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About paulcullenphotography

My life revolves around photography; Landscapes, Portraits and other social photography, flowers and macro photography are all areas that interest me. I have had several photographs published I have just become a professional photographer. Website: www.paulcullenphotography.com Flickr: paul2210 Photography Blog: paulcullenphotography.co.uk Wine Blog: uncorkedbottle.uk Twitter: @PaulCullenphoto

FunQuest Club: Free Games for Children and Adults

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It has been a long time but my games website is finally up and running. I features four games:-

  • Tic-Tac-Toe (or as some people know it, noughts and crosses).
  • Dragon Game – the premise is that the user is faced with two caves, one has a genial person who gives the user nice and appropriate (for them) things, the other cave may contain a fierce dragon, who will eat you on sight. As you get gifts, you pick up points as well. When the dragon eventually gets you, you find out how many points you have accrued.
  • Hangman Game – you have to guess the animal, vegetable or mineral word. You have up to five wrong answers – on the sixth, the gibbet has a complete skeleton, you have lost and the game reveals the word. If you guess the word before the skeleton is entire, you are congratulated on winning.
  • Silly Sentences – the player enters “up to six names” – in fact, there is no limit to how many names you add, but six is a suggested maximum. Once the player enters all of the names that they want, they push the “Go!” button and the game creates silly sentences based on an entered name, picked at random, a verb (programmed into the game – picked at random) and a noun (again, pre-programmed into the game and picked at random) to create a sentence like “Frank hugs a bicycle” – completely bonkers!

The technical details are that it was built using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. It is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), on an Apache2 web server and authenticated with Letsencrypt SSL authentication Certification.

For those of you who would like to play with it, please click below:-

It is:-

  • Completely free to use.
  • Suitable for a children and adults alike.
  • a lot of fun – people who have played the games particularly like Hangman and I hope that I have made it quite challenging, using a mixture of common and obscure words to find in each category.

It is planned that it will have advertising in the future but I do not plan to charge for the use of the games suite.

And finally, please watch out for other output from Cullen Development …… me!

Complete Javascript course from Udemy.

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I have turned into a bit of a course junkie. Here is the latest acquisition from Udemy – from the stable of Tim Buckalka’s Learn Programming Academy, led by Charles E. Brown.

This came about as an attempt to ‘deep dive’ into Javascript as a compliment to ‘HTML, CSS and Javascript’ as mentioed in my previous post. This course was very useful as it taught me some extra things and tackled Javascript from another angle – not just use in the building of websites with functionality, but also use outside of Web development through the use of NodeJS – using Node to use Javascript functionality in ‘The Terminal’ or command prompt. Very interesting and useful. Of course, it covers web development too, but not in as much detail as the book ‘HTML, CSS and Javascript’.

Python REST APIs with Flask, Docker, MongoDB and AWS DevOps.

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I mentioned in my last post that I had concerns over compatibilty with different devices for my mobile apps, web-apps and websites and I came across a course that was offered by Udemy called Python REST APIs with Flask, Docker, MongoDB and AWS DevOps. It was the Docker bit that interested me the most. I had been having conversations about Docker and how it allows you to build your project into containers – basically, it holds all of the dependencies that you used to build your project on your machine so that the end user will also have them when they come to access them on their machine when they use your project – no matter how their machine is set up. I have played with Python but wanted to know more and I heard lots of terms bandied about but had no understanding of what they meant or did. Job ads will often ask for knowledge of Flask, MongoDB (I knew that it was a database but little else about it). I had heard of AWS (Amazon Web Services) but didn’t know how to access it but it sounded complicatied – they all sounded complicated (they weren’t!).

I mentioned last time that I had been trying to get my Medical Emergencies/Resuscitation app published on the Play Store – I still haven’t managed it. One of the problems was incompatibility with a testers mobile phone make/model/Android version – I never did get to the bottom of it and since the app would ultimately have only a niche appeal, I decided to go for lower hanging fruit in the first instance – the medical calculations app is officially on the back burner (I called it lots of different things but I am talking about the same app). This led me to consider “web-apps” and containers (Docker in particular).

I started the course, and to my surprise, I found it easier than I had imagined – most things are, so it is always worth giving it a try but this really did surprise me. The course was well laid out in a logical manner. It wasn’t without it’s frustrations but by the end I had created web servers using Python, created Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), created databases for user registration. The projects included and image recognition API, a simple Banking API and a variety of other basic but useful projects that I can expand on. It was a very interesting course that I would recommend to anyone interested in building NoSQL databases, Web applications and creating and interacting with APIs. I now have Docker accounts, an AWS free account for a year – you don’t get long to do things on your server/cloud before it grinds to a halt but that is all part of the learning process.

