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Ruby GUIs, XML, SQL Database Connectivity example from a Well House Consultants training course
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Source code: myrssfeed.xml Module: R117

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<title>Horse's Mouth</title>
<link>http://www.wellho.net/horse/</link>
<description>Musing, events and thoughts from Graham Ellis</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>Copyright 2010</copyright>
<lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:57:21 +0000</lastBuildDate>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:01:49 +0000</pubDate>

<generator>http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.01D</generator>
<docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>

<item>
<title>History is all around us</title>
<description>Some images from the last few days - all taken close to home in Melksham (some very close indeed!) ... Woolmore House at Bowerhill on the Melksham to Devizes Road was built by George Hulbert in 1631. It is believed...</description>
<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002713</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002713</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title>A more informed decision than ever before</title>
<description>They're off! Gordon Brown fired the starting gun the other day - and I was most impressed that by the time that I came out of Well House Manor that evening, there were Orange posters up across the road. I...</description>
<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002712</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002712</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title>For loop - checked once, or evety time? Ruby v Perl comparison and contrast</title>

<description>Although may aspects of Ruby are inherited (in a non-OO way!) from Perl, there are some distinct differences too; a classic for loop in Perl has its end condition checked every time around the loop, but a Ruby for loop...</description>
<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002711</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002711</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title>__index and __newindex in Lua - metatable methods</title>
<description>When you call up an element in a table in Lua, it's like accessing an array element - and it works well. But you can go further by associating a metatable with a table - that's another table with a...</description>

<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002710</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002710</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Old trackways and routes near Melksham</title>
<description>I've often wondered why Statton's Walk leads into the road past the Co-op, through Dorset Crescent and out into the countryside on a public footpath that's well defined at first but then crosses another path, and a broken style. It...</description>
<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002709</link>

<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002709</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>The bull on the footpath</title>
<description>There are certain paths - even though they are marked on the map as public footpaths - that I will decline to use. This animal is standing on one of them! More Semington Pictures...</description>
<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002708</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002708</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:43:53 +0000</pubDate>

</item>
<item>
<title>A walk on the Kennet and Avon</title>
<description>Today, I was reminded that just one little push of the rudder of a narrow boat, gently and with a single finder, can channel the power of the eight tons into a change of direction and a force to be...</description>
<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002707</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002707</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Error trapping in Lua - no exceptions.</title>

<description>Lua's a small language - it's about a twentieth of the size of most of the others I teach - so there isn't the space for the nicities of things like expection handling. But it does very nicely, thank you!...</description>
<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002706</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002706</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Hotel booking in Melksham made easy!</title>
<description>I've given the Well House Manor Hotel Site an overdue lick of paint today, and upgraded the staff facing reports from the pages too. And the changes are all about easy navigation, easily finding what you need, and leading nicely...</description>

<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002705</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002705</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>A walk within without - Melksham Without</title>
<description>I took a walk this afternoon - exploring paths from Shaw to Beanacre to Whitley and back to Shaw. Here are some images - 4 from 42. All the pictures (twice the size too!) ... first half of the walk...</description>
<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002704</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002704</guid>

<category></category>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Lua Metatables</title>
<description>In a recent article ([here]), I asked if Lua was an object oriented language - and I concluded that it supports the OO paradigm very well, even though it doesn't have keywords like "class", "private" or "extends". At the end...</description>

<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002703</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002703</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>First and last match with Regular Expressions</title>
<description>Conventional Wisdom says that it's pointless to start a regular expression with ".*" or ".+", as this is implied within a match - regular expression matches are looking for strings that are contained anyway: '/abc/' - contains abc '/.*abc/' -...</description>

<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002702</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002702</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Is Lua an Object Oriented language?</title>
<description>Lua isn't an object oriented languages in the sense that you define classes, create objects with a new method, define interfaces and declare variables to be private or protected ... but never the less is a tool in which you...</description>
<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002701</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/04/index.html#002701</guid>

<category></category>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>The same very simple program in many different programming languages</title>
<description>I was asked how many languages I teach yesterday - and the answer's quite a few; at times, it's almost "the more the merrier" as to a very great extent they are varieties on a theme much of the way...</description>
<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/03/index.html#002700</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/03/index.html#002700</guid>

<category></category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Lua tables - they are everything</title>
<description>In PHP, it sometimes feels like the answer to every question is "there's a function to do that" and in Lua, it seems the answer is always "it's a table" or "use a table"! I'm running a Lua course this...</description>

<link>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/03/index.html#002699</link>
<guid>http://www.wellho.net/archives/2010/03/index.html#002699</guid>
<category></category>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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