The Well House Newsletter - Monday, 13th February 2012
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For the Webmaster, Postmaster and moderator Training from Well House Consultants Tcl, Tcl/Tk and Expect Running a training and hotel company Melksham Linux and Shell Programming The Perl Programming Language and its use Python Programming And also ... Apache HTTP and Tomcat Servers Fun and Flames Java and the Java Environment PHP - the language and its application SQL and MySQL Public Transport General Programming Topics Keynote Articles C and C++ Programming Well House Manor - Hotel and Training Centre Around, about and nearby to Wiltshire Ruby and Ruby on Rails Programming in Lua Client Side Languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
Keynote article ...

UK Mapping Data - and more to come - under government Open Data measures

Data that's been paid for by the taxpayer should be available to the taxpayer / public. Seems obvious, but it hasn't actually been the case in many instances. But in the last few months, the Government's Open Data measures have been moving us along towards more public availability of data that should be available.

It's not quite public domain - so I need to tell you that this map is based on OS data, and point you to a license [here]. But if you read that license, you'll find that I can abstract, adapt, re-use and include in my commercial product without payment of fees, though I must pass on the license or reference to it.


I've put other maps up on our web site too as a demonstration - Big Street map including Melksham - and I've only just started to explore that data that's available ... I'm going to be going on to look at Code Point Open, for example, which includes a mapping for all UK postcodes to OS Grid references. The list of valid postcodes alone will provide an excellent improvement to our validators, and there are all sites of exciting prospects by mapping them on top of the street and other OS maps.

(this article written on 2011-12-03)

Other articles ...

Linux and Shell Programming
[3448] Checking all the systems on a subnet, using Expect and Tk
[3446] Awk v Perl
[3256] Displaying a directory or file system tree - Linux
[3219] How do I become a Linux System Administrator?
[3143] On time
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Apache HTTP and Tomcat Servers
[3568] Telling which ServerAlias your visitor used - useful during merging domains - (new - 2012-01-04)
[3491] Who is knocking at your web site door? Are you well set up to deal with allcomers?
[3449] Apache Internal Dummy Connection - what is it and what should I do with it?
[3447] Needle in a haystack - finding the web server overload
[3443] Getting more log information from the Apache http web server
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C and C++ Programming
[3596] Want to learn iPad and iPhone programming? Come along and learn with me for free. - (new - 2012-01-28)
[3593] Chars, char arrays and strings in C. Some early cautions and pitfalls. - (new - 2012-01-26)
[3591] Integer types, and integer overflows, in C - (new - 2012-01-25)
[3590] Defining, declaring and initialising variables in C - (new - 2012-01-24)
[3587] C++ Courses - do I get official certification at the end of my Well House course? - (new - 2012-01-20)
Top or Show all for C and C++ Programming

Melksham
[3605] Snow comes to Melksham, Wiltshire - pictures - (new - 2012-02-10)
[3604] Melksham Campus - a blog you can read, and a place you can comment - (new - 2012-02-08)
[3598] Melksham Civic Awards - report and pictures - (new - 2012-01-29)
[3597] Niche businesses in Melksham. From glass painting to Tcl and Lua courses. - (new - 2012-01-29)
[3569] Images of the new year in Melksham - (new - 2012-01-05)
[3560] Melksham, Month by month through 2011 - (new - 2011-12-23)
Top or Show all for Melksham

Training from Well House Consultants
[3612] Help to get online in Melksham - (new - 2012-02-13)
[3600] Visa, MasterCard and American Express - changing payment profiles - (new - 2012-02-01)
[3588] Learning about how to help people learning - and retaining - (new - 2012-01-21)
[3586] Emergency First Aid Provision at Well House Manor - part of the service - (new - 2012-01-19)
[3559] Well House Consultants - Open Source Programming Courses for 2012 - (new - 2011-12-21)
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Running a training and hotel company
[3610] Training to do a job, or training to pass an exam? - (new - 2012-02-13)
[3594] Back to Uni - (new - 2012-01-26)
[3585] The changing Hotel and Bed and Breakfast business in Melksham - (new - 2012-01-18)
[3506] Cold call contacts - preference services and turning off spam sales approaches
[3440] Research is exciting. But should routine be automated?
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Well House Manor - Hotel and Training Centre
[3611] A customer thanks Well House Manor - (new - 2012-02-13)
[3552] Melksham Training Centre and Hotel internet speed - how does it compare? - (new - 2011-12-14)
[3549] Well House Manor - perhaps the best hotel rooms in Melksham
[3544] Looking for hotel rooms in Melksham over Christmas? We still have some availabiity
[3521] Emergency First Aid at Work (HSE) training in Melksham - places available for 19.1.2012
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For the Webmaster, Postmaster and moderator
[3599] Seeing how Melksham has changed over the years, via an iPad - (new - 2012-01-30)
[3589] Promoting a single one of your domains on the search engines - (new - 2012-01-22)
[3514] Microblogging - what I should have tweeted in the last 48 hours
[3480] Direct Message: Really horrible blog about you ... a clever phishing trip, said to be from an MP
[3457] Away to train - but still around by video for Melksham meetings
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General Programming Topics
[3609] How do classes relate to each other? Associated Classes - (new - 2012-02-12)
[3608] Design Patterns - what are they? Why use them? - (new - 2012-02-12)
[3607] Designing your application - using UML techniques - (new - 2012-02-11)
[3558] Python or Lua - which should I use / learn? - (new - 2011-12-21)
[3461] From flowchart to program - code design for the newcomer
Top or Show all for General Programming Topics

