I do my best presentations when under pressure. ((Important NOTE to wife / staff / cat - DON'T pressure me every morning)). By which I mean that a new presentation or one I'm not quite prepared for even though I know my subject can, I think, sparkle with a freshness that's not there if it's been w ....
"Why did [they] do it THAT way?". It's a question often asked by the brighter and more perspective delegates on courses concerning some features of a language that I'm teaching them. And the answer "because they did" is a poor one. It's like saying to a child "because I said so" rather than loo ....
What a difference the word 'hotel' makes!
Just some of the fixtures and fittings associated with our bedroom doors - all of which are, of course, to the latest fire standards. Add spy holes, smooth closures, 'washer' lights so you can see your way at night and in an emergency, and you'll see the ....
The designer incorporates a dimmer. The engineer removes the starter. The trainer shifts the room around. All solutions that I've seen to the lighting of training rooms.
We've used self-lighting projection systems for many years ... in the 1990s and prior to that, courses were presented through a ....
Things you can do in C++ ... just a bit beyond the first basics of a class:
1. You can declare that a method is const if it doesn't change any of the instance variables and that will make it a bit more efficient when you run it.
2. You can refer to an instance variable within a method using this-& ....
It all started on Friday as we came back from the pub. I was describing how we've been, twice, on Neil Bauman's Geek Cruises but never been asked to talk or lecture, even in a "lightning session" on them. A little wistfully, maybe, as I'm a "wannabe" - I would love to get up and deliver a talk jus ....
Here's a post that I wrote to a forum that I very occasionally contribute to - I thought it was worth sharing the words a little wider as it help give a bit of a deeper insight into the world of internet moderation, security, rules and advise for the majority of people who are users and don't really ....
There's nothing like trying out the services of a business to learn about how that business works, and how it looks after its customers. And it's especially important for the owners of a business and their customer facing staff to know how they, their colleagues,and their service look to their users ....
"Getting a bit technical". So says my closest friend, and she's pretty technical at times. "A lot of PHP and Python". Yes, there has been a lot of PHP and Python for the last couple of weeks, so now for something completely different.
Yesterday I was recalling how we had a school visit about 12 ....
A lion in a cage shouldn't be a danger - but release the lion from the cage and you could be at risk.
An include file that's pulled in by a PHP script shouldn't be a danger if it's used only from within that PHP script, but if it has its own URL the it could be released like the lion, and it could ....