Have you noticed that whenever you're travelling somewhere new, it's always on the edge of two maps sheets and you have to keep cross-referencing?
The Linux, Unix and OS X utilities more and less are used to view a file one page (sheet) at a time, and pressing the space bar takes you a page forward ....
Few maps are ever drawn, truly, to scale - if they were, then features such as roads and railways would be hairline-thin and the may would be of little use to anyone!
Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Sur ....
It's all systems go on 48 Spa Road ... we'll be taking over "The Old Manor" on 31st May. Through the summer, we'll be thoroughly updating both inside and out, and we'll be opening in the Autumn as Well House Manor - a hotel specialising in accommodation for business visitors to Melksham.
Well House ....
Melksham is one of those towns that people have heard of, but they can't quite place. One of those towns that people bypass as they drive by, not knowing the friendly community that's there. It's our home, though, and we love it here.
As you'll see from the stone block (photo, right) in one of the ....
Our web site has grown over the years, and we've developed a number of very useful scripts such as our quotation system that's written in Perl and our live server test program in Tcl and Expect. Now we require to run those scripts within the current look and feel, with its printer friendly flexibil ....
We may be set to loose most of the already limited train service through Melksham, but it looks like we'll be getting a brand new MP at the next General Election.
The Boundary Commission reported - as long ago as 2001 - that an extra constituency should be added to Wiltshire due to the increasing p ....
"Can we have more helicopter views?" asked a client from whom we're running a series of courses - by which they mean overviews that put all the elements of the technologies in place on a diagram - showing how tomcat relates to MySQL and how JBoss and Struts and EJBs fit in to the picture. For sure ....
There's something macho about programmers when it comes to regular expressions - so often they'll try and do the whole job in a single regular expression when doing a two stage process is much more logical, much quicker in operation, and far easier to code.
Take a requirement that came up this morn ....
If this is "The Horse's Mouth", then should my partner be writing a companion blog called "the hind legs of the donkey"? Lisa was not amused by the suggestion yesterday evening, and declined both on the basis that she doesn't feel that it's a commitment she should be taking on, and also that she ....