I am Currently on course 5 of 8 in this certificate, currently I am learning SQL in the bigquery Sandbox. I have fallowed through the tutorials and practice sections but I still find it difficult to navigate and properly organize and set up my datasets/ databases.
Is there a better tutorial somewhere so I can actually feel confident in using this tool?
I learn best with this when I can get a walk through and ask questions as I go.
I've tried to do this on my free time and go through the platform, Ive also tried YouTube. Unfortunately, when I do this on my own its hard to figure out the correct process. YouTube doesn't have an organized current version of big query. the location of certain options and buttons are different.
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I apologize in advance. I'm almost certain this question may not be appropriate here, but there doesn't seem to be a specific place on SO for such questions, so I've decided that as a last ditch effort, I'll ask on the main site. Please don't be (too) angry with me....
I'm looking for a specific IoT project, that was developing modules connected by BLE. They were independent modules, say just a speaker, on a coin-sized die connected to each other or a computer via BLE. The project seems to have been succesfully funded on Kickstarter, with an SDK and shipping to the backers, but I can't find them again. I've been searching for a day and a half, but I can't remember for the life of me what they're called. I've searched through my chrome bookmarks, but the computer I was using at the time was a lab system, so I most likely wasn't logged into Google, and those systems are wiped every week. The project was probably from 2014, and they kinda advertised themselves as an easy way to learn HW/SW, and the SDK might have had Code block drag and drop, like Scratch. No combination of search terms that I can think of on Google is bringing up the results I want. Please help, if you know this project, or a specific way to find it.
I'm fairly certain this question will get moved, but before it does, I hope SO's vast and vastly informed community will be able to help me or point me in the right direction....
After days of searching and going through possibly most of the IoT style projects out there, I finally found the one I was looking for: it's SAM Labs. If anyone wants to know, it's probably one of the cheaper options for creating a limited use remote application.
I am trying to place amazon search bar for books category in my website, where user searches for a book and is redirected to amazon website. My URL should be tagged with my associate ID so that i can earn some money.
The problem is i am unable to find any procedure to create such search bar. I have browsed through Product advertising API section, but it is very confusing.
I want exactly like this: http://amasearchbar.com/demo-blog/
Can someone help me how to make such autocomplete search bar, or provide me directly the code for it.
Any help is appreciated.
Amazon isn't likely to give instructions for how to create something like that - but they do give you the tools necessary to figure it out yourself if you're willing to learn their API.
Without more information, it's hard for anyone here to "help" you either.
That link you gave is to a WP plugin. Are you using WP? If so, your easiest bet is to buy the plugin and use that (I am not endorsing that plugin specifically, I have no experience with it).
If you give more specifics on what language you're wanting to use to create the search bar and its interaction with the API, and specific problems you run into while working on it, this community will be much more likely to help you. Questions to point you to a free source for the finished code of your project are not likely to get very far though.
Based on your previous questions, it seems likely that you are using Wordpress. If that's the case, and you don't know how to write the scripts to interact with the API then the easiest answer to your question by far is to either buy a plugin (perhaps the one you linked) or hire someone to write one. If you'd like to learn, there are a lot of resources online to help you start learning to write WP plugins.
I am currently working with CAVE systems and I'm looking into hooking up a pre-exisiting game engine in one. I know this is possible through Unity and the Unreal Engine as there is already research out there showcasing that it has been done.
Right now, I have not decided upon one game engine to use and I'm currently looking around and researching if it is possible with the likes of CryEngine and Valve's Source Engine. The one issue that I am going to face, however, is getting the image to correctly render across all four of the monitors / screens.
Thusly, as a result I have two questions:
1.Does anyone know of any good research / books on distrubuted rendering? It doesn't need to be specificly for games, just the topic in general would be very useful
2.Does anyone know if other developers have managed to get Source and the CryEngine to run in a CAVE system? Through all my research I haven't been able to find anything on this, but then my google skills aren't the greatest.
If anyone could spare the time to answer these questions, I'd be extremely greatful.
Thanks.
too late for an answer, but still, you might want to have a look at
Equalizer: http://www.equalizergraphics.com
IceT: http://icet.sandia.gov
Chromium
(and a few more referenced in related publications, websites)
Preface:
I am a system programmer (who has just started his career as a S/W Engineer), so not very good # web scripting languages, though I have just started learning them.
