From my inbox
Q: I need to learn to program in the C language, but have never programmed before. Can you help me?
And my outbox (modified to make the answer generally applicable)
A: Yes - but my answer will be a long one ...
Looking back a number of years, C was very much a mainstream language ....
The question of "Training Passports", where a delegate can take a number of different courses over a period of time, isn't a new one to me ... but it really wasn't appropriate for us to offer such a product in our early days. With a sprinkling of niche courses, it was highly unlikely that we could ....
A frosty morning here in Melksham. This is actually yesterday's picture - taken in our garden with the Christmas berries and the haw frost - headed for Bath and the Christmas Market
A long day - back on a delayed evening bus (25 minutes late from Bath - good Ole First!) that dropped us at the end ....
We went down into Bath on the bus yesterday ... intending just to do a cinema trip, but the day was lovely and we had a look around the Christmas market.
Food and Drink stalls mixed in with stalls selling Christmas nicknacks, which extended around the cathedral and up to the market hall.
See here ....
Well House Manor / Well House Consultants - prices for 2009 (valid from December 2008)
Bedrooms / Overnight
These prices are inclusive of VAT, at the new rate or 15%
Bedroom, Double Occupancy. 90 pounds per night
Includes continental breakfast for 2, internet access, all facilities of public are ....
Melksham is growing, with 750 new homes approved, to be constructed in the very near future - just over the back, behind our home. And there's a new secondary school already being built, to be known as "Melksham Oak" and replacing the George Ward, which is tired and worn out. "Melksham Oak" is going ....
When people leave a job where they were in a customer facing role, it's usual for them to quietly disappear from the scene with as little as possible said to the customers. I can understand why that's the convention, but I'm going to do rather the opposite here and write a little piece to say "Thank ....
Hidden deep in our website, there's an example of a Flash / Flex / Actionscript that runs in the browser, but contacts the server when certain information is required. In fact, it's so deeply hidden that I had trouble finding the links for some of yesterday's delegates:
An overview of Flash / Flex ....
"Object Oriented Programming" is a whole new philosophy for programmers who have been writing short scripts for years, and it can be quite frightening to learn with all these new buzzwords like "overriding", "encapsulation" and "polymorphism" creeping in. It's a beautiful concept and a lovely appro ....
Here's a demonstration - in Perl - that shows you how to avoid a ^C (Control C) dropping you straight out of a program.
Have you ever accidentally hit ^C in the wrong window and terminated a long-running process just before it finished ... well, by setting $SIG{INT} to the address of a sub you want ....