Learning Electronics

Noting some resources I have found useful. Add Ohms: This is a series of entry-level electronics video tutorials.  Short bits, nothing hugely in-depth.  And nothing for code – just pure electronic components. Arduino Starter Kit: Comes with actuators,...

WAMP Services not booting

Just came across an issue where I started WAMP, but the icon went orange instead of green.  Hovering over the WAMP icon in the System Tray, I saw a message like this: local server – 1 of 2 services running Turns out that I had Skype running and it looks like the...

Submitting to P4

Today, I’ve been having a problem submitting large-ish files to P4.  Specifically, the two files in question were around 100MB.  P4 would look like it was submitting, then eventually timeout with a network error (note: not explicitly a timeout error)....

Using gradients in Illustrator

It appears that using a gradient in Illustrator is not very straightforward.  More specifically, trying to activate the Gradient Annotator with the mouse simply did not work for text.  Eventually, I found some instructions – the key steps to remember are as...