The long, long evenings and the lovely weather are giving us some great opportunities to walk; here's Gypsy, with 200 yards of our home, in the fields. Having been with us for about six weeks, she's now well attached and can be let off the lead in appropriate places - and on the way up to "The Fo ....
Why not get away for the weekend or a short summer break? There's lots of lovely countryside, and plenty to do, in Wiltshire - and it's only 100 miles from London.
Stay with us at Well House Manor in Melksham this summer and explore the area - we're just a few hundred yards from Melksham Town Cen ....
Here's a peculiar PHP statement I wrote this morning:
if ($aindex[$chk] == "") $aindex[$chk] = "";
What was I doing? I am actually checking to see whether there's anything in an array element and if there isn't (which could be because it's empty or because it doesn't yet exist), then i ....
How can you find all blog articles on Ruby? How about everything that I've written about looking after forums, and with all the information about spammers close to it? With 15,000 URLs on the site, these apparently easy questions aren't so easy any more.
However - In an attempt to help (largel ....
If I'm typing in my age in response to a prompt and I start with a "6" character, will you assume that I'm between 60 and 69 years old? You might ... but then I may backspace (having accidentally struck the "6" key and start with a slightly lower digit. But in my program, I do NOT want to have to ....
Have you ever lain awake at night and listened to dripping taps. "drip, drip, drip" ... until you eventually fall asleep? With one tap, it's rhythmic, but with two taps the two rhythms get intertwined, and result in an apparently patternless racket. If only one tap would wait for the other, it wou ....
"Tcl/Tk uses a display list when you draw on a canvas widget." OK - so what does that really mean?
With most of the languages that we teach, any graphics you draw go straight into a frame buffer of a memory map that represents a frame buffer, so the earlier elements added to your graphic will be de ....
Following on from yesterday's article about MySQL tuning ... there may come a time that a single server can't cope. What should you do? Consider replicating your server. This works well if you've got an application which is "read mostly" as you can then have clients reading from a series of mac ....
How much memory does MySQL occupy? Is it efficient / does it need more memory? Can I tune it?
All good questions ... and to make the most of any answers, there's something you'll need to know first about the structure of MySQL. It runs as a series of daemon processes / services, each of which has ....
I'm home ... after a very long drive indeed. And glad to be home. But truely thankful for the opportunity to train in Northern Ireland, and to have had the time to spend a day looking around before my return ferry.
Yesterday (though it feels a lot longer ago) I cut directly across from the Carric ....