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A - Linux, Apache httpd and Tomcat | C - C and C++ programming |
G - General Training Topics | H - PHP programming and techniques |
J - Java programmming including Web | M - Well House Manor; hotel and events |
P - Perl programming and use | Q - General programming subjects |
R - Ruby programming and use | S - Databases / the MySQL database |
T - Tcl, Tcl/Tk, wish and Expect | U - Lua programming and use |
W - Web site programming / techniques | Y - Python programming and use |
Z - Miscellany | end - end of page |
A: Linux, Apache httpd and Tomcat
Overview A050 -
Web Deployment - General
[4434] Public training courses - upcoming dates
[3891] The components of an Apache httpd / Tomcat / MySQL stack and what each does
[2595] Twelve skills / knowledges needed for the design of a web site
[2568] Forums for your Melksham and open source discussions
[2099] Should I maintain the programming code on my own website?
[2072] Copyright, Portability and other nontechnical web site issues
[116] The next generation of programmer
(
article) The Author of the Apache httpd and Tomcat Course
Overview A051 -
Linux - General
[4259] Upgrading our training systems to all the current stable versions
[3902] Shell - Grep - Sed - Awk - Perl - Python - which to use when?
[3219] How do I become a Linux System Administrator?
[2035] 1234567890 ... coming up on Friday 13th
[2023] sw_vers - what version of OSX am I running?
(
article) Linux and httpd file system layout - LAMP server
Overview A052 -
Networking - General
[2695] TCP v UDP / Client v Server - Python examples
[2150] Routers, Firewalls and multilayer servers
[2149] Routing Network Traffic - Proxies, Redirects and DNS
[768] Our new .eu top level domain
(
article) What are NIS, LDAP, DNS and BIND
(
article) Firewall fundamentals - Linux
Module A099 -
Java Application - Deployment on the Web
[3891] The components of an Apache httpd / Tomcat / MySQL stack and what each does
[2599] Telling Apache web servers apart / notes for the non-technical
[2130] Javascript - move cursor over image to change a different image.
[1621] Linux and Java Course in London
[673] Helicopter views and tartans
[659] Web Application Components
[576] Why run two different web servers
[166] Acronyms
Module A100 -
The Components of a Web-Based Solution
[3891] The components of an Apache httpd / Tomcat / MySQL stack and what each does
[2896] LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP - install, configure, administer
[2099] Should I maintain the programming code on my own website?
[1496] PHP / Web 2 logging
[1265] Apache, Tomcat, Jakarta, httpd, web server - what are they?
[1198] From Web to Web 2
[1176] A pu that got me into trouble
[924] The LAMP Cookbook - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl
[673] Helicopter views and tartans
[510] Dynamic Web presence - next generation web site
[442] How far away is that server?
[433] FTP - how to make the right transfers
[367] Ajax
[166] Acronyms
[49] Business is the predominant user of Tomcat, Perl and Tcl
[34] Linux / LAMP course
(
article) Open Source - here to stay, or a flash in the pan?
(
article) Web applications using LAMP technologies
(
article) New to programming. Portable code. Perl or Java?
{
index.php} Simple test script for WAMP
{
examples.txt} Source code examples for our training modules
Module A101 -
Linux -An Introduction For Users
[3819] Packing a tar, jar or war file - best practise
[3791] The Kernel, Shells and Daemons. Greek Gods in computing
[3256] Displaying a directory or file system tree - Linux
[3179] Oops - I typed ci not vi, and have lost my file ...
[2831] Recording (a macro) in vi
[2636] Linux - useful tips including history and file name completion
[2494] Making Linux Politically correct
[2479] Accidentally typed ci rather than vi?
[2300] What does x on a linux directory mean?
[2299] How much space does my directory take - Linux
[2203] Always use su with minus. And where do programs come from?
[2201] Running straight from the jar, but not from a tar
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes
[1902] sstrwxrwxrwx - Unix and Linux file permissions
[1897] Keeping on an even keel
[1893] Some Linux and Unix tips
[1803] FTP passive mode - a sometimes cure for upload hangs
[1764] Yank and Push - copy and move in vi
[1651] ls command - favourite options
[1527] Selecting file names in a shell - one word or another
[1438] Copy and paste / cut and paste and other vi techniques
[1408] Wireless hotel tips - FTP and Skype connections failing
[1366] awk - a powerful data extraction and manipulation tool
[1288] Linux run states, shell special commands, and directory structures
[1287] Work and play at Well House Manor - Football and Shell Shortcuts
[1259] Where am I and how did I get here?
[1068] ls -l report, Linux / Unix - types and permssions
[1013] Copy multiple files - confusing error message from cp
[1012] Moving files between Windows / DOS and Linux / Unix
[984] Cardinal numbers and magic numbers
[749] Cottage industry or production line data handling methods
[711] THE home directory or MY home directory
[710] Linux training Glasgow, Python programming course Dundee
[703] Copying files and preserving ownership
[679] More or less on the edge of the page
[659] Web Application Components
[593] Finding where the disc space has gone
[431] File permissions of Linux and Unix systems
[430] Linux commands - some basics
[249] An easy way out
[152] Aladdin, or careful what you wish.
[74] pushd and popd
[73] vi - full circle
(
article) awk - pattern scanning and formatting
(
article) Korn Shell - Basics
(
article) Korn Shell - History, storing to file, commands
(
article) Korn Shell Scripting - an introduction
(
article) Tiny guide to vi basics
Module A158 -
[4708] Scons - a build system in Python - building hello world
Module A161 -
Users and Groups
[4045] Linux Web Server - User Roles, User Accounts, and shared administration
[2639] su or su - ... what is the difference?
[2491] Root is root for a reason!
[2301] Mistaken identity?
[2203] Always use su with minus. And where do programs come from?
[2117] Choosing a railway station fairly in PHP
[2103] Ask the Tutor - Open Source forum
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes
[1902] sstrwxrwxrwx - Unix and Linux file permissions
[1773] The Longest Possible Day
[1650] Looking for files with certain characteristics (Linux / Unix)
[1619] User and Group settings for Apache httpd web server
[1592] Setting up a new user - Linux or Unix
[683] Supporting users on Linux and Unix
[431] File permissions of Linux and Unix systems
[409] Functions and commands with dangerous names
(
article) A Web interface for your Linux admin tasks
Module A162 -
Backups and File System Management
[4481] Extracting data from backups to restore selected rows from MySQL tables
[4405] Backup procedures - via backup server
[4400] Commenting out an echo killed my bash backup script
[4390] Checking MySQL database backups have worked (not failed)
[4115] More or less back - what happened to our server the other day
[4063] Backups by crossover between network centres - setting up automatic scp transfers
[4056] An overpractical test of our backup strategy!
[2299] How much space does my directory take - Linux
[1893] Some Linux and Unix tips
[1801] Will your backups work if you have to restore them?
[1765] Dialects of English and Unix
[1648] The tourists guide to Linux
[1439] Linux / Unix - layout of operating system files
[1288] Linux run states, shell special commands, and directory structures
[1023] Finding public writeable things on your linux file system
[1013] Copy multiple files - confusing error message from cp
[754] tar, jar, war, ear, sar files
[735] Boys will be boys, saved by Ubuntu
[703] Copying files and preserving ownership
[593] Finding where the disc space has gone
[554] What backup is adequate?
[334] Symbolic links and hard links
[153] Linux - where to put swap space
(
article) Linux and httpd file system layout - LAMP server
(
article) Why Partition a disc drive?
(
article) Linux and XP - loading a dual boot system
{
twice_weekly} Twice weekly backup script
{
hourly} Hourly database backup script
Module A163 -
Network Configuration and Security
[4134] Setting up your MacBook Air as a mobile broadband router
[3448] Checking all the systems on a subnet, using Expect and Tk
[2489] Parallel Pinging, using Python Threads or Expect spawn lists
[2052] How was my web site compromised?
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes
[1712] As different as night and tyres
[1666] Slow boot and terminal start on Linux boxes
[1408] Wireless hotel tips - FTP and Skype connections failing
[1073] Heartbeat script in Perl
[511] Domain Forwarding - 2 ways of doing it
[506] What are DHCP and DNS?
[332] Looking up IP addresses
[267] Searching security holes
[37] Security and Safety
[11] A bolt of lightning on Multicasting
(
article) Firewall fundamentals - Linux
{
hosts} Archived /etc/hosts file
Module A164 -
Services and Regular Jobs
[4487] Starting MySQL. ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file - how we fixed it.
[3792] Managing daemons from a terminal session
[3791] The Kernel, Shells and Daemons. Greek Gods in computing
[3143] On time
[3011] What are .pid files?
[2182] What Linux run level am I in?
[2145] Using the internet to remotely check for power failure at home (PHP)
[1903] daemons - what is running on my Linux server?
[1765] Dialects of English and Unix
[1733] memcached - overview, installation, example of use in PHP
[1731] Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP - installation procedure
[1700] FTP server on Fedora Linux
[1633] Changing a screen saver from a web page (PHP, Perl, OSX)
[1553] Automatic startup and shutdown of Tomcat
[1288] Linux run states, shell special commands, and directory structures
[1028] Linux / Unix - process priority and nice
[907] Browser -> httpd -> Tomcat -> MySQL. Restarting.
[544] Repeating tasks with crontab
(
article) Windows clients to a Linux Server
{
timeset} Sample crontab job - checking system clock
{
crontab} Sample crontab file - repeated, timed jobs
Module A165 -
Installing Software
[4259] Upgrading our training systems to all the current stable versions
[3053] Make - automating the commands for building and installing
[2201] Running straight from the jar, but not from a tar
[2139] OS Commerce install made simple
[1700] FTP server on Fedora Linux
[809] What to do during a Linux build
Module A166 -
Linux Utilities
[4682] One line scripts - Awk, Perl and Ruby
[4586] Extending your bash shell with aliases, functions and extra commands
[3902] Shell - Grep - Sed - Awk - Perl - Python - which to use when?
[3764] Shell, Awk, Perl of Python?
[3446] Awk v Perl
[2638] Finding what has changed - Linux / Unix
[2484] Finding text and what surrounds it - contextual grep
[2320] Helping new arrivals find out about source code examples
[2145] Using the internet to remotely check for power failure at home (PHP)
[1690] Conversion of c/r line ends to l/f line ends
[1366] awk - a powerful data extraction and manipulation tool
[1361] Korn shell course
[71] Comparators in Linux and Unix
[63] Almost like old times
(
article) awk - pattern scanning and formatting
(
article) Korn Shell - Basics
(
article) Korn Shell - History, storing to file, commands
(
article) Korn Shell Scripting - an introduction
{
ladies.dat} input data for utilities
{
as2} awk - match in whole line or on specific field
{
as1} awk - BEGIN, END and patterns
{
aspers.txt} grep example output
{
gents.dat} Input data for utilities
{
demo.pl} Sample Perl script to analyse data file
{
as3} Using awk to select and format data, and calculate
{
demo.awk} awk script to analyse a data file
{
requests.txt} input data for utilities
{
lsof_extract.awk} awk program to analyse and report on listing of open files
Module A167 -
Shell Programming (bash)
[4587] shell - bash. Writing conditional tests and statements - the options available
[4586] Extending your bash shell with aliases, functions and extra commands
[4584] Bash ... some new scripts to - handling user input
[4487] Starting MySQL. ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file - how we fixed it.
[4400] Commenting out an echo killed my bash backup script
[3791] The Kernel, Shells and Daemons. Greek Gods in computing
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes
[1527] Selecting file names in a shell - one word or another
[1468] Lexical v Arithemetic testing, Bash and Perl
[1345] Perl and Shell coding standards / costs of an IT project
[1287] Work and play at Well House Manor - Football and Shell Shortcuts
[827] No news is good news with Unix and Linux
[749] Cottage industry or production line data handling methods
[64] Shell Script for CGI on the web
[63] Almost like old times
{
lookup.sh} Bourne Again Shell script for CGI Web server
{
skcount} Skill counter - sample script in alternative Perl language
{
fnk} function definition and use
{
yesterday} yesterday in a bash script
{
help} Towards bash scripting - series of commands
{
dc_checked} Data copy with conditional check
{
dcj} Data copy, with command line parameter
{
wont} Stopping ^C in a shell using trap
{
dc5} Data copy, calculating statistics
{
askuser} select - choose from stdin
{
skillcounter} Perl script - needs setting up to run as Linux command
{
shelc} Shell numric and string comparisons. Also backup script
{
dci} Data copy, use of shell variables
{
pex} textual manipulation of shell variables
{
eocl} Usage line and for loop - bash
{
dc4} Data copy, loop to copy files one by one, checking
{
dcif} Data copy, use of shell if statement
{
datcopy} Simple copy script to run from command line
{
another} Shell read from stdin up to next new line
Module A168 -
Compiler and development tools
[4585] What is make? What is gcc?
[4013] Web Frameworks - nested templates
[3666] Makefile variables - defined internally, from the command line and from the environment
[3658] Using Make for a distribution
[3652] A Complete makefile example
[3651] Makefile - some basics, and a demonstration
[3632] What is Make?
[3053] Make - automating the commands for building and installing
[2674] Make and makefiles - a commented example to help you learn
[1671] Compiling C programs with gcc - an overview
[694] Ant and Make
{
mytcl.c} C program for gcc practise
{
Make_3} Variable and their types, conditionals and make functions
{
makefile} Simple makefile example
{
more.c} Second source file for makefile / compiler demo
{
demo.c} Hello World in C for compiler tool demo
{
Make_1} Straightforward, commented Makefile
{
Make_2} Makefile - with standard rules and Make variables
{
makefile_hello} Compiler tools - simple Make file
Module A171 -
Linux Server Admin - Exercise
[2491] Root is root for a reason!
[1719] A special day - last Friday in July
[1666] Slow boot and terminal start on Linux boxes
Module A172 -
Korn Shell - interactive and programming facilities
[1660] Korn shell - some nuggets
[1659] String, Integer, Array, Associative Array - ksh variables
[1658] Some useful variables and settings in the Korn Shell
[1367] korn tips - some useful korn shell techniques
[1365] Korn Shell scripts on the web
[1364] Korn shell course - resources
[1361] Korn shell course
(
article) Korn Shell - Basics
(
article) Korn Shell - History, storing to file, commands
(
article) Korn Shell Scripting - an introduction
{
dat_backup} Simple shell script to back up file
{
dat_backup3} Korn shell conditional testing
{
dat_backup2} Uses bourne shell compatible tests
{
sharon} for loop - Korn Shell
{
stroppy} String Test Operators
{
script_korn} Korn shell script
{
funky} Define a function - Korn shell
{
filestat} Comparing one or two files
{
kornserver.cgi} Korn shell / web script using CGI
{
pippa} Setting up and referencing a Ksh array
{
gvar} ksh - global and local variables
{
selk} Korn Shell - Select example
{
tracey} Korn shell array and while loop
{
townline} Selects a town ending
{
numtee} Korn Shell - numeric (integer) testing
{
hello_korn} Korn shell commands in a file
Module A180 -
Name Services - overview
[690] Adding Virtual Hosts
[686] Name Services - telling your LDAP from your DNS
(
article) What are NIS, LDAP, DNS and BIND
Module A181 -
LDAP / OpenLDAP server
[686] Name Services - telling your LDAP from your DNS
(
article) What are NIS, LDAP, DNS and BIND
{
training.ldif} A sample user data entry
{
org_struct.ldif} define the organisation structure
Module A191 -
Installing Linux
[3632] What is Make?
