Context

Recently, I started working on some Raspberry Pi projects, but the most frustrating part of that experience was to access the raspberry pi during development.

I had the following options:

• Use the Television at my place as a monitor over HDMI (not great pixel quality) and use wired keyboard and mouse to control. This was troublesome since I could only develop when I’m at my place and the Television is free.
• Be on the same network and ssh into the PI. This worked for a while since I could also access the ports of RPi, so I could host my applications on a certain port and access them over the RPi’s IP address.

Problem Statement

The second option is obviously the way to go, but this needs some refining.

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yszRr43eVgmkeqxBTvYewWfsotJ7q4U7QLaa04jGa90/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000]

Since the time I started using Linux, I have faced many problems for the configuration of the system for various programs and applications. Mostly these configuration problems arise from the fact that my college (and campus hostel) allows me to connect to the internet only through an NTLM authenticated proxy. Most applications in windows don’t even support an authenticated proxy. To resolve this, I have been using cntlm which allows me to authenticate and decrypt outgoing and incoming requests on the go as long as I use it’s HTTP proxy. Problem still remains that whatever application you are using, should support a proxy setting.

If you are reading this article, I presume that you have been through the painful moment when you realize that you have to complete a project by tomorrow and you just don’t feel like it. For some of us the project is a website. For others it might be an application. And the most dreaded part of any such project is the implementation of design.

Many a times I have found myself frustrated on a simple layout just thinking what went wrong and why doesn’t the layout look like I want it to. There are some times that I realize that a layout just cannot be accomplished in the time I allotted to it and I then have to take a complete U turn ultimately leading to a template.

Next week, I will be presenting in the

Dehradun city-wide Maker Party of the Firefox Club in UPES.

The topic of my Presentation is POLYMER which is a tool I discovered and learned to work with last summer.

Here’s the Prezi Presentation I created today.

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This was also a great opportunity to tinker with Prezi, an online presentation tool which provides a radical way of creating presentations instead of the classic page wise navigation in classic presentations.