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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 Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own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 five oldest blogs and the horses mouth

Lisa pointed me to a post about the "Five oldest Blogs in Blogshare" ... I think she's a little surprised at how long I've been writing. But of course longevity isn't everything - there's width and quality of content too. So I took a look at the five.

10,000 Birds. Wow - I didn't realise there were so many types of birds, and many of them are pictured here, with the blog running at several new posts per day. http://10000birds.com/

Rebecca's Pocket lists books. But seems to have been patchier over the years, and perhaps switched off updating a month or two back. Who knows - Rebecca may just be taking a well earned holiday after 8 years, and be back soon. http://www.rebeccablood.net/

Secondary School education still finds something to say about - err - Secondary School education every week or so. Short articles, and I don't personally find the interest as the wow factor that 10,000 birds still has on every page. But then this is much more a supporting blog. http://712educators.about.com/

80s Music is another about.com blog - postings dripping in every few days. Alas, with obits for Donna Summer and Bob Welch both in the front page lineup still, the blog seems to be looking back and dying out, literally. http://80music.about.com/

A whole lot of nothing. Matt Haughey's latest article, 10 days ago, and talks about his pharmaceutical regime. There's film reviews, obits, indeed it matches the label on the can - "a whole lot of nothing", or rather no special subject. http://a.wholelottanothing.org/

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The Horse's Mouth is young when compared to these which started in 2003; the first post on "The Mouth" was as late as August 2004 - you can see the archive [here] from that month. This will be article 3759 - that's more than one per day - and much of the content is read and re-read by people doing technical searches. Have a look [here] to see which archive pages people landed on yesterday, and how many times. Although the IT business is a fast moving ones, sample programs and "How to"s in programming don't change very much, after all. If they did, programs would have an awful short shelflife ...

So ... why ... does the Horse's Mouth go on? The clue is in the previous paragraph - that it's my content feed mechanism for the website; it's much more than just a blog. Earlier today, I wrote up two new Ruby examples and posted them. But I also added them to our resource index too, and you can find them there. Interested in Ruby's Special Variables and Topicalisation? Take a look [here] where you'll find 8 blog articles, and 12 source code examples. You'll also find links to 23 other pages of Ruby resources. And articles and source code are always growing.

Illustration - not 10,000 birds, but a bird on the Mersey, taken by myself this week!

(written 2012-06-09, updated 2012-06-16)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
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)
  [3163] Twitter - the special use of @ # and http: in tweets - (2011-02-09)
  [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)
  [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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