RaspberryPi & Lego ‘super-computing’ cluster!
Fantastic! The University of Southampton have created a ‘supercomputer’ cluster from a load of RaspberrryPis and some Lego, The Register writes about it here: I think it’s the Lego that makes it!
Author Archive for: kgodden
Entries by Kevin Godden
HTML / Javascript – Setting hash without browser scrolling.
Q: I set a document’s hash using: document.location.hash = ‘#my-hash’; But this always causes the browser to automatically scroll to the top of the region identified by the hash. How can I set the url’s hash without the page scrolling? A: On newer browsers you can use the new HTML5 History API […]
Enterprise Architect – Show parameter names in class diagram
I don’t know what it is about UML editors but it always seem you have to spend more time fighting with them than actually successfully doing and UML modelling for the software that you’re supposed to be developing.. Anyway I was trying to figure out how to get Enterprise Architect to display operation parameter […]
#Drupal 7 on #RaspberryPi
Class, just found this post that makes mention of Drupal 7 successfully hosted on a Raspberry PI! http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5199 Brilliant, it’s like chocolate and mint, my two favourite things brought together, I have have just found myself a new hobby!
Drupal 6 – strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings
Recently we came across this red/pink error message on an old(ish) Drupal 6 site that is running on shared hosting: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() … blah blah blah … It seems that this PHP warning […]
.NET, converting a string to an enum
Here is a handy article that I found which explains how to convert a string into an enum value, it uses the Enum.Parse() function: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2004/04/02/106310.aspx
#Python – Splitting a List into Sub Lists
I found this handy post which shows how to neatly split a list in python into a list of sub-lists: http://www.garyrobinson.net/2008/04/splitting-a-pyt.html Cheers Gary!
VBA CreateObject() Can’t create ActiveX component on 64Bit Windows
If you are running on a 64bit windows 7 system and have a VBA script that creates a COM/ActiveX/OLE component which fails with an error message like: ‘ActiveX component can’t create object’ Even though you know the component is registered and that you are using the correct progId etc, then it may be […]
Class not Registered #64bit Active#Perl win32::OLE
If you are getting an error message along the lines of ‘Class Not Registered’ when using Win32::OLE to create a COM object when using 64Bit ActiveState Perl and you are sure that the class is registered then it may be because the COM dll is 32bit and the 64bit perl process can’t load it…. […]
Menagerie of #Bash One-liners
A colleague pointed me in the direction of this class site that lists some mind-bending but (possibly) useful bash one liners: http://www.bashoneliners.com/