically decreased the amount of screen real estate used by my windows (one UI line, plus a tab bar)… On 1440×900 displays, or 1920×1080, it may be a little overkill, sure :P. On the smaller netbook screens (MSI Wind), though, every vertical pixel counts. It’s good stuff.So what, you guys read the firfox documentation? Whats next, when you put bread in a toaster and then push down on the lever in 5 minutes you will have toast? WTF is this?
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