[1292] DHCP automatic IP address v Static IP
[1288] Linux run states, shell special commands, and directory structures
[705] Disc Partitioning
Module A192 -
Firewalls
[3680] How can I run multiple web servers behind a single IP address?
[3679] Setting up your Linux system as a firewall using iptables
[806] Check your user is human. Have him retype a word in a graphic
[770] Splash!
(
article) Firewall fundamentals - Linux
{
chaingang} sample iptables for firewalling a web server
Module A193 -
DNS
[4491] Web Server Admin - some of those things that happen, and solutions
[2537] Faster network, but not faster browsing until ...
[690] Adding Virtual Hosts
[686] Name Services - telling your LDAP from your DNS
(
article) What are NIS, LDAP, DNS and BIND
{
resolv.conf} client file to point to DNS server
{
named.conf} bind 9 sample file - /etc/named.conf
{
resolve.php} PHP to look up country and domain details from an IP
{
cco.php} setting up a menu to offer countries
{
wellho.zone} sample zone file for spring.wellho.net domain
Module A199 -
[2232] Why sendmail one way, and pop3 the other?
[1774] What is my real and my effective ID? [Linux]
[1292] DHCP automatic IP address v Static IP
[476] May I be politically incorrect?
Module A207 -
HTTP
[3432] 3 digit HTTP status codes - what are they, which are most common, which should be a concern?
[2918] Downloading a report from the web for further local analysis
[2738] What is all this SESSION stuff about? (PHP)
[2596] Http protocol - what does a web server send
[2321] Uploading and Downloading files - changing names (Perl and PHP)
[1549] http, https and ajp - comparison and choice
[1503] Web page (http) error status 405
[1378] Etag in http headers - what is it?
[484] Setting the file name for a downloaded document
{
relocate} Move a directory permanently via .htaccess
Module A211 -
Web Application Design and Deployment
[3532] Sharing the user experience - designing a form with the customer in mind
[2072] Copyright, Portability and other nontechnical web site issues
[1798] What does an browser understand? What does an HTML document contain?
[1547] New bathing idea for hotels from Hotelympia
[1545] Letting new visitors know we provide training courses
[1351] Compressing web pages sent out from server. Is it worth it?
[1256] What country are you in? How we find out on our web site
[1198] From Web to Web 2
[767] Finding the language preference of a web site visitor
[659] Web Application Components
[443] Server side scripting of styles to suit the browser
[356] Sudoku helper or sudoku cheat
[23] Skills and responsibilities
(
article) Using current exchange rates on a web page
Module A212 -
Secure Service and Credit Cards
[2097] PHP Course - for hobby / club / charity users.
[1840] Validating Credit Card Numbers
[46] Near and far security
Module A213 -
Commercial and Legal Aspects
[4283] Can a legitimate forum post become illegal a year later?
[4234] Change to Libel and Defamation laws from 1st January 2014
[3747] An easy way to comply with the new cookie law if your site is well designed
[3746] Google Analytics and the new UK Cookie law
[3745] Legal change - You need to obtain user consent if you use cookies on your website
[3168] Web Sites - Subject to Advertising Standards from 1st March - check your sites
[3104] Catering in Syracuse, the Saigon Cafe, stolen images and Christmas
[3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited
[2686] Freedom of Information - consideration for web site designers
[2592] Re-using our pictures
[2252] Leaping dog, Leaping horse, copyright of old masters
[2140] Beware - giving copyright away when you upload a picture - Dogs Trust
[1937] Getting hold of the wrong end of the stick
[1840] Validating Credit Card Numbers
[1747] Who is watching you?
[1506] Ongoing Image Copyright Issues, PHP and MySQL solutions
[1486] Does anyone understand Lithuanian?
[1485] Copyright and theft of images, bandwidth and members.
[1431] Getting the community on line - some basics
[1054] UK legal requirements for your commercial web site
[994] Training on Cascading Style Sheets
[876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance
[795] Remember a site's non-technical issues too
[759] Watch your Google profile
[746] Domain Listing Center and Domain Registry of America
[532] Copyright - how much can I legally copy?
[322] More maps
[320] Ordnance Survey - using a 'Get a map'
[288] Colour blindness for web developers
[259] Responding to spam
[142] Colour for access
(
article) Using current exchange rates on a web page
Module A301 -
XML, DTD, XSLT, XHTML and More
[2554] Adding retrospective ALT attributes to IMG
[2378] Handling XML in Perl - introduction and early examples
[2246] What difference does using the XHTML standard really make?
[1901] XML, HTML, XHTML and more
[1050] The HTML++ Metalanguage
[653] Easy feed!
(
article) Handling XML in Java
(
article) Using LWP to write Web Clients
{
imglist.xsl} XSLT sample - produces a table of images -->
{
reminder.html} Sample HTML document from this module
{
capname.pl} Altering an XML document through LibXML
{
xml5.pl} Alternative - using handlers
{
xslt.php4} Process an XML file through XSLT in PHP
Module A401 -
Structured Code and Object Orientation
[3085] Object Oriented Programming for Structured Programmers - conversion training
[1717] Q - Should I use Perl or Python?
[343] Should I use structured or object oriented?
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
{
firstwish} First program in Tcl
{
firstclass.java} Sample program - written in Java */
{
firstprog} This is a sample of the Python language
{
firstweb} This is a sample of the PHP language
{
firstalt} This is a sample of the Perl language
Module A501 -
Java - Basic Language Overview
[2423] What is a JVM, a JRE, a JDK - components of the core Java Environment
[2120] Java on the Web Server - course for delegates with some prior Java experience
[871] Java oversold?
[659] Web Application Components
(
article) New to programming. Portable code. Perl or Java?
Module A502 -
Java - Basic Tools
[4412] Java -making sure you have the right versions
[3819] Packing a tar, jar or war file - best practise
[3151] Disassembling Python and Java - previously compiled code
[2859] Using java, javac, jar, and CLASSPATH - a simple example
[2422] Looking inside Java classes - javap and javadoc
[2153] Class Loading and Variable Conversion in Java
[1909] javax.servlet cannot be resolved - how to solve
[1771] More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java
[1562] Java Compiler - needs all classes, compiles them all too
[1192] What are WEB-INF and META-INF directories?
[1082] Straight from the .jar
[754] tar, jar, war, ear, sar files
{
Bella.java} Running a method in Java
{
Summer.java} Summer test program
{
Passport.java} Passport class
{
Annie.java} "Hello World" in Java
{
Chloe.java} Running a method from another class
{
Debbie.java} Class used in Chloe.java example
{
javalog.001} Annotated log
Module A503 -
Java - Sourcing, Installing, Initial Testing
[2184] Choosing the right version of Java and Tomcat
[2153] Class Loading and Variable Conversion in Java
[2080] Using ApacheBench and jconsole to test and monitor Tomcat
[2079] Java - Memory Allocation and garbage collection
[1908] Java CLASSPATH explained
Module A504 -
Java - Terminologes, Technologies and releases.
[4317] Java - an update of the basics
[1766] Diagrams to show you how - Tomcat, Java, PHP
[124] PHP v Java
Module A506 -
Java - Installing and Deploying optional Technologies
[3043] Gathering information - logging - with log4j. First steps.
[2082] Jmeter - a first test case
[2081] Connecting jconsole remotely - the principles
[2079] Java - Memory Allocation and garbage collection
[1718] Increasing Java Virtual Machine memory for Tomcat
{
Thumb.java} Hello log4j world
{
Finger.java} simple logging - log4j - using a properties file
Module A507 -
Java - Servlets and JSPs
[4431] A Java servlet that is also a stand alone program. And a server that is also a web client.
[3997] Servlet v JSP (Java Server Page). What is the difference?
[3044] Changing a Servlet - more that just editing and compiling
[2525] Using JSPs, Tag Libraries, Java Beans, Tomcat in one short example
[2151] What is a JSP tag library?
[479] New servlet from old
Module A508 -
Jakarta and Struts
[3046] Java Beans, tag libraries and JSPs - what and why.
Module A509 -
Java - Ant build tool
[4708] Scons - a build system in Python - building hello world
[3155] Rake - a build system using code written in Ruby
[694] Ant and Make
(
article) Overview of Ant - a Java based build tool
Module A601 -
Apache httpd - an overview
[4434] Public training courses - upcoming dates
[4064] Apache httpd - a robust, open source web server
[2186] An FAQ on the Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat web servers, and on using them together
[2077] Why put Apache httpd in front of Apache Tomcat
[2063] Internal Dummy Connections on Apache httpd
[2054] Tuning httpd / the supermarket checkout comparison
[2038] Sticky Sessions with mod_jk (httpd to Tomcat)
[2016] Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat miscellany
[1897] Keeping on an even keel
[1593] Keep the client experience easy - single server contact point
[1265] Apache, Tomcat, Jakarta, httpd, web server - what are they?
[924] The LAMP Cookbook - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl
[659] Web Application Components
[576] Why run two different web servers
Module A602 -
Apache httpd - Sourcing, Installation, Testing
[4437] Adding a PHP build option, rotating an image based on camera data, and a new look at thumbnails in PHP
[3426] Automed web site testing scripted in Ruby using watir-webdriver
[2520] Global and Enable - two misused words!
[2184] Choosing the right version of Java and Tomcat
[2096] Where is my new Apache httpd installed
[2080] Using ApacheBench and jconsole to test and monitor Tomcat
[1945] Summary - Apache httpd build on Linux
[1768] What is built in to this httpd and PHP?
[1731] Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP - installation procedure
[1707] Configuring Apache httpd
[1455] Connecting to MySQL 5 from PHP on Mac OSX Leopard
[1449] Upgrade Mac OSX to Leopard, Web Server Apache httpd config lost
[1292] DHCP automatic IP address v Static IP
[1095] Apache httpd , browser, MySQL and MySQL client downloads
[982] Notes from the white board
[907] Browser -> httpd -> Tomcat -> MySQL. Restarting.
[660] Stopping and restarting Apache httpd cleanly
[550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure
[526] Apache httpd - serving web documents from different directories
[523] Apache httpd release 2.2
(
article) Linux and httpd file system layout - LAMP server
(
article) A Web interface for your Linux admin tasks
(
article) Windows - running Apache and MySQL from a CD
{
config.nice} Sample configuration details
{
yumyum.pl} Setting up and first test program for CGI scripts
Module A603 -
Further httpd Configuration
[4307] Identifying and clearing denial of service attacks on your Apache server
[4001] Helping search engines with appropriate 400 error codes
[3955] Building up from a small PHP setup to an enterprise one
[3862] Forwarding a whole domain, except for a few directories - Apache http server
[3635] Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING on brand new web site - why?
[3449] Apache Internal Dummy Connection - what is it and what should I do with it?
[3133] An image from a website that occasionally comes out as hyroglyphics
[2900] Redirecting a page - silent, temporary or permanent?
[2478] How did I do THAT?
[2272] Monitoring and loading tools for testing Apache Tomcat
[2060] Database connection Pooling, SSL, and command line deployment - httpd and Tomcat
[1974] Moving a directory on your web site
[1955] How to avoid duplicating web page maintainance
[1954] mod_rewrite for newcomers
[1939] mod_proxy_ajp and mod_proxy_balancer examples
[1778] Pointing all the web pages in a directory at a database
[1767] mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp - httpd
[1762] WEB-INF (Tomcat) and .htaccess (httpd)
[1707] Configuring Apache httpd
[1636] What to do if the Home Page is missing
[1619] User and Group settings for Apache httpd web server
[1566] Strange behaviour of web directory requests without a trailing slash
[1564] Default file (MiMe types) for Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat
[1554] Online hotel reservations - Melksham, Wiltshire (near Bath)
[1551] Which modules are loaded in my Apache httpd
[1381] Using a MySQL database to control mod_rewrite via PHP
[1377] Load Balancing with Apache mod_jk (httpd/Tomcat)
[1355] .php or .html extension? Morally Static Pages
[1351] Compressing web pages sent out from server. Is it worth it?
[1207] Simple but effective use of mod_rewrite (Apache httpd)
[1121] Sharing the load with Apache httpd and perhaps Tomcat
[1080] httpd.conf or .htaccess?
[1009] Passing GET parameters through Apache mod_rewrite
[934] Clustering, load balancing, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy
[853] To list a directory under httpd on a web server, or not?
[755] Using different URLs to navigate around a single script
[662] An unhelpful error message from Apache httpd
[649] Denial of Service ''attack''
[631] Apache httpd to Tomcat - jk v proxy
[550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure
[526] Apache httpd - serving web documents from different directories
[466] Separating 'per instance' data from binaries and web sites
[345] Spotting a denial of service attack
(
article) Linux and httpd file system layout - LAMP server
(
article) A Web interface for your Linux admin tasks
(
article) Load balancing and robustness - httpd, tomcat, PHP, Servlets, MySQL
(
article) Making all your .html files run a Perl script
(
article) The proxy jServ, jk, jk2, warp and jk story
(
article) Windows - running Apache and MySQL from a CD
{
DOThtaccess} mod_rewrite - all .html request divert to a script
{
README} sample README file
{
DOTmy.cnf} Override MySQL defaults with .my.cnf
{
mpmsample.conf} Sample Annotated Prefork and Worker MPM configurations
{
add_account.php} Add a MySQL and Linux account from a web page
{
andy} A Programmed RewriteMap for mod_rewrite in PHP
{
webuser} Script to run
{
AUP} Acceptable User Policy
{
demo.php} Demonstration of mod_rewrite
{
fulluser} Script to create Linux and MySQL accounts
Module A604 -
Apache httpd - virtual hosts
[4404] Which (virtual) host was visited? Tuning Apache log files, and Python analysis
[3568] Telling which ServerAlias your visitor used - useful during merging domains
[3132] Virtual Hosting with Apache http server - an overall scheme, and avoiding common pitfalls
[1896] Virtual Hosts and Virtual Servers
[1687] Virtual Hosting on Apache httpd - a primer example
[690] Adding Virtual Hosts
(
article) Multiple domains on a single web server
{
vh} Virtual hosts - a simple structure
{
vhost_withnote} Virtual Hosting - sample template for many-domain system
{
vhosts_proxy.conf} Virtual Hosting Example with forwarding to Tomcat
{
vhost.snowdrop.conf} Virtual host sample - snowflake, snowdrop and raindrop
Module A606 -
Apache httpd - log files and log tools
[4491] Web Server Admin - some of those things that happen, and solutions
[4404] Which (virtual) host was visited? Tuning Apache log files, and Python analysis
[4307] Identifying and clearing denial of service attacks on your Apache server
[3984] 20 minutes in to our 15 minutes of fame
[3974] TV show appearance - how does it effect your web site?
