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10 years and counting
I've now been online for 10 years - "into double figures" - (and computing for much longer). How things have changed over those ten years!
When I first got online, I was the European Technical Support Manager for a USA company known as Connectware - a part ot the AMP empire - that was looking to break into the high performance networking business using ATM technology, and also owned the RasterFlex and Vitec lines of high performance graphics board for use in Sun workstations. "The Internet" was to be this new-fangled way of communicating and my boss asked me to look into it as a better way than faxes and phone of communication with customers in some circumstances.
Based in Basingstoke, I signed the company up for an account with Demon - initially dialling in to a rack of modems in London, but improved soon thereafter when they added a POP ("point of presence") just up the road in Reading. In those early days, we spend up to half an hour at time dialling until we got through to make a connection, lines dropped frequently, and the main internet services ("killer apps" as they were known) were email and the newsgroups.
The Internet has opened up a whole new world for me - for both work and personally; great times in the past 10 years and long may they continue. Wouldn't have missed anyone or anything. (this article written on 2005-02-23) |
Other articles ...
[49] Business is the predominant user of Tomcat, Perl and Tcl
[46] Near and far security
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[176] Extra chips
- (new - 2005-01-12)[58] Call Centres, selling, and a pause for thought
[51] Gym and swimming - Melksham Blue Pool
[47] Effective fundraising
[40] Take the train to training
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[224] YOUR application and YOUR data
- (new - 2005-02-22)[221] Lunchtime Drink
- (new - 2005-02-20)[219] Some unusual features
- (new - 2005-02-18)[215] Open Source becomes mainstream
- (new - 2005-02-14)[213] Off to Munich
- (new - 2005-02-13)[201] 0870 telephone numbers
- (new - 2005-02-03)[199] Post course support - part of the service
- (new - 2005-02-02)[196] An Open Source course on the Channel Islands
- (new - 2005-01-31)[191] Setting up a training room for a course
- (new - 2005-01-27)[181] Maximum number of trainees on a course
- (new - 2005-01-18)[174] Contrast - the storm and the calm.
- (new - 2005-01-10)[172] Public courses in London
- (new - 2005-01-07)[170] MySQL, Java, PHP and Linux - new technical articles
- (new - 2005-01-06)[168] Welcoming Leah Davies to our team
- (new - 2005-01-04)[167] Upgrade to the Library
- (new - 2005-01-03)[163] Introduction fees, bonuses, commissions, kickbacks
- (new - 2004-12-29)
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[226] Growing our systems
- (new - 2005-02-24)[217] Use of time
- (new - 2005-02-16)[211] Look after your staff and they'll look after you. AOL.
- (new - 2005-02-12)[203] Holes in on line information
- (new - 2005-02-05)[200] Tips for the top
- (new - 2005-02-03)[198] A new skill may not be quick and easy
- (new - 2005-02-02)[195] Customer service - examples to warn us
- (new - 2005-01-30)[189] Tuesdays and Fridays
- (new - 2005-01-25)[188] Pink elephant and appreciation
- (new - 2005-01-24)[180] Skunk works
- (new - 2005-01-17)[171] Skills and techniques of being a successful trainer
- (new - 2005-01-06)
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[231] Feedback as lifeblood
- (new - 2005-02-28)[229] A fortunate accident
- (new - 2005-02-27)[222] Who are all these visitors?
- (new - 2005-02-20)[204] The confidence to allow public comments
- (new - 2005-02-06)[197] Allow for peak traffic on your web site
- (new - 2005-02-01)[194] Published Photographer
- (new - 2005-01-30)[185] Who am I?
- (new - 2005-01-21)[182] Your personal Google ranking
- (new - 2005-01-19)[179] The hunt for unique words
- (new - 2005-01-16)[177] Blogs come of age
- (new - 2005-01-14)[173] Data Mining
- (new - 2005-01-09)[165] Implementing an effective site search engine
- (new - 2005-01-01)
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[227] Bellringing and Programming and Objects and Perl
- (new - 2005-02-25)[209] FAQ - Perl or PHP
- (new - 2005-02-11)[202] Searching for numbers
- (new - 2005-02-04)[148] Programming in isolation
[116] The next generation of programmer
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[223] There is a function in PHP to do that
- (new - 2005-02-21)[205] PHP5 lets you say no
- (new - 2005-02-07)[135] Too many Perls
[132] Portrait of the author
[123] Short underground journeys and a PHP book
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[127] Conversion and coercion in Java
[124] PHP v Java
[111] Training notes available under Open Distribution license
[79] Last day of Java
[42] Do languages change?
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[230] Course sizes - beware of marketing statistics
- (new - 2005-02-27)[140] Comparison Chart for Perl programmers - list functions
[138] Perl - redo and last without a loop
[113] A Parallel for Perl 6
[112] Avoid the wheel being re-invented by using Perl modules
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[184] MTBF of coffee machines
- (new - 2005-01-20)
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[193] The wrong MySQL
- (new - 2005-01-29)[192] Current MySQL and PHP paths and upgrades
- (new - 2005-01-28)[175] Worthwhile
- (new - 2005-01-11)[159] MySQL - Optimising Selects
[158] MySQL - LEFT JOIN and RIGHT JOIN, INNER JOIN and OUTER JOIN
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[212] Tcl/Tk (wish) Grid layout example
- (new - 2005-02-12)[210] Joining lists in Tcl. Indirect variables in Tcl.
- (new - 2005-02-12)[146] example of Tcl namespaces and packages
[144] Tcl sandwich - lists in Tcl
[133] Tcl embeds
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[208] Examples - Gadfly, NI Number, and Tcl to C interface
- (new - 2005-02-10)[190] Python engines
- (new - 2005-01-26)[183] The elegance of Python
- (new - 2005-01-19)[114] Relative or absolute milkman
[105] Distance Learning
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[228] Beard Justification
- (new - 2005-02-26)[218] Golden Nugget
- (new - 2005-02-17)[216] Cheap purchase - votes paid for with selfish promises
- (new - 2005-02-15)[214] Futility of war?
- (new - 2005-02-13)[207] Canteen Dragon
- (new - 2005-02-09)[206] Fox and Python
- (new - 2005-02-08)[186] Lull
- (new - 2005-01-22)[178] Calling a spade a spade
- (new - 2005-01-15)[169] A pleasure to train
- (new - 2005-01-05)
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[187] a popular bus number
- (new - 2005-01-23)[154] Railway train service, Melksham station
[119] PHP course. Come by train.
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[156] Signage
[151] Coffee Standards
[94] Special change
[90] Rude old people
[87] Too sittings
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[225] 10 years and counting
- (new - 2005-02-23)[164] Well House Consultants - review of 2004
- (new - 2004-12-31)
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[166] Acronyms
- (new - 2005-01-02)[153] Linux - where to put swap space
[152] Aladdin, or careful what you wish.
[74] pushd and popd
[73] vi - full circle
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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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