Build your own RFID payment system
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Distinct with a custom equality comparer
The other day a colleague of mine was trying to get distinct values out of a list of doubles. He wanted two doubles to be considered equal if the difference between them was less than 0.1.
The complete guide to running PhoneGap on Ubuntu
PhoneGap is a great technology that’s a lot of fun to use, but getting started with it can be daunting. Here I outline the entire process, beginning to end, of getting a basic PhoneGap setup running on Ubuntu, complete with an Android emulator.
Recover lost Git commits
Have you ever done a git reset --hard without thinking it all the way through and found yourself having lost work that you might have been better off keeping? Well, Git actually provides an easy way to recover lost commits. Say that we have a repository with a history that looks like this.