Easter Morning - breakfast for guests at Well House Manor. Afternoon - a walk down to the Kennet and Avon Canal (loads more pictures to follow).
"Come as a customer, leave as a friend." It's a long drive from Rosyth to Melksham. And the last thing you want when you arrive is to find that your accom ....
SVG Elements can be specified in terms of absolute co-ordinates of fixed pixel positions - and these two images which are generated from the same SVG file illustrate how that difference can be used to generate an image which varies as the window in which is called up - but it varies only in parts. ....
I have long wished that I could specify vector graphics in a browser ... and at long last I can say "most modern browsers support SVG" - as it's supported in IE9, as well as the other common browsers.
Well - Scalable Vector Graphics says what it does on the box, although in this example I'm using ....
Towards the end of our programming language training courses, we pull together all the various strands into a worked example that shows how they go together. I've just posted such an example from last week's Ruby Programming Course ... [here].
Let's have a look at some of the things in the example ....
There's some 700 technical books in the Well House Consultants library in Melksham, and several hundred other books too on the shelves at Well House Manor, making for a comfortable and relaxing room where the geekier of our guests can read about MySQL, Lua, or Ruby, and the less geeky folks can read ....
This morning, I walked around Melksham's town centre really early, popping reminders about next Tuesday morning though the letterboxes on the various business doors. I love these walks around - it gives me a chance to look, to observe, and to think. And it's quick - they say that an errand th ....
If there are eight of us at a meeting, how many possibilities are there for a pair of people to stongly disagree? The answer turns out to be 28. And if you look at subgoups of 3, looking for everyone to have the same opinion within the subgroup, the answer is many more.
If there are eight stations ....
How can you display your whole file tree on a Linux system? With the tree command!
|-- abo
|-- access_log
|-- adarrivals.txt
|-- adhoc_private
| |-- adhoc.conf
| |-- businesslogic.inc
| |-- page_layout.htp
|&nbs ....
If you're wanting to process every member of an array, you've a choice ... you can write a loop to step through the key of each member, you can write a loop to step through each member itself, or you can call a method which operates on the array as a whole (i.e. the loop is hidden within a method. ....
Has it ever struck you as curious that in many languages, you can pass as many parameters into a function as you like, but you can only return one? Well - that's many language not all - in Ruby you can return a whole series of values in a comma separated list, and place each into its own variable.
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