I use an Apple Mac ... run OSX ... and I have that problem of how to deal with applications data files. I have become a passed master at Word documents and Excel spread sheets! How about an attached file winmail.dat?
winmail.dat is used by thing like Microsoft Outlook ... so you can easily read ....
Just occasionally, work takes me to exactly the right place at exactly the right time ... and so it was this evening when after a good day's work I had a chance to let my hair down, join the leisure visitors, and have a look around York ... with some lovely lighting effects
Point of arrival in York ....
The woman sitting next to dad is worried about tomorrow's meeting now that Emily has had to pull out ... she wonders if Lucinda can go on her own and how that can be turned to her advantage. She left a curry in the bottom of the fridge, but is having her son check to make sure that it doesn't have c ....
Here's a curiosity ... running a mysqldump as a crontab job, nothing happens on one of our servers. Now I HAVE included the full path to the executable file in my crontab line, and I have redirected the output to a full path ... so something else is tripping it up.
What do I do? An Internet sea ....
Around 200 years ago, Melksham was the largest town for many miles around - it dwarfed even places like Swindon. However, in the Victorian age it grew very much slower and it hasn't caught up yet. So looking around the town you'll find, hidden in odd corners, a very great deal of history.
This part ....
Tcl is a lovely engineers language ... but goodness you can do some nasty things with it, and write some unmaintainable code.
set count 1
foreach type {if while} {
$type {$count < 5} {
puts "yay $type $count"
incr count
}
}
....
There's a difference between 'urgent' and 'important' ... and one of the things that we sometimes do is get bogged down in the urgent without looking ahead to the longer term important. Here is a piece I have just written for the "Party in the Park" program ...
A message from the Melksham Chamber ....
It's quite quick and easy to write a loop that goes through a mysql result set and displays the content on an HTML page (but remember security of data, size of resulting HTML page, and the need to consider special characters such as <). But what if you want a shorter report, grouping records tog ....
What does a fishing license at Shearwater cost and who sells it? Dunno ...
What light bulb do I need for my fitting? Err ...
What's the best way to sell a mango press? (I can't work out why Google send people to this page of ours)
What is the postcode for Westonbirt? Yer wot ...
What is ....