Category Archives: Coding and Programming

Contributing to Open Source Projects on GitHub

If it has crossed your mind to contribute to an Open Source project, but GitHub just seems too daunting, then I’d suggest reading this tutorial. The bit that got me was how to actually contribute and this section explains it … Continue reading

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Else is never necessary – Really?

I had an interesting experience with Codacy today.  I got this error. When doing my IT Degree (many moons ago) I was taught 2 things (amongst others you understand): An If statement always has an else. You should always handle … Continue reading

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Displaying buttons on the TFT

Having successfully hooked my small TFT up to the Raspberry Pi, I now wanted to use it! As it was a touch screen version what I wanted was buttons. This is the end result; The code is to be found … Continue reading

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Node-RED and XML to JSON

I’m trying to catch up with a whole load of stuff I did before I started this blog; as much as anything, so I can remember what I did for when I need to do it again! Following on from … Continue reading

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