Category Archives: Coding

Belated announcement: tollgate source released

Posted on Monday, May 9, 2011 by micolous

Last weekend, tollgate’s source code was released. This is the project formerly known as portal2, which ran the captive portal system at StreetGeek and SAGAfest from January 2009 to September 2010. It’s a quota-managed captive portal system for Linux mainly … Continue reading →

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QCQREncoder, QCGPS, Openbravo hacks

Posted on Sunday, December 5, 2010 by micolous

So, I’ve been busy a bit lately. I’ve written a QR Encoder patch for Quartz Composer based on libqrencode. You give it a string, and then it’ll encode it into an image. There’s another patch in my github which provides … Continue reading →

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More portal2 v2.8.3 API changes

Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by micolous

There’s some more updates to portal2′s API. UserProfile objects (returned by whoami and whois_ip) now also include the user’s forum numeric user ID. This means that your application can track when a user has changed their username. Additionally, there’s now … Continue reading →

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portal2 API v2.8.3

Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 by micolous

There’s been a minor change to the portal2 API as of v2.8.3 (to be deployed at LAN 10.09). Functions which attempt to identify you (usage, usage_history and whoami) will attempt to use cookie-based authentication before attempting to identify your computer … Continue reading →

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Xbox 360 Big Button: Round 2

Posted on Sunday, July 18, 2010 by micolous

So, time for round 2 with the Big Button controllers. I covered this stuff a bit yesturday. I’ve since updated the driver so that it treats the directional buttons on the big button controllers as the X and Y axes. … Continue reading →

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