Occasional visitors to Melksham often ask us how long it will take to get here ... and we're happy to provide estimates. I have traveled a very great deal within the UK, and based on distances, speeds, and road conditions in most areas I can come up with some reasonable guesses. Alas - it seems ....
Wow - Google have done it again. I was surprised when I did an "image search" a few days ago to get a new, clean, effective display of images when I was looking for some stock art with which to illustrate a previous article. Impressed, yes, but of course I asked "what do we look like" and so I sea ....
Quoting out of context is rather naughty ... but the comment " I’m not sure why some people apply for a position that seems ill suited to them ..." from another blogger - [here] got me thinking.
The cynic in me suggests answers of "So they can tell the benefit folks that they HAVE applied for job ....
After all of our hotel guests had arrived yesterday, we were able to take a brief break - do a little shopping [no pictures] and get a breath of fresh air. We're only a short drive from the Westbury White Horse; we went onto Salisbury Plain just above the horse and breathed in the countryside - ra ....
One of the great beauties of Object Oriented Design is that you can say "I want to handle a type of data that's based on an xxx", and if someone's already written (and made available) the code for an xxx, all you have do do is define the additions and differences, rather than starting from scratch. ....
If I write a regular assignment statement such as:
$postbag = $mailinglist;
or
postbag = mailinglist
(depending on the programming language), what am I doing?
"Copying a variable, you plonker!" I hear you saying ... and indeed you're right, but what's really happening? Some ....
There's a natural sort order for many things - for numbers, it's ascending, for words it's a dictionary order, for names it's by surname. But sometimes you want to sort a list of things different, or there's no provided way within a programming language to apply the natural sort to your type of th ....
Headlines ...
* National Express have suspended services to Box and Corsham for August.
* National Express have introduced a new daily Calne to London service.
* First Great Western will introduce through Bradford-on-Avon to London trains, 12/2010
* In spite of the Network Rail report recommending ....
There are many applications where users want to use a piece of web based software to explore data sets - to research information and come up with tables of results and lists of data which they then want to examine in more detail - explore further.
How do they do that further exploration - perhaps t ....
If you have just a few images that you want to display on your web site, keep them as regular files on your server. But if you've thousands, it's better to keep them in a database and server them via a script - such as a PHP script. And if you're dealing with thousands of images, you probably wan ....