Developer Labs

The Raspberry Pi

Posted by on Sep 18, 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last six months or so, you’ll almost certainly have heard of the Raspberry Pi. If...

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Streaming video with VLC

Posted by on Jul 12, 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Occasionally one wants to stream video for various reasons, whether it’s within the institutional network or a live feed from a...

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Archiving Old Dynamic Websites

Posted by on May 29, 2012 in code, featured, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Archiver is a web based application written in Java using the Spring Framework. Its main use is to produce static versions of websites...

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Two cities, two hack days

Posted by on May 23, 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off

During March and May, I attended two very different hack days. The first was part of Bath’s first ever digital festival, aptly...

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Ebook reader basics: file transfer via USB

Posted by on Dec 3, 2011 in ebooks, Project Sunflower, Uncategorized | Comments Off

We covered some of the basics of these devices in an earlier series of posts, but it might be worth taking a few minutes to focus on the...

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AI-Class with tablet devices

Posted by on Nov 12, 2011 in distance learning, international, Uncategorized | Comments Off

You might have seen the intense publicity received by Stanford’s current experiment: Ai-Class, not to mention the sibling efforts...

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