The Well House Newsletter - Monday, 1st September 2008
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Keynote article ...

The Longest Possible Day

I post here every day - or I try to at least. What is the longest possible gap between posts for me to leave, and still achieve that? Well - it's 48 hours and I'm very close to that today.

Not that it's been quiet - in fact I had my head down yesterday, taking a whole lot of pages that we transferred from the old server like the Open source Quiz pages and updating them to something more recent (quiz index, a quiz replacement page and some of the old questions), labelling images on pages for images searches at www.wwuu.co.uk, and loading Truetype fonts into our PHP installation, and enabling the necessary functions. This has allowed me - amongst other things to add dynamic wording on our First Great Western Train Running Diagram so that users of The Coffeeshop can see what's up at a glance, even on a day when there's a lot up. The we found that there were some sluggish responses from our server, which co-incidentally (?) always seem to come from at times when certain visitors are around. So they had to be looked into and dealt with on top of everything else, and as a matter of some priority.

Today has been "just" a Linux course - well, I say just a course but it's been fabulous fun as usual, and a great group of five, and it carries on tomorrow. Really rewarding course to give. Plus this, plus that, plus the other. But that's all lead to a gap that's going to be around 44 hours by the time I post his.

I was musing on the hotel side as to our longest gap between checkins. We have a lot of hotel guests from the USA, and they often arrive at Heathrow on morning flights before coming to Melksham, checking in to the hotel as early as 10 or 11 in the morning. If we know ahead of time, we're quite happy with this - especially at the start of the week, for a week's stay. And then at the end of the day, there are the people who spend a full day at home or work before travelling to their Melksham Hotel, perhaps not realising just how far it is for them - or guests who come in to Bristol Airport n the last flight from Dublin ... which then gets delayed. Again - we're quite open to this (we wouldn't be in the business if we weren't) but it can make for a mighty long day. Longest gap between checkins? On a Sunday - around 12 hours!
(this article written on 2008-08-26)

Other articles ...

Apache HTTP and Tomcat Servers
[1767] mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp - httpd - (new - 2008-08-22)
[1762] WEB-INF (Tomcat) and .htaccess (httpd) - (new - 2008-08-20)
[1761] Logging Cookies with the Apache httpd web server - (new - 2008-08-20)
[1749] Using server side and client side programming together - (new - 2008-08-11)
[1718] Increasing Java Virtual Machine memory for Tomcat - (new - 2008-07-24)
[1707] Configuring Apache httpd - (new - 2008-07-12)
Top or Show all for Apache HTTP and Tomcat Servers

C and C++ Programming
[1675] Comparing Objects in C++
[1674] What a lot of files! (C++ / Polymorphism demo)
[1671] Compiling C programs with gcc - an overview
[1670] Dynamic Memory Allocation in C
[1669] What are Unions (C programming)
Top or Show all for C and C++ Programming

Melksham
[1748] Hotel room prices - Melksham, Wiltshire - (new - 2008-08-11)
[1725] A future vision for Melksham - (new - 2008-07-27)
[1655] A date for your diary - 16th July 2008
[1654] The old sayings are the best (FSB)
[1642] Summer!
Top or Show all for Melksham

Training from Well House Consultants
[1693] July to December 2008 - Open Source training schedule - (new - 2008-07-01)
[1645] Seeing how others do it - PHP training
[1599] Fresher tutor, better course
[1577] Spring and early summer training courses
[1565] Languages compared - based on developer community size
Top or Show all for Training from Well House Consultants

Running a training and hotel company
[1760] An opportunity for something new - (new - 2008-08-20)
[1758] Lindors Hotel, near St. Briavels, Wye Valley - (new - 2008-08-18)
[1713] Ways to accept credit cards - or not! - (new - 2008-07-19)
[1698] Dealing with The Press - (new - 2008-07-06)
[1673] Spam Filters ... are working!
Top or Show all for Running a training and hotel company

Well House Manor - Hotel and Training Centre
[1706] The Story of Well House Manor - (new - 2008-07-12)
[1701] Training Course and Business Conference Technology - (new - 2008-07-07)
[1683] Plenty of car parking at Well House Manor, Hotel, Melksham
[1676] A warm welcome for visitors from the USA
[1499] Climate change, renewable resources and paper v plastic
Top or Show all for Well House Manor - Hotel and Training Centre