[3670] Reading Google Analytics results, based on the relative populations of countries
[3554] Learning more about our web site - and learning how to learn about yours
[3491] Who is knocking at your web site door? Are you well set up to deal with allcomers?
[3447] Needle in a haystack - finding the web server overload
[3443] Getting more log information from the Apache http web server
[3087] Making the most of critical emails - reading behind the scene
[3027] Server logs - drawing a graph of gathered data
[3019] Apache httpd Server Status - monitoring your server
[3015] Logging the performance of the Apache httpd web server
[1796] libwww-perl and Indy Library in your server logs?
[1780] Server overloading - turns out to be feof in PHP
[1761] Logging Cookies with the Apache httpd web server
[1656] Be careful of misreading server statistics
[1598] Every link has two ends - fixing 404s at the recipient
[1503] Web page (http) error status 405
[1237] What proportion of our web traffic is robots?
[376] What brings people to my web site?
(
article) Web Forensics
(
article) Log file analysis - short Python example
{
httpd-info.conf} Config file for Apache Status and Info
{
o10x} Generate parallel network traffic to test a server
{
als} Analysing Web Server Logs
{
statlog} Server Status Logger / hpptd to run via crontab
Module A607 -
Apache httpd mod_rewrite
[3862] Forwarding a whole domain, except for a few directories - Apache http server
[3753] Adding a passcode to a directory
[3568] Telling which ServerAlias your visitor used - useful during merging domains
[3339] Simplest ever proxy configuration?
[3197] Finding and diverting image requests from rogue domains
[2981] How to set up short and meaningfull alternative URLs
[2900] Redirecting a page - silent, temporary or permanent?
[2773] Dynamically watching your web site via a PHP wrapper
[2768] Carrying a long URL around - looking for memorable shorts
[2728] Redirecting a home page using mod_rewrite
[2555] Bookkeeping
[2094] If you have a spelling mistake in your URL / page name
[1954] mod_rewrite for newcomers
[1778] Pointing all the web pages in a directory at a database
[1771] More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java
[1731] Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP - installation procedure
[1636] What to do if the Home Page is missing
[1381] Using a MySQL database to control mod_rewrite via PHP
[1376] Choosing between mod_proxy and mod_rewrite
[1207] Simple but effective use of mod_rewrite (Apache httpd)
[1009] Passing GET parameters through Apache mod_rewrite
[1006] Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat together tips
[934] Clustering, load balancing, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy
[755] Using different URLs to navigate around a single script
[631] Apache httpd to Tomcat - jk v proxy
(
article) Making all your .html files run a Perl script
(
article) The proxy jServ, jk, jk2, warp and jk story
(
article) Load Balancing and Clustering
Module A608 -
Apache httpd mod_proxy
[3892] Distributed, Balanced and Clustered Load Sharing - the difference
[3680] How can I run multiple web servers behind a single IP address?
[3339] Simplest ever proxy configuration?
[3293] Distributing the server load - yet ensuring that each user return to the same system (Apache httpd and Tomcat)
[2482] Load balancing with sticky sessions (httpd / Tomcat)
[2325] Apache, Tomcat, mod_proxy
[2273] Three recent questions on Tomcat Convertors
[2062] Virtual hosting and mod_proxy forwarding of different domains (httpd)
[1944] Forwarding session and cookie requests from httpd to Tomcat
[1939] mod_proxy_ajp and mod_proxy_balancer examples
[1767] mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp - httpd
[1566] Strange behaviour of web directory requests without a trailing slash
[1376] Choosing between mod_proxy and mod_rewrite
[1121] Sharing the load with Apache httpd and perhaps Tomcat
[1006] Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat together tips
[934] Clustering, load balancing, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy
[631] Apache httpd to Tomcat - jk v proxy
(
article) The proxy jServ, jk, jk2, warp and jk story
(
article) Load Balancing and Clustering
{
proxy.conf} Sample mod_proxy configurations
{
httpd.conf} httpd.conf which includes extra proxy forwarder file
{
httpd-forwarder.conf} Proxy Forwarder include file for Apache httpd 2.2
Module A651 -
Tomcat Overview
[4434] Public training courses - upcoming dates
[3997] Servlet v JSP (Java Server Page). What is the difference?
[2753] You do not just fly - that is just part of the journey
[2186] An FAQ on the Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat web servers, and on using them together
[2077] Why put Apache httpd in front of Apache Tomcat
[2016] Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat miscellany
[1941] Server - Service - Engine - Host, Tomcat
[1771] More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java
[1265] Apache, Tomcat, Jakarta, httpd, web server - what are they?
[659] Web Application Components
[576] Why run two different web servers
[498] Why is Tomcat called Tomcat?
[49] Business is the predominant user of Tomcat, Perl and Tcl
Module A652 -
Tomcat -Sourcing, Installing and Initial Testing
[3819] Packing a tar, jar or war file - best practise
[2088] Changing the 404 - file not found - page in Tomcat
[1550] Java (JSP and Servlet examples) live on our server
[1049] Java 6, Apache Tomcat 6.
[837] Tomcat - Shutdown port
(
article) Running CGI scripts in Apache Tomcat
(
article) Running SSI (Server Side Include) scripts in Apache Tomcat
{
web.course.xml} web.xml, as cut down / modified during a training course
{
tomcat-users.course.xml} tomcat-users.xml file, modified on a training course
{
server.course.xml} Cut down server.xml file, from a course practical
Module A653 -
Tomcat - Configuring Web Applications
[3996] Tips on Tomcat - moving applications around
[3044] Changing a Servlet - more that just editing and compiling
[2088] Changing the 404 - file not found - page in Tomcat
[1909] javax.servlet cannot be resolved - how to solve
[1564] Default file (MiMe types) for Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat
[1552] Extra public classes in deploying Apache httpd and Tomcat
[1192] What are WEB-INF and META-INF directories?
[1082] Straight from the .jar
[1074] Java beans and classes, .war and .jar files
[1006] Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat together tips
[754] tar, jar, war, ear, sar files
[479] New servlet from old
[465] Changing Tomcat's web.xml and reloading a web application
(
article) Running CGI scripts in Apache Tomcat
(
article) Running SSI (Server Side Include) scripts in Apache Tomcat
{
isbnform.html} Form for bl3.jsp example -->
{
Smallest.java} Smallest servlet - hit counter
{
prog1.cgi} Perl script to test Apache Tomcat CGI support
{
Summer.java} First Example of using Java Servlet Sessions
{
Book.java} Book bean - connect to MySQL to look up Author based on ISBN */
{
demo.jsp} A Java Server Page Multiplication table -->
{
first.jsp} A simple calculator in a JSP page -->
{
booklook.jsp} JSP tags used to call up Java Beans -->
{
Agetest.java} Class to use with age testing JSP pages such as supervisor.jsp
{
first.web.xml} Very simplest web.xml -->
{
Autumn.java} Servlet Sessions, and variable scope.
{
together_jsp.java} Conversion of together.jsp into a servlet
{
shortform.html} A short form to allow the user to input to a JSP -->
{
page1.html} Test page - HTML - for new Tomcat install -->
{
demoform.jsp} A JSP to calculate based on form data -->
{
index.html} Home page for latmj web application -->
{
idemo.shtml} SSI Script to test Apache Tomcat SSI support
{
Tempconv.java} Temperature Conversion Servlet -->
{
web.xml} mapping servlet URLs to classes -->
{
Coffeeweb.java} Servlet source + web.xml + CLASSPATH all in one example
{
bookrun.jsp} JSP to get author based on ISBN number in form -->
{
together.jsp} A form and a program in the same .jsp -->
{
bookform.html} Form to ask for ISBN number -->
{
supervisor.jsp} JSP Page to compare your age to 21, using the agetest class -->
{
TinyServ.java} A Simple servlet for testing initial operation of Tomcat
Module A654 -
Configuring and Controlling Tomcat
[3043] Gathering information - logging - with log4j. First steps.
[2652] Reading and writing cookies in Java Servlets and JSPs
[2163] CATALINA_OPTS v JAVA_OPTS - What is the difference?
[2061] Tomcat 6 - Annotated Sample Configuration Files
[2039] The Invoker
[1994] tomcat-users.xml; what a difference a space made
[1943] Port and Glasses
[1762] WEB-INF (Tomcat) and .htaccess (httpd)
[1553] Automatic startup and shutdown of Tomcat
[1503] Web page (http) error status 405
[1370] Apache Tomcat Performance Tuning
[1351] Compressing web pages sent out from server. Is it worth it?
[914] A practical example of roles
[907] Browser -> httpd -> Tomcat -> MySQL. Restarting.
[837] Tomcat - Shutdown port
{
6_web.xml} Sample web.xml for Tomcat 6
{
6_context.xml} Tomcat 6 - sample context.xml
{
6_server.xml} Tomcat 6 - sample server.xml file
{
tomcat} Tomcat 5 startup script for /etc/init.d and chkconfig use
{
6_tomcat-users.xml} Sample tomcat_users.xml for Tomcat 6
Module A655 -
Using Tomcat and Apache httpd Together
[3999] Handling failures / absences of your backend server nicely
[3018] Tuning Apache httpd and Tomcat to work well together
[2482] Load balancing with sticky sessions (httpd / Tomcat)
[1944] Forwarding session and cookie requests from httpd to Tomcat
[1940] URL rewriting with front and back servers
[1938] Predictive Load Balancing - PHP and / or Java
[1771] More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java
[1552] Extra public classes in deploying Apache httpd and Tomcat
[1549] http, https and ajp - comparison and choice
[1383] Monitoring mod_jk and how it is load balancing
[1376] Choosing between mod_proxy and mod_rewrite
[631] Apache httpd to Tomcat - jk v proxy
[576] Why run two different web servers
[436] Linking Apache httpd to Apache Tomcat
(
article) Load balancing and robustness - httpd, tomcat, PHP, Servlets, MySQL
(
article) The proxy jServ, jk, jk2, warp and jk story
{
httpd.forward} Forwarding from http to Tomcat
{
jkworkers.properties} Configuration file for mod_jk with load balancing
{
snowdrop.httpd.jk.conf} mod_jk configuration example - balancing and status
Module A656 -
More Tomcat Configuration
[3018] Tuning Apache httpd and Tomcat to work well together
[2272] Monitoring and loading tools for testing Apache Tomcat
[1899] Virtual Hosting under Tomcat - an example
[1718] Increasing Java Virtual Machine memory for Tomcat
[1370] Apache Tomcat Performance Tuning
[466] Separating 'per instance' data from binaries and web sites
[282] Short weekend
(
article) Load balancing and robustness - httpd, tomcat, PHP, Servlets, MySQL
{
server.xml} Sample server.xml file
{
Store6.java} Store class, used to maintain state in JSP demo */
{
products.txt} Product data for Shopping cart demo
{
web.xml} Session timeout changed to 120 minutes -->
{
index.jsp} A Shopping cart JSP that maintains state -->
Module A657 -
Using httpd to front Tomcat
[3999] Handling failures / absences of your backend server nicely
[3018] Tuning Apache httpd and Tomcat to work well together
[2483] Clustering on Tomcat
[1944] Forwarding session and cookie requests from httpd to Tomcat
[1940] URL rewriting with front and back servers
[1939] mod_proxy_ajp and mod_proxy_balancer examples
[1566] Strange behaviour of web directory requests without a trailing slash
[1377] Load Balancing with Apache mod_jk (httpd/Tomcat)
[631] Apache httpd to Tomcat - jk v proxy
[576] Why run two different web servers
(
article) The proxy jServ, jk, jk2, warp and jk story
Module A690 -
Clustering and load balancing
[4432] Java web application for teaching - now with sessions and clustering / load balancing demonstrations
[3892] Distributed, Balanced and Clustered Load Sharing - the difference
[3339] Simplest ever proxy configuration?
[3293] Distributing the server load - yet ensuring that each user return to the same system (Apache httpd and Tomcat)
[2483] Clustering on Tomcat
[2482] Load balancing with sticky sessions (httpd / Tomcat)
[2059] Sharing the load between servers - httpd and Tomcat
[1995] Automated server heartbeat and health check
[1993] Load Balancing - Hardware or Software?
[1771] More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java
[1121] Sharing the load with Apache httpd and perhaps Tomcat
[934] Clustering, load balancing, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy
(
article) Load balancing and robustness - httpd, tomcat, PHP, Servlets, MySQL
(
article) The proxy jServ, jk, jk2, warp and jk story
(
article) Load Balancing and Clustering
{
server.xml} Tomcat 6.0 server.xml with named jvmroute
Module A692 -
Monitoring and load testing your server
[3027] Server logs - drawing a graph of gathered data
[3019] Apache httpd Server Status - monitoring your server
[3015] Logging the performance of the Apache httpd web server
[2272] Monitoring and loading tools for testing Apache Tomcat
[2082] Jmeter - a first test case
[2080] Using ApacheBench and jconsole to test and monitor Tomcat
[2079] Java - Memory Allocation and garbage collection
[1718] Increasing Java Virtual Machine memory for Tomcat
Module A801 -
Overview of J2EE technology
[687] Presentation, Business and Persistence layers in Perl and PHP
Module A802 -
The JBoss application server
[754] tar, jar, war, ear, sar files
Module A805 -
Perl - modPerl, Mason, CGI.pm and LWP
[2416] Automating access to a page obscured behind a holding page
[260] Embperl
[45] CGI v mod_perl
{
coojar} Automated web client to wait for results page
Module A900 -
Tomcat - Extra Features
[3018] Tuning Apache httpd and Tomcat to work well together
[1939] mod_proxy_ajp and mod_proxy_balancer examples
[1899] Virtual Hosting under Tomcat - an example
[1896] Virtual Hosts and Virtual Servers
[1383] Monitoring mod_jk and how it is load balancing
[1377] Load Balancing with Apache mod_jk (httpd/Tomcat)
[1376] Choosing between mod_proxy and mod_rewrite
[1370] Apache Tomcat Performance Tuning
[1121] Sharing the load with Apache httpd and perhaps Tomcat
[1006] Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat together tips
[934] Clustering, load balancing, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy
(
article) Load Balancing and Clustering
{
mod_rewrite-load_balance} Configuration file mod_rewrite load balancing
{
sslc} server.xml setup example - SSL connector
{
server.xml.virtual} Virtual Hosting on Tomcat.