I completed the course on the 12th November 2023 and I am going to put it to good use in connection with my HTML, CSS and Javascript stuff as well as my Android/Flutter stuff. I might even start to write simple iOS/Swift apps within which I can embed my projects as web apps. I’ll try to keep you posted…

My certificate!

HTML, CSS and Javascript.

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You may have read that I develop mobile applications – Android and Flutter mostly but the world of mobile development has changed considerably since I started and I must confess to have been a bit slow to keep up and there always seems to be something else that I need to learn to get me onto the next step – does that sound familiar? I was having a conversation with my son, who is an eminent software developer of some repute, about my progress (or lack of it!) and he said to me that I should be heading in the direction of creating web-apps; many mobile apps were “web-apps”. I was trying to get my Paediatric Medical app to fly and was having difficulty getting through getting it onto the “Play Store” – more about that another time – so I began to look at the merits of his suggestion and how much easier it would be to create a simple Android or Flutter app and then link to a server or cloud space that I maintain and let a web page that had functionality built in utilising Javascript.

I decided to get stuck into the Javascript bit first so picked up a book called “A Smarter Way To Learn Javascript” by Mark Myers – basically, 10 minute chapters followed by Free interactive exercises to make it stick – what’s not to like – experiental learning. The first chapter advised to get a grounding in HTML and CSS first, so I turned HTML, CSS and Javascript in Easy Steps.

It is a bit of a rarity, it would seem – more common are individual books on HTML or CSS or Javascript – mine was a “special edition”. After reading the book and going through the many interesting exercises, I decided to create a simple games app – free at the point of use which could be run as a stand-alone web page or as a mobile app with an Android/iOS or Flutter app with links to my server/cloud presence with the web page hosted on it. Eventually, it would be monetarised with adverts through Google.

My first solo project is Fun Quest:-

This is the start. I am just mapping out how I want it to look at the moment and even that will need a lot of styling. I have started to add some interactivity to it – all of the buttons are clickable although, they don’t do anything but give a speech bubble which I will change for something more useful. The page also adapts depending on whether it is being viewed on a traditional pc or laptop, a tablet or a smaller device such as a mobile phone. The mobile phone view shows the four games as a scroll in a vertical order, one after another.

Starting on this project has lead me to think of other things that could help with compatibility with all devices on the hosting server. More about that in the next post. I’ll see you back here soon, I promise…..

By way of explanation……

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Those of you who follow me here may have received a cryptic email yesterday, I know some of you did. It was a privacy statement relating to a Child Medical Calculations app that I am in the process of uploading to Google Playstore. It is to be my first and they require that I post a privacy statement for the app so I decided to post it here on my website/blog. I didn’t realise that you would receive it as a post. Those of you that have been around for a while may have seen a previous iteration in the form of “Paediatric Resuscitation” app and it relates to the finished (for now) version of that.

I am currently waiting for Google to verifiy my identity, then they will check that it meets all of the requirements and passes tests. I am hoping that it will soon be able to release it to a wider audience before very long so watch this space. I’ll give an update of what it currently does once it is finally released. Thank you for popping by, I’ll be back soon.

Child Medical Calculator Privacy Policy 7th April 2023

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Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 07, 2023

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Free Privacy Policy Generator.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

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For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.

Application refers to Child Medical Calculations, the software program provided by the Company.

Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Child Medical Calculations.

Country refers to: United Kingdom

Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

Service refers to the Application.

Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

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While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

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Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

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The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

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To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

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For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.

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We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

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The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

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Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

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You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

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Business Transactions

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Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.

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Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

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We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

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  • By email: cullendeveloper@gmail.com

More Courses!

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Well one anyway!

Those of you who have come across this page before may have read about my Android course with Udacity, my Flutter course with Udemy and the Analogue Electronics course, again with Udemy. Well now I have reached new heights – well it was certainly the longest and most difficult course to date. I have just finished a course in C++ development with Udemy.

I have wanted to complete a “C” based course for some time. I have read several books about the C language and typed along with the examples in the book. My belief was and still is that if I was to learn a “C” based language, it would help me to better understand what is going on under the “hood” since many of the higher level languages are based on C and many of the libraries are written in C or C++. I thought that I would get a better understanding of some of the error messages and so I would gain a “deeper understanding” – I hoped. I found C on it’s own a little limiting so when I found what appeared to be quite a comprehensive C++ course on Udemy, I decided to sign up for it.

