Computer building – teaching
Our children’s school (a Waldorf/Steiner school) believes that ideally children should build a computer before they use one. So I offered to work with the 15-16 year old pupils on this. My first computer...
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Administrate Project – Technical Project Manager
The client, a highly respected training company, was using an in-house developed system to manage the courses, bookings, delegates, and sales and marketing processes. When the business outgrew the system they asked me to...
More resources for learning French
Coffee Break French For the last three or more years I’ve been listening to the free French podcast by Coffee Break French. They are by far the best French podcast lessons that I have...
Learn French with Frantastique
Whilst learning French I tried out Frantastique The company behind it I first came across Frantastique when they posted a Paris-based Python job. Unfortunately this particularly job was not suitable for remote working, so I...
Managing the repositories in Linux
Much of Linux’s software is stored in repositories. Your Linux installation has a list of repositories, with the most stable recent packages for your distro and possibly some others. To view, add or delete...
Linux package management – some common operations
For my own benefit (and maybe others), here are some of the common package management operations and how to do it (in Linux Mint and other Linux distros) Update all install software: apt-get update #...
Linux package management: apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, wajig
When you set up your Linux system, you typically grab an image, burn it to DVD, boot the machine off the DVD and follow the instructions. The image will contain the most recent (stable)...
Anki – Open Source Flashcards
What is Anki? Anki is an open source application which lets you create and view flash cards. Unlike some of the other online education sites it does one thing, and it does it well....
Django Migrations
Django has a great system for maintaining your database structure, for keeping your RDMS (typically MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite) in line with your Django-defined Models, and within your version control system. I recently hit...
Linux Mint – family tree
Having used Fedora, CentOS and Debian (and a little of Raspbian and Unix) a couple of years ago I swapped over to Linux Mint. Since it is based on the popular Debian and Ubuntu...
