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Continue reading →: Running Processes In Background – Terminal / BASH (Mac OS X / Raspberry Pi)In the past I have launched multiple Terminal / BASH sessions when I have wanted to run multiple commands, however it transpires that there is an easier method. Using the background / foreground options in Terminal / BASH allows one session to run multiple processes at the same time. Throughout…
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Continue reading →: Think Like a Programmer (Python)I am currently working (reading) through the excellent “Think Like a Programmer” (V. Anton Spraul) from No Starch Press. The book is written with C++ in mind, but I will instead be trying to solve the puzzles using Python. The book contains C++ solutions, but I want to a) figure…
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Continue reading →: HTML Tag Reference Sheet (Code Club)
To assist with the pupils attending Code Club I’ve knocked up a quick HTML tag reference sheet for the basic tags used in the first few projects. HTML Tags HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. All the tags have and opening tag <> and a closing tag…
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Continue reading →: Reporting On Folder Permissions (PowerShell)Over the weekend I was thinking about ways to check which users could access a folder, which lead me into wondering if a report could be run to show multiple folders and save the results. After a little bit of thinking and I had knocked up some PowerShell: The PowerShell…
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Continue reading →: You and AI (Artificial Intelligence)
This evening (Sunday 28th October 2018) I have the pleasure of getting to see “You and AI” as part of the Manchester Science Festival 2018. From the website: ” You can call me AI. Join the Royal Society as they put Artificial Intelligence under the microscope. Physicist, author and broadcaster Jim…
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Continue reading →: Citrix Receiver Becomes Citrix Workspace app (October 2018)In the past I have wrote articles on installing Citrix Receiver on Mac OS and on the Raspberry Pi , however anyone looking for Citrix Receiver may now be a little confused as Citrix Receiver has now become Citrix Workspace app. The transition took place over Summer 2018 and according to…
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Continue reading →: Variables (JavaScript)
Over its lifetime JavaScript has increased the ways that variables can be declared. I am going to take a brief look at the various methods I have come across so far that can be used. var test The var keyword declares a variable (in this case called test) which can…
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Continue reading →: Installing Node.js (Raspberry Pi / JavaScript)During winter 2017 I went through the process of using a Raspberry Pi, as a web server / looking at LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). With my recent interest in JavaScript I have decided to look at installing Node.js on my Raspberry Pi. Node.js is a free open source environment…
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Continue reading →: Updating Web Text Content (JavaScript)My original Countdown blog post mentioned that the JavaScript could be used to update content on a webpage (e.g. the countdown could countdown in real time and update on a page as it does so). I touched upon a method to do this, however I will expand a little bit…
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Continue reading →: Functions (JavaScript)I am revisiting my JavaScript Countdown to turn elements of it into JavaScript functions. A function allows for parts of code to be reused easily without having to recreate the segment of code every time it is needed. For example, below I have created a basic function that prints “Hello…
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