Problem Synopsis:
I want to write an app that keeps track of what I am doing and records it allowing me to analyse my time spending pattern and could help me analyse whenever I want.
Problem Description:
My plan is to write an app that sits in the background and keeps track of active window on my desktop (every second) and stores this data in a SQLite database. But to be more appealing (As I want to share this app with others), I want to have a feature where the user can analyse data recorded between any period of his interest. For this I want the user to be able to generate charts and graphs using the recorded data.
For this I thought of using browser for UI and Google Visualization APIs for plotting work. So, is it possible to use Google Visualization APIs to plot local data? if so, plz guide me on how to continue... (As told before, I am a system programmer, C programmer to be specific, who has just started learning web scripting in free time)
Reasons for these decisions:
(1) App that records what I am doing will be in C/C++ - B'coz I am system programmer and am very comfortable with them. And can get it done easily and quickly.
(2) SQLite - Very small and can easily be embedded in my app, and is Open Source. And I think many web scripting langs like PHP, python have interfaces to access SQLite DB.
(3) Browser for UI - Hope it will be easy for user to use browser, and I will not have much to do regarding UI. As main UI will be browser and Google Visualization APIs will do plotting. All I might have to do is write few lines of script (Am I right here on the last point???)
Comment on my design decision and any tutorials(or pointers) which teaches me on how to do this will be highly appreciated...
Thank You
MicroKernel :)
PS: Idea inspired by Nathan Baulch's reply to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/161590/how-do-you-track-your-time
#Nathan Baulch, Thank you so much for such a brilliant idea. \m/
I would embed browser to app (you want to write in C#)
and use jquery plotting as chart. You will find more info here: http://www.flotcharts.org/
I try to devote certain time everyday to learn new skills while also improve the older skills that I've gained. But, I'm not hitting the sweet spot where I learn what I want and get things done.
So, I was just curious to know how you guys spend time everyday and "hit the spot".
I use Google reader and just add more and more tech blogs as I find them. Then, I read them in the morning with coffee. This site provides quite a bit of education as well.
I read technical websites everyday. I like to use Google reader as well since it tracks what I've read and allows me to easily continue where I left off from any computer I happen to have access to.
I started out with the basics : Slashdot, Ars Technica
, and Dr. Dobb's Journal. These sites will frequently lead to other great sources of information.
When following sites like this using an RSS feed, you don't have to read every article that comes through. Just scan them over and read the ones that catch your interest. Without realizing it, you will store away alot of information that will pop back into your head when you encounter a situation that triggers it.
You won't necessarily be a master of everything you read but you will be at least aware of current developments and technologies.
The second part is to practice. I usually have some simple and enjoyable programming project on the go at home all the time. I may not actually complete anything useful but I use it as a basis to try out new things. Alot of times I will encounter a problem at work and find that I've already explored some of the solutions at home or at least thought about them and will be able to make a much more informed decision.
Tech blogs are a great way to find out basic information on new material and sometimes they will even have a more in-depth feature that can leave you with some take-away knowledge than just another tech headline.
What works best for me is to identify topics that I have read in tech blogs that interest me and then find sources that provide me with more advanced information on the subject. Then as the week goes by spend however much time needed to digest the information learning the material.
Just browsing tech headlines all day, in my opinion, won't leave you with any distilled information beyond basic advances in technology. Actually diving in and spending X amount of time each day learning material that is interesting to you will be infinitely better.
I find the key to getting things done is to manage distrations. I process email in batches only once or twice per day, and try to avoid phone calls, meetings and IM where I can. This leaves me bigger chinks of time available for development.
I learn new skills in a couple of different ways... Firstly reading a load of developmetn related tech blogs via an RSS reader. This allows me to absorb a continuous flow of new ideas without necessarily "learning" a lot, but saves me a lot of time on research later. Then when I run into something new, chances are something I've already read will be of assistance and I can dig in an "learn" something in more detail.
e.g. Through regular RSS reading I became aware that a significant number of javascript frameworks had been developed and it seemed to make more sense to use a js framework than coding DOM manipulation by hand. Later when I started a new project that was going to be heavy on Ajax, I was able to name a couple of frameworks off the top of my head,quickly pick one and really dig in and get to know it.