http://www.wellho.net/horse/ Musing, events and thoughts from Graham Ellis en-us 2008-05-09T17:11:01+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001637 Nothing gives me greater please than to hear from a customer who writes "My line manager is quite keen for me to work on those web programming skills for various proposed, so we've already discussed it, and I don't think... gje 2008-05-09T17:11:01+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001636 The Web Server Administrator has two choices as to what he / she should do when a content provider doesn't supply a home page (index.html or similar) in a directory - either he can generate an error such as a... gje 2008-05-08T17:01:07+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001635 Yesterday evening, Lisa and I got a breath of fresh air in Devizes - a beautiful Spring evening with leaves on the trees where 2 weeks ago there were just twigs. Moored at the wharf on the Kennet and Avon... gje 2008-05-08T15:38:02+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001634 The headline on our story reads "We've got a New Online Booking System for our Open Source courses" ... but there's a story behind that headline. We pride ourselves in our flexibility - the ability to treat each customer as... gje 2008-05-07T12:22:41+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001633 Here's a challenge. I want to change the screen saver on a mac mini, running OSX, from a browser anywhere in the world. You may well ask why ... the screen of the mac mini is to be visible at... gje 2008-05-06T17:49:19+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001632 Lua is a powerful, lightweight scripting language. It combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. It is ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. Lua has been used in many industrial... gje 2008-05-05T10:57:56+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001631 A Sunday afternoon - and a Bank Holiday one at that. I'm not sure why (suggestions of age and workload are probably along the right lines!) but I lay down just after lunchtime and dozed ... and, up again... gje 2008-05-04T16:41:55+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001630 My email this morning brought me a report of a broken link on our web site. Which I investigated, and found to be within a blog entry I had written a year ago, and linked to someone else's site over... gje 2008-05-04T08:50:01+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001629 Hotel guests and other visitors are often interested in the Computer Training we do at Well House Manor, but hitherto our sales and marketing material really hasn't included a handy single sheet to explain. There's a good reason for this... gje 2008-05-03T16:29:52+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001628 I wrote a piece of project planning code - to generate GANT charts in PHP - when we were planning all the works on Well House Manor the best part of 2 years ago now. And although I did little... gje 2008-05-03T15:47:28+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001627 Look around at your family, and you'll find some remarkable people - and look a little beyond your immediate group to slightly more distant relatives, and you'll find some people who amaze you. We knew her as "Molly" but by... gje 2008-05-02T08:53:28+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/05/index.html#001626 Welcome to May. A mad busy April gives way to a quiet week next week - perhaps caused in a part by the fact that I've simply not had the time to go out marketing courses, and in part by... gje 2008-05-01T08:40:11+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/04/index.html#001625 My picture of a train bursting out of the West portal of Box Tunnel - taken a year or two back - come up as one of the top hits on Google. But Box tunnel has two ends ... and... gje 2008-04-29T16:28:10+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/04/index.html#001624 Hi, I'm Freddie the fallow deer and I would like to introduce you to my home at Dyrham Park. Some of the older trees in the park have fallen and newer trees have been planted ... and there's plenty... gje 2008-04-27T21:32:16+00:00 http://www.wellho.net/archives/2008/04/index.html#001623 So many people know the basis of PHP - the language constructs themselves and how they work individually - but could really benefit from learning how to make the best of those elements. And these techniques for putting the elements... gje 2008-04-26T21:10:33+00:00