Friday Night was the Mayor's Reception - an event to which all the dignitaries from neighbouring towns are invited (and they turn up in full regalia), and at which civic awards are handed out. I received an invite and attended as a representative of the Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry. W ....
Melksham has a number of excellent shops and other establishments selling niche products and services - things that you won't find in other nearby towns or (in some cases) in any other towns at all. Do you know what is behind each of the shop fronts? Do you walk into the new shops to see what's ....
I'm learning Objective C. The language itself doesn't look too difficult, nor do the elements of how it's used on the iPad and iPhone for App programming. But there's an awful lot of content to those elements - a lot of putting together to see the complete picture. My target is to end up knowing O ....
You can walk through a city and see the street ... and you can glance upwards too and see far more than the street - some incredible architecture, both old and modern. Click on any image to see it larger.
London, late afternoon and early evening yesterday ....
We're trainers so we should be (and we are) advocates of training courses. And that means attending appropriate training, as well as giving it. Those readers who've been on our courses may well have heard me talk about how I have traveled far and wide to learn from the people at the heart of Perl ....
A char in C is a single byte variable, and a string in an array of chars (i.e. a series of chars held in successive memory addresses) and terminated by a null (\0).
Because of this need for a terminator, you need to allocate one ADDITIONAL byte of memory / character position than the maximum number ....
"One man, one vote" they say. Hmmm - it's not really like that when it comes to elections, and it never really has been. After a lunchtime discussion yesterday, I started exploring various sites to learn what was going on while I waited for various long backups / downloads / upgrades to run. And ....
C offers you the ability to define a whole variety of integer types:
short int my_number;
int my_number;
long int my_number;
typically occupying 16, 32 and 64 bits of memory (but that is NOT a standard, and you may find different on some systems). And the amount ....
When you declare a variable in C, you're instructing the compiler to set memory aside for it, and you're also telling the compiler how to handle any references to that memory.
• C does NOT spend time working out what sort of data you're storing and how many bytes are needed - it's up to you ....
We have a number of different domains offering information about our courses, and technical content too. There's www.wellho.net which is our main, worldwide site. But then there's www.wellho.co.uk which carries information with a U.K. bias and mobile.wellho.net which presents for the smaller screen ....