PHP - the language and its application
[3584] QR codes - graphics images that provide quick phone links - (new - 2012-01-18)
[3540] Easy session example in PHP - keeping each customers data apart
[3539] Separating program and artwork in PHP - easier maintainance, and better for the user
[3536] UK Mapping Data - and more to come - under government Open Data measures
[3534] Learning to program in PHP - Regular Expression and Associative Array examples
Top or Show all for PHP - the language and its application

Java and the Java Environment
[3573] New in Java 7 - and why we are not running public Java 7 courses - (new - 2012-01-08)
[3497] Not the same language - but based on the same constructs
[3365] Turning bright delegates into bright and knowledgable ones
[3048] String handling - from first steps to practical examples
[3047] What is a universal superclass? Java / Perl / Python / Other OO languages
Top or Show all for Java and the Java Environment

Around, about and nearby to Wiltshire
[3498] Which West Wilts Town? A picture quiz for you
[3382] What is the picture?
[3376] Kennet and Avon - Walk from Bedwyn to Pewsey. TransWilts day out.
[3341] Farewell to the Hercules?
[3284] What to do in the evening during a Tcl course
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The Perl Programming Language and its use
[3581] Perl - calls to methods that use => - what do they mean? - (new - 2012-01-16)
[3577] How to do multidimensional arrays (or rather lists and hashes) in Perl - (new - 2012-01-14)
[3574] Perl functions such as chop change their input parameters - (new - 2012-01-10)
[3548] Dark mornings, dog update, and Python and Lua courses before Christmas
[3547] Using Perl to generate multiple reports from a HUGE file, efficiently
Top or Show all for The Perl Programming Language and its use

Client Side Languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
[3563] How big is a web page these days? Does the size of your pages matter? - (new - 2011-12-26)
[3532] Sharing the user experience - designing a form with the customer in mind
[3517] Tags used in writing this blog
[3133] An image from a website that occasionally comes out as hyroglyphics
[3128] How does your browser find out about itself?
Top or Show all for Client Side Languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript)

Ruby and Ruby on Rails
[3435] Sorta sorting a hash, and what if an exception is NOT thrown - Ruby
[3431] Ruby at both extremes of your website
[3429] Searching through all the files in or below a directory - Ruby, Tcl, Perl
[3428] How many days to Christmas?
[3426] Automed web site testing scripted in Ruby using watir-webdriver
Top or Show all for Ruby and Ruby on Rails

SQL and MySQL
[3494] Databases - when to treat the rules as guidelines
[3361] Blowing our own trumpet - MySQL resources
[3270] SQL - Data v Metadata, and the various stages of data selection
[3269] Files or Databases? MySQL, SQLite, or Oracle?
[3139] Steering our Python courses towards wxPython, SQLite and Django
Top or Show all for SQL and MySQL

Tcl, Tcl/Tk and Expect
[3583] Expanding a list of parameters in Tcl - {*} and eval - (new - 2012-01-17)
[3582] Tcl collections - lists, dicts and array - (new - 2012-01-16)
[3576] Tcl - apparently odd behaviour of string trimleft - (new - 2012-01-13)
[3575] Multiple buttons calling the same proc in wish (tcl/tk) - (new - 2012-01-12)
[3572] Adding Expect on top of Tcl - what is it and where can I get a training course to learn about it? - (new - 2012-01-08)
[3571] Comparing loop commands in Tcl - (new - 2012-01-06)
[3570] Trapping errors in Tcl - the safety net that catch provides - (new - 2012-01-06)
Top or Show all for Tcl, Tcl/Tk and Expect

