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Continue reading →: Amazon.co.uk Price Checker (Part 2)Building on my price checker (see part 1) I’ve now added in an option asking how much spends (a.k.a pocket money) is available and allowing for the end user to enter multiple ASINs before the program checks the prices. Next step; storing the ASINs in/reading the ASINs from a file…
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Continue reading →: Amazon.co.uk Price Checker (Part 1)One of my daily non-work related tasks is checking the prices of products from Amazon.co.uk that family members of myself are after at a cheap price. This is generally accomplished by either loading up the Amazon.co.uk individual product pages or adding all the items to an Amazon wishlist and loading…
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Continue reading →: Python 3 – Merge Multiple PDFs Into One PDF
One of the issues I’ve seen in the real world is end users having multiple PDFs and wanting to merge them into one PDF without paying for expensive PDF software or using freeware from unknown sources. The below is a Python script to try and resolve that issue (Python 3,…
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Continue reading →: Python 3 – Importing Modules (Mac OSX)
I’m currently playing around with Python 3 on Mac OSX. One of the first issues I’ve hit is importing modules. During a Python script the import command is used to call on other modules so that their functionality can be used in the script. However before Python can import a…
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Continue reading →: HTML / CSS Code Club Module 1
From the beginning of 2018 the Code Club I run has been going through the Web-Dev projects of Code Club projects with the attendees learning about HTML and CSS. Today they completed Module 1 and I’m proud of them. When I first did any web development it was at GCSE…
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Continue reading →: Astro Pi Mission Zero Day 2018
Did anyone else want to be an astronaut growing up? I think it is one of the dreams all kids have and one that got me into astronomy for quite some time. Back in October 2017 the Code Club I run entered a fantastic event called “Mission Zero” as part…
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Continue reading →: Testing Network Connectivity via PowerShell (Part 2)
Continuing on with my exploring of testing connectivity I ran into a practical reason today for using Powershell. A computer on my employers network apparently loses network connectivity (according to the end user) during a 2 hour window in the evening. The event logs on the PC don’t indicate any…
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Continue reading →: Testing Network Connectivity via PowerShell (Part 1)
Ask any IT user how they test basic network connectivity and the majority of answers will probably mention ping. Ping sends a ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) packet to a target and then waits for a reply. If ping shows a reply then there is basic network connectivity, if it…
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Continue reading →: Don’t just consume, produce!
During my youth I was a tech consumer rather than tech producer spending days playing on Sega and Nintendo consoles rather than designing/coding games; later surfing the web rather than designing/coding sites and using computer programs rather than making them. In my opinion I was not the only one of…
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Continue reading →: Where I Set Up LAMP on a Pi…
Way back when (between the mid ‘90s to mid 00’s) I was an Apple Mac user. I got to experience Mac OS 7 through to the early versions of Mac OS X, and I enjoyed the transition to OS X thanks to the Unix undercover and terminal fun that could…
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