For the Webmaster, Postmaster and moderator
[1772] Ken Palm, iTime, and Domain Name Tasting - (new - 2008-08-25)
[1763] Co-operating to save, yet we dont - (new - 2008-08-21)
[1759] While the world sleeps ... - (new - 2008-08-19)
[1751] Public Training Course Dates until July 2009 - (new - 2008-08-13)
[1732] Old pictures and comparisons - (new - 2008-08-01)
[1711] Rapid growth leads to server move - (new - 2008-07-17)
Top or Show all for For the Webmaster, Postmaster and moderator

General Programming Topics
[1607] Learning to program in Perl
[1605] Learning and understanding scripting programming techniques
[1596] Selling curry to the chinese takeaway
[1543] Learning Object Oriented Principles (and perhaps Java)
[1538] Teaching Object Oriented Java with Students and Ice Cream
Top or Show all for General Programming Topics

PHP - the language and its application
[1779] Injection Attacks - avoiding them in your PHP - (new - 2008-08-31)
[1778] Pointing all the web pages in a directory at a database - (new - 2008-08-30)
[1768] What is built in to this httpd and PHP? - (new - 2008-08-23)
[1756] Ever had One of THOSE mornings? - (new - 2008-08-16)
[1752] Dynamic maps / geographics in PHP - (new - 2008-08-13)
[1747] Who is watching you? - (new - 2008-08-10)
[1739] Bath, Snake or Nag? - (new - 2008-08-06)
[1736] Current visitors from around the world - PHP - (new - 2008-08-04)
[1734] All around the world? - (new - 2008-08-03)
[1733] memcached - overview, installation, example of use in PHP - (new - 2008-08-02)
[1722] PHP examples - source code and try it out too - (new - 2008-07-26)
[1716] Larger applications in PHP - (new - 2008-07-22)
[1694] Defensive coding techniques in PHP? - (new - 2008-07-02)
Top or Show all for PHP - the language and its application

Java and the Java Environment
[1562] Java Compiler - needs all classes, compiles them all too
[1557] Trying out our Java examples on our web site
[1556] Java - a demonstration of inheritance on just one page
[1550] Java (JSP and Servlet examples) live on our server
[1502] Java, sorting, ArrayList example, generics
Top or Show all for Java and the Java Environment

Around, about and nearby to Wiltshire
[1710] At the Westbury Bypass Enquiry - (new - 2008-07-15)
[1635] Spring in Devizes
[1625] Box from end to end
[1612] Comfy Chair - Floating Harbour, Bristol
[1611] Gauging point at entrance to Bristols Floating Harbour
Top or Show all for Around, about and nearby to Wiltshire

The Perl Programming Language and its use
[1753] Perl v PHP, choosing the right language - (new - 2008-08-14)
[1750] Glorious (?) 12th August - what a Pe(a)rl! - (new - 2008-08-12)
[1728] A short Perl example - (new - 2008-07-30)
[1727] Equality and looks like tests - Perl - (new - 2008-07-29)
[1726] Hot Courses - Perl - (new - 2008-07-28)
[1721] Perl 6 - When will we have a production release? - (new - 2008-07-26)
[1717] Q - Should I use Perl or Python? - (new - 2008-07-23)
[1709] There is more that one way - Perl - (new - 2008-07-14)
[1705] Environment variables in Perl / use Env - (new - 2008-07-11)
[1704] Finding operating system settings in Perl - (new - 2008-07-10)
[1703] Perl ... adding to a list - end, middle, start - (new - 2008-07-09)
[1702] Running operating system commands in Perl - (new - 2008-07-08)
Top or Show all for The Perl Programming Language and its use

Client Side Languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
[1681] Adding a button to a web page to print the page
[1677] CSS training - Cascading Style Sheets (UK course)
[1630] To provide external links, or not?
[1618] A small picture does not always cut it!
[1519] Flipping images on your web page
Top or Show all for Client Side Languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript)

Ruby and Ruby on Rails
[1720] Some Ruby lesser used functions - (new - 2008-07-26)
[1588] String interpretation in Ruby
[1587] Some Ruby programming examples from our course
[1586] Variable types in Ruby
[1582] Ruby, C, Java and more - getting out of loops
Top or Show all for Ruby and Ruby on Rails

