"It would take me a week to develop application XXX in C, 2 or 3 days in Java, and a day in Perl, PHP, or Python."
So I say when I'm teaching Perl, PHP or Python.
What do I say when I'm teaching C, C++ or Java? The same thing! But there are qualifications / differences / reasons and just because i ....
Although most of the software we provide training on is Open Source and thus available for free download, many of the development environments that are offered to aid developers are commercial products for which you'll have to pay money to buy a license.
We don't believe that people should come on ....
With us living and working in Melksham ... I had to choose tyres from Avon Rubber (the biggest company in the town - manufacturers of products such as - err - tyres) I just had to choose their product when my car needed new shoes at 36000 miles. I fondly hope they were made in the town; I'm told th ....
It's been a long day ... I'm not sure whether to write about my drive back from Gatwick Airport this morning through the beautiful National Trust Woods at Holmwood, Abinger Hammer with its curious clock that hangs over the road, the Hog's Back where I stopped for a bacon buttie ... then on past Ston ....
Tough rules expose scale of bogus marriages screams the headline in today's Daily Telegraph. It's a story that tells us that the number of marriage applications at some venues has dropped by some 60% since the Asylum and Immigration act came into force in February. The act makes it compulsory for ....
Our resources are growing - I've written over 300 entries here and there's 300 pictures on our web site that relate to our business. We have some 1400 source code examples and some 550 books listed and over 1000 topics covered on "Opentalk". Where web site visitors could easily find what they wer ....
I'm talking for an hour to 60 people at the University of the West of England this evening on "Open source - here to stay or a flash in the pan?". I've known about the talk for a couple of months, I had the choice to take it or not and I could have written it weeks ago ... so why on earth did I le ....
Designing a Graphic User Interface in Tcl/Tk is rather like writing a recipe.
With a recipe, you start off by listing the ingredients you need ... and in Tk you start off by defining your components (a.k.a. widgets).
With a recipe, you proceed to describe how the ingredients should be combined ... ....
All the programming languages that we train on provide the facility for you to write a named block of code and the call it from elsewhere - such blocks are known as subs in Perl, functions in PHP, Procs in Tcl, and functions or methods in Python. They're a vital part of any "grown up" programming ....