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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!
[1672] The Composting Cone Challenge
[1637] Providing exceptional service - and carrying on doing so.
[1626] Early May - a short chance to regroup and improve
[1622] An extra step - victory from defeat
[1606] Sheep Shearers, Marathon Runners and Ocean Sailors
[1597] Comparing hotels - as a guest and from the proprietors view
[1585] Well House Consultants / Manor - Staff
[1580] Congratulations, Martin and Marta
[1571] Await guests in the early hours
[1548] Hotelympia - show report - the lighter side
[1547] New bathing idea for hotels from Hotelympia
[1525] Just one thing let the service down - but that is my memory
[1520] Terms and Conditions - Hotel, England - plain English
[1516] Pictures you can use - for free - from our library
[1490] Software to record day to day events and keep an action list
[1458] The wrong way to put up prices
[1453] What makes our courses special?
[1445] Looking after you Christmas Customer Crowds
[1441] On cancellations, rebooking, and pricing schemes
[1434] Market survey - to learn, to prove a point, or to sell your product?
[1433] Linux, PHP, Tcl, Ruby, C, C++ - last minute training course availability
[1422] Wiltshire - speaker / after dinner talker offer
[1421] Castle Lodge Hotel, Ely, Cambridgeshire
[1413] The little gestures that can really count
[1406] Away or home - which do I prefer?
[1393] First Alternative / what has happened there?
[1374] Maidenhead Coffee Challenge
[1373] New Month, New Quarter, New Laws
[1371] Hotel in Melksham at Christmas
[1369] One business, four different angles!
[1356] Crystal Ball - How long do I need to be online?
[1354] Match the Bedroom to the Hotel
[1347] Wireless Internet Access at hotels - an update and some pitfalls
[1333] Kasteel Elsloo - Michelin rated hotel.
[1324] Well House Manor appoints a General Manager
[1319] Customer feedback - lifeblood of a business
[1311] What do people look for on a hotel web site?
[1301] Plastic or China
[1287] Work and play at Well House Manor - Football and Shell Shortcuts
[1285] In the army, or in civvie street?
[1262] Keep in touch with PHP, Perl, Python and old friends too
[1248] How NOT to oversell a hotel
[1243] Heavy duty hole punch
[1211] A lot has happened in a year
[1205] Arrival and Departure experiences - another hotel
[1180] Conjugation
[1179] Sizing sheets and other domestic issues
[1165] Extended Credit request - train in June and be paid in September
[1161] A contrast in room rates and facilities
[1159] It can take more that one plus one to get two.
[1122] Hotel - online feedback forms compared
[1108] Express service
[1105] A week is a long time in the life of a conference centre
[1098] Three big events - TWSW, Business of the year and the police
[1091] The Psyche is all wrong.
[1090] Too many instructions, too much detail
[1087] Telling a story in different ways
[1084] Writing terms and conditions for conferences and other events
[1083] Behind the scenes
[1048] Getting rid of people - hotel techniques
[1046] Bounce, bounce, bounce
[1026] The Wheatsheaf 2, The Bell 0
[1022] No courses. No hotel guests. Rushed off our feet!
[1011] Well House Manor and Beechfield House, Hotels, Melksham
[1007] Friends and family
[1002] Meet the neighbours
[1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong
[988] You should think you're first in a hotel room
[982] Notes from the white board
[979] Empty seats, Nodding Donkeys and buses
[972] Both one team and two
[966] CSL, KISS and RTFM
[961] Products that our customers want more of
[951] What happened at Geekmas
[944] Just ******* Google it
[941] Snagging
[939] Swipe cards for hotel rooms - Security issues
[932] A tale of a wee wall
[931] Before and After - Well House Manor
[927] Hotel door furniture
[922] Staying at your own hotel
[906] A commitment we won't be making
[902] Brand new hotel and training centre, Melksham
[895] Welcome, Martin
[894] Where quality costs less
[890] Open
[884] Drive time
[883] Age discrimination law
[881] Coming together.
[869] UNABLE TO ATTEND
[868] Smoking, or no
[862] 4 weeks to go
[858] From the Manor written
[855] Fitting our bathrooms
[852] Eventful evening - a lesson in looking after contacts
[849] Staff Meeting
[844] Hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire
[838] Talking about other training companies.
[816] Above the parapit, Well House Manor
[813] Monday Morning at Well House Consultants Melksham
[808] Sales call
[797] Writing up new C / C++ notes.
[774] Bed and Breakfast, or Hotel?
[769] King Edward VII - days of empire
[766] Discounts and approved supplier lists
[759] Watch your Google profile
[756] Seeing the bricks for the trees
[751] Want to be a technical trainer in the UK?
[742] A visit from the solicitor
[739] The eye
[736] New Tape Librarian
[734] Keeping customers informed by email
[729] Career development advice
[725] Better communication
[722] I'm answering a job applicant
[721] Residential
[720] Planning a hotel refurb - an example of a Gant chart in PHP
[714] Room for Octopuses
[699] Extremes costs of getting on line
[693] The on line booking experience
[677] Sympathetic development
[652] Morning Post
[628] Active Learning
[627] JIT or JAU
[621] And the staff put the icing on the cake
[619] If its Sunday, it must be the Norland
[609] Been on a course, but still not got it?
[587] Job vacancy - double agent wanted
[585] Looking for Python staff
[571] Well House Manor
[569] Instructions for bright people
[566] May all your screw-ups be big ones
[555] Hotel novelties
[552] Keeping Customers Informed
[545] Is training seasonal?
[536] Cancellations and penalties
[514] Crazy Day-sies
[503] 10 years C# knowledge please
[491] Being atypical is typical
[487] On line course booking - credit card protection
[482] Different ways of selling
[480] New look to website
[470] I wanna be a Python trainer
[467] Tell them three times
[458] Final courses of '05 coming up ....
[457] Do the work and take the risk - a PHP contract to avoid
[440] Upgrade!
[438] Fair system for travel and accommodation expenses
[408] Can an older person learn a programming language
[407] Theft of training material
[402] Netless
[399] simplicity hides real size
[398] Training course material - why we write our own
[393] Trainer answers phone
[389] Tough Love
[385] Feast or famine
[350] Want to be one better
[327] How far should our support go
[321] Sales - the alternative close
[297] A reminder that the customer is King
[285] What career opportunities for web designers
[281] What they are saying about our OF COURSE newsletter
[265] Business practise, 2005 style
[253] Finding the right holes
[251] WIBNIF
[233] Giving customers best value
[226] Growing our systems
[217] Use of time
[211] Look after your staff and they'll look after you. AOL.
[203] Holes in on line information
[200] Tips for the top
[198] A new skill may not be quick and easy
[195] Customer service - examples to warn us
[189] Tuesdays and Fridays
[188] Pink elephant and appreciation
[180] Skunk works
[171] Skills and techniques of being a successful trainer
[157] Automatic service upgrades
[150] Confession
[137] Certification schemes
[129] Trawling our site to prevent student copying
[126] Feedback shows the tip of an iceberg
[125] Staff theft
[121] Fair and Simple
[108] A typical morning
[95] Five red flags
[91] On line every 24 hours
[88] Getting the right level of trainer
[77] Telephone systems
[72] On Customer Service
[68] Get the strategy worked out and the tactics just fall into place.
[57] Posting 1000 letters!
[27] Sales technique
[17] Differing tastes
[15] 90 to 10 or 80 to 20 rule
[9] Study room - the Oxford train
[7] Writing on a Sunday
[4] Seeing the wood for the trees.
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)
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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