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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 Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own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))
Twitter - the special use of @ # and http: in tweets

Great talk by John Dickens of @godjira at #Melksham Chamber last night. He runs Twitter for Business courses - http://bit.ly/gcWzm4

I've been tweeting for a while - Twitter is described as a microblogging service which basically means that you can put messages, up to 140 characters, onto the service for people to read, and you can read the messages of anyone you choose to follow, and / or any messages you find by clicking through tweets, or by searching. John's whistle-stop tour of Twitter, Linked-in and Facebook opened a new world for some of the audience, and although I've been using all three services (somewhat) for a while, I picked up a few golden nuggets.

As with texting, tweets have their own shorthands and special characters which help you cram a lot of content into your 140 (max) characters; the first sentence on this article (starting "Great talk ...") is just under 140 characters, and it contains the three really important 'specials':

Starting with an @ symbol, you have a reply or a mention. It's how you refer to other Twitter users - by their account names - and your reader can click on the link to be taken to their data feed.

Starting with a # symbol, you have a "hashtag". This is a search term that's usually in common use, and by selecting the link off that text you can filter out for display all other recent tweets, by any user, which are similarly marked.

Starting http:, you have a link. It takes you to an external page. And on Twitter, where every character counts, you want your URLs to be short - so you'll see things like http://bit.ly/gcWzm4 which are not in Libya (even though they look like it!) but take you to a site which redirects you to a longer and more human-readable address.

Here are three tweets where you can see examples of these in use:










If you want to learn more about Twitter - ask John. If you want to get involved with your own automated feeds from blogs, etc, through PHP - which is what we do - I might be able to persuade you to look at our PHP course. And if you want to know more about the @ # and http above, have a look at Twitter's help pages replies an mentions, hash symbols and short URLs.
(written 2011-02-09, updated 2011-02-10)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
H308 - PHP - Searches, and search engines
  [1020] Parallel processing in PHP - (2007-01-03)
  [1735] Finding words and work boundaries (MySQL, Perl, PHP) - (2008-08-03)
  [2137] Reaching the right people with your web site - (2009-04-23)
  [2166] Crossrefering documents with uniqueness and inconsistency issues - PHP proof of concept demo - (2009-05-10)
  [2631] How to show a large result set page by page in PHP - (2010-02-11)
  [3159] Returning multiple values from a function call in various languages - a comparison - (2011-02-06)
  [4401] Selecting RECENT and POPULAR news and trends for your web site users - (2015-01-19)

G905 - Well House Consultants - Blogging and Blog Administration
  [1] First Jottings - (2004-08-05)
  [6] Blog v Forum - (2004-08-07)
  [18] Wanted: More hours in the day - (2004-08-18)
  [141] Too technical? - (2004-12-05)
  [145] A comment on comments - (2004-12-09)
  [177] Blogs come of age - (2005-01-14)
  [185] Who am I? - (2005-01-21)
  [204] The confidence to allow public comments - (2005-02-06)
  [231] Feedback as lifeblood - (2005-02-28)
  [245] I'm not blogging it - (2005-03-14)
  [359] Chicken soup without the religion - (2005-06-26)
  [390] Moderating wiki, blog, and forum contributions - (2005-07-26)
  [405] Horse's Mouth is a year old - (2005-08-07)
  [410] Reading a news or blog feed (RSS) in your PHP page - (2005-08-12)
  [425] Caching an XML feed - (2005-08-26)
  [508] Comment, please! - (2005-11-28)
  [671] Both ends of the animal - (2006-04-05)
  [876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance - (2006-09-23)
  [1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong - (2006-12-18)
  [1077] In answer to 'am I glad I started a blog' ... - (2007-02-12)
  [1203] A Fresh horse - (2007-05-24)
  [1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources - (2009-01-05)
  [2000] 2000th article - Remember the background and basics - (2009-01-18)
  [2192] Copy writing - allowing for the cut - (2009-05-21)
  [2449] Four aspects - Chamber, Transport, Courses and Hotel - (2009-10-11)
  [2517] Blogging accuracy - open invitation for any corrections - (2009-11-29)
  [2564] Microblogging services - Plurk, Twitter, Jaiku and more - (2010-01-05)
  [2751] Going off at a tangent, for a ramble - (2010-05-04)
  [2823] Where have all the bloggers gone? - (2010-06-24)
  [3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited - (2010-10-26)
  [3186] How to add a customised twitter feed to your site - (2011-02-27)
  [3208] Links for social media, microblogs and business networking - (2011-03-20)
  [3514] Microblogging - what I should have tweeted in the last 48 hours - (2011-11-10)
  [3759] The five oldest blogs and the horses mouth - (2012-06-09)
  [4000] 9 years, and 4000 articles on - (2013-02-09)
  [4121] Has your Twitter feed stopped working? Switching to their new API - (2013-06-23)
  [4292] The Horse is back! - (2014-09-15)
  [4568] Moderation - and the tendency to over-moderate - (2015-11-02)
  [4714] The technical article feed continues - personal updates more proactive on Facebook now! - (2016-10-30)


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