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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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Continue reading →: Powershell to Output Recent Issues
Whilst working on my chat bot I got to thinking about how it would be great if an end user could run a simple script to gather basic information about their computer and came up with the below. It’s a script that captures the computers name, model, serial number,…
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Continue reading →: Building A Chat Bot (Version 1)
I spent a large portion of my IT career working as a 1st line support technician. With my growth in coding skills and with technology expanding I’ve begun to ponder if some of the role of a 1st line technician can be automated via a bot. So….here I go! First…
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Continue reading →: Downloading Web Files Without A Browser
This evening I’m relaxing and having a play with downloading web files without the need for a web browser, writing my notes as I go. POWERSHELL Powershell allows for an webrequest to save (or outfile) the requested file to a local location. My early attempt at a PowerShell script to…
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Continue reading →: Astro Pi @ Salford and Manchester Weekend Code Club
Sunday 8th October 2017 will see Salford and Manchester Weekend Code Club tackle Astro Pi: Mission Zero. The club will give attendees the opportunity to write a program in Python that will display a message and take the temperature, and potentially even have their code sent to the International Space…
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