From Ely last weekend - some things that we could learn for our town? Some of these things are being talked about already, some may be longer term, but I suspect that all are practical.
* A train service that's vibrant even though the station is on the edge of town and in amongst some industry
* ....
"What's the next step in your campaign?" asked the lady from the local paper when she called to check up on a [train] story last night. "I'm meeting the Labour Party candidate for the new Chippenham seat in about an hour and 20 minutes" was my reply ... and I suspect that she was expecting a less im ....
"Examples are either simple as to be trivial, or too complex to understand" said a delegate - so this afternoon I accepted his challenge to come up with some thing in between. And the example is for some MySQL table design and design testing, with a Perl program to access and tabulate the data.
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I couldn't quite place the accent ... but it turned out that Leon came from Groningen, the largest town in northern Holland. In the UK for six months, his day job as a student is to be working on some sadly neglected clay pits / or natural water area just north of the town on Ely - that's where I am ....
All of our delegates are special, and 99% of them are a pleasure to teach - but I'll look back on last week's group with a particular fondness.
We've been open and running as a hotel now for a year, and - more and more - our public courses aren't just 9 to 5 events. Rather they're a chance to sha ....
A bit of a rush job as I prepare for a talk to over one hundred people on our "Train Campaign" tomorrow up in Ely - a National Conference. So please forgive just a brief post that points you to three URLs this morning.
The full talk
Summary sheet
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There are times that Java is the right language for an application and Perl is the wrong one - to the extent that investment in a rewrite is correct. But they are pretty rare.
I was very disappointed to learn this week of a major company that is switching - not for technical reasons, but becau ....
To go with the very latest - even if the customers don't have it in common use yet, or to stay with older and well loved versions even though there is a new model out? A thorny question and one I'm addressing at the moment for the 2008 brochure. I write ...
"""With a few notable exceptions, Open ....
I write a lot of demonstration pieces, and there's always a need for a balance.
Spike solutions / proof of principle and concept work well in front of a class. But then they are subject to major criticism due to a lack of robustness, and for security reasons, if they are published without comment ....