I began in early December 2022 and preceeded to plod through it. Christmas happened so I put it to one side for a little while and picked it up in earnest by mid-January. It was 46 hours of lecture videos, which is by far the longest Udemy course that I have signed up for but of course, it takes a lot longer than that when you have coding challenges, quizzes and having to watch the videos several times to be able to grasp the concepts – I am sure that many people have to do that – or perhaps it’s just me but the point is, grasp those concepts I did and I finally completed on the 20th February 2023. I am proud because I feel that I have come a long way. Not only have I gained an understanding of C++ which will come in useful for development of C++ programs. C++ is generally the language of micro-controllers like Arduino, so I’ll be able to have a go at programming them. This course will also come in useful when writing the Java for my Android stuff (The back end is written in Java in my apps ‘cos I’m old school – I was taught Android apps with Java – I might get around to Kotlin at some point) and It will help me if I want to have a serious attempt at learning Python.

All that I have to do now is get some practice writing programs in all of these development languages – I promise that there is method in my madness – I like to think that there is a pattern to my progress.

I haven’t put any C++ programs on my GitHub page but if you are interested in what I have done with Android and Flutter, please follow this link:-

https://github.com/CullenDevelopment

The Illumination Repairs App

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I was inspired by the work/volunteering that I had been doing for Illumination Repairs C.I.C. to attempt to create a contact app and I decided to create it in Flutter so that eventually it would work on both Android and iOS without having to write the whole thing twice – there are pros and cons to this approach which I hope to cover in another post.

I opened up Android Studio on my Development Laptop and set to work….

I first of all I discovered how to create three tabs within the AppBar which would enable me to switch between three pages easily. They were “Home”, “Email” and “Website”. I used the artwork from the Illumination Repairs Instagram posts – cheeky I know but I was hoping that the company would benefit from my efforts so it was justified. The colour scheme that they had chosen was black and white so I felt that I had to keep it as it is part of their “brand” – I would have much rather used a more colourful palate.

The “Home Page”

Here you can clearly see the tabs (set on Home). The artwork is the first page of a video presentation which they created to “tell their story”. The next images are some of the “slides” in the video presentation.

It took me a while to work out how to have a mpg4 run in the app but I succeeded. I will leave a link to my GitHub Repo for this app at the end so you can see how I did it rather than explain here.

Next is the “Email” tab which leads to an email based enquiry form which sends an email to a designated address.

Finally, there is the “Website” tab which has a link to email (blank) but again to a designated email address. I later considered this surplus to requirements because the form on the email tab form was sufficient.

It also has a link to Illumination Repairs Facebook page and the Illumination Repairs website.

The biggest flaw with this app is that for all of the people who approach us for a repair it is a one-off contact – who would download an app just to get one or two things repaired, so it will never go into production in it’s current form. All is not lost – I know a little more about how to embed a video into a Flutter app, I have more of an idea about how to create an email enquiry form in Flutter, I can put links into buttons to webpages and email (the second email code works a bit different to the first) and the links to the webpages including Facebook/Meta can be done several ways – I tried the most common way (according to Stack Overflow) and it didn’t work as it was trying to parse ipv6 addresses and I think that that particular method was best suited to ipv4 addresses and so I found another method much better. I will use what I have learned in other apps and it has opened my horizons to the possibility of other apps.

That link to my GitHub Repository containing the code for this app:-

https://github.com/CullenDevelopment/illumination_repairs

Things that I have repaired.

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These are some of the things that I have repaired as part of Illumination Repairs since November 2021.

Shredder

This was the second shredder that I repaired – this one had a bent paper switch – the one that activates the shedder when you put paper in the feed. The first one had a broken switch and I re-wired and replced the switch.

Kettle

The one of the bi-metallic strips needed replacing – I had a spare lying around from a kettle that could not be repair due to a broken and non-replaceable element. This one went to a charity shop – it was an Asda basic range kettle and wasn’t worth much so we gave it away after extending it’s life.

Toaster

This toaster – the metal strips that holds the bread has come off it’s rails – it was given a new lease of life via the charity shop – it made nice toast – well, you have to try these things out (you do actually, more about that later) but wasn’t worth much but someone will have the use of it and it’s one less easily mended electrical in landfill.

Nespresso Coffee Machine.

It wasn’t puncturing the pods. It turned out that it did if you put the pods in at a certain angle. It wasn’t broken as such but perhaps a little worn and worked perfectly if you were careful. It went back to a very grateful client who gave a donation. Nice machine.

