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I've just scheduled an extra Lua course - running from 19th (Thursday) to 22nd (Sunday) of November, on Lua. It's "last minute" which means that the group of delegates will be a small one and you'll get plenty of personal attention to YOUR application and requirements. Venu ....
A busy day ... major update to the Chamber of Commerce Site, and a heart-stopping moment when I realised that we had moved our server's clock forward by a year instead of by a few minutes. A few log files have some funny time stamps in them, and web stats will look odd for a while ... and there was ....
Lisa emailed me a link to a web site listing dog-friendly hotels for our own future use when traveling. Now for Betty and Phil, a hotel that's dog friendly is a blessing, but by contrast Gordon and Sarah wouldn't want to stay somewhere that's overrun with other people's dogs.
So let's see ... wher ....
Ping is a very useful command to use within scripts for checking the presence (or absence) of a live system on our network, or indeed on the Internet. However, there are subtle differences in the format of its report on different operating system flavors, so any code that you write that needs to an ....
Do you want to vary the number of arguments you pass in to a PHP function?
loadarticles(2,3,6,5,4);
loadarticles(5,7);
Simply declare your function with a minimum of parameters that you need (perhaps zero) and use the func_get_args() function to get you an array ....
• Do you live in Melksham?
• Do you work in the town, or nearby?
• Do you shop here, or visit from time to time - on business, to see friends and relatives, or because you just like the place?
• Do you travel through, or past, and wonder what we have to offer?
• Are y ....
Santa Claus will be on the "TransWilts" train from Trowbridge and Melksham to Swindon on Sunday, 6th December, organized by the Melksham Railway Development Group. Santa's been a regular visitor to the line in early December for a number of years, but this year he's extending his ride to start from ....
You may think of values like pi being a constant, but in Python they're really just another object that's defined in the namespace of the module from which they're loaded!
So ...
>>> import math
>>> math.pi
3.1415926535897931
>>> math.pi *= 4
>>> math.pi
12.566370614359172
You are fully entitled ....
grep is a very useful tool for finding all the lines in a file (or series of files) that contain a particular string or match some other pattern / criteria. For example, I have a file that contains data for 52 staff members and I want to find who knows Lua ...
[trainee@melksham Download]$ grep Lua ....
Subject: Clustering, using Apache http server (version 2.2.14 in my example) with mod_proxy_balancer as the front load splitter and Apache Tomcat 6.0.20 as the replicated application engine. [[Tip should also work for other recent 2.2.x and 6.0.x versions]]
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