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a recent posts widget
In order to try and get a few more photos into the content, I wanted to have widget (which sits down the right hand side of the screen) which would display recent posts from either 1 particular category, all categories […]
wordpress categories navigation tree
I wanted to created a ‘navigation tree’ of all the categories (or specific defined categories on my site). For example, all the ‘Gallery’ pages have on the right-hand side of the screen a list of each of the ‘gallery posts’ which […]
ascom driver requirements and capabilities
Below is the ‘design standard’ of the BlueMirror driver: 1. It works in a simulator and ‘live’ mode. In simuluator mode all works as in ‘live’ but there are no actual serial commands sent out via bluetooth. 2. It reports RA/Dec (right ascension and declination) coordinates when requested. These are simpy a conversion of the Alt Az coords (which […]
ASCOM download and startup
the final step in building capeMirror is to ensure that it can receive instructions from astronomical software programmes like SkyMap, Cartes du Ciel etc. To do this I used a software platform called the ASCOM standard. The Astronomy Common Object Model (ASCOM) is intended to permit easy communication between different astronomy programmes and astronomical devices […]
amends to wordpress theme
the options theme – shadow child theme (which provides the template for this site) is designed by justin tadlock at themehybrid. i have been seriously impressed with it. delighted in fact. i just wanted, though, to list […]
