A knock on the door at a quarter to five. Anything unusual in that? Well, a little, being it was a quarter to five in the morning!
A taxi driver stands there, looking expectant at me and I appear, perhaps, just a little startled. The car wasn't due for another hour. But there's coffee on tap, 24-h ....
The image on our home page varies day by day (also based on the user's country of origin). For a few days in the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of Christmas though, it's replaced by a picture of an older man with a white beard in a red coat, bearing gifts for the children. Here's how:
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We have a no-cancellation policy. Once your course is booked, we promise that we'll run it even if you are the only person on a public course. Yes, that does mean that we'll occasionally run a loss-making course, and that we sometimes even have to turn profitable business away to run that course.
B ....
In MySQL, users log in with a user name and password (the login also depends on their client computer's name or IP address which can be restricted). Each user account has a set of permissions which are set up to offer:
a) Global privileges over all databases managed by the current MySQL instance P ....
"When you're designing a piece of code, or a web page, or you're putting together an image, always keep one logical action or piece of work in one file or one named block. If you want to do several things, then write an encompassing element to contain them both."
Such is Computer Science Theory ....
Am I the only one to get frustrated when I have to write a complete letter in a text area that's 3 rows and 20 columns - a nice looking form but totally impractical to use when making an enquiry - case in point this morning - about a non-standard travel requirement?
Whenever I'm designing a form I ....
I dropped off Dad at his place this evening and while he was making a coffee, I was reading "Private Eye". Wow - I wish I could write like that. And - goodness - they have it EXACTLY right in their "Signal Failures - Coping with congestion" article, which starts:
Growing road congestion is a poten ....
In perl, all your variables (except "my" ones, which we'll leave for another day) are arranged into packages, and by default that's a package called "main". So if you write about a scalar called $jeremy, that's really $main::jeremy and if you write about a named block of code called &mary, that ....
Ahmed (not his real name) is getting married on Sunday and last night should have been his traditional "shower"; his bride was having hers, but Ahmed's here with us on a Perl course in Melksham. Like all soon-to-be-marrieds I've come across, he's both looking forward with some excitement to the fut ....
Melksham never ceases to amaze me. And in a positive way. We've very used - very VERY used - to providing course lunches and handing special requirements; vegetarian, vegan, allergies, etc. as well as the simple "don't like"s. On a two or three day course, there are plenty of meat-free options w ....