One thing the Android world is not short of is binary calculators but I required one with very specific functionality and behaviour. Hence ByteSplorer, available from Google Play or a direct download here. ByteSplorer shows how the byte may be … Continue reading
A reminder to me of how to use custom components in a wxGlade Project. I had a Panel which contained controls for a Matplotlib Project. The panel contained the plotting surface and some combo boxes to set parameters. I wanted … Continue reading
Having big problems persuading a python,matplotlib and Basemap project to freeze using Pyinstaller. On doze and Linux, Basemap kept looking in the site distribution for the data files. Workround I found was the addition of this environment variable PROJ_DIR via a tweak to proj.py as … Continue reading
Eclipse Tweaks here Emulator Speed up tips here (additional emulator startup parameters -qemu -m 512 -enable-kvm (in the launch parameters dialog RunConfig->appname->Target Tab->emulator launch params (scroll into view!)) add the GPU emulator paramter and switch it on
To assist some students in their understanding of simple microprocessors, programming and binary I put this simulator together. If you think it would be useful for your demonstrations or teaching drop me an email. (theres a short video here )
Recently I have been using an mbed micro-controllers. These are a great way to rapidly prototype micro-controller projects. One of the great features of the boards is that they provide a serial-over-usb port that can be used to communicate with the … Continue reading
[a quick reminder dont expect all the detail here…just clues] How to make your JAVA application work behind a proxy. This assume proxy is called webcache.ninelocks.com and is on port 8080 and the jar file we want to run is … Continue reading
When using my favourite(lol) language I forget the fixes for dealing with multiple versions sudo update-alternatives –config java sudo update-alternatives –config javac sudo update-alternatives Why you may need these is illustrated here