I first walked the Kennet and Avon canal from Pewsey to Bedwyn in the early 1970s ... in those days I lived in Kent, and travelled down on the only morning train to call at Pewsey, picking up a two hourly stopper back from Bedwyn later in the day. And in those days, the canal was weed infested, th ....
If you have a long running program, how do you monitor its progress?
You could use tail -f on an output file ... but there are other options too.
a) You can output a progress line; there's an example of this from the recent Perl for Larget Projects course ... [here].
b) You can trap ^C ... and ev ....
On Friday morning - our Perl for Larger Project course - I was looking at coding efficiency / run speed with delegates. As an example, we took a data file from our web server logs - some 23 Mbytes of data, comprising about 121,000 lines, of which 1099 contained the word "melksham" in lower case.
T ....
Most businesses are seasonal, and have a peak time of day and peak day of the week too when they're rushed too, with other times of the day or week being much quieter.
With the school holidays now started, you might expect that we would have gaps in our training program, and that people would be a ....
I felt - I admit it - a bit of a scruff as I turned up on Monday morning for a course in London, carrying my laptop and other paraphanalia in a pack rather than a briefcase. But ... looking from the top of my No. 25 bus as I rode to my hotel, I came to realise that actually I'm rathe ....
There are three trains on Summer Sunday mornings this year ...
From SWINDON at 08:20, CHIPPENHAM at 08:35, MELKSHAM at 08:45, TROWBRIDGE at 08:55 and WESTBURY at 09:12, getting to Weymouth at 10:42
From TROWBRIDGE at 09:42 and WESTBURY at 10:13, getting to Weymouth at 13:10
From TROWBRIDGE at 10:01 ....
Crammed into the 18:06 Paddington to Frome ... trying the "can I take a picture from my laptop and post before Twyford" challenge.
Yep - still under the wires - isn't the technology great. ....
We had a fantastic day out in Weymouth yesterday - it's really GREAT than we can make this trip on Summer Sundays now, by train all the way from Chippenham or Melksham.
I was struck as we walked around as to what an active role the local council has taken in putting up signage telling you what yo ....
We offer overnight (hotel) accommodation at Well House Manor - and we take pride in providing high quality rooms for business and leisure guests who are visiting Melksham. Many of our visitors "vote with their feet" and come back to stay the next time they're in the area. And many become our ambass ....
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