How Operating Systems are like Knights If found this here years ago when I first got the internet back in ’98, and I remember my friend Gavin writing some extra bits for our own geeky exploits. I couldn’t find what… Continue Reading →
A few months ago I blogged about how I coded WordPress plugin, basically it’s a dashboard widget which users can send an email directly from. The idea is that AndyPi blog customers can ask for support directly from within WordPress,… Continue Reading →
WordPress is a great system because it is extendible by using plugins. However, the search function within WordPress and their website is very annoying, since you can’t order your search results by plugin rating or most installed, so even if… Continue Reading →
Dataplicity.com and Resin.io are both fairly new services which help you to remotely connect to your Raspberry Pi over the internet. You might be used to connecting to your pi via SSH on your home network, but what if you… Continue Reading →
Before getting into programming, I worked as a Mechanical Engineer in the steel and rail industry. Whilst a lot of engineering inevitably involves boring bits like finance and project management, we do spend a fair amount of time doing mathematical… Continue Reading →
A friend of mine (another Andy!) started playing with Raspberry Pis about a year or so ago, and has set up his own code club to teach local kids. I’ve seen his videos of programmable robotic arms which looked very… Continue Reading →
It’s cool to be able to interact with publicly available API’s so you can grab weather reports, live travel updates or access your twitter feed. But even better, it’s actually pretty straightforward to create your own API using python and… Continue Reading →
Well it’s Christmas Eve, and I had some free time so I wanted to try out a mini programming project that would be useful. It’s been annoying me (very OCD…) for ages that my MagPi (Raspberry Pi magazine) downloads are… Continue Reading →
I was recently asked by a client to port a simple web-based javascript program to an iOS app. I was pretty keen to try my hand at something new, however I’ve got a big idealogical problem with Apple – mostly… Continue Reading →
AndyPi hosts websites for a few clients, mostly using WordPress, since it is easy to set up for us and easy to operate for the end user. All of the functionality is provided by additional plugins, but we wanted to… Continue Reading →
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