25 April 2024
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At church, we’re between regular computers for the projection system (OpenSong) we use for liturgy, song lyrics and other things we want to put up on the screen. The computer we used to use had a terminal hard drive failure … Continue reading
5 July 2021
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Some changes to user interface design come with a fanfare but some seek to creep in unannounced. Perhaps I just wasn’t paying attention but I have recently spotted a trend for scroll bars to become a bit more information rich. … Continue reading
13 January 2021
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I help with the Toddlers’ group at church and, after a recent online catch up, one of the team emailed me some files with lyrics for songs we are going to use this term. However, it turned out that they … Continue reading
13 October 2017
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Today’s neat trick in Vim :put =range(x,y) That fills lines in the file with values from x to y, which did what I needed today. However, it looks like there are plenty more tricks in this vein, so some experimenting … Continue reading
23 October 2014
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Another day, another task involving wrangling a text file to extract data and another chance to wield the might hammer of Vim to crack the problem. My starting point was a database extract with two columns of related identifiers which … Continue reading
6 March 2014
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Day one of the season of Lent and so I’ve begun digging into my copy of Wenham’s Elements of New Testament Greek (purchased, according to my ex libris inscription, about 21 years ago). The starting point is to revisit the … Continue reading
11 March 2013
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I am continuing work on hacking through a jungle of data today and have discovered another useful trick. My standard approach is to have a file open in which I can write notes and also compose extended SQL expressions, copying … Continue reading
5 March 2013
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Today’s tasks have included taking a list of identifiers and names and converting them into a series of SQL statements to create, populate and drop temporary database tables. If I just had one or two lines in the form: 56,DataIdentifier … Continue reading