Introduction In addition to the traditional educational experience students at Brigham Young University receive, we want them to acquire skills, techniques, and tools that facilitate their current and future learning. We believe students should learn…
At Brigham Young University (BYU) we have been developing a University API to expose the functionality of a reasonably generic educational institution, while consuming a very specific set of underlying technologies. Our generic institution has…
Over the past several years I have been a member of several executive leadership teams. While in these environments I have witnessed leaders using several interesting techniques to teach others. I share two of these…
Introduction I have been waiting for the right technology to enable me to rid myself of my traditional door locks. While I’m not completely satisfied with my current selection, I found two I was willing…
At Brigham Young University, we are experimenting with and piloting a Domain of One’s Own experience for students, faculty, staff, and courses, as well as exploring other potential uses. To experience this environment, I have…
Given my interests in enterprise computing and embedded systems, I decided to combine these two disciplines by using Docker to create a C development environment that generates an ARM executable from my OS X-based Mac.…
My connected devices were initially secured using a hash-based message authentication code (HMAC). An HMAC is constructed for each HTTP request directed at a device. The HMAC is created by combining certain HTTP header elements,…
When you leave the safety of the Arduino development environment and move to development with Atmel AVR processors, without an IDE, you lose some debugging / printing capabilities. However, there is a simple technique to…
At Brigham Young University we’ve noticed the work at Mary Washington University on the Domain of One’s Own. I’ve been thinking for some time about providing each of our potential, matriculated and former students with…