Some article headlines in the paper this morning:
• Is your child's school bag harming their spine?
• Happy Pills can make you more depressed
• My beloved chocolate gave me ulcers and heartburn
• Why did one of these twins have to die before their cough was taken seriously?
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Are you a shopkeeper in Melksham? Would you like another ten visitors to your premises every day?
Over the past 6 to 8 weeks, I've been helping to enhance the diary pages on the Melksham Chamber of Commerce's web site, adding in special events and things that are happening in the Melksham Communit ....
Yesterday morning, 11 a.m., "The Well House Collection - a Branch of the Museum of Melksham" was opened by the Town Crier, taking over one of our smaller meeting rooms as Well House Manor. The room has been fitted out with display cases, panels and boards, with pictures hanging from the picture rai ....
What is a metatable?
In Lua, you can hold a whole bundle of information about something in a table, which gives you a convenient "handle" to that information - be that information in the form of values, or behaviours (i.e. conventional variable of code). This is illustrated in earlier articles on ....
Are you intrigued by the same view taken many years apart?
Two pictures of Melksham station (roughly from the same spot), dated "Circa 1940" and Friday, 11th May 2012.
There are many more old pictures of Melksham, and new pictures too, on show in the Well House Collection - a museum for Melksh ....
Do you want to attend an event in London on a Sunday? There's museums, sporting fixtures and so much more, and what better way than to go by train to London. The requirement was rather proven by last year's trial service over just eight sundays when a train ran from Westbury at 07:30 with a Lond ....
Since tables in Lua can hold data members of different types, they can be used as the base structure for an Object Oriented design approach, where each table represents an object with numbers, strings, other tables ("objects") and callable blocks ("functions" or methods) as members. And if you take ....
Lua's Tables are its "collection" variables - in other words, they hold a whole series of other variables, which can be looked up by a key of some sort.
I can set up a table like this:
occupancy = {2,5,5,3,2}
which will set up a Lua variable called "occupancy" with five members, numbere ....
Yesterday was the first day of our public "Learning to progam in Lua" course.
Lua is an open source language, with a very open license indeed which allows it to be incorporated into other products without raising complex onward licensing issues even if the resultant product isn't itself open source ....