{
bal.httpd.conf} Load balancing a number of Tomcat instances via httpd
{
balance.conf} httpd mod_rewrite map for load balancing Apache Tomcat
{
cluck.pl} "heartbeat" script to switch servers
{
clust} Clustering - basic setup for server.xml
Module A901 -
Inside Tomcat and its Java Engine.
[2272] Monitoring and loading tools for testing Apache Tomcat
[2079] Java - Memory Allocation and garbage collection
[1718] Increasing Java Virtual Machine memory for Tomcat
[1370] Apache Tomcat Performance Tuning
Module A911 -
Using Tomcat in a live environment
[2218] Multiple web applications under Tomcat - what are the options?
Module A912 -
Upgrading and tuning Tomcat
[3018] Tuning Apache httpd and Tomcat to work well together
[2082] Jmeter - a first test case
[2060] Database connection Pooling, SSL, and command line deployment - httpd and Tomcat
[1908] Java CLASSPATH explained
[1718] Increasing Java Virtual Machine memory for Tomcat
[1377] Load Balancing with Apache mod_jk (httpd/Tomcat)
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C: C and C++ programming
Overview C050 -
C - General
[4434] Public training courses - upcoming dates
[4341] Segmentation Fault, Segmentation Violation, Bus Error, Stack Smashing
[4335] Flexible public courses - residential or commuting, programming newcomer or experienced, C or C++
[3129] Extra courses - C and C++
[3053] Make - automating the commands for building and installing
[2848] C course - final course example puts it all together
[2763] Our C and C++ training course are on Open Source platforms
[2669] Efficient use of dynamic memory - C and realloc
[2536] All the Cs ... and Java too
[2504] Learning to program in ...
[2091] C, C++ and C# ... Java and JavaScript
[2086] C Programming v Learning to Program in C. Which course?
[2002] New C Examples - pointers, realloc, structs and more
(
article) Introduction to the C Programming Language
{
cppex.c} uses of preprocessor directives (cpp)
{
pinc2.c} Pascal's triangle all in calloc'd memory
{
tryme.c} realloc - adds new memory in sizeable chunks
{
starstar.c} multilevel pointers
{
remember.c} Call by value v call by address
{
globals.h} include file for cppex.c
{
pinc.c} Pascal's Triangle - calloc'd rows
Overview C051 -
C++ - General
[4355] C++ in 2 days
[4335] Flexible public courses - residential or commuting, programming newcomer or experienced, C or C++
[3809] Dwarf Exception Unwind Info
[3587] C++ Courses - do I get official certification at the end of my Well House course?
[3250] C++ - how we teach the language and the concepts behind the language
[3155] Rake - a build system using code written in Ruby
[3129] Extra courses - C and C++
[3067] Using C and C++ functions in the same program - how to do it
[3052] Getting your C++ program to run
[2851] Further C++ material - view new or old
[2763] Our C and C++ training course are on Open Source platforms
[2577] Complete teaching example - C++, inheritance, polymorphism
[2536] All the Cs ... and Java too
[2504] Learning to program in ...
[2370] C++, Python, and other training - do we use an IDE
(
article) Introduction to the C plus plus Programming Language
{
act_02.cpp} Second C++ demo - heap v stack, char handling, this, static
{
shape_main.cpp} main shape program - a.k.a. hereitis
{
shape.cpp} shape class methods
{
g_hotel.cpp} method code for base functionallity
{
shape.h} headers for shape class
{
starredhotel.cpp} extensions to base functionallity - second example
{
square.h} headers for square class
{
starredhotel.h} header file - the other extended class
{
sixtytwo.cpp} Inheritance, constructor calls, virtual methods
{
selfhotel.cpp} extensions to base functionallity - first example
{
rectangle.h} headers for rectangle class
{
circle.cpp} circle class methods
{
comparetors.cpp} With Comparators
{
circle.h} headers for circle class
{
selfhotel.h} header file - one of the extended classes
{
makefile} Makefile for complete C++ example
{
sixtythree.cpp} er and est
{
computers.cpp} Inheriting constructors and multiple methods of same name
{
heapdog.cpp} Homes and Animals
{
square.cpp} square class methods
{
g_hotel.h} header file - base class
{
fiftytwo.cpp} First definition and use of class
{
sixty.cpp} First Interitance
{
further.cpp} Main demo program to show polymorphism in C++
{
rectangle.cpp} rectangle class methods
{
act_01.cpp} Simple C++ demo - class - interface and test program
{
sixtyfour.cpp} adds a destructor
Module C101 -
Introduction to C
[2842] Staring a C course with Hello World - why?
[1933] Learning to Program in C
[885] Why do we still need C?
[336] Targetted Advertising
[318] Choosing a theme
[317] Programming languages - a comparison
[304] Training courses in the C language
(
article) Introduction to the C Programming Language
{
starter.c} Read from user - calculate - provide answer
{
second.c} Loops and functions
{
friend.h} Snippet of code to #include
{
greeting.c} Hello World in C
{
g3.c} Hello World with extra function call
{
fourthmain.c} Separate function file and include file [main part]
{
fourthfuncs.c} Separate function file and include file [functions part]
{
fourth.h} Separate function file and include file [header part]
{
g4.c} Loading code from another file
{
ltab.c} Comparing while and do loops
Module C201 -
C Language Fundamentals
[4566] C - why is slow to write and debug) but fast to run?
[4555] Preprocessor directives in C and C++ - what they mean
[4324] Learning to program - variables and constants
[3917] BODMAS - the order a computer evaluates arithmetic expressions
[3591] Integer types, and integer overflows, in C
[3278] Do I need to initialise variables - programming in C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby or Java.
[3234] Your program - you just provide the filling in the sandwich
[3120] Learning to write good programs in C and C++ - separating out repeated code
[2842] Staring a C course with Hello World - why?
[2576] What does const mean? C and C++
[2005] Variables and pointers and references - C and C++
[1671] Compiling C programs with gcc - an overview
[888] Turning C from source to a running program
{
hello.c} First C program
{
first.c} First program and some comments
{
second.c} Commenting code in C
{
makefile} makefile for C version of "hello world"
{
tara.c} Sample function to illustrate inclusion
{
cond01.c} C and C++ preprocessor examples
{
t2.c} What happens when you overflow
Module C202 -
A first practical program
[4632] Remember to ask the question before you listen for the answer
[4337] Learning to program sample program - past its prime, but still useful
[3590] Defining, declaring and initialising variables in C
[3236] C - a first program that does something useful for you
[3121] New year, new C Course
[2580] C course inspires new teaching examples
[888] Turning C from source to a running program
{
vars.c} Delaring but not initialising - what happens?
{
tconv.c} Temperature conversions
{
second.c} Read, Calculate, output results */
{
fred.c} Calculation of VAT on an amount
{
vars2.c} Declaring and initialising variables
{
makefile} makefile for module C202
{
p003.c} Remember to prompt the user
{
nranges.c} Testing number ranges in C
{
cvopt.c} Prompt - read - calculate - decide - report
{
calcit.c} First calculation
{
adder.c} Variables and arithmetic in C
Module C203 -
Conditionals and Loops
[4337] Learning to program sample program - past its prime, but still useful
[4323] Learning to program - Loop statements such as while
[4322] Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if)
[3397] Does a for loop evaluate its end condition once, or on every iteration?
[3384] Loops - a comparison of goto, while and for
[3243] Breaking the running sequence - an introduction to conditional statements and loops
[3200] How a for loop works Java, Perl and other languages
[3121] New year, new C Course
[3004] Increment operators for counting - Perl, PHP, C and others
[2570] Function Prototypes in C
[2002] New C Examples - pointers, realloc, structs and more
[1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ...
[1582] Ruby, C, Java and more - getting out of loops
[1220] for loop - how it works (Perl, PHP, Java, C, etc)
[1191] Smart English Output - via PHP and Perl ? : operator
[962] Breaking a loop - Ruby and other languages
[353] Wimbledon Neck
{
lp1.c} repeating code in a while loop
{
ex_203.c} Exercise - throw a die until you get a 6
{
sindol.c} Singapore Teapot answer
{
seven.c} Conditional statements in C and C++
{
tall4.c} Temperature conversions with ++ and +=
{
fresh.c} looping via a goto
{
sindy.c} Singapore teapot in C
{
otherbits.c} Functions used in function prototype demo (ANSI C)
{
eight.c} loop showing weight loss needed until user is healthy
{
makefile} makefile for module C203
{
third.c} Conditional - if and else - example
{
greet.c} Learning to program in C ... first day's illustrations
{
tall.c} Temperature conversions using if
{
lp2.c} for loop - bad and good examples
{
tall3.c} Temperature conversions in a while loop
{
tall6.c} Temperature conversions in a while loop
{
freshveggies.c} for loop - compare to goto loop and while loop
{
eer.c} Program that makes use of ANSI C function prototypes
{
demo.h} Function prototypes for err.c and otherbits.c demo
{
freshmeat.c} while loop - compared to goto loop and for loop
{
cb.c} Using { and } to scope a block
{
tall2.c} Temperature conversions using switch
Module C204 -
Functions, Macros and programs in multiple files
[4557] Function prototype - what they are and why you should use them - C and C++
[4555] Preprocessor directives in C and C++ - what they mean
[4554] Passing information into functions in C - by name, by value
[4338] Passing arrays into functions in C
[3721] Naming blocks of code, structures and Object Orientation - efficient coding in manageable chunks
[3717] Returning extra results from a function in C
[3237] Using functions to keep look and feel apart from calculations - simple C example
[2841] C Course exercise and sample answer - source in 2 files
[2575] Sharing variables between files of code in C - extern
[2570] Function Prototypes in C
[1478] Some new C programming examples - files, structs, unions etc
[1163] A better alternative to cutting and pasting code
[775] Do not duplicate your code
{
abcpointers.c} Ways of passing back results from a function
{
tcsub.c} Functions in their own file
{
funfuncs.c} use of extern to reference variable held elsewhere
{
taxi.c} functions for VAT rate exercise
{
tcsub.h} Using functions - the header file
{
p3.c} Returning values from a function
{
healthybits.c} functions to be loaded from another program
{
twice.cpp} Two functions of same name in C++
{
funfiles.c} The home for an extern variable
{
makefile} makefile for module C204
{
lp3.c} Variable declaration and scopr in inner blocks
{
third.c} Separating look and feel from business logic
{
tcall.c} Function definition and call
{
astamp.c} changing a parameter's value within a function
{
fundy.c} call by value v call by pointer / reference
{
healthcheck.c} function prototypes and extern
{
tcmain.c} Using functions
{
twice.c} Function names must be unique in C
{
xrcz.c} Sample answer - main code for VAT exercise
Module C205 -
Arrays
[4566] C - why is slow to write and debug) but fast to run?
[4338] Passing arrays into functions in C
[3245] Collections in C and C++ - arrays, vectors and heap memory blocks
[3144] Setting up arrays in C - fixed size at compile time, or dynamic
[3121] New year, new C Course
[3118] Arrays of arrays - or 2D arrays. How to program tables.
[2840] Just pass a pointer - do not duplicate the data
[2002] New C Examples - pointers, realloc, structs and more
[1614] When an array is not an array
{
series.c} read array, print in reverse, min and max
{
abits.c} extern - a global variable
{
morearr.c} Arrays - days and months
{
amain.c} Use of constants and globals
{
abits.h} header file for global variable demo
{
par.c} pointers v arrays
{
pa3.c} Allocating heap memory and passing to a function
{
afp.c} Pointers and Arrays - Interaction
{
makefile} makefile for module C205
{
rainfall.txt} Sample rainfall data (1) - always 31 days of data
{
paif.c} Passing an array to a function - (1)
{
lp.c} declaring an array and defining its length
{
eleven.c} Array - declaration, filling with data, reusing
{
arrbad.c} Arrays - triangle numbers WITH ERROR
{
pa2.c} Passing an array to a function - (2)
{
arr1.c} Arrays - triangle numbers
Module C206 -
Character Strings
[4633] String handling in C - new examples of extracting integers from a string
[4556] Strings in C - strncmp strncpy and friends
[4340] Simple C structs - building up to full, dynamic example
[3718] Splitting a record into individual data values in C
[3593] Chars, char arrays and strings in C. Some early cautions and pitfalls.
[3146] Strings in C
[3144] Setting up arrays in C - fixed size at compile time, or dynamic
[3122] When is a program complete?
[2844] Learning about Regular Expressions in C through examples
[2843] String functions in C
[1338] Handling Binary data in Tcl (with a note on C)
{
reg2.c} Match and Capture - Regular Expressions
{
fff} Some sample data
{
cli4.c} Picking out command line options into an array
{
cli5.c} More advanced coding style to handle argv and argc
{
rabbit.c} Structures and file i/o - C
{
cli3.c} Command line params - more complex character string arrangement
{
s1.c} String compare and copy
{
p021.c} String handling examples
{
p023.c} read an array of numbers from a text string
{
chout.c} Strings v chars
{
cx.c} String copying and manipulation
{
makefile} makefile for module C206
{
cstr.c} String manipulation in C
{
cs1.c} Comparing strings in C
{
p022.c} parsing and checking integers off a line
{
lynebreak.c} Tokenising a C string
{
sti1.c} Characters and strings in C
{
s4.c} Read lines from file, tokenise them, save data into an array of structs.
{
readwrite.c} File handling basics in C
{
reg.c} Regular Expression matching in C
{
cli.c} Command Line Handling
{
ccis.c} Basic string and command line handling
{
cli2.c} Command line - use of pointers example
{
range.c} Summing numbers from the command line
{
dynamic.c} memory allocation and release with calloc and free
{
pothat.c} Strings via pointers and arrays of chars
{
dynbad.c} How NOT to do it - overrunning an array
{
csame.c} Comparisons of strings in C
Module C207 -
Pointers and references
[4560] Variables, Pointers and References - C and C++
[4128] Allocating memory dynamically in a static language like C
[3399] From fish, loaves and apples to money, plastic cards and BACS (Perl references explained)
[3386] Adding the pieces together to make a complete language - C
[3242] How to return 2 values from a function (C++ and C) - more uses of pointers
[3238] Bradshaw, Ben and Bill. And some C and C++ pointers and references too.
[3121] New year, new C Course
[3004] Increment operators for counting - Perl, PHP, C and others
[2670] Pointers to Pointers to Pointers - what is the point?
