Something like this maybe? At least it’s something affordable to me. Many are over $100-$200.
Monthly Archives: December 2022
Firefox not connecting
Sporadically lately Firefox has been taking very long to connect to sites at startups.It just acts like it’s trying to load a page. Simply closing and reopening sometimes fixes the problem.
Go method receiver functions
I took a pause on the Go course, and was concentrating on other things. I was having some problem following Derek’s teaching on defined types (#26). Specifically these functions that begin with parenthesis () I don’t remember him talking about them before. Seem perhaps more related to Go method receiver functions. So if I google …
PHP special characters
Added Pelé to my birthday database and name wasn’t displaying correctlyThe following was needed before the mysqli_query() to display special characters: mysqli_set_charset($conn, ‘utf8’); $result = mysqli_query($conn, $select)
Amazon speaker
I mentioned here that I had a specific Anker Soundcore 3 Bluetooth speaker I wanted to buy and they kept suggesting speakers of that brand but not the one I wanted. It has 16W output and USB-C my old soundcore had 6W output. Well a few days ago I just happened to stumble upon it …
Gambas one more example
I spent quite a bit of time with Gambas today. Mostly getting use to the documentation and lack thereof. Also knowing MS-Access/VB is both helpful and a hindrance. Trying to make Gambas do what I was sure they could do. And just plain forgetting things, For example I didn’t remember that you use Cstr to …
Gambas SQL query and display records
It’s beginning to look a lot like MS-Access. Press Get Records button. Query my Dogs SQLite3 database. Display them in a scrollable grid control. I have to give a lot of thanks to this web page for showing me the steps to use databases in Gambas. Despite it’s December 3, 2004 date it was very …
Helpful Gambus links
https://www.linux.com/news/gambas-speeds-database-development/https://gambaswiki.org/wiki?l=enhttps://codedocs.org/what-is/gambashttps://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Gambas
Stack Overflow Survey Finds More Developers Now Use Linux Than MacOS
Saw this interesting article.
Sweet Home 3D rug compare
I saw an 8×10 area rug (below right) in a store. And wanted to visualize it in my living space. It looked a little small, so I went looking for a larger one, and found (below left) a 9’5″x12’4″. Even though inches were involved it was a simple matter of changing the dimensions (enter them …