It's been an exhausting day ...
... and it isn't even 3 p.m. yet.
Breakfast for five and all checked out. Meeting for 3. Coffee service and meeting for 8. Lunch for 7. ...
... still to come - conclusion of the meeting, and "prepping" for breakfast for 20, and a further meeting and lunch ....
I enclose my HTML attributes in quotes - or at least when I remember, I do!
I always provide a matching close tag to go with each opening tag - except when I forget to do so, or am in a hurry
I make sure I provide an alt attribute with each image - although sometimes I really don't know what I wou ....
What is the current release of Java? Is it Java 1.6, Java 2 (1.6) or Java 6? Yes it is - they're all different names for the same thing!
Java started out as Java 1.0 ... and since code that would run on that Virtual Machine / written in that language will still run on today's version, it's still ....
I don't know, but I was asked my opinion on website costs for a government department (the Department for Transport) which have been revealed in a Freedom of Information request here. And I have compared the figures given to the figures for our main web site (www.wellho.net) and for the volunteer " ....
What can you do with a scalar variable? When you reduce it to lowest level programming principles, not a lot ... you can create it, destroy it, save a value into it, and read a value back from it. That's about it, when you think of it!
In Perl, the low level memory accessors within the language ....
"An overview of the Perl Language"
It almost sound like one of those dreaded school essays that I had to write in my several attempts to get an English "O" level (they were the things that came before GCSEs) ... but these days I enjoy writing. No - this little article is one of a decreasing number ....
In Perl, if I write:
$stuff = "Porridge";
then I'm setting up a variable to contain the value "Porridge".
If I write:
$stuffat = \$stuff;
then I'm setting up a variable to contain the ADDRESS OF the variable $stuff.
So if $stuff was in memory at (hex)fe80 ... then $stuffat will be assigned that va ....
From my mailbox ... "What are the different ways of queries in databases? Could u pls explain each way in more detail? thanks"
The term "query" means something a little bit different in the term "SQL" to it does in regular English usage - the dictionary definition is to ask for information / pose a ....
There's a natural concern when a business changes hands. And a deepening concern when virtually all the previous staff disappear. But sometimes, a change is a breath of fresh air and a new bright and different beginning. And so it is with "Kim's Seaside Shack" - or should I say The Cornerstone Cafe ....
Are your writing or maintaining a web based application that uses forms? If so, you have better be aware of some of the nasty characters that are around!
The < character, when echoed back from a users's input 'unchallenged', may form the start of a tag. So that in a relatively benign case, a u ....