Raspberry Pi at the University of Manchester
This academic year (starting September 2013), the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester (where I obtained my BSc and MPhil degrees) gave a Raspberry Pi to each new undergraduate…
Valgrind warning: client switching stacks
Recently I was writing code in Python and C to find prime numbers using a simple implementation of the Sieve of Eratosthemes (implementation details will follow in a later post).…
Shallow cloning with Git
Sometimes when you clone a Git repository, you just want a snapshot of the code without all the history associated with it. This is known as a shallow clone and…
Akismet 2.6.0
A new version of Akismet, the WordPress plugin which protects your site from spam comments, has been released. This is a relatively mature plugin so the fixes are minor, but…
Configuration file options
For quackjson (a Python implementation of a BBS client) I needed to create a configuration file which allows the user to specify their login credentials and how they want the client…
The BSD family
If you're a regular reader of this blog, chances are that you have at least heard of Linux, even if you don't use it directly on a daily basis. However,…
Writing schedule
One of my goals for this year is to create and stick to a writing schedule for all of my non-personal blogs - currently PHP Developer, Politics Geek and Insurance…
Introduction to nginx
By far and away the most popular web server is the Apache HTTP Server (usually just 'Apache') - the A in LAMP. However, Apache is by no means the only web server available,…
Raspberry Pi essential components
I purchased my first Raspberry Pi six months ago, primarily so that I could play around with it in preparation for a job interview at the University of Manchester, where…
How to respond to patches
A couple of weeks ago I made a pull request to the documentation of the Symfony framework entitled: Remove reference to copying parameters.yml from Git cookbook (does pretty much what it…