If your program's going to grow in size beyond a certain point, you'll need to use some sort of namespace or package to segment global names into different groupings - moving from a single name to a forename / surname type system, if you like to think of it that way.
In C++, it's namespaces - see [ ....
Trying a new route - the DFDS boat from Birkenhead to Belfast, for a two day course in Antrim ... train to Birkenhead (Hamilton Square) and then the ferry overnight to Belfast. Taxi to the bus station (there seems to be a complete lack of public transport connections for foot passengers to ferries t ....
"The only thing that will interpret Perl is a Perl interpreter" ... how those words rang in my ears this morning as I was writing some code to highlight source code comments in a different colour in our web site examples. The words were spoken by Larry Wall ... I think it was 10 years ago, so I ma ....
"Carnival in November?" you ask. Yes - the Melksham Carnival Committee is looking forward to 16th July 2011, and early on Friday morning the lady who's going to be looking after their web site popped in for breakfast and to be shown the ropes. And I'm delighted to see that - by Saturday morning - ....
If you're travelling from Chippenham to London by train, you may want to grab a quick coffee at the station before you set off - and where better than Steamers? And if you were traveling to Plymouth, Bristol, Southampton, Llandrindod Wells or Cheltenham, you would use Steamers too.
Let's assume I ....
Most enquires of an SQL database are SELECTs - most database are "Read Mostly" and writes are limited to a small proportion of accesses (though there are exceptions). And SELECTs are much more complex that things that insert or change data too.
However, I found myself writing en example on yester ....
I enjoy the occasional course that's different in its design and specification, and yesterday was one of those - more lectures that training, on intermediate and advanced Perl, for a group of eight delegates who were all well experienced at PHP, but Perl "dabblers" to this point. During the day, we ....
It's tiny - I can actually work with it in a standard class First Great Western seat and not have the screen bouncing and rubbing against the seat in front, even if my knees so - it's the MacBook Air.
I'll admit it - I was tempted to get the previous Air when I was looking at the next generation of ....
I've added a build up example - written during the current C to C++ conversion bootcamp - to our Further C++ OO Features module.
First step shows a simple class and test harness.
Second step adds a comparison of heap or stack objects, overloading of methods, static methods, more character handling ....