A “Flip-over clock” from Habitat

This clock wasn’t flipping over the days of the week due to a broken mechansim post and so the gears were not engaging. I replaced the post with a screw and it went back to it’s owner.

Sit in electric toy car.

After much investigation, it turns out that there is a switch in the charging point socket. When it is charging the circuit goes one way; when it is not charging i.e. when the charging plug is not inserted a switch closes enabling the battery to power the motors, lights, horn, radio and a host of other accessories. The problem was that the switch was stuck – it only needed to free the mechanism of the switch. The parent of the owner was very grateful and I have since heard that her children are getting a lot of use out of it again. We don’t usually repair things this big – it was sat in my sitting room for several weeks. We were sad and also pleased to see it go at the same time!

Morphy Richards Steam Generator Iron.

The steam was working but the iron was not getting hot – I replaced a relay that controlled the current to the iron element once I found the problem – it is always worth investigating – the obvious answer was that the element in the iron was defective but by a series of resistance measurements that was found not to be true and I was able to trace it back to the relay. The owner was very pleased and made a generous donation.

DeLonghi Eletta Coffee Machine

Despite the owners very thorough cleaning regime it turned out that the reason this coffee machine stopped brewing was a blockage in the hot water pipe.

Whenever we complete a repair on anything that uses mains electricity we have to ensure that it is safe and to that end we Portable Appliance Test (PAT) the items and record the results then apply a sticker to show that it has been done and the appliance is safe.

The first part of the test is a visual check of plugs for sound connections, that the cable is secure, that an appropriate value fuse is inserted and that it is in good condition (no tin foil, nails or other bodges), no signs of overheating or cracks and other damage to the plug. The cable is inspected to show that it is in good condition and we check for cracks and other damage on the appliance. We then determine what “Class” of electrical item we are dealing with and set the PAT Tester to check the appliance according to it’s class. Class I tests Earth Conductivity (Bonding) and Insulation resistance. Class II, just Insulation Resistance. We can also do a “cord test” which is generally detachable cables like “kettle leads”. All of the values should be (well) within the values set by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Code of Practice for “In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment” 5th Edition.

My Seaward Primetest 100 PAT tester

This is my PAT Tester. The smart ones amongst you might be thinking the top figure – Earth Conductivity – is a little high as we would prefer the figure to be <0.1 Ohms (the guidance is <0.2 Ohms usually and in special circumstances <0.5 Ohms) but it was down to the length and conductor cross surface area of the cable.

The last part of the test is that it functions as it should do which is why I enjoyed the toast with the toaster that I repaired as well as coffee from both coffee machines.

I also replaced the screen on a DAB radio, the aerial on another DAB radio and repaired an assortment of other things that I haven’t got photgraphs for…

I decided to create a Flutter based app on the theme of Illumination Repairs… More about that next time….

While I’ve been “away”.

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Hello again! May I just apologise for my absence – I got a bit distracted. I was scrolling through my Instagram account when I was recommended an account to follow called “Illumination Repairs”. They are a Community Interest Company and their mandate is to repair electrical items that have broken and would otherwise go to landfill or less likely, be recycled. It is a cause that is close to my heart, they are based in the area where I live and there was an opportunity for me to join them as a repairer. It would give me an opportunity to fiddle with electric and electronic devices and gain further knowledge and experience in that area. They wanted volunteers so I contacted them and arranged to meet James, the company founder. I went to meet him and walked away with five things to repair.

They currently have an arrangement with a local village market where broken items are dropped off, taken away and repaired if possible. The items can be donated and repaired items are sold to raise funds, or they are returned a month later at the same market – we then invite the clients to make a donation when they are happy with the repair. To give some idea of the sort of items that we expect….

It is not an exhaustive list; we will generally consider many things under 25 kg, electrical/electronic items if we think that they can be repaired.

You might ask “where does the sales of repaired items money and donations go?” It will go to support helping people into work through sharing skills and making people more employable through learning how to repair electricals by “sitting at Nellie’s knee” – working alongside more experienced repairers. It also goes towards buying spare parts, liability insurance and tools.

This was the bit that attracted me. I thought “That’s me!” I have put in more than a few hours each month since joining in November 2021.

I will be writing about the some of the things that I have repaired since joining, new things that I have learned, my latest app which is related to this venture – and why it won’t see the light of day but how many of the features that I have learned creating it will be used in other apps in the future.

Illumination Repairs website:-

https://www.illuminationrepairs.org.uk/about

https://www.facebook.com/IlluminationRepairs

See you tomorrow…