development sass Continuing my delve into React, webpack and so on and after adding a bunch of css files, I decided it was time to join the 21st century and switch to one of the
development Webpack Dev Server After using webpack for a few days, the attraction of changing to using the dev server are obvious. The webpack-dev-server is a little node.js Express server, which uses the webpack-dev-middleware to serve
development React Mixins Having written a simple test app I’m continuing to use it to try and develop my React knowledge 🙂 One aspect that I did find a little annoying was the amount of code
development React Lessons Learned I’ve been playing with React for a few days now and, as always, have run across a few things that made me scratch my head and seek help from various places. In
development More Webpack Following on from yesterdays experiments with webpack and react, I’ve changed things round a little today in an effort to make things even simpler. webpack.ProvidePlugin One of the annoying aspects of
development Starting with React & Webpack In recent days I’ve been working on a small single page JS app using React and bootstrap. After getting over my initial issues yesterday saw a lot of progress and I’m
development Building postgrest I’ve long thought that a simple REST layer sitting on top of a database, with some suitable access controls would be an ideal solution for many of the small projects I find
development afpfs-ng At home we use atalk for the shares on the Home Media Server. It makes things simpler as there are Apple computers around. The client I use for Ubuntu is afpfs-ng by Simon
development Broccoli It’s fair to say that when it comes to the modern world of javascript, I’m something of a luddite. It’s not a world I’ve spent a lot of time
The A9 The A9 is an unusual road – it has it’s own website! OK, to be fair, the website is actually for the A9 Road Safety Group (RSG) but their sole focus is on
Roadtrip Arizona Road Trip, Day 2 The Plan From Phoenix, AZ we planned to head to the Petrified Forest National Park before continuing to Chinle, AZ. The Route Our route was to take the AZ-101 Loop East from north
Detective Story A little while ago, someone who knows we are both interested in photography gave us a camera that had been in a lost property box for a while and asked if we could
Roadtrip Arizona Roadtrip Following a summer that consisted of periods of high stress, extreme distractions and less time spent together than usual, the prospect of a holiday was very appealling. The dates were set before any
Roundcube Users We’ve been using Roundcube for webmail for a while now without too many problems. It’s easy to install and simple enough to configure and our users seem to find it easy
mobile Goodbye Zite Of all the apps I have installed on my phone, the one I most frequently use is Zite. Following todays news that will be changing and the app will soon be uninstalled. It’
Self Disservice This morning I had a request for a few purchases. As WHSmith had everything I wanted I popped in and started gathering the items. The store was organised in some random manner meaning
Where's the mouse??? Another update window popped up in Ubuntu 13.10 a couple of days ago. Lots of packages to be updated (281 if memory serves) so as I wasn’t doing anything that required
Outlook Woes Last month we decided to move from our older server to a newer, more powerful box. Moving the majority of services didn’t worry me, but knowing how fragile and potentially awkward the
QuadCopter Quadcopter #2 is Alive Following the arrival of the longer screws, all 4 motors were quickly attached and their directions checked. Only one was incorrect and needed the wires swapping. Despite the colours of the arms clearly
development Shapefiles I recently had a request for a shapefile containing geographic informaton for some of the stations listed on Variable Pitch. I’d been meaning to create a simple export facility for a while,
development QGIS on Ubuntu 13.10 I’ve been asked about producing shapefiles from the geo data on Variable Pitch. This seems like a good idea, but having no experience with such files I thought maybe I should have
QuadCopter Quadcopter #2 Seemingly hitting the ground on a regular basis with legs that rotate leads to them not staying vertical – who knew? 🙂 After spending a lot of time adjusting the rotors on my Talon 2.
desktop Keyboard Layouts on Ubuntu 13.10 After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10 I found that often my keyboard layout, which is selected as English(UK) as it had been since starting to use this laptop, would change to English
QuadCopter Firmware Updated I’ve been waiting to update the firmware on my KK2.0 board for a while as I needed a USBasp. The one I ordered turned out to have a 10 pin connector,
Renewables Consistency? Ofgem produce a lot of reports. They store a lot of data but when reviewing it I’m constantly astonished at how poor the consistency of that data is. Today I have been
