Madison+ Ruby and Parallella (with Video)

Parallella is a single-board computer roughly the size of a credit card or Raspberry Pi. It runs Linux. It has 18 processor cores, two ARM and sixteen RISC. You can buy this device online for about $150.00.

The Madison+ Ruby organizers invited me to present Parallella at the conference earlier today. Video and slides appear below.

Designed at West Point. 3D Printed at BLUE1647.

Experimenting with Parallella? Then you might need a way to protect it. The original acrylic cases are no longer available. Fortunately, 3D printing offers a solid alternative.

Peter's Laws

Walking through Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, I ran across an inspiring list of rules titled “Peter’s Laws”. Peter Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight.

The Laws:

1. If anything can go wrong, Fix It! (To hell with Murphy!)

How to Pronounce OS X

What’s the correct way to pronounce the name of Apple’s Macintosh operating system, OS X? You can find the answer by asking OS X directly from the command line, as shown in this 11-second video.

GitHub Pages: Quick Start Guide

GitHub Pages lets any holder of a GitHub account host static HTML pages at no cost. The bigger benefit: Pages hosted at GitHub automatically become part of GitHub’s content delivery network (CDN). People who visit your site will get faster page loads because of the CDN.

This article focuses on interacting with GitHub Pages via Git at the command line. The browser-based automatic page generator is already well-documented. Another purpose of this post: To put useful information about GitHub Pages all in one post, so I won’t have to go hunting around next time I forget this procedure!