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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 Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own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))
The week before Christmas

The canal at Devizes earlier today as we passed through. You'll see from the ice that we weren't passing through by boat, nor was anyone else


From the Perl for larger projects training course - a diagram to illustrate the problem of "diamond relationships". This is where a module "a" loads a module "b" and a module "c" and BOTH of those try to load module "d". This would lead to horrible double definition messages if it was allowed to proceed, but Perl's use operation looks at the %INC hash when asked to load a module, and only loads it if it's not already been done.


We're doing a whole load of inventory control work at Well House Manor - our hotel - and we couldn't find a picture of Elm Farm Yogurts online. Solution - take one ourselves.


Even in the snow, there have been lots of comings and goings by train at Melksham this week ... and at this time of year, all of our trains are in the dark. This is Tuesday's 19:47 to Swindon - 7 people on the platform, and a class 150 train in the old "Silverlink" colours from a different time and a different part of the country.


Some of the old equipment that's use to add atmosphere in the outlet centre in Swindon - yes, it was Christmas shopping day today!


Just some varied pictures from the last few days. A brief - and excellent - bite to eat "al Kitchen" with Kim this evening, and an early night; I'll be looking to hit the 24 hour supermarket VERY early in the morning for food supplies. It really feels like Christmas!
(written 2010-12-23, updated 2010-12-24)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
Z210 - Christmas and New Year
  [161] Christmas break - (2004-12-23)
  [162] A Change is as good as a rest - (2004-12-27)
  [540] Christmas Party - (2005-12-24)
  [541] Christmas is for everyone - (2005-12-25)
  [543] The world didn't stop for Christmas - (2005-12-26)
  [573] Giving an excuse for Christmas - (2006-01-22)
  [953] Christmas in November - (2006-11-29)
  [980] Street Scene - (2006-12-12)
  [1462] 10 training days to Christmas. - (2007-12-07)
  [1481] The Christmas Letter - (2007-12-22)
  [1483] What have hotels and bananas got in common? - (2007-12-24)
  [1484] A christmas message - (2007-12-25)
  [1914] It must be nearly Christmas - (2008-12-01)
  [1931] Frosty Morning, foggy evening - (2008-12-08)
  [1942] Christmas scenes and events - (2008-12-14)
  [1952] Small Print - (2008-12-19)
  [1959] - - (2008-12-24)
  [2486] Santa Special - Trowbridge and Melksham to Swindon - (2009-10-31)
  [2528] Melksham Christmas Lights - (2009-12-05)
  [2529] Santa Special, 2009 - (2009-12-06)
  [2543] Day and night at Christmas - (2009-12-19)
  [2549] Christmas Day ... - (2009-12-25)
  [2978] Christmas 2010 - Well House Manor, Melksham, Hotel - (2010-10-01)
  [3095] The Christmas Season has arrived - (2010-12-19)
  [3110] The days after Christmas - (2010-12-27)
  [3116] Are there newspapers on New Years Day? Do the shops open on Easter Sunday? Do trains run at Christmas? - (2011-01-01)
  [3530] A typical weekend?? - (2011-11-28)
  [3535] Melksham, Luxury Hotel Rooms, Christmas. - (2011-12-02)
  [3538] Santa Train - another successful trip - 4th December 2011 - (2011-12-04)
  [3557] Melksham Christmas Lights - Town, Shops and Private Houses - (2011-12-20)
  [3561] Happy Christmas ... a Christmas morning walk in Melksham - (2011-12-25)
  [3562] Christmas Day - for unique pictures - (2011-12-26)
  [3765] Christmas in June? Melksham hotel bookings and Santa train - (2012-06-15)
  [3957] The week before Christmas - (2012-12-19)
  [4227] Happy Christmas from the Well House Manor team - (2013-12-25)
  [4235] Sharing my personal best of 2013 - (2013-12-31)
  [4329] Does Santa Claus need a CRB check? - (2014-11-25)
  [4357] Seeing Christmas Coming to Melksham - (2014-12-20)
  [4363] A quiet evening in Melksham - awaiting Santa - (2014-12-24)
  [4364] Christmas day in Melksham - (2014-12-25)
  [4365] The changing face of Christmas - (2014-12-26)