[2572] The what and why of C pointers
[2005] Variables and pointers and references - C and C++
[1497] Training Season Starts again!
[1478] Some new C programming examples - files, structs, unions etc
[1155] Pointers in C
{
ip2.c} Passing pointers to functions
{
po.c} Pointers and addresses - the mechanism
{
p1.c} First use of pointers
{
referee.cpp} References and pointers (and direct variable use)
{
fifth.c} Further use of pointers - returning multiple values
{
pfirst.c} use of pointer - passing to function
{
p2.c} Passing a reference to allow a variable to be change from a function
{
arp.c} referencing array members through pointers
{
excuse.c} Pointers - illustrative example 1
{
dj.c} Comparing call by name and call by value
{
makefile} makefile for module C207
{
plot.c} Passing an array to a function
{
ex_c207.c} passing pointers in to a function to allow multiple returns
{
p4.c} Passing complex data via a single pointer
{
ptr1.c} Temperature conversions - pointers
{
fourth.c} function calls - call by value and call by name
{
psecond.c} How a pointer can give a temporary name
{
cli2.c} Handling command line args via pointers
{
stock.c} Jelly beans
{
pdo.c} Hello pointer world
Module C208 -
Programming techniques and tools
[4341] Segmentation Fault, Segmentation Violation, Bus Error, Stack Smashing
[4336] Test Driven Development - a first example of principle in C
{
qn208.c} Command line options and parameters
{
fyle.c} File reading - template for delegates
{
ctoken.c} Tokenising a string into a structure
{
tdd.c} Test harness - test driven development
{
makefile} makefile for module C202
{
bmi.c} Functions to be tested
{
cle.c} Command line arguments and the environment
{
bmi.h} header file for functions to be tested
Module C209 -
Structures and Unions
[3386] Adding the pieces together to make a complete language - C
[3145] Structures v Structure Pointers in C. How, which, why.
[3122] When is a program complete?
[2573] C Structs - what, how and why
[1669] What are Unions (C programming)
[1584] Using Structs and Unions together effectively in C
[1572] C - structs and unions, C++ classes and polymorphism
[1478] Some new C programming examples - files, structs, unions etc
{
trains_04.c} Structure Pointers
{
trains_01.c} Simple demonstation of a structure
{
tud.c} A Union within a struct - practical use demonstration
{
combo3.c} stuctures - array of structs
{
ts2.c} Definition and use of pointer to structure
{
trains_03.c} An Array of Structures
{
ot2.c} Defining and using a structure
{
ot3.c} Structure with char pointer
{
sixteen.c} Setting up and using structures on the heap
{
combo.c} stuctures - a first example
{
trains.c} An array of structures
{
mytrains.c} Use of pointer to a structure
{
trains_06.c} Dynamic allocation for struct and struct pointers, and populating from file
{
trains_05.c} Dynamic allocation of memory for structs
{
ts.c} definition and use of structure
{
ztwo.c} C (towards C++), Septmeber 2018
{
ot4.c} Pointer to malloc'd memory from a structure
{
st1.c} Definition and first use of a structure
{
services.txt} Data for trains_06.c example
{
trains_02.c} Copying Strings in and out of a structure
{
dinners.c} Read file into array of structs
{
lunches.c} Read file into array of structs
{
combo2.c} stuctures - adding pointers
{
reso.c} Struct, Structures and Structure Pointers
{
union.c} Example of a Union in C
Module C210 -
File Handling
[4340] Simple C structs - building up to full, dynamic example
[4339] Command line and file handling in C
[3386] Adding the pieces together to make a complete language - C
[3122] When is a program complete?
[2572] The what and why of C pointers
[2571] Reading and writing files in C
[2002] New C Examples - pointers, realloc, structs and more
{
sf.c} Reading all the files named on the command line
{
deardir.c} Parsing a directory
{
cmelk.c} Text file read and write
{
ffiles.c} fopen to access files at a higher level
{
filesinc.c} low level file handling with open
{
lunches.c} Read file into array of structs
Module C211 -
Standard Libraries and other headers
[4465] Sockets, time handling and keyboard interrupt handling in C
[3244] C and C++ - preprocess, compile, load, run - what each step is for
[3234] Your program - you just provide the filling in the sandwich
[3148] OpenGL / C / C++ - an example to get you started
[2575] Sharing variables between files of code in C - extern
{
abc.h} include file example for cpp.c
{
first.c} The Sandwich of your application within standard elements
{
hash} Sample preprocessor directives
{
house.c} Sharing variables between object files - main program
{
shared.c} First example of shared code
{
g2.c} Gift server demonstration
{
cpp.c} C Preprocessor examples
{
ex1.c} use of #define and #include
{
bathroom.c} Sharing extern variables - a file of functions
{
clever.h} Example of included file
{
ten.c} Preprocessor directive demonstration
{
waterhorse.h} extern, and use of preprocessor to control it
Module C212 -
Memory Management
[4635] Encapsulating logic in functions and structs - the C approach to Object Oriented techniques
[4634] Regression testing - via a very short C testing framework
[4340] Simple C structs - building up to full, dynamic example
[4128] Allocating memory dynamically in a static language like C
[3416] Storing Tcl source code encoded, and running via your own C program
[3386] Adding the pieces together to make a complete language - C
[3144] Setting up arrays in C - fixed size at compile time, or dynamic
[3118] Arrays of arrays - or 2D arrays. How to program tables.
[2848] C course - final course example puts it all together
[2669] Efficient use of dynamic memory - C and realloc
[1845] Passing a table from Lua into C
[1670] Dynamic Memory Allocation in C
[1589] Dynamic Memory Allocation in C - calloc, realloc
[1581] What is an lvalue? (Perl, C)
[1497] Training Season Starts again!
(
article) Want something more dynamic than an array?
{
trinamic.c} Memory allocation and freeing - demo of principles
{
access_checkpoint_01.c} Routines to load data into array of structures and access it (1)
{
access_checkpoint_04.c} Complete example - loading log file and filtering
{
slurpit.c} Dynamic memory allocation - reading a file of unknown length
{
supper.c} Read file into array of structs
{
loglook.c} Complete example - regex, realloc, string and file handling, etc
{
access_checkpoint_03.c} Routines to load data (imporved API and Regex in C example (3)
{
twelve.c} Dynamically sized collection
{
afp2.c} Dymanic array - runtime sizing on using calloc
{
framework.c} Framework for testing lower level code
{
access_checkpoint_02.c} Routines to load data into array of structures and access it (2)
{
strainer.c} reallocing for an array of structures
Module C221 -
Secure C Programming
[4635] Encapsulating logic in functions and structs - the C approach to Object Oriented techniques
{
oob.c} A poor program - using un initialised variables and an out of bounds array
Module C230 -
Revision of C
[4566] C - why is slow to write and debug) but fast to run?
[4555] Preprocessor directives in C and C++ - what they mean
[4466] Moving from C to C++ - Structured to Object Oriented - a lesson for engineers
{
overflow.c} Fast but unchecked - C
{
ooc.c} C program using OO type patterns
Module C231 -
Introduction to C++
[4562] Left shift operator on an output stream object - C++
[4561] Hello World in C++ - a first program, with the process explained
[4466] Moving from C to C++ - Structured to Object Oriented - a lesson for engineers
[3250] C++ - how we teach the language and the concepts behind the language
[3069] Strings, Garbage Collection and Variable Scope in C++
[3053] Make - automating the commands for building and installing
[3052] Getting your C++ program to run
[2845] Objects and Inheritance in C++ - an easy start
[2169] When should I use OO techniques?
[2004] Variable Scope in C++
[928] C++ and Perl - why did they do it THAT way?
[336] Targetted Advertising
[318] Choosing a theme
[317] Programming languages - a comparison
(
article) Introduction to the C plus plus Programming Language
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
{
fiftyfour.cpp} private method, arrays of objects and object pointers
{
app1.cpp} Main application
{
fifty.cpp} define and use a class
{
rsmain.cpp} Scoping of variables in C++
{
cpp.cpp} C++ - example for C comparison
{
shift.cpp} The << operator in C++
{
cs.cpp} string objects
{
tabbymain.cpp} Sample / test program - first OO class
{
fiftythree.cpp} several methods of same name
{
makefile} Compile / Load instructions for examples in this module
{
ir.inc} Function prototypes for first demo
{
hw.cpp} Hello C++ world
{
ir.cpp} File of functions
{
tabby.cpp} All together - C++ demo class and test program
{
table.cpp} Code for class in first demo
{
table.h} API definition - first class demo
Module C232 -
Defining and using classes in C++
[4565] Allocation of memory for objects in C++ - Stack v Heap
[4372] Template / design pattern for C++ constructor and accessors
[4129] Simple OO demonstration in C++, comparison to Python
[3978] Teaching OO - how to avoid lots of window switching early on
[3810] Reading files, and using factories to create vectors of objects from the data in C++
[3721] Naming blocks of code, structures and Object Orientation - efficient coding in manageable chunks
[3716] Learning C++ - a design pattern for your first class
[3250] C++ - how we teach the language and the concepts behind the language
[2579] Creating, setting up and using objects in C++
[2578] Where are your objects stored in C++?
[2577] Complete teaching example - C++, inheritance, polymorphism
[1925] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
{
demo2.h} Further base and subclass header definition
{
allin1.cpp} Class definition and use all in one file
{
hmain.cpp} First class in C++
{
demo1.h} Base class and subclass header definition
{
demomake} makefile for module c232
{
tabletest.cpp} A test harness for the Table class
{
afuncs.cpp} Class use with accessory functions
{
hcd.cpp} Class description with accessor functions
{
book.inc} Class interface - book
{
book.cpp} Class implementation code - book
{
a2.cpp} Array of objects of different types
{
a3.cpp} Inherited methods - test program
{
hellosurvey.cpp} Template for your first OO classes
{
mylib.cpp} Main application calling constructors and destructors
{
objects_bothways.cpp} stack v heap - object persistance
{
makefile} Compile / Load instructions for examples in this module
{
demo2.cpp} Further base and subclass definition
{
melksham.cpp} Class use with accessor functions
{
transport.cpp} Hello c++ world - define and use an object / Compare to Python
{
demo1.cpp} Base class and subclass method definition
{
hotel.inc} Class descriptor
{
g_main.cpp} Fundamental use of classes example - C++
{
dayfour.cpp} Creating objects on the stack or heap
{
hotel.cpp} Class member code
{
table.cpp} code - the internals of the Table class
{
table.h} Definition of API of a class
{
template.cpp} Design Pattern for class definition and test
Module C233 -
OO in C++ - beyond the basics
[4560] Variables, Pointers and References - C and C++
[4559] When do I use the this keyword in C++?
[4377] Designing a base class and subclasses, and their extension, in C++
[4375] Final examples for 2014 - and a look at our 2015 training course options
[4356] Object factories in C++, Python, PHP and Perl
[3979] Extended and Associated objects - what is the difference - C++ example
[3811] Associated Classes - using objects of one class within another
[3508] Destructor methods in C++ - a primer
[3251] C++ - objects that are based on other objects, saving coding and adding robustness
[3244] C and C++ - preprocess, compile, load, run - what each step is for
[3142] Private and Public - and things between
[3124] C++ - putting the language elements together into a program
[3123] C++ objects - some short, single file demonstrations
[3056] C++ - a complete example with polymorphism, and how to split it into project files
[2845] Objects and Inheritance in C++ - an easy start
[2577] Complete teaching example - C++, inheritance, polymorphism
[1819] Calling base class constructors
[1674] What a lot of files! (C++ / Polymorphism demo)
[1572] C - structs and unions, C++ classes and polymorphism
[1217] What are factory and singleton classes?
[925] C++ - just beyond the basics. More you can do
[831] Comparison of Object Oriented Philosophy - Python, Java, C++, Perl
[801] Simple polymorphism example - C++
[798] References and Pointers in C++
{
testh.cpp} First denmo of polymorphism
{
allinone.cpp.ex} Inheritance and Polymorphism example (all in 1 file)
{
NewHotel001.cpp} Second program to use our HotelRoomBooking - Array
{
shapes_combined} All the files for the shape demo on one page!
{
classinclass.cpp} Associated objects - one object used within another
{
pert.cpp} Overloading, Inheritance, Virtual, Polymorphism and more
{
loader} Complete first Polymorphism example
{
accom4.cpp} An array of objects
{
NewHotel002.cpp} Second program to use our HotelRoomBooking - Vector
{
animal.cpp} the code for the base class (2)
{
midi.cpp} Inheriting a Constructor
{
animal.h} Header file for a base class (2)
{
Make_3} Makefile for our C++ inheritance / polymorphism demo (2)
{
regionhotel.cpp} Derived class member code
{
shapes_02.cpp} Complete demonstration - data stored on the heap
{
ptx.cpp} inheritance and polymorphism - bus and train
{
human.cpp} second subclass of animal - human (2)
{
booklet.cpp} Destructors - how and when they run
{
trans.cpp} Associative classes example
{
regionhotel.inc} include file to define region hotel
{
pet.cpp} code for second subclass - pet (2)
{
accomchooser.cpp} Class using classes and derived classes with inheritance
{
accom3.cpp} An array of objects
{
makefile} Compile / Load instructions for examples in this module
{
accom2.cpp} Class storing strings within an object
{
beasts.cpp} Definition of polymorphic class methods
{
shapes_03.cpp} Overloading +
{
hotel.inc} Class descriptor
{
shapes_01.cpp} Complete inheritance and polymorphism demo
{
petite.cpp} Abstract base class, two subclasses, polymorphic array
{
melkshamhotel.inc} include file to define melkshamhotel
{
second_inheritance.cpp} What is Inheritance / how is it implemented in C++ (2)
{
human.h} extended subclass definintion
{
tinin.cpp} base class, extended class, test code
{
hotel.cpp} Class member code
{
beasts.h} Definition of polymorphic class headers
{
melkshamhotel.cpp} Derived class member code
{
testh2.cpp} Demo of polymorphism across an array
{
Accounts.cpp} C++ factory returning different object types
{
small.cpp} Declare, define, use a class - all in one file
{
pet.h} Definition of subclass headers (2)
{
first_inheritance.cpp} What is Inheritance / how is it implemented in C++ (1)
Module C234 -
Further C++ Object Oriented features
[4559] When do I use the this keyword in C++?
[4377] Designing a base class and subclasses, and their extension, in C++
[4366] Changing what operators do on objects - a comparison across different programming languages
[3982] Using a vector within an object - C++
[3509] Operator Overloading, Exceptions, Pointers, References and Templates in C++ - new examples from our courses
[3430] Sigils - the characters on the start of variable names in Perl, Ruby and Fortran
[3238] Bradshaw, Ben and Bill. And some C and C++ pointers and references too.
