With the new football season just started, I noticed that my Rainmeter widget to show the football fixtures had stopped working. Which breaks the method used in my previous post. It turns out this...

I keep meaning to improve my ability with Adobe Illustrator and i thought of a useful exercise that I could do to create something relatively useful. I want to create some puzzle pieces which can b...

This post is about creating SVG images ready for the web via photoshop with illustrator. Its aimed at people who have a photoshop image ready but dont know how to replicate in illustrator. Outline...

I was asked to see if i could recover the contents of a 2TB external hard drive as it was just coming up as required to be formatted in Windows. The external hard drive was actually an internal har...

This post details how to build your own components for running Debian Stretch on the Asus Tinkerboard from scratch! I am a Ubuntu Desktop LTS 14.04.3 hosted using VMWare Workstation 12.5 Player (N...

A Python script collects basic CPU percentage utilisation data and and stores the information in a MySQL database. The database is hosted on a Ubuntu Server on a virtual machine. The Python script ...

Traceroute is a tool that shows the hops that network traffic has taken to reach its destination - this can be extremely useful for network diagnostics. As an administrator can trace the route of a...

This post shows how to create an authenticated RESTful API using Python and Flask. The basic idea is you can customise what HTTP operations a user group can perform. For example, a user with the ad...

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a dated web service protocol that refuses to die. In the RESTful world of the web, SOAP still persists in legacy systems that refuse to update. This post is ...

This post is an example of how to present a live stream of Timeseries data from an SQLite database hosted on Flask and using Chart JS. There are a number of Python charting modules (like Bokeh) but...