I ran into a problem when putting together a Dakboard powered by a Raspberry Pi 4. When I changed the display orientation to portrait only half of the screen was being used. My Raspberry Pi is running Raspbian Release 10 Codename Buster. The problem was visible on two different monitors so I knew the problem […]
This post demonstrates how to add an autocomplete enabled input field to the live departure board to make it easy to find train departure information for any station in the UK. The completed version can be accessed here and the project can be found on GitHub. The project has been refactored since the publication of […]
The problem I needed to produce a monthly sales report from a number of csv files. In effect merging 30 files into one file which then could be opened in Excel. The existing method of opening each csv file, selecting all, copying and pasting into a new document was labour intensive, error prone and boring. […]
This article provides a tutorial on how to build a train station departure board which displays real time information using Angular and Huxley. Prerequisites To build the departure board I used: Angular 7.2.15 VS Code Access token (see below) Huxley and a cloud provider to host it (see below) The need for Huxley The departure […]
I noticed that that the status bar at the bottom of VS Code would “sometimes” be purple and at other times it would be blue. The reason for the difference is VS Code will display a blue status bar when you open a folder. At all other times it will display a purple status bar. […]
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