[3124] C++ - putting the language elements together into a program
[3069] Strings, Garbage Collection and Variable Scope in C++
[3057] Lots of things to do with and within a C++ class
[2849] What are C++ references? Why use them?
[2717] The Multiple Inheritance Conundrum, interfaces and mixins
[2673] Multiple Inheritance in C++ - a complete example
[2576] What does const mean? C and C++
[2005] Variables and pointers and references - C and C++
[2004] Variable Scope in C++
[1819] Calling base class constructors
[1159] It can take more that one plus one to get two.
[831] Comparison of Object Oriented Philosophy - Python, Java, C++, Perl
[802] undefined reference to typeinfo - C++ error message
[801] Simple polymorphism example - C++
{
act_02.cpp} Second C++ demo - heap v stack, char handling, this, static
{
a4t.cpp} load filtered files to vector
{
sixth.cpp} Interitance, Base Classes, Overloading of methods, etc - C++ course
{
first.cpp} OO Buildup in C++ - starter
{
alias.cpp} Direct, Pointer and Reference access to variables
{
regionhotel.cpp} Derived class member code
{
bighotels.cpp} Comparing objects
{
sixtyfive.cpp} Direct, reference and pointer access to variables
{
refs.cpp} Direct, pointer and reference comparison
{
cube.cpp} Operator overloading
{
regionhotel.inc} include file to define melkshamhotel
{
pet.cpp} multiple constructors, default parameters
{
makefile} Compile / Load instructions for examples in this module
{
Xmas.cpp} Vector, Multiple Inheritance, virtual, Polymorphism, Factory
{
r2.cpp} References and Pointers for each array member
{
coffee.cpp} Overriding add, multiply and << for print
{
overload_add.cpp} Operator (+) and to_string overloading, C++
{
hotel.inc} Class descriptor
{
compare.cpp} Comparatives - heavy, heavier, heaviest
{
act_03.cpp} Object Extras. Vector, delete, factory, destructor, etc
{
refdemo.cpp} References and Pointers
{
melkshamhotel.inc} include file to define melkshamhotel
{
hotel.cpp} Class member code
{
tinyref.cpp} References - description and sample code
{
PMdemo} Polymorphism - complete example
{
melkshamhotel.cpp} Derived class member code
{
station_test.cpp} file read to object framework
{
erandest.cpp} costly, costly, costliest - object comparison
{
act_01.cpp} Simple C++ demo - class - interface and test program
Module C235 -
I/O in C++
[4563] Formatting and outputting your own classes in C++
[4562] Left shift operator on an output stream object - C++
[3810] Reading files, and using factories to create vectors of objects from the data in C++
[3807] Reading (and writing) files in C++
[3390] Printing objects in C++
[3252] C++ - unknown array size, unknown object type. Help!
[3124] C++ - putting the language elements together into a program
[1675] Comparing Objects in C++
[1478] Some new C programming examples - files, structs, unions etc
{
stdcodes.xyz} Sample data file ...
{
nine.cpp} Outputting an object via a stream
{
fullapp2.cpp} Wholesale factory - a single call to make many objects
{
flow2.cpp} Factory method and file input to seed objects
{
file01.cpp} File handling with C++ streams
{
ioex.cpp} Stream demonstration
{
fullapp.cpp} Shell for full application
{
comb.cpp} Reading and writing files, file names from command line
{
makefile} Compile / Load instructions for examples in this module
{
mtbsprint.cpp} implicit formatting to print an object
{
Person.h} header file for object output demo
{
boring.data} Sample data for C++ course examples
{
cppdata.cpp} Reading data from a file
{
Person.cpp} for use in print object demo
{
fpri.cpp} Formatting floating point numbers in C++
Module C236 -
Exceptions
[3509] Operator Overloading, Exceptions, Pointers, References and Templates in C++ - new examples from our courses
[3068] Throwing your own exception in C++, and catching it
[2622] Handling unusual and error conditions - exceptions
[1875] What are exceptions - Python based answer
[799] The case for exceptions
(
article) errors v exceptions
{
except.cpp} Exception handling - catches
{
makefile} Compile / Load instructions for examples in this module
{
prob.cpp} Exception handling - why we need it
{
levels.cpp} Exceptions - try, catch yourself AND throw to parent too
{
CppExcept.cpp} Creating exception objects, throwing and catching them
{
microthrow.cpp} Defining, throwing, catching an excpetion
Module C237 -
Namespaces
[3066] Separating groups of variables into namespaces
{
Ns.cpp} Definition and use of namespaces
{
ave.c} Calling a C function from a C++ main program
Module C238 -
Templates
[3982] Using a vector within an object - C++
[3810] Reading files, and using factories to create vectors of objects from the data in C++
[3509] Operator Overloading, Exceptions, Pointers, References and Templates in C++ - new examples from our courses
[3388] Templates in C++ - defining a family pattern of methods / functions
[3252] C++ - unknown array size, unknown object type. Help!
[3245] Collections in C and C++ - arrays, vectors and heap memory blocks
[1478] Some new C programming examples - files, structs, unions etc
{
swab.cpp} more features of templates
{
trans.cpp} Use of a vector as a member within an object
{
flow4.cpp} Reading a file within a factory, tokenising, vector
{
makefile} Compile / Load instructions for examples in this module
{
clever.cpp} Reference, pointers, templates
{
vec01.cpp} Use of a vector in C++
{
template.cpp} Function templates
Module C239 -
Putting it all together
[4559] When do I use the this keyword in C++?
[4374] Test driven development, and class design, from first principles (using C++)
[4326] Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code
[3810] Reading files, and using factories to create vectors of objects from the data in C++
[3252] C++ - unknown array size, unknown object type. Help!
[3069] Strings, Garbage Collection and Variable Scope in C++
[3067] Using C and C++ functions in the same program - how to do it
[2851] Further C++ material - view new or old
[2674] Make and makefiles - a commented example to help you learn
[2673] Multiple Inheritance in C++ - a complete example
[2646] Compile but do not run PHP - syntax check only
[1181] Good Programming practise - where to initialise variables
[945] Code quality counts
[925] C++ - just beyond the basics. More you can do
[836] Build on what you already have with OO
(
article) What makes a good variable name?
{
pd1.cpp} Inheritance in C++ - base demonstration
{
service_11.cpp} classes and subclasses
{
flow.cpp} Reading a file named on the command line within a factory
{
Expense.h} Header file for second subclass
{
Makefile} Makefile for multiple inheritance demo
{
pd3.cpp} Add an object comparator
{
Film.cpp} main subclass for multiple inheritance demo
{
alltogether.cpp} 7 file example
{
Filmtest.cpp} Main program for multiple inheitance demo
{
complete.cpp} this, vector, factory, inherrited constructor, file input, tokeniser
{
pd5.cpp} Switching from array to vector
{
HireFilm.h} Main class specification - multiple inheritance demo
{
trains.txt} Data file for flow / flow2 / flow4 examples
{
Expense.cpp} A second subclass for multiple inheritance demo
{
Ninety.cpp} vector, factory method, files, tokeniser
{
HireFilm.cpp} Main class for multiple inheritance demo
{
fourthobject.cpp} 7 file full example with a factory and a vector
{
Make_mark_2} Alternative Makefile to show Makefile facilities
{
Film.h} header file for main subclass - multiple inheritance demo
{
pd2.cpp} add an array of objects
{
pd4.cpp} add iostream / namespace, inline, new, printing function, override +
Module C501 -
Objective C, XCode and iOS Resources
[3650] Possessive Regular Expression Matching - Perl, Objective C and some other languages
[3649] A single action for multiple iPad / iPhone buttons, and animation
[3648] iPad and iPhone programming - our seminar weekend with Xcode
[3599] Seeing how Melksham has changed over the years, via an iPad
[3596] Want to learn iPad and iPhone programming? Come along and learn with me for free.
[3594] Back to Uni
{
helloipad_ViewController.m} Hello iPad World - main view controller
{
hello.m} First program example - Objective C
{
helloipad_ViewController.h} Hello iPad World - header
{
helloipad_ViewController.xib} Hello iPad world - view layout
{
timeline_ViewController.m} ViewController nethods
{
timeline_ViewController.h} Headers for ViewController
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R - Ruby programming and use | S - Databases / the MySQL database |
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G: General Training Topics
Subject G100 -
Introduction to Melksham
[3932] River nearly bursting its banks in Melksham
[3696] Melksham government and business organisations
[3344] Repost - some useful pages on our site
[3232] Around and about Melksham in more pictures
[2704] A walk within without - Melksham Without
[2350] Ten years in Melksham - looking forward to ten more.
[2329] Great to be in Melksham
[1725] A future vision for Melksham
[1341] Moving to Melksham? Househunting map.
[866] A lazy programmer is a good programmer
[847] Image maps for navigation - a straightforward example
[676] Melksham, Wiltshire
[517] An occasional chance, and reducing data to manageable levels
[322] More maps
[291] Why are we no. 404
[269] Free parking for short errands in Melksham
(
article) Creating Really Memorable Experiences
Subject G101 -
Getting to and from Melksham
[4701] Pretty at the station too
[4168] Travelling to and from courses - much easier from December 2013
[3752] Melksham Visitors Map - Bus routes and train lines to and from the town
[3751] Public transport for international arrivals into Melksham
[3276] International travel to the UK - coming to Melksham
[2791] Bath to Melksham buses - times
[2789] Melksham to London (Heathrow, and Central London)
[2634] London to and from Melksham by public transport
[2493] Melksham buses to/from Chippenham, Trowbridge, Bath, Devizes, London
[2367] Learning to program - how to jump the first hurdles
[2057] Train and Coach fares from London (and airports) to Melksham
[1997] Travelling to a course - station pickups
[1802] Motorcycles welcome at Well House Manor
[1723] Bath - Melksham - Devizes. Bus route changes, new timetable
[1594] Please support improvements in our train service
[1567] Melksham - Swindon. Train v Bus v Car
[1511] Buses from Well House Manor, Melksham, to Bath
[1428] Travel Across Wiltshire - the game
[1085] Lawrence Webb's Melksham Taxi service
[952] Coming from London to Melksham by train for a course
[856] The train returns for a few weeks
[814] Melksham Railway Calendar 2007
[796] Busy day in Melksham
[790] Shadow Transport Minister to visit Melksham
[715] First way to get rid of customers
[606] Train service from December
[538] A company we can work with
[486] Rail services under threat - Swindon, Melksham ... and Newquay and Bicester too
[413] Save the train
[187] a popular bus number
[154] Railway train service, Melksham station
[40] Take the train to training
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article) It's easy to get to Melksham, and there's things to do!
Subject G102 -
Things to do in Melksham
[3531] Blowing our trumpet about Melksham
[3284] What to do in the evening during a Tcl course
[3239] TrainWest, 2011 in pictures - Christie Miller, Bowerhill, Melksham
[3230] Whaddon - near us and yet so remote from us
[3229] Coincidence, or naturally repeating event?
[3062] Melksham Carnival - getting ready for 2011
[2716] Melksham in Pictures
[2656] Melksham Carnival
[2175] Melksham in pictures
[2141] Town Crier competiton
[1928] Melksham Oak Community School, Melksham, Wiltshire
[1894] Shopping in Melksham
[1452] Santa on the train to Melksham
[1330] While waiting for Melksham Post Office
[989] Melksham Quiz
[977] Melksham and Norwich
[957] Improving the historic town of Melksham
[951] What happened at Geekmas
[929] Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire
[829] Where to go within 30 minutes of Melksham
[670] Architectural Heritage - Devizes
[524] Santa comes to Melksham
[500] Bowerhill, Melksham, 2006 Calendar
[488] Looking for railway groups and users - Swindon, Salisbury, Southampton
[354] Ballooning from Bath
[344] Walk in Bath
[342] The evening after the course
[329] the Stately Homes of England
[325] Gone Racing - Larkhill, Wiltshire
[312] Maud Heath
[305] Within about an hour
[298] Sharing pictures of Wiltshire
[266] A beautiful place to live and learn
[51] Gym and swimming - Melksham Blue Pool
[5] Driving in the UK for new arrivals from the USA
Subject G103 -
Where to stay in Melksham
[4570] A warm welcome awaits you at Well House Manor, Melksham
[4506] Peak weekend - where there are still rooms near Melksham
[4447] Overnight accommodation in Melksham - if Well House Manor is full!
[4299] The Best Bed and Breakfast in Melksham?
[3865] What makes Well House Manor different?
[2705] Hotel booking in Melksham made easy!
[2581] Snow scenes - and how snow effected our business
[1929] 2009 - Hotel, Meeting, Training Course prices
[1436] A little touring help during a business trip to England
[933] Course Joining package - updated
[902] Brand new hotel and training centre, Melksham
[667] Well House Manor goes ahead
[571] Well House Manor
[555] Hotel novelties
[550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure
[512] Exciting futures - the Well House Manor project
[475] Where to stay in and near Melksham
[319] Accommodation and landing pages
(
article) Good places to stay in Melksham
Subject G104 -
Where to eat in Melksham
[4026] The coffee of the Stars comes to Melksham
[3304] Scones with or without fruit?
[2784] Course Lunches
[2597] Does my course include breakfast, lunch, dinner and a hotel room?
[2512] Kim of the Castle
[1447] Refa Tandoori Indian Restaurant, Melksham
[1329] Subway Restaurant in Melksham, Wiltshire
[529] Halal in Melksham
[525] Vision AND venture
[176] Extra chips
[47] Effective fundraising
Subject G200 -
Course and Company information
[4588] What teach you in a week stays with you for a decade
[4564] Perl, PHP, Python, Lua, Tcl, C++, Ruby - final public courses for 2015
[4519] Course Schedule - October 2015 to June 2016
[4518] Open source programming courses - October to December 2015
[4305] Learning to program in Java - yes, we can help.
[4172] Public courses - Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, C and C++ - autumn 2013 and through 2014
[3935] Whether you have programmed before or not, we can teach you Python
[3816] Want to escape the Olympics? Learn to program in the countryside!
[3235] How we make our programming courses both time and cost effective
[3202] Telling you something about us in just one line
[3115] Perl, Python, PHP, Lua, Linux, and more - and business hotel too. Menu for 2011
[3112] Public and private courses - subjects available for 2011
[2935] 01225 707126 to 01225 344596 to 01225 899360 - Well House Fax
[2925] Well House - the pictures
[2838] Respecting our customers anonimity
[2777] Blowing our own trumpet
[2762] Well House - Mission and Policy summaries
[2661] Current Public Courses
[2659] New numbers, as 01225 707126 and 01225 709638 are being retired
[2637] Courses - Melksham and elsewhere - until the end of April
[2560] Training comparison to QA Training, Learning Tree, GB Direct.
