I am trying to install natter on my Galaxy S5 and get an install error 505. Here are my notes. I have now fixed issue, see the final paragraph.
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Google App Engine
How easy it is it to write and deploy to Google App Engine?
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1and 1 News Letter tool
I have started to use 1and1’s newsletter tool. It comes with my package. I using it because I need to send to more than 100 people/blast. Here’s some do’s and don’ts and some gotchas.
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Encrypting my Email (Deprecated)
This was an article on installing enigmail. This article was marked as ‘#deprecated‘ in Sept 2021 when the enigma mail links died.
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More on Splash Pages
I want a splash screen on this page. See also this post. This article documents my experiments with Kento Splash Screen. If the short code is before the More line, then it appears on the Home, if after only if one enters the page itself. (So make a tiny article that looks like part of…
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Cairo Clock
I fancied a desktop clock for my elementary builds. I found cairo-clock, which has a bunch of default themes and a bunch of add-ons also. It can be obtained via the package managers; I found this, as the package documentation.
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Unicode in Python
It’s a very long time since I have had to deal with binary code translations, but when dealing with HTML and JSON with Python, I need to get to grips with it. The € symbol for instance requires the extended character set support and rss should be written in utf-8. This page collects the notes…
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Web Site Testing with MaxQ
MAXQ is a web proxy with recording and replay features. It is designed to capture and replay tests. They are quite keen that one understands the terms of use of target sites since many prohibit automated access and these days it would seem defend themselves against it. This article documents how to run MaxQ and…
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Data Flow Diagrams
How useful are the old fashioned data flow diagrams in today’s world, in particular how useful are they in demonstrating process flow? They showed the relationship between external entities (actors), functions/processes, data stores and data flows.
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Converting dates to strings using Python
While working on converting ello.json to rss, I needed to convert the date formats, I needed to do it in Python and found the following code worked, using strptime and strfmtime. I had to augment the date string with the name of the day of the week attribute, so felt it had to via a…
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RSS from JIRA
For those of us for whom email is a bit passé, we want to recieve our Jira updates using feeds, either because it allows us to choose our browser, or for other reasons. I hope the following links help.
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SPARQL on WordPress
For various reasons I needed to look at SPARQL again. What’s the easiest way to put it up?, Here! I’ve been working with LH-Tools which is commented on at its authors site, and LH-RDF. I did not get this to finish satisfactorily, mainly based on my lack of SPARQL skills. May 2015 I returned to…
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Date Differences in Excel
I was looking to calculate if someone was under 27 years old; this can Be quite tricky but excel has just the function, =DATEDIF().
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Disqus and Ghostery
Disqus needs to be whitelisted in Ghostery for it to work properly. (I have white listed the site rather than approved the specific cookies/trackers). It can stop you performing the login.
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VLOOKUP vs INDEX ( MATCH)
How awesome is this! Excel =INDEX, is a matrix retrieve i.e. =INDEX(array, row, col) retrieves an entry from the two dimensional array. If we combine this with MATCH which returns a row number we can use these functions instead of =VLOOKUP, its allegedly faster too. MATCH operates on a column or linguistically a list.
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