Programming projects (or extended programming examples)

There is no single path to learning any programming language, Sure there are some basic concepts you need to get out of the way first, but after that you learn the bits that are relevant to the current problem.

SoSLUG's Alan Campion, has done a wonderful job of teaching us all about things we can do using the new HTML5 canvas tag. This is designed as a supplementary article to his efforts, to show some things you can do with the HTML5 canvas tag to save/serialize it's data for use elsewhere.

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I have been working on a series of Raspberry Pi projects, some trivial and some, less so. Recently at the Raspberry Pi non-event, I attempted to remote desktop into my Raspberry Pi, and had some success doing so, but after a request to show of the Pi Store, my little dalliance was over, and I felt like a complete idiot not being able to view the internet from the Pi.

Introduction.

The aim of this small article, is to offer a way of installing Adobe Reader in the 64 bit version of Debian Squeeze. You can justifiably ask, “why would you want to do that?” After all, the native evince works just fine. Well, on this occasion, I downloaded a pdf file from a bank, which has a built in capability to enable a form to be filled in, printed off and sent back. Unfortunately, evince cannot do that, so Adobe Reader was the only game in town.

How to install a Samsung ML-2525W printer on a Debian Squeeze – 64 bit system.

 

There's the good, the bad and the down right ugly!

The ugly!

So we'll start with the ugly and get the rant over with.

Samsung are pleased to embed a Linux system into their printer, but in my view, pay not much more than lip service, to helping Linux users to install the required drivers. More will be revealed.

Sharing a directory with other account users on the same computer using Ubuntu

 

Introduction

This is a short tutorial about sharing a common directory under the Linux Operating System environment between account users on the same computer. It is assumed you have at least one user installed on your system and that also the current user has admin (sudo) account privileges.

Suggestion from Denis Walker

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Databases that might be flat

Here is summary for the proposed session. To dispel any possible illusions, I don't intend to cover the "mechanics" of any particular database, except maybe in passing. Any questions please don't hesitate to contact me. As practical sessions tend to take longer than a straight presentation, I recommend we get started on this by 8:30pm at the latest, if we run as part of our regular evening session. Regards Alan ----------------------

HTML and CSS Tutorial 9pm 28th May 2009

Update: The notes from this series of tutorials can now be found under the webstyle link

Introduction

The mind-map below outlines the material covered and indicates the links between the various topics. An overall outline may be given a single session, in order to focus on those aspects of special interest to the audience. Material covered in outline may be covered subsequent sessions. The main focus of the first

Recording Open source music using Ardour and Jack - By Gary Cordery