The "Wiltshire Intelligence Network" (based at County Hall, Trowbridge), ran a "Sense of Place" survey in 2008 asking people about there local areas, at the time the Wiltshire was going Unitary and the area boards were being set up. You can find a link to the surveys, area by area, [here]
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Is there some useful data on the web which you would like to use in your Perl script? If there is, go ahead and download it, grab the page, store it as a file and use it ... subject of course to copyright and re-use rules. But, alas, how can you then keep your Perl script up to date with current d ....
Some events and dates from our local history. Not all sources agree on some of the years quoted, and you may find a little duplication too ...
1086: At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) the capital, or chief, manor of Melksham was held by the crown. It was a large and valuable estate, which eve ....
There's so much going on in and around Melksham ... a handful of things like the Campus and the trains I know a little bit about; other things are going on in the background and I just hear the occasional updates ... and one of those is the Wilts and Berks Canal. I was heartened to be updated on F ....
We had the opportunity today to help take a boat down the Caen Hill flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon canal, between us and Devizes. And to catch up too with our old friends Aouali and Roddy and their family.
Some pictures of the boat and the surrounds. Enjoy, click on any image to see it la ....
I was triggered into writing this article by a thread on "Melksham People" - link [here] to open and read that thread in a new frame. I'm answering independently of that thread as my answer may turn out to be a long one, easier to read in a wider format and with pictures.
Last Monday, Sasha Heselti ....
I'm just a bit suspicious when I get a direct message on twitter, out of the blue, from an MP who's not my own. And I'm rather more suspicious when he tells me "Really horrible blog about you, might want to read this migre.me/6TEr5" ... for one thing, I'm sure he has better things to do, and for an ....
"We seem to be getting a lot of signups from Germany" - so said my fellow administrator on the First Great Western Coffee Shop forum. At first glance is something of a surprise, as this forum is "provided by a First Great Western Customer, for First Great Western customers" and First Great Western r ....
Python's unittest module - supplied within the base distribution - allows you to define and run a series of tests for a class or group of classes, and correlate the results, reporting any transgressions in a standard format without having the whole test sequence break.
Testing your code and obtaini ....
Python has no fewer that 4 GUIs (Graphics User Interfaces) in quite common use ... but none of them could be described as "prevelant", and in in case only a small proportion of Python users are making use of a GUI at all. It's always been an issue as to which Graphic User Interface (if any) we shoul ....