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BeagleBone – Web Serving Pt3.

Hi everyone, I’ve been doing some support via the comments section of the last Beaglebone Webserving guide (Pt 2). Apparently I had left a hole in the guide when it comes to python and cgi scripting. Python is very popular

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BeagleBone: Perl alternatives to Bonescript

So in a previous post I stated that I’m starting to lean towards the use of perl rather than bonescript for the development platform on the beaglebone. Don’t get me wrong bonescript is still a good thing – that I’m

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Beaglebone: Setting a static IP address.

[updated 2-8-2012]   In this guide I’m going to show a really simple way of setting a static IP address for the eth0 interface. I’ll be using the default Connman daemon that comes standard on the BeagleBone as well as

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Beaglebone: Install perl

Perl if a very solid programming language that’s been around for a long time. Highly flexible, very easy to find documentation and examples and it’s free! Beaglebone ships with a version that just doesn’t quite cut it out of the

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Beagle Bone: Bonescript Vs Perl Vs Python.

In a previous post I claimed that perl was much faster than python and bonescript at the classic led hello world blink test. I made this claim based on how fast the LED looked like it was blinking, but I

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Guide: Shift register hacks.

Just found this guide to using shift registers with reduced pin overheads, I recommend it highly. http://www.openmusiclabs.com/learning/digital/input-matrix-scanning/hacks/

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Beagle Bone – Perl GPIO!

Hey Everyone. I’ve been working on using Perl to blink some LED’s. Ive seen alot on python scripting, bonescript, etc. but not alot of perl. So why perl? Well basically i’ve found that perl has less time lag, especially when

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BeagleBone Update and Save!

Once again I’ve been shown empirically why its always a good idea to backup all of your work. So here is a very recommended, short guide to updating your Ångström dist. This time round we’re going to use opkg to update package sources,

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BeagleBone – Web Serving Pt2.

Welcome to Part 2 of getting Lighttpd, PHP and MySQL up and running. If you missed part 1 check it out here Ok, So assuming you’ve got MySQL running lets jump straight in and install php and Lighttpd from packages: The

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BeagleBone – Web Serving Pt1.

Before anything else this guide was written and tested on a BeagleBone with Angstrom image 2012.01.27, MySQL version 5.0. If you haven’t updated your Angstrom Image – do so here, update software and backup your SD card as seen here

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