"I'm looking to spend between £200,000 and £225,000 on a new home" you say to the salesman and - guess what - you're offered something much nearer £225,000 that £200,000.
With Regular Expression matching, you can ask the question "do we have a match", and that returns a Yes ....
How do we add animation to an iPad / iPhone app? How do we share one action routine across a whole lot of similar buttons? These are amongst the questions that we looked at, and answered, in the little demonstration below during today's iOS / iPad / iPhone "Geekfest" ;-).
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Seeing the wood for the trees ... that's one of the major issues when you come to writing apps for the iPad and iPhone for the first time. And yesterday, Kyle, Elliot and myself sat down at a couple of Macs and came up with a demonstration first app from first principles.
There's lots of decisions ....
The final part of our walk yesterday was along Clacker's Brook - from the new outskirts of the town back to the centre.
Rupert surveys the brook, from the new bridge that's been provided on the diverted public footpath
New housing looks suprisingly imposing over the brook
Goodness - what can I sa ....
Ginkgo Projects have selected film maker Verity-Jane Keefe to make a film relating to the new development on the land to the East of Melksham - [details]. Verity-Jane was in Melksham today, and I joined her for a walk around some of the new housing area. Here's a selection of the pictures taken:
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In the hotel business, we have busier and quieter periods, and after a busy few weeks (guest wise) it looks like we're a little quieter (guest wise) over the next couple of weeks - so we're taking the opportunity to redo the breakfast room, and to put a fresh coat of paint on the bedrooms and public ....
I have often wondered about the series of walkways, roads and paths that lead from the centre of Melksham through the 'burbs and out into the fields to Redstocks and beyond, and Gypsy and I took the opportunity today to accompany Verity-Jane who "is commissioned to make a moving image work that look ....
I've always been impressed by the variety of food available at some hotels I've stayed in in the USA - from Italian to Japanese, from Mexican to Burgers, and from Pizza to Chicken. And I've rarely had the same variety available to me in Europe - even if a hotel is large and has an excellent restaur ....
The three major largest urban areas in Wiltshire are Salisbury (a city in the south of the county), Trowbridge (the county town, in the west of the county) and Chippenham (in the north of the county). All are part of the Wiltshire Unitary Authority area, with many facilities (public and private) av ....
Swindon to Trowbridge - transport and travel options
Swindon is a town that's so big it really should be a city. Trowbridge is the country town of Wiltshire, which more or less surrounds Swindon, and there's a great deal of business and commuter travel between the two.
If I want ideally to leave ....