SQL and MySQL
[1771] More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java - (new - 2008-08-24)
[1766] Diagrams to show you how - Tomcat, Java, PHP - (new - 2008-08-22)
[1754] Upgrade from PHP 4 to PHP 5 - the TRY issue - (new - 2008-08-15)
[1735] Finding words and work boundaries (MySQL, Perl, PHP) - (new - 2008-08-03)
[1731] Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP - installation procedure - (new - 2008-08-01)
[1724] addslashes v mysql_real_escape_string in PHP - (new - 2008-07-27)
Top or Show all for SQL and MySQL

Tcl, Tcl/Tk and Expect
[1614] When an array is not an array
[1613] Regular expression for 6 digits OR 25 digits
[1602] Automating processes through Expect
[1601] Replacing the last comma with an and
[1531] Expecting a item from a list of possibles
Top or Show all for Tcl, Tcl/Tk and Expect

Programming in Lua
[1744] Lua examples, Lua Courses - (new - 2008-08-08)
[1743] First class functions in Lua lead to powerful OO facilities - (new - 2008-08-07)
[1742] Lua - Table elements v table as a whole - (new - 2008-08-07)
[1738] Clean code, jump free (Example in Lua) - (new - 2008-08-06)
[1737] Rules, suggestions, considerations for Lua variable names - (new - 2008-08-05)
[1699] If you are learning Lua, here are some more examples - (new - 2008-07-06)
[1697] Sorting in lua - specifying your own sort routine - (new - 2008-07-05)
[1695] Lua Course - here is the index - (new - 2008-07-03)
[1692] Towards Object Oriented Programming in Lua - (new - 2008-06-30)
Top or Show all for Programming in Lua

Python Programming
[1745] Moodle, Drupal, Django (and Rails) - (new - 2008-08-08)
[1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ... - (new - 2008-07-04)
[1663] Python in an afternoon - a lecture for experienced programmers
[1661] Equality, sameness and identity - Python
[1644] Using a utility method to construct objects of different types - Python
Top or Show all for Python Programming

