In relation to attractions in Melksham. Here's an admission. I've been down to the Conigre Mead Nature Reserve in Melksham a number of times, and quite frankly found it difficult to understand what all the fuss is about. As a wild area, I hadn't expected "post card pretty", but never the less I s ....
My standard recommendation these days is that you don't write your own low level network code - but rather you use standard protocols and classes - i.e. that you use tried and tested ways of exchanging data. And on that basis, you'll find that our public training courses cover things like talking t ....
"What could possibly go wrong?" ... The usual answer from a cynic is "anything, and usually at the most inconvenient time, and in the most unexpected way!". So checking for routine errors in your program code is a good start, but it doesn't go far enough; you need to be able to handle errors which ....
MySQL has migrated from MySQL AB (1995 to 2008) to Sun (2008 to 2010) to Oracle (from 27 Jan 2010)
wizard:java graham$ /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -uwellho -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 3
Server version: 5.1.48 MySQL Communi ....
Q: "What can I do with an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException?" for example ...
A: Use the javap utility to ask what methods are available on the class ... and descent into its base class structure too, using further javap calls:
wizard:java graham$ javap java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
Compil ....
What Version of Java am I running? How do I edit, compile and run a Java program? What does this error message mean? How do I puts lots of classes into a single file, then run them from that file? How do I see what's in that file? How do I get Java to look for a class it needs in a series of ....
"I used to take the train from school." No - that's a simplification. I walked to the station (Sydenham Hill until the age of 11, Sevenoaks until 17), took my train, then walked a mile home in Petts Wood. Every half hour, the 161A bus connected there with the train (ah those days of proper co-ordi ....
What's the point of having a Park and Ride on the outskirts or a large town of city?
I hadn't really given it too much thought until today, when I visited the West of England Partnership and listened to their Joint Local Transport Plan 3 presentation. They look after North Somerset, South Glouces ....
If you want to know a whole story - look at both sides of a coin. And if you want to know more than what you're being told, listen to what other people are being told.
The A350 / Westbury Bypass enquiry is water under the bridge now - so this is purely academic interest - but I was told (and frank ....
One of the most popular journeys from Melksham is to Bath (about 12 miles away) and Bristol (around 25 miles). Here's a complete timetable for Melksham to Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads for Summer, 2010 (probably unchanged to December 2010, but please check)
Monday to Friday
Melksham06:4107:171 ....