Z202 - Just Pictures
  [298] Sharing pictures of Wiltshire - (2005-05-02)
  [360] Spring turns to Summer - (2005-06-26)
  [365] Letterbox Pictures - (2005-07-01)
  [412] Bristol Balloon Festival - (2005-08-13)
  [416] Mixing up swallows and martins - (2005-08-16)
  [548] San Francisco - (2005-12-30)
  [557] A new sign - (2006-01-07)
  [625] February pictures - (2006-02-26)
  [708] Linescapes of Mull - (2006-05-03)
  [713] Pictures from my travels - (2006-05-07)
  [772] Training in Liverpool - (2006-06-21)
  [786] First Light, Bootle Docks, Liverpool - (2006-06-29)
  [870] Autumn comes to Wiltshire. - (2006-09-17)
  [958] Plain Ole nice pictures - (2006-11-30)
  [1005] Stirling at night - (2006-12-23)
  [1064] Light and shadows at Beach - (2007-02-04)
  [1099] Passenger flows - (2007-03-04)
  [1152] Course, right place, right time - (2007-04-17)
  [1162] Cheddleton, Staffordshire - (2007-04-26)
  [1172] May day 2007 in pictures - (2007-05-02)
  [1216] Five of the best - pictures from London - (2007-06-03)
  [1233] Horses of Brugge - (2007-06-15)
  [1234] A review of a week and a trip to Brugge - (2007-06-16)
  [1392] Autumnal lighting on a London trip - (2007-10-15)
  [1398] Someone else's wedding - (2007-10-21)
  [1400] Dark Dawn - (2007-10-22)
  [1489] Pictures of December - (2007-12-30)
  [1546] The geometry of East London - (2008-02-19)
  [1620] Norwich and London - (2008-04-23)
  [1740] Vertical London - (2008-08-06)
  [1770] 3 hours from Milton Keynes - (2008-08-24)
  [1818] Icelandic Badge - (2008-10-01)
  [1838] Oxford in Pictures - (2008-10-13)
  [1854] Three Seasonal Pictures - (2008-10-25)
  [1919] Transition - (2008-12-03)
  [1981] Bitter cold - (2009-01-07)
  [1986] Walk to Bowerhill - (2009-01-10)
  [2006] Contrast - (2009-01-23)
  [2034] Through Snow and Flood to Linux and Tomcat - (2009-02-10)
  [2093] Leading Lines - (2009-03-20)
  [2098] A room without a view - (2009-03-22)
  [2101] A B C D of GA and TN - (2009-03-23)
  [2121] Out in the Vale of Pewsey - (2009-04-07)
  [2140] Beware - giving copyright away when you upload a picture - Dogs Trust - (2009-04-25)
  [2146] An evening excursion to Devizes and Avebury - (2009-04-30)
  [2168] In honour of the photograph, I present ... a walk from Reybridge to Lacock - (2009-05-10)
  [2202] Bright Colours - (2009-05-26)
  [2266] Travelling - (2009-07-02)
  [2298] Melksham Carnival Parade - the people - (2009-07-19)
  [2404] Low Sun - Autumn is here - (2009-09-13)
  [2412] Autumn Fruits and Bristol Old Station - (2009-09-20)
  [2464] Beauty in pictures - (2009-10-20)
  [2518] Through the arches - (2009-11-29)
  [2553] On a short walk from home - (2009-12-27)
  [2582] Starting to arrange the picture library - (2010-01-16)
  [2611] Sunday Evening, City of London - (2010-01-31)
  [2677] Blowing out the winter cobwebs - (2010-03-14)
  [2756] Same subject - different pictures - (2010-05-09)
  [2760] Views of Scotland - (2010-05-11)
  [2767] Back from a Python course in Glasgow - (2010-05-16)
  [2819] Some more pictures ... - (2010-06-19)
  [2888] Recent Pictures - (2010-07-27)
  [2914] Older picture. - (2010-08-10)
  [2989] Oddballs in Plymouth - (2010-10-08)
  [3096] Contrast in pictures - (2010-12-20)
  [3195] Sunny day - Clanger and Picket Woods, Shearwater, and Westbury - (2011-03-06)
  [3220] Panasonic Lumix TZ20 - (2011-03-28)
  [3241] Spring in the countryside near Melksham - (2011-04-10)
  [3289] New Camera - very first picture, and next from first films - (2011-05-14)
  [3350] A set of pictures without point - (2011-07-08)
  [3356] Holiday patterns - just the art, not the content - (2011-07-13)
  [3473] Picture - Havant Station at Dusk - (2011-10-11)
  [3616] Bus top - colours of London - (2012-02-17)
  [3655] Sights and scenes - more London trip pictures - (2012-03-16)
  [3678] Potteries and Staffordshire in the Sunshine - (2012-04-01)
  [3713] Verticals ... last month - (2012-04-29)
  [3837] Evening behind Melksham Spa - (2012-08-12)
  [3846] Signs of Autumn - (2012-08-22)
  [3894] A wet Saturday - (2012-10-13)
  [3907] Weather pictures - (2012-10-29)
  [3925] Red sky at night - (2012-11-17)
  [3990] Stripes of Snow - (2013-01-25)
  [4133] In the hills above Harlech, and on the coast too - (2013-07-06)
  [4740] Labelling images - (2017-06-24)
  [4741] Catching up on labelling more images - (2017-06-24)
  [4742] Third and final set of older picture for today - (2017-06-24)
  [4743] Further picture labelling! - (2017-06-25)
  [4744] Updating image labels - (2017-06-25)
  [4745] More pictures - final labelling set for today - (2017-06-25)
  [4746] Image library - labelling continues! - (2017-06-26)
  [4747] Image feed for Tuesday ... - (2017-06-27)
  [4748] A second batch of images for today - (2017-06-27)
  [4749] Pictures for Wednesday - (2017-06-28)
  [4750] Thurday images - (2017-06-29)
  [4752] Welcome to July. Picture labelling continues! - (2017-07-01)
  [4754] A quiet Sunday afternoon - (2017-07-02)
  [4755] Back and continuing to feed pictures! - (2017-07-08)
  [4768] 2017 - the final six months - (2017-12-31)

