archive: 2014

Summer is over

…and I can start looking at home automation again. So my first bit of research post warmth has been to look at setting up a browser based interface for opening, closing and displaying the current stat

PrairieDevCon 2014 content

We’re just wrapping up at the conference and it’s time to put up our materials. Thanks to everyone who attended my talks. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Domain Driven Design Prim

A solid foundation

As I started going though the ideas I had for automation and connectivity in the house one thing became very obvious: Everything required some sort of connectivity. It could be coax for cable/satellit

Home Automation

Recently we moved into a new house. One of the things that I have always wanted to do was wire up a house and automate as much of it as possible. So here’s my chance! This isn’t going to b