I was recently made aware of the great History of English Podcast.
The author, Kevin Stroud, while not a professional linguist, is a wonderful story teller. Each episode covers a combination of the etymologies of English as well as the history, that is the people, who have spoken this language in its various forms from it's roots thousands of years ago.
I have several Foscam Cameras around the outside of my house. They're very easy to setup, tolerate the outdoor conditions admirably, and are incredibly affordable for what they offer.
As with everything else around my house, I like to build software that customizes my view into my home (or in this case, outside my home). To that end I've build an app I call Argos that lets me monitor all sorts of sensors on my property.
We recently hosted a backyard party, and we wanted some high top tables for people to be able to mingle around. We looked around online but nothing was as simple as we wanted (we were going to cover them with table clothes so they didn't need to be fancy), and the ones we were able to find at all were pricier than we wanted. So, we did what you do when you want something to exactly match your vision: we built them.
Note: This article is from early 2012 and most of the information is now outdated. For an up-to-date look at this issue checkout the updated article I wrote for Sermons.io.
Last winter (2010-2011), from January through March, our church attendance was down nearly 30%. Between a few vacations and an intense RSV and Flu season the congregation was knocked down pretty hard. Knocked down and out (of the service), but not completely out of participation thanks to our live stream.
We've been livestreaming video of our service since we started 2.5 years ago. When we planted, I couldn't find any helpful information about livestreaming that wasn't aimed at large churches with much larger budgets than we were working with. Looking around recently for some equipment I still couldn't find a good reference. So, here's a bit of a history of what we've done at Grace Church. Hopefully it can be of help!
I was working on some code to process some GPS track logs and I wanted to be able to accurately calculate the distance between 2 points in the log. I did some searches, but there were no obvious solutions written in PHP. However, I did run across
Chris Veness’ version in javascript. I worked through his function and mashed it up as PHP. The result seems to work, but for me with slightly less accuracy than the javascript version. At this point the problems seems to be the limit on the number of significant digits that PHP is using vs. JavaScript. If anyone finds any other problems, definitely let me know.