Design of this IR-repeater is based on a photo detector TSMP58138 made by Vishay. This detector differs from many others of this kind by the carrier out signal. The datasheet gives a sample circuit for a repeater application. This design offers slightly modified circuit with visual feedback and an implementation in form of a RJ45 plugin.
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Monday, November 10, 2014
C99 facilitates support designated initializers:
struct XYZ {
int x,y,z;
};
static const struct XYZ zyx = {
.z = 1, .y = 2, .x = 3
};
static const struct XYZ yxz = {
y : 1, x : 2, z : 3
};
I found this handy feature very useful, since it does not require remembering order of the struct fields and simplifies refactoring and/or evolving of the existing code.
C++0X and C++1X does not allow this (please follow this link for more details)
This page has inspired me on a practical solution to this problem.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Recently I’ve been looking for a tablet-friendly web gallery engine to browse our family’s photo archive. I’ve googled a lot, read couple dozen of reviews, and finally came up with a short list of five galleries to evaluate. Indeed, managed to install only three of them and, unfortunately, none of them was exact match to my expectations. So, I took the best match – the PHP Picture Index and make a theme for it.
The results you may see on this demo page
The theme phppi-theme-max-1.0 is available for downloading via this page
Model-Document-Renderer is an evolution of Passive-View design pattern, suggested by Martin Fowler [1]. The difference is mainly in the terminology and in the suggested way of decomposing the application. (Continued)
Goals
The goal of this case-study is to make a short overview of the development tools for developing web-based business applications. The tools must (should) satisfy the following criteria:
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Introduction
ObjectTeams/Java (OT/J) is an extension to Java programming language that facilitates roles and collaborations as the first class language constructs. This article is an exercise on using (OT/J) for implementing collaborations.
Subject area
This exercise considers two bank operations – money transfer and fund cashing. The course of events for these two operations is very similar in basic and differs in details. Considering this, it is implemented as an abstract withdraw routine leaving detail differences to concrete implementations.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Where to keep SQL statements? This question arises almost for any more-less sophisticated Java application that accesses DBMS. Two most common approaches are: (1) as string constants in Java and (2) as text in external files. Both these approaches have significant drawbacks. Java strings get complicated when a string is too long to fit in one line, leading to a difficult to read and hard to maintain SQL code. SQL in external files are not easy to lookup and require some mapping technique to associate statement in the external file with a place in Java where it is needed. Also, as development goes, the text file adheres with more and more orphan SQL statements and there is no easy way to clean them up. This article suggests an approach that combines two mentioned above and inherits their strong sides.
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Abstract
A dimmer is an electronic device that controls alternate voltage applied to a lamp through delivering a selected portion of the mains sinusoid. Engineer, designing a dimmer needs to estimate how big this portion should be to get a desired luminance level. This article uses a model of incandescent lamp, tungsten resistivity, and human eye spectral efficiency to derive dependency of produced luminous flux over the voltage, gives a simple analytical function that describes this dependency with good accuracy (±2% comparing to the model).
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ErWin 7.2 does not provide support for PostgreSQL, indeed with few tricks it still can be used to model database and generate valid SQL code.
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