July 25th 2012: Commandline and Ada

The first instalment of David's introdution to the command line and the latest adventures with Raspberry-Pi followed by a look at Ada Lovelace's contribution to computing are among items on the agenda.

Wordpress

I spend a lot of time helping people get their information onto the web, and Wordpress is a great tool for doing just that.

June 27th 2012: Windows 8

Richard gave us a guided tour of a pre-release version of Windows 8. There was a lot to be said about what Microsoft is trying to achieve, and how that relates to the rest of the IT world, devices and operating systems. Mike gave us a culture quiz - to help keep us all well rounded human beings, as well as geeks! Well done to Andy for winning and taking the prizes, and thanks to Mike for organising. Dave S suggested a monthly set of short 'How the Command Line can be your friend' talks, which everyone seemed to welcome.

May 30th 2012: Pi anyone?

Nigel demonstrated Raspberry Pi running a variety of programs. John demonstrated LXDE and Parted Magic and Brian demonstrated Cinnamon. Thanks to Nigel for letting people play with/explore/use his new toy/gadget/computer.

April 25th 2012: Show and Tell

This month we had a general show and tell session. John showed us how to convert a bitmap to a vector, Dave S showed us around XFCE and some crazy patents, Darren showed us KDE, Nigel demoed Linux Mint, and Dave C showed his Ubuntu 10.04 desktop. We also had an interesting presentation on Maser (Microwave Laser) from Brian.

March 28th 2012: Go search

Graham introduced Munzee, a 21st century scavenger hunt; it is similar to geocaching except that one uses a QR code; placing Munzees can overlap with Geocache as long as you get the geocacher's permission. Munzee can be played individually or in a group. It requires an Android or iPhone with 3G reception. Graham has planted 22 Bradford Monopoly Munzees if you fancy finding them! David C demonstrated how he had...

Five favourites - Alice Kaerast

I’m an open source/free software developer who strongly believes in sharing as much of my code and data as possible.

February 29th 2012

On the day the Rapberry Pi people made a big announcement, BradLUGers met up to discuss: Media servers,cheap android tablets, the Raspberry Pi, Scratch, Big Buck Bunny, WPA security, the Epson hx-20, and much, much, more.

February 29th 2012: SqueezePlayer, BubbleUPnP, Raspberry Pi, Scratch and WPS

Brian demonstrated SqueezePlayer, the Logitech version and BubbleUPnP running on a mobile ’phone to play/control a media centre.

Databases and storage

At the start of the PC era, computers had so little memory or storage that programmers had to use all sorts of tricks to fit the data in.