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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Windows 7 and Open Source Programming

Windows 7 went on sale at midnight ... and at ten past, I got my first bulk sales email with a subject line Windows 7 out now - time for a new PC. Slight pity that the graphic on the top of the email still says "PC World Recommends Windows Vista Home Premium" ;-).

But - in all seriousness - how will Windows 7 effect our Open Source training? Not very much, I suspect; the languages we teach in are pretty portable these days - I was writing examples in Unix (Mac OSX), and my delegates were using Windows Vista and Fedora Linux yesterday, and even code such as Expect which used to be notorious for Windows problems was running cross platform. These days, the operating system become less and less relevant - an editor, and the language itself and (unless you write code that says "run this OS command") it will usually run. Google are soon to be bringing out an operating system too ... that will make life interesting, but won't be a show stopper in our business. And I expect I'll be able to report on Windows 7 and how Tcl, Lua, Python, Perl ... run under it in the near future. But I'm not rushing out to the shops today.
(written 2009-10-22, updated 2009-10-24)

 
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  [2600] Go Programming Language and Courses? - (2010-01-26)
  [2906] Switching from Adobe Photoshop to Gimp - testing it on animals - (2010-08-06)
  [3213] Should I use Open Source or Commercial software? - (2011-03-26)
  [3584] QR codes - graphics images that provide quick phone links - (2012-01-18)
  [3599] Seeing how Melksham has changed over the years, via an iPad - (2012-01-30)
  [3648] iPad and iPhone programming - our seminar weekend with Xcode - (2012-03-11)
  [3896] An email marathon - (2012-10-15)
  [3991] Email from Christopher Columbus to announce finding America? - (2013-01-29)
  [4038] Using Pygments to colour our training examples - (2013-03-10)
  [4303] Libre Office - unable to get past REOPEN WINDOWS? question - (2014-09-22)
  [4426] FileMaker Day to Unix Time conversion - (2015-02-15)


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