We're so busy during the week at the moment that I'm running an extra Ruby Course this weekend. The main use of Ruby is within "Ruby on Rails", but our course concentrates on the language itself and so it's suitable for people who are using RSpec, cucumber and Watir as well as Rails.
Here are som ....
I don't know exactly how I found their web site - but I have come across the Friends of Friendless Churches. And I read ...
The forlorn tower at Saltfleetby was taken on by the Friends in 1976. The tower, which dates from the 15th century, is the only surviving part of the church, so there is no n ....
"Keep the browser simple - with a single route in (http) to a server." That's the philosophy behind the web and one of the things that's made it a huge success. It means that a straightforward browser can contact a single server, and Joe Public, Joan Whiting and Mahatma Ali can all view content. B ....
09:10, Friday
There's three guests eating breakfast in "The Whitworth". A meeting going on in the Coffee area, and another meeting in the Library. Groups in "The Wilts" are still chatting at the end of the BNI meeting, and I'm typing these notes in "The Berks" while I wait for my delegate. Roo ....
It's "Children in Need" day, ... a fact I was reminded of when I popped into our local garage on Spa Road in Melksham
Bruce and his team are always very welcoming when Sharon, Chris or myself pops in to buy the morning papers for Well House Manor (no standard order - we tailor to our guests) and I' ....
"We have the following options available for lunch ... Baguettes ... India ... Chinese ... Baked Potatoes ... Greasy Spoon ... McDonald's ... Fish and Chips"
That's not untypical of what we stay during first morning of a course, allowing our delegates to make a selection ... and almost inevitably, ....
Last night, Lisa and I attended the annual budget 'consultation' evening arranged by the Wessex Federation of Chambers of Commerce with Wiltshire (County) Council. It was our second year at the event ... last year we had come away very depressed indeed, but this year was rather better - partly beca ....
Update - January 2010 This article is from my "blog" - written personally, and does not reflect any official view from either organisation mentioned. I would like to apologise if it has mistakenly given any 'official' signals at any point prior to my adding this clarification.
Yesterday, my emai ....
When I learned to program, named blocks of code (subroutines and functions) were built into each program and weren't things you could change at run time. But these days, in some languages like Python it's very different and you can write code that includes dynamic functions and methods - after all ....
There are certain "party pieces" that I have during courses ... and on my Java Courses, a program to generate Pascal's Triangle in an array of arrays is one of them.
One of my delegates on today's Python Course suggested this as an exercise ... and here's a link to the source. Turns out to be eve ....