With some free time that has presented itself in the past month, I've decided to clear a few things off my back burner that have been nagging me for a while. One of those things was to learn some Objective-C in order to create OSX and iOS counterparts to my Logger-TXT script. Not everyone enjoys interacting with shell scripts all day so a nice GUI has been a long time coming. Though mobile is a pretty big logging hole at the moment, I figured an OSX app would be an easier place to start.

Recently I ran into an issue where I had to generate content within a Drupal 7 cron run using node_view(). Normally there wouldn't be much of an issue here except that I was also trying to do some custom work within node.tpl.php in the main theme for the site.

After much frustration, I learned that during cron, the administration theme is used. After some thought, that makes sense and normally would not cause any issues but in my case it caused nothing but pain.

Since the announcement that Google Reader is going to shut down on July 1, 2013, everyone who used them has been looking for alternatives. There are lots of great readers available out there that used to tie into Google Reader and some are now working to clone the Google Reader functionality. I'm working on a different approach to solving this issue and it's an approach I hope others will be interested in.

Here's a quick post on setting up Vim for Arduino development instead of using the Arduino IDE. If you're a heavy Vim user, it can be a bit of a shock to go into a different editor. Thankfully the setup is pretty easy to get this all working with Vim. This post is assuming you are comfortable with how Vim is setup and ideally already have an environment that works for you.