Roy van Kaathoven
Full Stack Developer

Remap the Bixby Home button on the Samsung S8

This week i got my hands on a Samsung S8+ and been configuring Tasker to automate my Phone.

The S8 now includes the Bixby which is more-or-less the same as the Google Assistant. Since i preferred the Google Assistant instead of Bixby i now have a button that i don't use.

After searching around i only found that Samsung doesn't allow the Bixby to be remapped using standard functionality. Luckily it can be done with Tasker

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Opening gates with Slack and Twilio

At one of my clients there is a automated barrier blocking the private parking space. The barrier is controlled by calling a phone number which triggers the barrier.

I thought it would be interesting to figure out how to open it with Slack.

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Isolating memory leaks in a concurrent system

While working on Advanced-Forms i have to deal with various memory issues which arise when running the server application.

The server component of Advanced-Forms is a continuously running background service which can run many different components in parallel at any given moment. Some of these components are third party maintained by other companies or open sources projects like FTP, Mail, Data Conversions, etc..

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Implementing GCM server with Scala and Akka

I started working on an Android app for the Roboflow project. I have a LG Watch R and i thought it would be handy to be able to send notifications from a flow within Roboflow. So users can easily configure notifications for themselves for the things that matter.

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Solving Paper Mazes with Python

Every year just after Christmas there is a quiz game called "De Rooise Kwis" in which a lot of people in Sint Oedenrode participate. This year there were 151 teams.

The quiz consists of questions in a wide range of categories, which can be found here

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Translating urls in Zend Framework 2

Recently i needed to build a multi language website using Zend Framework 2. The framework has a lot options to translate the website, but one thing that was lacking in the documentation was a method to translate URL's.

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Akka Event Bus

I've been working on a new project for a while which is based on [Scala][Scala], [Play Framework][Play Framework] and [Akka][Akka]. The goal of the project is to create a library which can communicate with the Steam Servers, and using the library write multiple bots which perform various actions, like starting trades with other Steam users and exchange items.

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