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6 Cool things to do with a Raspberry Pi…

So it’s Christmas Eve and your trying to do some last-minute shopping and stuck for ideas for what to get perhaps some of you...
Alex Marshall
2 min read

Java, Touchscreen and Swing

My personal laptop has recently had to be retired. A combination of age, damage to the outer case and over heating problems has made...
Kieran France
1 min read

WebSocket: Multiple Users, Encoders, Decoders and Dogs.

In my previous tutorial, we were left with a WebSocket server endpoint which bounced back our message. In this tutorial I will show you...
Simon Lissack
5 min read

What is font hinting? The basics explained.

In the early days of fonts, each glyph was stored as a bitmap at a range of sizes. Drawing it was a simple case...
Sam Howard
1 min read

WebSockets – A Quick Introduction and a Sample Application

At IDR Solutions I spend a lot of time working with Glassfish. We use it to showcase our BuildVu product in an online PDF to HTML5 converter so it is important...
Simon Lissack
3 min read