The next 10,000 hours

I’ve been fiddling with Coffeescript, a nifty language for writing Javascript – well, really it’s more like a pre-compiler than a language; it compiles directly to readable javascript (including comments!) and generally one Coffeescript statement produces one javascript statement.
So why would you use it? Because it bypasses some of the horribleness of Javascript syntax, [...]

This isn’t particularly new – I wrote this code a while ago, but it never got “finished” so I never wrote it up…
Many agile dev teams use Delcom USB build lights:
http://delcomproducts.com/productdetails.asp?productnum=804005
Coding for these is apparently quite complex… unless you are on a recent-ish Linux machine, in which case it’s amazingly trivial.