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Getting Adafruit’s Flora working under Ubuntu 13.04

I’ve been trying to get http://learn.adafruit.com/getting-started-with-flora/blink-onboard-led working and had a few issues getting the Flora working with the Arduino IDE under Ubuntu / Linux. Initially I had a bad mini-usb cable, which I diagnosed by checking dmesg when plugging the cable in and sure enough nothing registered. Once I found a working cable, I needed to download… Continue reading Getting Adafruit’s Flora working under Ubuntu 13.04

Drupal 8 – Create a block plugin

This continues on from the previous post where we created a simple module. In this post we add a basic block, which is pretty easy as it turns out. Create a new file at lib/Drupal/thrones/Plugin/Block/ThronesExampleBlock.php and add the following: <?php /** * @file * Contains \Drupal\thrones\Plugin\Block\ThronesExampleBlock. */ namespace Drupal\thrones\Plugin\Block; use Drupal\block\BlockBase; use Drupal\Component\Annotation\Plugin; use Drupal\Core\Annotation\Translation;… Continue reading Drupal 8 – Create a block plugin

Spotify in Ubuntu 12.10

Spotify is a cool streaming music service – $12 a month for high quality music streams on mobile and desktop. They have a decent Linux client too: sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 4E9CFF4E sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free” >> /etc/apt/sources.list’ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install spotify-client-qt Sounds like Spotify… Continue reading Spotify in Ubuntu 12.10