P219 - Perl - Libraries and Resources
  [86] Talk review - Idiomatic Perl, David Cross - (2004-10-12)
  [112] Avoid the wheel being re-invented by using Perl modules - (2004-11-08)
  [357] Where do Perl modules load from - (2005-06-24)
  [358] Use standard Perl modules - (2005-06-25)
  [712] Why reinvent the wheel - (2006-05-06)
  [737] Coloured text in a terminal from Perl - (2006-05-29)
  [760] Self help in Perl - (2006-06-14)
  [1219] Judging the quality of contributed Perl code - (2007-06-06)
  [1235] Outputting numbers as words - MySQL with Perl or PHP - (2007-06-17)
  [1391] Ordnance Survey Grid Reference to Latitude / Longitude - (2007-10-14)
  [1444] Using English can slow you right down! - (2007-11-25)
  [1863] About dieing and exiting in Perl - (2008-11-01)
  [1865] Debugging and Data::Dumper in Perl - (2008-11-02)
  [2229] Do not re-invent the wheel - use a Perl module - (2009-06-11)
  [2234] Loading external code into Perl from a nonstandard directory - (2009-06-12)
  [2427] Operator overloading - redefining addition and other Perl tricks - (2009-09-27)
  [2931] Syncronise - software, trains, and buses. Please! - (2010-08-22)
  [3009] Expect in Perl - a short explanation and a practical example - (2010-10-22)
  [3377] What do I mean when I add things in Perl? - (2011-08-02)


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