Back in August, just before going on holiday, I received a piece of post which when I first opened it, I first thought was the best prank my sister could possibly play! Then I saw the photo card and realised it was real… I’d just receive my buss pass… Now, …
I’ll post soon about my latest purchase – an Arduino and Wifi Shield. The reason I purchased this little toy was to read the impulses from our meter and upload the results to PVOutput. Yeah, I know… sad or what… but when you’re in software integration, it’s oddly good fun …
Yesterday I lost my faith in BDUK and the entire process for superfast broadband. Hertfordshire published a map of roughly where they would be focusing on upgrading to superfast broadband and despite a demand of over 200 in my little area, they have left us out*. What is interesting is …
Just watched the GTA5 trailer on wired.com. The map looks like you could lose an entire year of your life playing the game. The video does look amazing, but I’m not sure I can break my no computer games rule* :-/ Maybe when I retire (in the year 2055) I’ll …
In the part 2, the basic app and splitting into sub codes had been built. To keep this part short, I’ll just be adding fromAddress filtering. When a price request is received via email, not only does the payload have to be of the correct type and contain a code, …
In part 1 we built the basics of the app – and by basics, it really was basic. In this part, code checking and sub code splitting will be added. To start with we’ll add sub code splitting. This is heavily dependent on the website code and for the website …
This post will walk through a complete project from start to scratch. Previously I’d created a small Selenium price checking test which runs great, but means that my pc has to run the app and no one can use it except me. This new project will build on that but …
After using my own code for over a year to upload CSV results to PVOutput, I wanted a solution that would give me real time stats instead of the previous days output. A bit naively, I thought that it would be as simple as writing a little bit of Java …
How can you get messages out of an embedded ActiveMQ kaha db? Well this question came up this week in conversation at work after my colleagues had spent a fair few hours trying to achieve this goal. I always prefer the simplest option possible and thought, well why not just …
I read a few blogs about technology and new things on the internet and the other day this post (Have guests often – Generate a QR Code with your Wi-Fi details that you can frame on your wall) came up about printing off a QR Code for your guests to …
Ingredients 1 oz (28g) of Butter1 medium onion, peeled and chopped700g of lean lamb cubed50g plain flour1/4 tsp ground ginger1 can of condensed tomato soup1/2 can of water1 tsp worcester sauce1 bayleafPinch of mixed spice2 level tbsp honey4oz (small can) of black currants (drained) Instructions Turn the oven on to …
(Unfortunately this is the second time I’m writing this as I trashed my database to correct an apostrophe problem before thinking about the post I’d just written…) I’ve just switched hosts this week and was updating various settings in my network when I logged into the Kyocera Command Center and …
I’ve just transferred hosts this week and everything had gone reasonably well (except a dns setting on this domain…). That was until about 30 minutes ago when I posted a new article and went and checked the old related articles only to realise that they were corrupted! I frantically went …
If you install a piece of software from a vendor you trust and it offers you a choice of items to install but then ignores that list, surely it’s no better than malware…? I’ve just upgraded to a new version of Zonealarm and had exactly that. I chose the custom …
In this part, I’ve added the ability to print HTML. In order to print HTML, the HTML first needs to be converted so that it can be put into a PDF document and printed just like a PDF. The following class has been extended to handle HTML attachments and print …
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