"If you think 'surely someone has done this before', you're probably right ... and in Perl, you'll find the resource you need available as a module on your system, or if it's not quite to common, on the CPAN". I was reminded of this advise today, when I got involved with web site checking ... and ....
Q: Where do I start when writing a program?
A: Start off by thinking about what you want to achieve, and what inputs you have available to you. In other words, look at what the customer provided and what the customer wants to get (yes, you may be your own customer!). If it's too much to think thr ....
The following programming courses are all booking well, but still have good availability:
PHP - starting 6th July
Ruby - starting 14th July
Lua - starting 10th August
Python - starting 17th August
Also Deploying LAMP (Linux, Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP/Perl) from 20th July. Can be taken as separate Lin ....
We've started the third day of this week's Perl course with a revision of some features of lists ... posting here as there are some useful reminders (and I came back later to add more comments!)
# Revision / Summary of lists - Perl
$abc = 16; # single value
@abc = (16,14,12,11,10,8,7,2); # ....
At the risk of researching and reaching an obvious conclusion (along the lines of "passengers will get upset if their train is delayed and they are not told why", which a half million pound report concluded the other week!), I've spent a few minutes taking a snapshot of old log files to see what pro ....
Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, and it a long and illustrious history, some magnificent Georgian buildings, the River Biss and a canal which brings tourists through the area already.
However, I've had to ask Lisa (who is a professional graphic artist) to 'Photoshop' my headline picture ....
I have just been helping a customer who's got a problem with white text on a white background ... and hasn't been able to easily identify where the problem lies. Some of his code looks like this:
<div id="Layer6">
<div align="center" class="style11 style13">
<div align="left" cla ....
In answer to an email asking about alternative PHP courses ...
I'm the tutor of our PHP courses, and I also keep a keen eye open on the options. Occasionally, I do a 'competitive survey' and compare what we have to offer in terms of prices and facilities to other people offering training in the sub ....
As I wrote it, I realised this was turning into rather a long article, but never mind. It shows the major new components added to a "4 layer model" application I was working on the weekend before last to add in a newsfeed for logged in users to which they can contribute, together with a headlines-o ....
Some people tell me how quiet Melksham in these days, and other tell me that it's bustling. The picture above shows that it's somewhere between the two - there's certainly a reasonable number of people about, but we could do with more.
Some shopkeepers / shop owners are concerned at the effect t ....