.@path since you asked, I think you’re wasting your time. Messenger was Path’s least needed feature. Thanks for removing it!

If the mobile version of your website doesn’t display properly on mobile, well, you’ve squandered time, money and customer confidence

Boggled over a seeminly unsovable SQL problem on the way to work only to sit down, start from scratch and crack it in ten minutes

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So I just spent about an hour trying to fix/troubleshoot something that may not ever have worked.

I’ve switched from lxdm to lightdm on all my machines.  I saw this section of the Arch wiki and thought “Hey, that would be useful on the laptop!”

After spending no small amount of time trying to discover what provides gdmflexiserver (other than gdm) I took to the forums to ask “Am I mad?”  However, in the process of researching my post for all possible explanations I inevitably found the explanation myself.  That’s Arch way.

Ubuntu.

They did a dirty hack on their lightdm package so it would work with XFCE alongside gdm.

This then led me to here, then here and culminated in this wiki edit.

By and large the Arch Linux wiki is amazing but it just goes to show the damage that a bit of misinformation can do to your day.  Thanks graysky.

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Send to Mail Recipient in Thunar always gives me this error.

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I’m sure I have Googled for a solution this many times before but never found one.  Today I did.  It’s simply that exo depends on perl-uri to complete this action.  It’s even an optdepend in Arch:

 Optional Deps : perl-uri: for mail-compose helper script

See, so

 pacman -S perl-uri

fixes it with no further effort.

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My team is currently supporting the delivery of a project to inspire young people in Tower Hamlets to consider coding as a profession.  This project is being run by Workshare in conjunction with resonate.  We’re using the Raspberry Pi and python to teach them some code fundamentals and there’s a competition at the end with some internships up for grabs.  Not bad at all!

I’m pleased with how the project has turned out. Since it’s a pilot we’ve had to “make do” with slightly average facilities and fairly “flexible” session plans but it is going well. While I don’t feel that the young people have learned a significant amount of coding there is no doubt that they are more interested in programming and have a better understanding of what coding really means.  That was, at least, one of the goals of the project and it’s a respectable achievement in my opinion.

I’ve also had the opportunity to use the Pi and it’s good fun.  Although we haven’t had a chance to use them with young people we did by some PiFace Digital devices and a few of the young people wanted to use them for their competition project.  I thought it would be a good idea to try it out too and I managed to put together a fun FizzBuzz game that I’ll share on GitHub soon.  I’m also going to write  a blog about how I put the programme together.