This might be quite easy (and there are some clues around ...)
Travelled yesterday (so it's NOT Wiltshire), checked in to a hotel, training nearby today. ....
I try not to bore readers of this page TOO often with my tales of local train services (or the lack of them at appropriate times) here in Melksham. Whilst it's something that I am involved with in various ways, it's not really "Open source tips and techniques", nor friends and familiy life - having ....
[[An Advertorial - is that the term - for our Speed Networking evening.]]
Melksham is a bustling town, and you can find almost any products and services you need if only you know where to look and who to speak too. And what better than to buy local - support the local economy, and get local support ....
Melksham Art Cafe opened its doors in the Market Place (attached to the Town Hall) a week or two back, and if providing "coffee shop" style service and a selection of vegetarian lunches (Open 10 to 4:30, Monday to Saturday)
On the week's course just gone, our delegates preferred a light lunch and ....
Perl has many built in functions for file and directory handling and you should use them in preference to shelling out in your scripts because:
• They work across operating systems (at least as far as is practical)
• They are much more efficient as there's no extra processes being starte ....
Another technical term? Yes - this one is a formal name for how you convert a database into Objects - applicable to any OO language (Perl, Python, PHP, Java ...)
Let's reduce it to basics.
* SQL Tables become object classes
* Table rows each become individual objects
* Individual columns become ....
Breaking News in Melksham is that Asda, the supermarket chain, is looking to build a large supermarket with 28000 square feet, 250 parking spaces and create 300 jobs on the outskirts of the town at "West Country Farmers" near the railway. Currently, we have a smaller Sainsbury's and a Somerfield in ....
In Perl, the s (or substitute) operator allows you to match a regular expression and replace the part of your incoming string that matched with another string. Your incoming string should be specified to the left of an =~ operator and is changed in situ. For example:
$sample = "The cat sat on ....
I have learnt of something called the "bathtub" effect in the last year or two. A complex new product has a teething period during which support requirements are high. The requirement drops away (like - into a bathtub) as the product gets more mature, but then the curve rises again as the produc ....
When writing a program, you'll often want to repeat a block of code, counting up through a table or performing a block of code with an input value (loop counter) that goes up 1, 2, 3, 4 etc.
You COULD do this using a while loop, but this means you have to specify each of
• how to start (init ....