Author Archives: nigel borrington

Reaching out to the real world : The Pi-face Digital 2

Posted on February 22, 2015 by nigel borrington

Reaching the real world The fundamental difference between a standard Tablet a Laptop or Desktop computer and a development board system is a little harder to define than you may think ! After all most of the components on a … Continue reading →

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Looking at the Linux terminal commands and the Man pages.

Posted on February 17, 2015 by nigel borrington

Using the Linux command line and the Man pages In one of my previous post I referring to the differences between Linux and MS-Windows, I talked about the fact that Windows has removed itself largely from the command line interface … Continue reading →

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The Python Language and a study book (Learning Python 5th edition) free to download!

Posted on February 12, 2015 by nigel borrington

Its my aim with this blog to share a learning process, in developing application software. Following the processes of putting some hardware systems into place such as the Raspberry pi b+ and B2 along with a Cubietruck, ARM CPU development … Continue reading →

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A look at Linux and programming languages

Posted on February 6, 2015 by nigel borrington

So far on this blog my posts have related to the hardware I am using in order to help refresh and regain some software development skills and then take these skills forward into learning some new areas. In order to … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi 2 B

Posted on February 6, 2015 by nigel borrington

Well it’s arrived (My new Raspberry Pi b 2), after placing an order only four days ago. I ordered it from NEW-IT (See the link on the sidebar !), these suppliers are just so good with their customer service 🙂 … Continue reading →

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Hot from the Oven, The Raspberry Pi B 2

Posted on February 4, 2015 by nigel borrington

Hot from the Oven, The Raspberry Pi B 2 – with a Tasty CPU Almost as if taking everyone by surprise, the Raspberry foundation on Monday launched a new Raspberry Pi development board, The Pi B 2 ! The new … Continue reading →

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Great Raspberry Pi Projects – 1 : The Pi gets a 1980’s – Retro computer makeover :)

Posted on January 28, 2015 by nigel borrington

One of the really cool things about the Raspberry pi is all the home made projects you see people working on, I came across this project last night and just love what the owner of this Rasberry Pi has done … Continue reading →

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A list of Linux – Operating system Exams and Study Guides.

Posted on January 28, 2015 by nigel borrington

Having completed the installation of Linux on both the Raspberry Pi and the Cubietruck development boards, I am doing some planning for a study path from this point forward. I have worked with and studied Linux for many years but … Continue reading →

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Looking Back to the 1980’s, The Sinclair QL.

Posted on January 27, 2015 by nigel borrington

The year is 1984 and the personal computer business has only just been born, few people even have a mobile phone never mind an i-phone or a smart phone, fewer people even have an email address, blog or a face-book … Continue reading →

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So why Linux and not Windows for this project ?

Posted on January 23, 2015 by nigel borrington

So why use Linux and not Windows ? Is one question that maybe asked during the initial stages of this project, Well I thought in today’s post I would do my best to answer why not Windows? The real question … Continue reading →

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