And also ...
[1776] Does fruit and veg drag on? - (new - 2008-08-28)
[1775] Easterholic - (new - 2008-08-28)
[1770] 3 hours from Milton Keynes - (new - 2008-08-24)
[1769] July child ponders on August children - (new - 2008-08-23)
[1755] Istanbul - (new - 2008-08-15)
[1746] London for the visitor, for free - (new - 2008-08-09)
[1740] Vertical London - (new - 2008-08-06)
[1730] Punting on the Cam - (new - 2008-07-31)
[1715] Pictures from South Hampshire - (new - 2008-07-21)
[1714] Hillier Gardens, Hampshire - (new - 2008-07-20)
[1652] Old Sarum airfield brings back fond memories
[1643] A lack of technical content
[1639] Minehead Marauder
[1638] Pictures far apart
[1631] Looking back through some photos
[1627] Amazing family members
[1624] From Freddie the fallow
[1620] Norwich and London
[1617] Steam Engines at Bressingham
[1591] Easter Sunday at 404, The Spa
[1590] All Change, Portsmouth Harbour
[1579] Rome, and the faith of Rome
[1573] Budget tax increases hit vehicle market
[1570] London Midland ... Merrymaker ... Percy Danks
[1546] The geometry of East London
[1540] Chinese New Year
[1537] To Wales - where theres still a toll on the bridge
[1536] A Weekend in Liverpool
[1526] Carers at work - court case changes
[1524] Nottingham - just text!
[1522] Paging Martin Noke, who petitions for more trains from Trowbridge to Swindon
[1489] Pictures of December
[1484] A christmas message
[1483] What have hotels and bananas got in common?
[1481] The Christmas Letter
[1462] 10 training days to Christmas.
[1460] Christmas fare in Ljubljana
[1457] A day in Ljubljana
[1456] Right up to the top of the City
[1454] From Sunday to Monday, from Melksham to the Balkans
[1425] Melksham v Ely
[1400] Dark Dawn
[1398] Someone else's wedding
[1392] Autumnal lighting on a London trip
[1386] New software product for warmblooded programmers
[1385] Delegates of all shapes and sizes
[1309] Dates for Easter - 2008 to 2015
[1308] Good to be home
[1307] Troy, up state New York
[1303] Heading Upstate New York
[1299] In the USA for a few days
[1298] From Leeds
[1293] Weymouth - Sunny Summer Sunday afternoon
[1279] The Gdansk fireball
[1275] Incident in Melksham
[1272] Behind closed doors?
[1269] Party in the Park - review
[1260] An inspirational business talk from one of our prospective MPs
[1247] An afternoon at a public enquiry
[1244] FolksFest Bristol - German beer, Bratwurst and music
[1238] The kind spirit of Melksham
[1234] A review of a week and a trip to Brugge
[1233] Horses of Brugge
[1231] Sur le Continent
[1229] Where am I?
[1216] Five of the best - pictures from London
[1214] New Serieses for the summer on TV
[1209] Where did the Bank Holiday go?
[1204] Spot the difference
[1197] Back off home with our best wishes
[1189] Meet, greet and welcome
[1178] Ducking stool for Melksham?
[1175] Local elections - choosing who to vote for
[1172] May day 2007 in pictures
[1162] Cheddleton, Staffordshire
[1152] Course, right place, right time
[1151] Gordon Dodge, R.I.P.
[1150] Helsinki - what comes naturally
[1147] A picture (mostly in words) of Helsinki
[1143] A course in Helsinki
[1138] The Holiday - unlikely romantic comedy?
[1135] Government pressure on me to shut up after I make the papers
[1120] 1200 miles in 3 days
[1119] The Last Word on the road
[1109] False imprisonment - a contrast from the news
[1107] Weekend Visitors
[1100] Wondering where I have been
[1099] Passenger flows
[1065] Graham Ellis - an Introduction
[1064] Light and shadows at Beach
[1061] Take vehicles off the road - put all the passengers into one
[1060] What a relief from the tax office.
[1057] Selling by phone and Skype - our policy
[1056] Another frantic posting!
[1051] Too busy to blog it - but it's great (mostly)
[1032] Chronic fatigue help - a new discussion forum
[1025] Tomorrow's keywords - London, Training, Course, PHP, Ruby.
[1014] Christmas Season Piccies
[1005] Stirling at night
[1004] Old dog, old tricks
[1003] Room at the Inn, Guy at the station
[992] Enthusiastic, but ....
[980] Street Scene
[978] Wellhouse Manor, Hotel, Melksham
[967] Realistic on line shoot'em up
[958] Plain Ole nice pictures
[953] Christmas in November
[921] French Exchange
[911] Letter Home
[908] And so to Inverness
[905] Not proud to be British
[897] Too much for the National Trust
[886] Signs of Leek
[882] Rocks, hard places, trains and funerals.
[878] Easy criteria to meet
[875] Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
[870] Autumn comes to Wiltshire.
[843] To join an organisation?
[820] Robert and William Whitworth
[817] Working on Weekend in Wiltshire and others
[810] A bad place for security firms
[794] Perl delegate - much more than just a delegate
[786] First Light, Bootle Docks, Liverpool
[780] Separation and Integration
[778] Weekend in Ireland
[777] On Crosby sands
[772] Training in Liverpool
[771] From cat breeder to Cobol to Perl
[763] Much more that the world cup
[752] Over zealous police activity?
[750] Almost everyone loses
[744] We can offer a room, but we can't operate on a dog
[740] Finishing up in Dhahran
[730] Reading the newspaper and working with other restrictions
[727] A journey, an arrival, a people
[724] Helping mental health through diet, exercise and other lifestyle matters
[713] Pictures from my travels
[706] May day away
[704] Erin Brent - rest in peace
[700] As I walked in to Oxford
[698] Catch up weekend
[696] Is than an uphill or downhill task?
[692] Healthier eating
[685] A couple of days away
[684] Staying in the country
[682] Iran has enriched uranium ...
[678] Why are maps rarely to scale?
[674] Wiltshire to get an extra MP
[671] Both ends of the animal
[670] Architectural Heritage - Devizes
[655] Can some food be TOO different?
[654] Making use of disabled facilities
[650] A person of few words
[645] Lost Camel
[637] Carnival
[635] Odd one out.
[625] February pictures
[623] Behind every face is a person and a story
[620] Familiar names, close to home
[614] News in Ireland
[613] Greetings from Dublin
[612] Coming or going?
[611] Look out for the motor cyclist
[607] On being British
[605] Design your day with a walk
[602] MP face to face
[601] A fond memory of Sir Freddie
[584] Loosing breath with Gerald
[580] What to do with milk
[573] Giving an excuse for Christmas
[557] A new sign
[548] San Francisco
[543] The world didn't stop for Christmas
[541] Christmas is for everyone
[540] Christmas Party
[539] rich and famous
[530] Perl course during the week, getting married at the weekend
[518] Passport office - a much improved system
[516] Open source questions? Anyone can ask.
[505] Would you steal ... petrol? ... a training course?
[473] Looking different in town
[469] Yesterday was Kiss and Ride
[455] A Stengthening day
[446] Up early
[429] Charlie on Monday
[423] A Victorian Lady
[420] Towards Tebay
[416] Mixing up swallows and martins
[415] Campaign Drift and efficiency.
[412] Bristol Balloon Festival
[403] Full circle - made it back to an old haunt
[392] No Smoking
[388] BBQ Season
[384] Managing conflict and disappointment
[377] A Strengthened City
[374] Instant availability
[373] Vik, Iceland to Melksham, England
[370] From Iceland
[368] Vacation Week
[365] Letterbox Pictures
[363] Greetings from Edinburgh
[360] Spring turns to Summer
[335] Sad priorities
[330] An O level comes in handy
[326] UK Tax payment totals and where the money is spent
[313] Making bona fide international marriages more difficult
[301] General Election day, UK
[298] Sharing pictures of Wiltshire
[289] MP for Devizes, Wiltshire
[283] Natural or man-made?
[280] Spotted - the local MP
[275] See 8 but buy 6. See 6 but you can buy 8.
[271] Different course every day
[258] Easter at Well House Consultants
[257] Politics gets nasty. Must be an election coming up.
[238] Difficulties with a trolley
[232] Diverse activities
[228] Beard Justification
[218] Golden Nugget
[216] Cheap purchase - votes paid for with selfish promises
[214] Futility of war?
[207] Canteen Dragon
[206] Fox and Python
[186] Lull
[178] Calling a spade a spade
[169] A pleasure to train
[162] A Change is as good as a rest
[161] Christmas break
[149] Fish stocks
[147] Recent technical articles
[131] Thanksgiving dinner
[110] Friday, busy week!
[106] Far from the sea, but close to the heart
[102] The Romans got it right
[100] Life is frail
[97] What makes a professional photographer?
[96] Variable Scope
[92] Hard work, Hard sell
[81] Caf[83][c2]á keyboards
[70] Red Luas - early life and times
[66] A Taste of Ireland
[65] Ireland
[62] Technical Open House
[60] Birth Notice
[35] Autumn arrives right on time
[33] 10 Years of experience
[30] Bank Holiday
[26] Matching Cat
[21] two plus two equals seven
[20] Not two the same
[19] interesting products and subjects
[14] London - Most expensive city??
[8] How much does fuel cost for an airline flight?
Top or Show all for And also ...

