Need an easy way to allow external network users to access services or websites on your local machine? ngrok allows you to easily create a secure tunnel from ngroks servers to your machine. For a web developer, this is a dream come true, this is a great way to demo a development whilst in the
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ESP8266 is a tiny extremity cheap MCU with third-party library making it Arduino compatible. Features all the normal connections you would expect such as GPIO, SPI, I2C, I2C and UART to name a few, the biggest selling point is its size and build in WiFi support with full stack TCP / IP communications. Great for
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Got a spare raspberry pi and like music? Turn it into an easy to use music player with access to Spotify, YouTube, internet radio and much more. Pi MusicBox runs headless allows you to simply plug in speakers and control it via a fancy web interface. http://www.pimusicbox.com/
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Laravel defaults to storing all dates in UTC format, this is highly recommended as UTC time never changes unlike other time zones which have daylight savings. It is best practice to store and read dates in UTC, and then convert UTC to your required time zone for the user interface. Great article below of a
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Damaged or crashed MySQL tables due to an unsafe server shut downs, disk space limits or general MySQL failures? Do a find and find and repair on your damaged MySQL tables.
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All app’s and websites these days need to work for several devices including desktop, tablets and mobiles. It’s not always simple detecting the type of device being used and it can sometimes be tedious adding support to your app for something which seems very simple. Does your chosen platform not have a pre-defined way of
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Want to Speed up your website images and improve user experience? Make sure you use progressive JPEGs (or interlaced JPEGs), it could help make your website load faster and retain visitors for a longer duration. Take a look at the example below showing a normal baselayer JPEG and a progressive JPEG LOADING side by side.
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Yes, I know it’s almost end of March, but I finally got around the finish editing the various clips together from the Xmas crawl at Bracken Rocks (2015). If you’re not aware Bracken Rocks is where the RRCI Scale Nationals (now known as RCCarZone Scale Nationals) is hosted, and the first G6 competition is to
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With work and other commitments, the D90 crawler project has come to a standstill, a lot of work has happened but we are still quite far from the finish line. Thought I would upload a number of images I have taken.
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Today I was asked by a client how they open a .Pages files using a windows. Their computer didn’t recognise the file. What is a .PAGES file? A .PAGES file is an archive technology created by Apple for use on its Mac OS, it is very similar to .zip files. They are normally created when
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