Modern digital technology allows some quite amazing dark-scene photography ... but even these days there are still limits. Alton Towers, earlier today ... see the shape of my camera shake. As you'll see from the picture, I made three attempts and this is the best of the 3 ....
Two other pictur ....
For the Clock exercise that I mentioned in my last entry, I need to update the page once a minute. Exactly once a minute. At the start of the minute.
I'm using client pull, where the browser asks for the next page - so my basic request is:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60; url=/clock/now ....
There's a lot of interesting clocks and other timepieces around and I've started to gather a few up. Well - one thing leads to another and we're got an embryonic clock page together - showing the UK time at the moment, and where we have them an appropriate picture of a timepiece. See the current ti ....
This is one of the pictures that I've used to illustrate the various themes on the new-look website. It's quite an easy one, I'm sure, for you to associate with area of our site, but some of the others are much more obscure.
A somewhat less obvious picture, this one! It's a steam engine in actio ....
We have resources - huge resources - available on this site, and regular readers will know I've been updating much of the navigation over the past week or three. Just updates ... our resource indexes for individual topics ... here are some starters: The Well House Manor project, general non-technic ....
There's a search box on the top of all our regular pages - put a word in there, submit the form, and you'll be offered a selection of appropriate pages ... and if there's nothing relevant, you'll be offered nearby spellings. Try a search for Ireland and a search for Irelond.
Search for multiple wo ....
In PHP, you can write a program that looks like a Rembrandt, or one that makes the dog's dinner look tidy. It's not only the mechanism of the language you need to learn to do a good job, but how to apply it.
This week, on my public PHP course, I have a group which is very IT professional in backgr ....
It's a good idea to initialise your variables directly before you use them for the first time if you're going to use them as accumulators.
By accumulator I mean that you're going to write assignments such as:
$n += 4; # Perl
incr notepad; # Tcl
lappend flcodes ....
"I am, you are, he is ...". The conjugation of verbs is something which I remember from Latin and French classes at school with, it must be said, a degree of distaste. I never was one for languages.
"I am amply proportioned, you are well built, he is fat ...". A number of jests have been made over ....
There's a great deal to be said for mucking in with all the jobs done within the company from time to time, and today Lisa and I have been turning bedrooms around - the wedding group gone, and two checkins tonight with three more arriving tomorrow - a full hotel again. Good to see how the rooms are ....