Some changes at my work are driving me to renew and gain new CompTIA certificates. What is a bit odd about the system, however, is the "stack-able" feature. Now you can not only get certificates for completing various exams, you can now "stack" some of the certificates to get special …

According to the Guinness World Records, the biggest playable chess set was made in Canada in 2009, with a king that was about 4 feet tall! Try moving that chunk of wood! Fortunately for me, moving these "wooden" chess pieces doesn't require much by way of heavy lifting!

It isn't …

Now that Oreo is out, I needed to go through my apps and make adjustments and updates for the new platform. One of the biggest problems I found was that of the KPPD Control app.

For some reason, assets in the asset folder are not transferring with the apk. I …

Identification please! Did you know that there have been numerous cases of mistaken identity for the masters of chess in print? There are so many that websites have even devoted entire pages to these mix ups! You can check out some good ones here, where among others, Bernhard Kagan was …

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I'm sure many of you are already using Kessaras' great AOSCP Oreo Rom for the LG G4!

One small current issue is the ril-daemon sometimes needs to be stopped and started to make your sim card and cellular work properly. In the past, you …

As I dive into the realm of making my Just Chess Engine playable, I was taking a look at some of the other chess interfaces out there, to see what kind of features I should implement.

Recently, I decided to test drive Ubuntu Touch on my Oneplus One, and it …

We've already connected to our Bluefruit feather with Bluetooth before, but when I wrote the sketches that I applied to it, it overwrote the code that allows it to turn on the Bluetooth function. So, today my goal was to get the Bluetooth working.

#include \<bluefruit.h>

BLEUart bleuart;

// Function …

Well, I suppose the Bond reference does sound a bit out of place here, but perhaps if we break it down it will not seem to be so.

In the 1963 movie "From Russia With Love" James Bond is facing a fierce and brilliant opponent, Russian agent Kronsteen, who during …

While I continue to prepare for my big project, I still have a few more things to test. Namely, I need to test the digital outputs to make sure that I understand how to use them. So, I wrote this little ditty to get the job done. Note that I …

There are many ancient writings about chess and the various pre-chess games that obviously inspired chess itself. The first recorded European chess writing was a poem called 'Versus de scachis', in 997 AD. According to wikipedia, the first book to be completely about chess is the 'Göttingen manuscript', written in …