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• The Flight Over

  Well this is my first entry and I must say it was an eventful trip just to get here. When I went to the Charlotte airport in the morning the first problem that I had was that the team paid for my tickets in Euros, which messed up the woman at the counter. After 20 minutes of her trying to get that straight the computer would not accept my seat #...it turned out she was entering invalid codes into the computer and she had to call a superior to tell her what she needed to do. After she got that fixed it was time to weigh in my bags. Being that I had to pack for 3 months my luggage was 5 lbs over weight in one suitcase. She said pay 80 dollars or redistribute the weight. So you can see Pat and I unpacking all my stuff and trying to cram it into the other luggage in front of everyone. It was great to have to do this and have everyone thinking we were idiots. This whole process took about 40 minutes.   ...

• 2022 Halloween IOT Props & Recap

  

  This year I made 2 different Halloween IOT props. I used the same or similar techniques from the previous years... Actobotics for building out the structures and support, Particle.io for the IOT controller and software side, and pneumatic powered "mechs" from FrightProps.com for the movement. The new addition this year was adding in a FrightProps "Picoboo" controller to the setup, which brought on great possibilities. Adding this allowed me to add in audio and instantly cut power on and off to multiple outlets. So I turned lights on and off, fans on and off and strobed some strobe lights.  If you're interested in previous years implementations check them out below: 2021 - Halloween Fun House 2020 - IOT Coffin 2019 - IOT Clown + Slimer 2018 - IOT Clown 2017 - Airghost 2016 - Flame Throwing Pumpkin As I bult the devices I posted some behind the scenes FB posts and a tweet.. Some #Halloween #IOT goodness using components from @FrightProps @particle @ServoCity coupled with #DNNCMS and some ghetto code I wrote 🤡 pic.twitter.com/sxdQgZ99NE — Clint Patterson (@CBPSC) September 27, 2022 Then when Halloween came we were fortunate to have the rain ...

• Weel 15 - Paul Tucker's Wedding

  This week was pretty much made up of Mario and I trying to visit and see as many people as we could before we left. This week also featured the wedding services for Mr. Paul Tucker and Miss Kristina Engelstrom. There were around 20 people from the US in attendance at Paul's wedding in a very old and pretty Church in Djuresholm Sweden. The mixed Swedish/American wedding was pretty neat, specially the reception. The reception had an MC if you will and he was called the ToastMaster. Paul's wife, Christina's brother was the toast master. He pretty much ran the whole reception and would ring a bell when it was time for someone else to make a toast. The food was good and everything was nice, as the reception was held at the Djureseholm castle. One highlight of the wedding was the band that played in rotations at the reception. They were called " The All Time Players " and they were all definitely players and all wore top hats and the average age had to be somewhere around ...

• Back Again!

  Well as some of you may or may not know, on the comeback tour to Sweden Mario Donato accompanied me to vacation and to share his O-line knowledge with some of our guys on the team.  We scheduled our flights to leave on the same day, but weren't able to fly on the same planes.  So Mario flew out earlier than I did and went through Newark and I flew out 7 hours later and went through Memphis.  We both went through Amsterdam and Mario got to Sweden 3 hours before I did because he had a long layover and I didn't.  Mario met Conny, the team man manager, and they got some lunch and waited on me to land.  While in Amsterdam I saw a serious Euromullet and I mean serious.  On the flight from Amsterdam to Stockholm some girl was getting sick towards the end of the flight so that was nice, but all in all I made it and all of my luggage made it too so that was a relief.  Upon entering Stockholm they didn't ...

• Splunk’ing Around With DNN

  

  I’ve recently been researching Splunk and have been impressed with its power, flexibility, and ease of use. This blog is not intended to be a step-by-step tutorial, but rather is aimed to show some initial findings, overview one way to integrate Splunk with DNN, and paint the picture of some potential use cases. So What is Splunk? If you don’t already know what Splunk is, Splunk is a software company based in San Francisco that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine generated big data via a web style interface. Splunk’s software helps organizations with operational intelligence, log management, application management, enterprise security and compliance. Installing Splunk was simple and after clicking around a little while it was evident that Splunk is an intuitive software. From a UI standpoint, it makes logical sense and the flow is easy to understand. And it didn’t take long to see and understand how powerful it is. As you may imagine, I began to wonder if and how I could integrate Splunk with DNN. DNN + Splunk: One Way to Connect the Two One of Splunk’s powerful features ...

• Recent Reads Review: 3 Leadership Books

  

  I’ve recently read 3 new books on leadership. One of these books was given to me as part of leadership training at work and the other two I ordered. I wish I could read more and am going to try to make an effort to read more frequently.  Anyways it was good to read these books because they confirmed some concepts I believe in and naturally try to exercise, they shed light on new leadership traits I should probably try to implement, and best of all they made me think. So what am I talking about here… let’s look into it. The books I read: Training Camp: What the Best do Better than the Rest 360 Degree Leader The Energy Bus Training Camp: What the Best Do Better Than Everyone Else I saw someone retweet a tweet by a guy named Jon Gordon @JonGordon11. I liked the tweet and looked at his website and shortly thereafter I ordered this book “Training Camp” of his on Amazon.When I received the book I started reading it ...