Programming in Lua
[3528] December courses - PHP, Python, Perl - and a weekend Lua course
[3524] Metaclasses (Python) and Metatables (Lua)
[3396] Tables as Objects in Lua - a gentle introduction to data driven programming
[3395] Parallel but not really parallel. Moving game characters. Coroutines in Lua.
[2949] Lua - variable function arguments and select
Top or Show all for Programming in Lua

Python Programming
[3555] Football league tables - under old and new point system. Python program. - (new - 2011-12-18)
[3554] Learning more about our web site - and learning how to learn about yours - (new - 2011-12-17)
[3551] Some terms used in programming (Biased towards Python)
[3519] Python - current versions and implementations (CPython, Jython, IronPython etc)
[3489] Python courses and Private courses - gently updating our product to keep it ahead of the game
Top or Show all for Python Programming

And also ...
[3606] Gypsy and Billy enjoy the snow - (new - 2012-02-10)
[3603] Another cold night - (new - 2012-02-03)
[3602] Emerging proposals for land to the east of Spa Road, Melksham - (new - 2012-02-03)
[3595] Looking up - (new - 2012-01-27)
[3592] Are we one man, one vote? No, and we never have been. - (new - 2012-01-26)
[3566] Initial thoughts - response to GW Rail Franchise Consultation for Wiltshire - (new - 2011-12-31)
[3562] Christmas Day - for unique pictures - (new - 2011-12-26)
[3561] Happy Christmas ... a Christmas morning walk in Melksham - (new - 2011-12-25)
[3557] Melksham Christmas Lights - Town, Shops and Private Houses - (new - 2011-12-20)
[3556] Aeryn at 1 - (new - 2011-12-19)
[3553] Changes to morning routines - (new - 2011-12-16)
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Public Transport
[3601] Rail Travel - has it become more unreliable? - (new - 2012-02-02)
[3580] Melksham Area - buses, trains, cycles, and roads. Meeting, 17.1.2012 - (new - 2012-01-15)
[3579] Transport in Cambridgeshire - seen by an outside observer. What can Wiltshire learn? - (new - 2012-01-15)
[3565] What would an appropriate train service on the TransWilts line mean - (new - 2011-12-31)
[3564] I wish I was not a special case - (new - 2011-12-29)
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Fun and Flames
[3462] Hangers, luggage and possessions
[3369] Local Council leads bans on many activities
[3302] Are you a half full or half empty person?
[3288] Random Questions ...
[3226] A busy morning for railway announcements
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Keynote Articles
[3164] Brown - or Mrs Sally Brown, accountant from Whitstable?
[2537] Faster network, but not faster browsing until ...
[2483] Clustering on Tomcat
[2384] Looking ahead to the Autumn season of training and accommodation
[2326] Learn a new programming language this summer.
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Unclassfied Articles
[3613] Keeping Business Local. But is that realistic? - (new - 2012-02-13)
[3578] A busy start to 2012 - (new - 2012-01-14)
[3567] First of the year - (new - 2012-01-01)
[3363] Should we take sponsored adverts on our site?
[3342] A Holiday
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For the Webmaster, Postmaster and moderator Training from Well House Consultants Tcl, Tcl/Tk and Expect Running a training and hotel company Melksham Linux and Shell Programming The Perl Programming Language and its use Python Programming And also ... Apache HTTP and Tomcat Servers Fun and Flames Java and the Java Environment PHP - the language and its application SQL and MySQL Public Transport General Programming Topics Keynote Articles C and C++ Programming Well House Manor - Hotel and Training Centre Around, about and nearby to Wiltshire Ruby and Ruby on Rails Programming in Lua Client Side Languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript)

A little more about this newsletter ...

At Well House Consultants, we run niche IT training courses ... and we run a hotel for delegates on those courses and other visitors to Melksham too. And we make a lot of friends - have a lot of ambassadors with whom we want to keep in touch. So every day Graham (that's me, writing this piece) puts together an article or two which might include the latest sample programs that I've written during the current course, new information about Well House Manor - our business hotel, tips on search engine optimisation, announcements of upcoming public courses, pictures of local places, and even (on occasions) rants and whimsical pieces to keep those friends up to date and in touch. The feeds are available directlt via the Blog - "The Horse's Mouth", they're on our Twitter Feed and you can find me at my LinkedIn profile. But most people just want to look us up occasionally - every month or two, and then to catch up on the latest news just for their particular subjects of interest ... and that's what this newsletter is about

You'll find above the titles of ALL the new articles written in the last two months, listed by major subject area, and showing as (new) with their date of publication. You'll find additional articles in each category too - topping each category up to a minimum of five articles. And you'll find a link at the end of each section which lets you expand that section to show the titles of every article that's been published in that section. After all, "the old ones are often the best ones", aren't they?

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