[2558] Happy new decade - and course and hotel prices for 2010
[2505] I almost put the bins out this morning
[2400] Are you wanting to learn PHP?
[2354] Training, Open Source computer languages
[2350] Ten years in Melksham - looking forward to ten more.
[2341] Koulutus, Open Source tietokone kielillä
[2340] ldning, Open Source dator språk
[2339] Opplæring, Open Source datamaskinen språk
[2338] Uddannelse, Open Source computer sprog
[2337] Opleiding, Open Source computertalen
[2336] Formação, Open Source computador lÃÂnguas
[2335] Ausbildung, die Open-Source-Sprachen
[2334] Formazione, Open Source computer lingue
[2333] Formación, de los lenguajes de código abierto
[2332] Formation, des langages Open Source
[2326] Learn a new programming language this summer.
[2278] First courses for 2010
[2227] Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses
[2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK
[2118] Spring Sprung
[2041] httpd, Tomcat and PHP course enhancements
[1629] A short introduction to our courses
[1623] PHP Techniques - a workshop
[1577] Spring and early summer training courses
[1565] Languages compared - based on developer community size
[1492] Well House Consultants Training and Hotel - 2008 news
[1453] What makes our courses special?
[1384] An email update for past guests and delegates
[1317] 2008 course schedule - Perl, Python, PHP, Linux, Java Deployment, Ruby and more
[1102] A Reference
[1087] Telling a story in different ways
[1018] Open Source Courses and Business Hotel - products and prices for 2007
[564] Open Source training from Well House Consultants
[550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure
[549] 2005 - Come as a student, leave as a friend
[504] We are about Open Source programming courses in the UK
[419] Most popular courses
[277] Fire drill
[234] How to get the best from your supplier
[181] Maximum number of trainees on a course
[13] Mobile Office revamp
(
article) Training - our guarantee and commitment
(
article) For the newcomer to Well House Consultants
Subject G203 -
Training course prices
[4602] Training course and hotel room prices - 2016
[4416] Challenging the IT course business model
[4379] Well House Consultants / Well House Manor - Prices for 2015
[4246] Python, PHP, Ruby, C, Lua, etc ... course prices held for the rest of 2014
[4230] Well House Consultants - course prices for 2014
[4082] Training around the world - easy payment in pounds Sterling
[3196] No news is good news.
[3107] Hotel and Training Course prices - the effect of the VAT rise on 4th January 2011
[2560] Training comparison to QA Training, Learning Tree, GB Direct.
[2541] VAT Changes
[2311] Floor to ceiling
[2003] Discount Training Courses - PHP, Perl, Python
[1912] Book now for 2009
[1492] Well House Consultants Training and Hotel - 2008 news
[499] Good IT training cannot be cheap
[295] Pricing strategy - simple and fair
[163] Introduction fees, bonuses, commissions, kickbacks
[101] Good value, low cost, cheap.
(
article) How come our list prices are lower?
(
article) Price Comparison on our training courses
(
article) Pay on the day - not months in advance!
Subject G204 -
Equipment and facilities
[4261] Updated delegate computers - nine of the best
[3489] Python courses and Private courses - gently updating our product to keep it ahead of the game
[3310] How fast is your Internet access? Do you need something faster for your business or home?
[3196] No news is good news.
[3174] Sharing a single hotel internet connection without carrying extra hardware
[3137] Training Classes - should the training company provide a system for each delegate to use?
[3130] New Computers for delegates to use
[3109] A weighty decision
[2935] 01225 707126 to 01225 344596 to 01225 899360 - Well House Fax
[2850] Fresh Paint for course presentation - including C++
[2810] A course review - for the tutor to complete
[2795] Simon says
[2370] C++, Python, and other training - do we use an IDE
[2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK
[2032] Mobile Internet - an alternative to hotel WiFi
[1701] Training Course and Business Conference Technology
[1488] New trainee laptop fleet for our Open Source courses
[1415] Better technology makes for longer commutes?
[1364] Korn shell course - resources
[1363] One computer per delegate, or pair programming?
[1126] MacFormat - Me and My Mac
[1089] Playing old games
[460] New Network
[452] Is enough enough?
[450] Wheelchair access - can do!
[432] New print centre for our manuals
Subject G205 -
Food and Drink.
[4415] Buffet review - taking the price into account
[3387] Eating out in Melksham - where we like for lunch.
[3233] C / C++ Course Lunch - sitting out at the West End
[3199] Lunch for Melksham Businesses
[3182] What we look for in a lunchtime cafe restaurant in Melksham
[2784] Course Lunches
[2591] Melksham Hotel, B and B or business accommodation?
[2590] A healthy, local breakfast in Melksham
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes
[1843] How many cups of coffee?
[1332] Melksham Hotel - Five Star Kitchen!
[456] Laying out a vegetarian lunch
[302] Dining full circle
[221] Lunchtime Drink
[211] Look after your staff and they'll look after you. AOL.
[207] Canteen Dragon
[184] MTBF of coffee machines
[36] Tesco at 5
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article) Solution Centre - all article listing
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article) Solution Centre - all article listing
Subject G206 -
Our training centre
[4012] A course is not just for a year - its for a career
[3545] Finding all matches to a pattern in Perl regular expressions
[2943] Our facilities to support Well House Consultants Courses
[2926] Journey times to Melksham, Wiltshire
[2660] One number for Well House - 01225 708225
[2538] Open Source Training Centre and Courses for 2010
[2537] Faster network, but not faster browsing until ...
[2126] Weeding out old phone numbers
[1240] Fancy going to Glastonbury?
[1200] Training information - England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
[640] Training Centre Pictures
[627] JIT or JAU
[448] Out of the norm.
[256] Spring is in the air
[53] Drive the drive
(
article) Bottles from Melksham Spa
(
article) Well House Consultants - Key Facts
Subject G207 -
Staff
[4227] Happy Christmas from the Well House Manor team
[4189] Who are we - Lisa, Graham, Gypsy and Billy
[3961] Well House Staff Party
[3586] Emergency First Aid Provision at Well House Manor - part of the service
[3490] How not to call when job seeking ...
[3460] Flying Colours!
[3425] Our National Autograss Champion, from Melksham
[3311] Exhilarating day!
[3212] Well House Manor - a home from home for the business and leisure guest in Melksham
[3201] A change to the Well House team - thank you and good luck, Chris
[3103] Thank you - and Happy Christmas
[3051] Positively reforming the system - could it be done?
[2960] The Well House team - September 2010
[2934] Not so much software training - more hotel keeping!
[2775] Declarations of interest - knowing where you stand with people
[2772] Graham Ellis - Summary of Training Record
[2566] Excellent staff make for excellent hotel
[2164] Updating my public profile - Graham Ellis
[2050] Why the Pony Tail?
[2044] Please Trouble me
[2009] The Royal Mail Receipt
[1324] Well House Manor appoints a General Manager
[1141] A strong team broadens the professional coverage
[1083] Behind the scenes
[1065] Graham Ellis - an Introduction
[1002] Meet the neighbours
[972] Both one team and two
[895] Welcome, Martin
[862] 4 weeks to go
[578] Woman screaming at me
[393] Trainer answers phone
[371] The training team that's looking out for you
[185] Who am I?
[168] Welcoming Leah Davies to our team
[88] Getting the right level of trainer
[41] A Thousand and four words
[10] What do you look for in your IT trainer?
(
article) The Author of the Apache httpd and Tomcat Course
Subject G208 -
Library
[3440] Research is exciting. But should routine be automated?
[3259] Our library in Melksham
[2943] Our facilities to support Well House Consultants Courses
[924] The LAMP Cookbook - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl
[669] The best Open Source library in town
[167] Upgrade to the Library
Subject G209 -
Keeping up to date
[4314] PHP training - refreshed modern course, backed up by years of practical experience
[4200] Endorsed Perl, Python and PHP training - Tcl, Lua, Ruby and C too!
[3755] Cruising on the Mersey Ferry?
[3653] What is happening in 59 days time in Melksham?
[3469] Teaching dilemma - old tricks and techniques, or recent enhancements?
[3003] What will we be teaching in six years?
[2940] Training course locations - Melksham, UK; Buxton, UK; Lake Constance, Germany; Venice Italy, the USA and India
[2564] Microblogging services - Plurk, Twitter, Jaiku and more
[2352] Printed Directories - the start of the updating season
[2078] A lot has changed - but the memory lingers on
[2032] Mobile Internet - an alternative to hotel WiFi
[1488] New trainee laptop fleet for our Open Source courses
[396] The next technologies
[250] We dont stand still
[160] Review of the Autumn
[143] Network Camera
[86] Talk review - Idiomatic Perl, David Cross
[83] Geek Cruising
[82] Keeping up to date
(
article) Portrait of the Author of PHP
Subject G210 -
History
[3628] Historic Drawings from near Melksham
[3615] Historic documents for Wiltshire
[3510] The skull above the door in Melksham Town Hall
[3149] Looking back at www.wellho.net
[2999] 2999 - looking back
[2968] Well House Consultants - a potted history
[225] 10 years and counting
[164] Well House Consultants - review of 2004
[38] An update for old friends
(
article) Time Line - growth of our Open Source training
(
article) Taxi from Melksham Station, Sir?
Subject G211 -
The story of our Georgian HQ and Edwardian Hotel
[4751] Final day of training at Well House Manor - Python, Lua, Tcl and C/C++ continue at The Spa, Melksham
[4139] Out of doors (mostly) at Well House in Melksham
[3864] Guest Guide for Well House Manor and Melksham
[3847] The Accidental Hotelier
[2987] Memorial to a day in 1999
[2962] Well House Manor - the history of the hotel
[2935] 01225 707126 to 01225 344596 to 01225 899360 - Well House Fax
[2565] Bright day, snowy day
[2548] Ten years ago, we moved to Melksham Spa
[2350] Ten years in Melksham - looking forward to ten more.
[2158] On the roof of a Melksham Spa House
[1443] Christmas is coming very early
[1126] MacFormat - Me and My Mac
[830] Butterflies in a Wiltshire garden
[811] Melksham in Bloom
[719] Gardens, Well House Consultants HQ
[174] Contrast - the storm and the calm.
[118] History around you
(
article) Time Line - growth of our Open Source training
(
article) Bottles from Melksham Spa
(
article) Well House Consultants - Key Facts
Subject G300 -
Public Courses
[4769] Python, Tcl, Lua and other Open Source programming courses for 2018
[4751] Final day of training at Well House Manor - Python, Lua, Tcl and C/C++ continue at The Spa, Melksham
[4739] A year of changes for Lisa and Graham Ellis, and Well House
[4705] Course dates - from October 2016 to December 2017
[4689] Training Course schedule for summer and autumn 2016
[4564] Perl, PHP, Python, Lua, Tcl, C++, Ruby - final public courses for 2015
[4519] Course Schedule - October 2015 to June 2016
[4434] Public training courses - upcoming dates
[4416] Challenging the IT course business model
[4408] Additional Python courses added to our schedule
[4375] Final examples for 2014 - and a look at our 2015 training course options
[4358] A brilliant finish to 2014 training and business guests, and a look to 2015
[4300] Public courses - Autumn 2014 and 2015
[4279] Upcoming public courses from Well House Consultants
[4230] Well House Consultants - course prices for 2014
[4197] Python and Tcl courses, November, UK (Melksham) ... just a few places left
[4172] Public courses - Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, C and C++ - autumn 2013 and through 2014
[4015] Upcoming courses and availabiity
[3983] Upcoming courses at Well House Manor - Ruby, Python, Perl
[3964] What is coming up from Well House in 2013 - public Open Source / IT courses.
[3924] The bedrooms at Well House Manor
[3911] How well do you know Perl and / or Python?
[3903] Python Programming class for delegates who have already self-taught the basics
[3876] October to December 2012 - Public Courses
[3829] Training courses - rest of 2012, 2013 and January 2014
[3823] Know Python or PHP? Want to learn Perl too?
[3637] April, May and June 2012 - Public Open Source Programming Courses
[3573] New in Java 7 - and why we are not running public Java 7 courses
[3559] Well House Consultants - Open Source Programming Courses for 2012
[3528] December courses - PHP, Python, Perl - and a weekend Lua course
[3401] Open Source Training Schedule - learn a programming language - in Autumn 2011 or 2012
[3365] Turning bright delegates into bright and knowledgable ones
[3358] Upcoming Programming courses ... High Summer, 2011
[3219] How do I become a Linux System Administrator?
[3205] Open Source (Public) courses - PHP, Tcl, SQL, Python, C and C++ in Melksham, Wiltshire, UK
[3160] Extra courses - Advanced PHP, MySQL and Lua
[3129] Extra courses - C and C++
[3078] Royal Wedding. How William and Catherine have changed our schedule
[3074] Running a course ... what if the tutor isn't well?
[3071] Well House Price list, January to March 2011
[3021] Courses for late 2010 and early 2011
[2965] Testimonials - Well House Consultants Open Source courses
[2942] Open Source Programming - Training Course Schedule
[2928] Public (scheduled) or private course? Book direct, or through a third party?
[2927] Announcing 2011 Open Source Training courses - dates and prices
[2881] Tailoring of courses to meet customers needs - how it works
[2839] Software versions used - June 2010
[2736] Perl Course FAQ
[2558] Happy new decade - and course and hotel prices for 2010
[2341] Koulutus, Open Source tietokone kielillä
[2340] ldning, Open Source dator språk
[2339] Opplæring, Open Source datamaskinen språk
[2338] Uddannelse, Open Source computer sprog
[2337] Opleiding, Open Source computertalen
[2336] Formação, Open Source computador lÃÂnguas
[2335] Ausbildung, die Open-Source-Sprachen
[2334] Formazione, Open Source computer lingue
[2333] Formación, de los lenguajes de código abierto
[2332] Formation, des langages Open Source
[2048] Learning to program in PHP, Python, Java or Lua ...
[1968] Review of 2008
[1929] 2009 - Hotel, Meeting, Training Course prices
[1857] November and December Public Course Schedule
[1836] Next in the sequence - courses next year (2009)
[1751] Public Training Course Dates until July 2009
[1693] July to December 2008 - Open Source training schedule
[1615] PHP training courses every month
[1565] Languages compared - based on developer community size
[1420] The Learning Perl crew, October 2007
[1414] What we teach - expained for the non-technical
[1035] Longer hours and better value courses
[933] Course Joining package - updated
[845] Course scheduling and Geekmas - are they traditions yet?
