Another one for our FAQ, perhaps?
Q: I have a question about the course 'Learning to Program in Ruby - training course'. I would like to know whether this course can be attended by people who don't have any Programming Knowledge or experience, and also whether this course can be helpful for Manual ....
Sharing an answer to a customer enquiry ...
Q: Is the course tailored to Linux operating system?
A: "Yes and no" is probably the best short answer I can give :-/
Perl is an extremely portable language - so your Perl script will run very much the same way if the host operating system is Linux, W ....
The first young lady asked for a pint of Black Rat (the local Melksham cider), and the barman asked her for proof of age. But the second young lady, who asked the for a pint of coke, was served without question.
Typical lazy barman? No - typical efficient barman!
With joined up thinking, so much ....
I stumbled across my Live Journal page the other day - or rather someone suggested that I stumble across it. Like so many blogs, it started up as a full flood of enthusiastic posting, quickly reduced to a more moderate data stream, and then conked out completely. "Where are the bloggers now" I ask - ....
It's not the first time I've been asked whether our course in Python covers ESRI / ArcMap software, and whether it's a suitable learning vehicle for Python for use that environment. On the basis that "twice asked is twenty times wondered", I'm posting the generalised question and answer here.
Q: ....
Once a web forum "takes off" and becomes popular, all sorts of different users will sign up ... and with those who have a genuine interest in the topics being discussed ... I celebrate. Very quickly, some new members fade away (the "one shot posters"), others fit in and become regular members who m ....
There's a lot of things to take pictures of in Wiltshire - and I have libraries of them which have rarely seen the light of day.
I've added another directory - currently around two dozen picture - from earlier this year and last. No real theme, other than you might enjoy running them as a slide s ....
Some updates on file opening and reading in Perl ...
1. The original open function was good, but technically questionable in that the second parameter includes (as a single string) both the name of the file and an indicator as to whether it's being opened for read or write. The newer (three parame ....
Let's say that you want a Perl variable to contain a result which varies depending in the type and values of data fed in. Easy enough - but you need to think about what value you want it to hold if the inputs don't match any of the acceptable values. And there are then two approaches:
1. You can se ....