When putting a web resource together, we want to keep what each individual user needs on his computer simple - REAL simple - which means that all the work and the complexity needs to be at the server side.
I'm running a deployment course that started yesterday and it's only when I started to think ....
For a clock to work, every cog must be in place and meshing correctly with the next cog - otherwise the whole things falls over. And so it is with a web site too. It's no good having a superb look and feel with no content, or good content with no navigation to get to it, or no marketing to bring peo ....
The ? : operator that you may have come across in Perl, PHP, C and Java - known as the ternary or conditional operator - is ABSENT from Python. "But it's so useful" I hear you cry. Ah yes, but isn't this elegant:
val = float(raw_input("Age: "))
status = ("working","retired")[val>65]
print "You sh ....
Even if you don't feel that your project is big enough to get involved with formal design methods, many of the lessons of UML and some informal design diagrams can help you get a clear view of what you're going to be doing be for you start, and can help you come up a good, thought out and reliable p ....
Do you like what's sometimes described as "ethnic food"? Or do you think you like such food, but what you're eating is really so Europeanised that it bears little resemblance to the food that's really eaten in the country that's said to be the source? I can recall the joy with which "Mrs Happy Val ....
I've been training in the City (of London) today - so central that I was just a few yards from the base of The Monument to the great fire of 1666. For such venues, I don't even attempt to get my clients to provide a parking space; usually they have none available and it becomes a nightmare to unloa ....
Want to provide sites that work close along side you with a feed of your blog? In recent versions of PHP, you can include a remote file from their server in your page. Here's a little example that's on our site - we're pulling down a piece of PHP via a URL.
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Have you noticed how I usually post "The Horse's Mouth" in the morning, whereas the most natural time of day for a diary - surely is the evening, logging an event or events of the day?
I rise early and that gives me an excellent few hours of fresh, concentration time to go through a whole series of ....
Our Opentalk forum provides a great place where newcomers to Perl and PHP, Python and MySQL can ask questions that they can't find answer to in the books they have, or where they can discuss which of two ways of tacking a problem would be best. I encourage past course delegates to sign up (it's free ....
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That was a typical answer from John, who provided my "third level" technical support a few years back when I looked after the RasterFlex family of Graphic boards for Sun Workstations. The answer told me all I needed to know (but nothing else!) and would have left my European custo ....