If it's Monday, it must be Cheltenham and almost every night a different bed. This is a week of crisscrossing the UK, with four septate courses / sessions scheduled in five days. The logistical administration is far from easy, showing just how far we still have to go on IT systems in this area. A l ....
Frameworks are such a valuable tool to help you write a web application - they provide the common structure that you need in most applications in addition to the web server itself, and into which you can write your own application specific code. But there's often a steep learning curve with a fram ....
The Curl library collects a resource in a non-interactive way from a service... libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. libcu ....
I spent Monday evening in Cheltenham - staying at an Edwardian themed B&B that's halfway between the station (where I arrived) and the town centre (where I was training on Tuesday). It's one of those rare places where they do everything right (right for the quality leisure guest, mind you - a ....
An object of type stdClass can be used in PHP 5 as an alternative to an associative array. An associative array has a number of named properties that can be set and read and so does an object. To start you off, simply cast an associative array into an object:
$info = array("question" ....
Exercises are all very well - but the real test of how your emergency procedures work are in a real emergency. So it was that at 3 O'Clock this morning I noted something very odd with our server load; logged in and noticed a process called "shred" running a root and got chucked off about 60 seconds ....
Rather than build database access directly into your application, you can write much more portable and maintainable code using a service / web service in which you embed the database access - or whatever else you're using for your backend data.
Web services are typically accessed through HTTP or HT ....
Walking back to my hotel from the training room, in the freezing cold with a pullover and a coat and still feeling cold, I have to wonder at the guy who was learning to water ski on the docks! ....
When a newcomer joins a team that's been working on an existing large project for years, (s)he often finds that so much work has been done, and such extra layers of abstraction added on top of the basic tools, that it's very difficult to get into the project. The problem is often compounded by devel ....
I'm staying in a hotel on Salford Quays this week and walking through the redeveloped docks areas to where I'm working. Cold - VERY cold (so few other walkers about) but the lighting and the scene are magnificent
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