I spent about 2 days on a bug recently. The bug was a result of a major architectural change I had to make to an application as a result of a requirements bug in an implementation of a feature by a previous developer. Read on to find out an interesting feature (ahem, attribute) of assemblies.
RS-232 and other simple serial protocols have in the past been the backbone of instrument-controller communications. Until a few years ago if you wanted to talk to an instrument or device, you were either using GPIB or serial. Click below to read why serial has proved to be a headache for so many people for so long.
Click below to see a brief overview of my experience getting the Geeklog weblog hosting software up and running on my Godaddy PHP and MySQL-enabled account.