Cue the music, I'm happy.
I'm not musical ... but this song keeps jigging around in my head.
"I'm back in the saddle again.
Out where a friend is a friend,
where the longhorn cattle feed
on the lowly gypsum weed.
Back in the saddle again."
First course of the New Year ... done, run and I love it!
Lining up the systems to check 'em out - a variety of Suse and Fedora Linux, and Windows in this case
A diagram - how PHP4 and PHP5 differ when you copy a variable that contains an object; PHP4
really clones - i.e. duplicates - the object, whereas PHP5 gives the same object an alternative name.
What's it really about - the customer. Snap taken during an exercise. And a great group ... including Adrian who, it turns out, I taught a totally different subject some 10 years ago.
In the evening, a chance to stretch my legs and take in some of the sights and scenes of where I am - in this case, Russell Square, London.
And by a great stroke of luck, It was the London Ruby User Group's meeting that night ... a pub quiz at the Old Crown on New Oxford Street.
It's great to be back in the saddle again.
(written 2007-01-09)
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