Public Transport
[1777] The Rise and Rise of First Bus Fares - (new - 2008-08-29)
[1757] Preserved railways - struggling to the future? - (new - 2008-08-17)
[1729] Back from the future - (new - 2008-07-30)
[1723] Bath - Melksham - Devizes. Bus route changes, new timetable - (new - 2008-07-26)
[1708] A Train Service Update for Melksham Party in the Park - (new - 2008-07-13)
Top or Show all for Public Transport

Fun and Flames
[1741] Age Concern - (new - 2008-08-07)
[1662] Westonbirt Arboretum Postcode
[1604] M25 / South Mimms Service Area
[1440] Useful command or messy screen?
[1349] Cash is not an acceptable way of paying
Top or Show all for Fun and Flames

Keynote Articles
[1773] The Longest Possible Day - (new - 2008-08-26)
[1414] What we teach - expained for the non-technical
[1317] 2008 course schedule - Perl, Python, PHP, Linux, Java Deployment, Ruby and more
[1245] Ensuring that our tutor answers YOUR questions
[898] Courses at Well House Manor
Top or Show all for Keynote Articles

Linux and Shell Programming
[1774] What is my real and my effective ID? [Linux] - (new - 2008-08-27)
[1765] Dialects of English and Unix - (new - 2008-08-21)
[1764] Yank and Push - copy and move in vi - (new - 2008-08-21)
[1719] A special day - last Friday in July - (new - 2008-07-25)
[1712] As different as night and tyres - (new - 2008-07-18)
[1700] FTP server on Fedora Linux - (new - 2008-07-06)
Top or Show all for Linux and Shell Programming

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

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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