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I finished my Open University(OU) studies for this (my penultimate) year on the 7th of June. This year’s modules were: Both modules have an Overall Continuous Assessment Score (OCAS) and an Overall Examination Score (OES). My OCAS for both modules is over 80% which means in order to get a Grade 2 Pass for both … Read more
In 2009 Andy Mason joined the Ministry team in Kingwood and was appointed Minister at Large (which I always joked sounded sinister). Up to this point, I had seen the church as a set of traditions, but Andy soon showed me what church was supposed to look like. I soon got on the Andy bandwagon, … Read more
So it has been a while since I first started to create my U.S.S. Enterprise D bridge blender model. I am now thinking about trying again. It has been a while since I last used Blender and am finding it hard to get reacquainted but hope that in time I will be able to get … Read more
Since the beginning of July, I have been using a new server to host all my websites. The decision to get rid of my Windows 2019 server was made due to Windows security being shockingly bad. I thus have switched to a Linux server with a Plesk frontend for managing and maintaining the websites which … Read more
After more than six months, I have finally got this blog back up and running. I have not worked out how but no matter what I did hackers managed to get in and play around with the files which make up WordPress. I decided to re-image my server to Windows Server 2019 and reinstall all … Read more
An old Blender project which i need to get back to. Never got it finished.
Everyone who has read the book or seen the film Da Vinci Code has heard about the Fibonacci sequence. The sequence looks a bit like this: \[1,1,2,3,4,7,11,\ldots\] In recent years a zero has been added to the front of the sequence, and it it this sequence I will be programming. The Fibinacci sequence can be … Read more
For the past day now I have been trying to restore all my websites due to my MySQL installation going screwy, the longest part of this was finding away of getting the data structure out of the .frm files. After much searching I managed to find several website with ways of doing it but want … Read more
My final refinement (for the moment) is that, I want today’s date to be the default date. To do this I need to import two libararies: I then need to get the current date: In order to get each part of the date (day, month, year), i will simply use the SimpleDateFormat library, and create … Read more
The next refinement, is that I want the Year textfield to clear when it is either clicked on or tabbed to. In order to do this i need to implement not only the ActionListener but also the FocusListener. To do this I simply have to change the class header from: to this: I then have … Read more