[646] PHP - London course, Melksham Course, Evening course
[387] Training course plans for 2006
[181] Maximum number of trainees on a course
[172] Public courses in London
(
article) Free software - the joy of Open Source
Subject G301 -
Booking a Public Courses
[4602] Training course and hotel room prices - 2016
[4122] Well House - booking through agents
[3600] Visa, MasterCard and American Express - changing payment profiles
[3180] Age limits for Well House Consultants Open Source courses?
[2743] Public Open Source Training Courses running this summer and autumn in Melksham
[2352] Printed Directories - the start of the updating season
[2278] First courses for 2010
[1932] Training Passports - booking a training program
[1693] July to December 2008 - Open Source training schedule
[1634] Kiss and Book
[1555] Advanced Python, Perl, PHP and Tcl training courses / classes
[1193] Dangerous Dogs and Hotel Marketing
[664] Ruby course - oops - it's not happening
[487] On line course booking - credit card protection
(
article) How come our list prices are lower?
(
article) Pay on the day - not months in advance!
Subject G302 -
Coming to a course.
[4558] Well House Consultants - Python courses / what's special.
[4335] Flexible public courses - residential or commuting, programming newcomer or experienced, C or C++
[4231] Well House Consultants - Public Training Course times for 2014
[2835] A course is more than just a chap giving a lecture
[2286] New to programming? It is natural (but needless) for you to be nervous
[2249] Public Transport from London to Melksham, Wiltshire
[1996] Advise before my Apache / Tomcat course
[1792] All the pieces fall into place - hotel and courses
[952] Coming from London to Melksham by train for a course
[933] Course Joining package - updated
[898] Courses at Well House Manor
[695] In the hospitality business
[490] A new way to get lost
[464] Technical Loneliness
[306] Bristol Airport this morning, The Farm this evening.
[264] 100% Training
[2] Diary entry - 5th August 2004
(
article) It's easy to get to Melksham, and there's things to do!
Subject G303 -
During the course
[4558] Well House Consultants - Python courses / what's special.
[4132] Using your own laptop on our courses - now even easier!
[3771] Fine evening, country walk from Melksham - pictures
[3588] Learning about how to help people learning - and retaining
[3233] C / C++ Course Lunch - sitting out at the West End
[2560] Training comparison to QA Training, Learning Tree, GB Direct.
[2342] Training Classes in other tongues
[1816] Holt on holt
[1466] Effective Java training - the bootcamp approach
[1459] Interactive training, and advancing techniques further
[1420] The Learning Perl crew, October 2007
[1363] One computer per delegate, or pair programming?
[1245] Ensuring that our tutor answers YOUR questions
[1035] Longer hours and better value courses
[670] Architectural Heritage - Devizes
[640] Training Centre Pictures
[570] Features and Benefits
[455] A Stengthening day
[342] The evening after the course
[273] Course Picture
[56] Dress Code
(
article) Moving up a class
Subject G304 -
Getting home
[4231] Well House Consultants - Public Training Course times for 2014
[2789] Melksham to London (Heathrow, and Central London)
[2726] Every cloud has a silver lining
[2366] At the end of the course
[2248] Getting home from Melksham
[1989] So sad to see you go
Subject G305 -
Post Course support
[4588] What teach you in a week stays with you for a decade
[3770] Sample answers to training course exercises - available on our web site
[3701] Refresh and Revision training class days - Perl / PHP / Python / Lua / Ruby / Tcl / C / C++
[3419] Data that we use during our training courses, and other training resources
[3391] For programmers who use Internet Explorer as their browser
[3045] After Course Resources - do we publish sample answers. Example from Java Exceptions module.
[2732] Asking about Jesus
[2102] What do people think of our Apache httpd / Tomcat course?
[1874] Is it worth it?
[1245] Ensuring that our tutor answers YOUR questions
[651] Please Register with Opentalk - but just once!
[609] Been on a course, but still not got it?
[569] Instructions for bright people
[516] Open source questions? Anyone can ask.
[509] Snippets from Geekmas
[389] Tough Love
[336] Targetted Advertising
[327] How far should our support go
[293] Course follow-ups
[248] Use me, but use me effectively
[244] Getting your examples, my examples and the data files after your course
[199] Post course support - part of the service
[136] Please tell us
Subject G310 -
A better class of course
[4583] Back in the saddle again - excellent open source course from Well House Consultants
[4558] Well House Consultants - Python courses / what's special.
[4280] Making use of huge data, object orientation, unit testing and frameworks
[3587] C++ Courses - do I get official certification at the end of my Well House course?
[3419] Data that we use during our training courses, and other training resources
[3385] Do university courses teach the right things for life at work later on?
[3271] The importance of feedback
[3001] How will we present courses over the coming years?
[2762] Well House - Mission and Policy summaries
[2633] Why do I teach niche skills rather than mainstream?
[2187] Are we IITT (Institute of IT Training) members?
[2109] Why most training fails ...
[2084] Books and distance learning from Well House Consultants?
[2074] Weekday or Weekend PHP, Python and Perl classes?
[2049] Why Choose Well House Consultants for your course?
[2010] How long should a training module be?
[1933] Learning to Program in C
[1645] Seeing how others do it - PHP training
[1576] Making PHP and MySQL training relevant to the course delegates
[1488] New trainee laptop fleet for our Open Source courses
[1453] What makes our courses special?
[1035] Longer hours and better value courses
[726] In praise of training course delegates.
[646] PHP - London course, Melksham Course, Evening course
[579] Short Linux and Perl courses for small groups
[577] Learning to program in Perl or PHP
[559] ''I don't know'' is sometimes a good answer
[554] What backup is adequate?
[497] I have a river to cross
[394] A year on - should we offer certified PHP courses
[371] The training team that's looking out for you
[350] Want to be one better
[292] Elegant languages - Perl, PHP, Python
[230] Course sizes - beware of marketing statistics
[224] YOUR application and YOUR data
[219] Some unusual features
[215] Open Source becomes mainstream
[211] Look after your staff and they'll look after you. AOL.
(
article) Moving up a class
(
article) Why so many different courses?
(
article) Training - our guarantee and commitment
(
article) For the newcomer to Well House Consultants
(
article) Creating Really Memorable Experiences
Subject G400 -
Private course
[4358] A brilliant finish to 2014 training and business guests, and a look to 2015
[4082] Training around the world - easy payment in pounds Sterling
[3074] Running a course ... what if the tutor isn't well?
[3071] Well House Price list, January to March 2011
[2965] Testimonials - Well House Consultants Open Source courses
[2953] Turning an exercise into the real thing with extreme programming
[2928] Public (scheduled) or private course? Book direct, or through a third party?
[2881] Tailoring of courses to meet customers needs - how it works
[2802] After the Perl course in Nurnberg
[1968] Review of 2008
[1929] 2009 - Hotel, Meeting, Training Course prices
[1555] Advanced Python, Perl, PHP and Tcl training courses / classes
[1414] What we teach - expained for the non-technical
[1092] Tcl training - often for a larger group
[994] Training on Cascading Style Sheets
[387] Training course plans for 2006
[321] Sales - the alternative close
[181] Maximum number of trainees on a course
Subject G401 -
On Site courses
[4769] Python, Tcl, Lua and other Open Source programming courses for 2018
[4739] A year of changes for Lisa and Graham Ellis, and Well House
[4602] Training course and hotel room prices - 2016
[4230] Well House Consultants - course prices for 2014
[4132] Using your own laptop on our courses - now even easier!
[3950] 10 reasons why I travel the night before a course starts
[3898] The course must go on - improvements to tutor travel plans, with immediate effect
[3715] Changing face - Filton
[3691] Back in Cambridge to give a Lua course
[3137] Training Classes - should the training company provide a system for each delegate to use?
[3131] Lua, Tcl, Python; Worldwide training classes
[2956] On site course - travel and accommodation expenses
[2928] Public (scheduled) or private course? Book direct, or through a third party?
[2810] A course review - for the tutor to complete
[2801] Binary data handling with unpack in Perl
[2311] Floor to ceiling
[2309] Lua training class in Spanish
[2041] httpd, Tomcat and PHP course enhancements
[1781] Reception
[1600] Cambidge - Tcl, Expect and Perl courses
[1465] Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, Linux, MySQL, Ruby courses ...
[1027] Cue the music, I'm happy.
[439] You cant
[438] Fair system for travel and accommodation expenses
[382] Central London Courses - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, MySQL
[241] Dress for training
[213] Off to Munich
[191] Setting up a training room for a course
[139] Just provide a room and the students
(
article) Onsite training - expenses
(
article) On the Oban Road
(
article) Pay on the day - not months in advance!
Subject G402 -
Private courses at Melksham
[1989] So sad to see you go
[1900] Table Topics
[1081] Customer takes over class, and I am delighted
[933] Course Joining package - updated
[898] Courses at Well House Manor
[640] Training Centre Pictures
Subject G403 -
On site - venues, UK and Ireland
[4168] Travelling to and from courses - much easier from December 2013
[3489] Python courses and Private courses - gently updating our product to keep it ahead of the game
[3153] Points West to Belfast
[3065] Pictures from the Birkenhead to Belfast crossing
[3058] MacBook Air - hardware and system review
[2956] On site course - travel and accommodation expenses
[1599] Fresher tutor, better course
[1200] Training information - England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
[910] Helping the miles pass
[710] Linux training Glasgow, Python programming course Dundee
[378] A word of admiration for the London cabbie
[120] Good early morning
Subject G404 -
On site venues
[4671] Ruby training, half a world away
[4011] From Salford
[3950] 10 reasons why I travel the night before a course starts
[3636] Best tenner I ever spent?
[3292] Every tenth picture.
[3131] Lua, Tcl, Python; Worldwide training classes
[3130] New Computers for delegates to use
[2989] Oddballs in Plymouth
[2731] Training Courses - time of change
[2309] Lua training class in Spanish
[741] Last week - picture of the Perl course
[727] A journey, an arrival, a people
[382] Central London Courses - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, MySQL
[196] An Open Source course on the Channel Islands
[107] Taking Equipment offshore to run a course
Subject G500 -
Running a training company
[4135] Introducing your product to Well House Consultants - single, personally tuned email please
[4004] Annual Accounts - a big job for a small business
[3824] Planned for a quiet period during the Olympics - but it is far from that!
[3684] Once upon a Maundy Thursday
[3610] Training to do a job, or training to pass an exam?
[3361] Blowing our own trumpet - MySQL resources
[2940] Training course locations - Melksham, UK; Buxton, UK; Lake Constance, Germany; Venice Italy, the USA and India
[2924] Job applicants - wondering why they apply
[2838] Respecting our customers anonimity
[2144] Looking for a career change - Physician to Web Site Designer
[2084] Books and distance learning from Well House Consultants?
[2074] Weekday or Weekend PHP, Python and Perl classes?
[2049] Why Choose Well House Consultants for your course?
[2021] Short health and safety course
[2003] Discount Training Courses - PHP, Perl, Python
[1963] Best source to learn Java (or Perl or PHP or Python)
[1884] Recession? Depression?
[1433] Linux, PHP, Tcl, Ruby, C, C++ - last minute training course availability
[1393] First Alternative / what has happened there?
[1369] One business, four different angles!
[1040] What the customer is looking for - effective training
[1022] No courses. No hotel guests. Rushed off our feet!
[978] Wellhouse Manor, Hotel, Melksham
[926] Training rooms to learn Open Source programming
[838] Talking about other training companies.
[813] Monday Morning at Well House Consultants Melksham
[652] Morning Post
[627] JIT or JAU
[545] Is training seasonal?
[470] I wanna be a Python trainer
[402] Netless
[385] Feast or famine
[251] WIBNIF
[171] Skills and techniques of being a successful trainer
Subject G501 -
Customer Service
[4232] Not wanted here - hotel guests who will not be happy
[4078] Train works for me!
[4077] Palty or Parliamentary?
[3835] The Information age - not yet truly with us?
[3808] Can you put names to faces?
[3378] New product - ensuring that supply matches demand
[3294] It's not just about the jam in the sandwich
[3271] The importance of feedback
[3103] Thank you - and Happy Christmas
[3073] Customer Service - the boundary
[2961] Initial handling of phone calls and walk in visitors
[2880] Getting in touch - Please allow me to see you when you are online
[2650] Getting a phone line changed ...
[2530] Taking a knock over Santa
[2258] Questions I have been asked on answering the phone
[2236] Alumni - revisiting and supporting the old University
[2124] Building down expectations
[2102] What do people think of our Apache httpd / Tomcat course?
[2049] Why Choose Well House Consultants for your course?
[2015] Service Excellence Awards
[1991] Rules for a King
[1985] Learning to program as a part of your job
[1835] 23:30 bookings and midnight checkins
[1637] Providing exceptional service - and carrying on doing so.
[1606] Sheep Shearers, Marathon Runners and Ocean Sailors
[1516] Pictures you can use - for free - from our library
[1446] An answer to a student asking 'Help'
[1434] Market survey - to learn, to prove a point, or to sell your product?
[1319] Customer feedback - lifeblood of a business
[1262] Keep in touch with PHP, Perl, Python and old friends too
[1046] Bounce, bounce, bounce
[1007] Friends and family
[966] CSL, KISS and RTFM
[961] Products that our customers want more of
[944] Just ******* Google it
[852] Eventful evening - a lesson in looking after contacts
[841] Forum help - a push in the right direction
[725] Better communication
[717] A customer service company
[650] A person of few words
[628] Active Learning
[621] And the staff put the icing on the cake
[609] Been on a course, but still not got it?
[569] Instructions for bright people
[566] May all your screw-ups be big ones
[552] Keeping Customers Informed
[482] Different ways of selling
[440] Upgrade!
[393] Trainer answers phone
[350] Want to be one better
[327] How far should our support go
[265] Business practise, 2005 style
[233] Giving customers best value
[195] Customer service - examples to warn us
[189] Tuesdays and Fridays
[150] Confession
[126] Feedback shows the tip of an iceberg
[91] On line every 24 hours
[72] On Customer Service
Subject G502 -
Business Practice
[4520] No cold sales calls please - but delighted to hear from others!
[4415] Buffet review - taking the price into account
[4293] Certification
[4107] Snog, Marry, Avoid
[3755] Cruising on the Mersey Ferry?
[3750] Matching opening hours to when customers can come in and buy
[3665] Will will smile?
[3613] Keeping Business Local. But is that realistic?
[3506] Cold call contacts - preference services and turning off spam sales approaches
[3333] Honesty and a friendly welcome goes a long way
[3157] A new monopoly on the ferry to Northern Ireland
[3073] Customer Service - the boundary
[2966] Cheap Country Hotel in Melksham, Wiltshire?
[2936] The service that customers should receive
[2821] Chancellor George Osborne inspires Perl Program
[2788] Cost of Sales
[2598] An excuse for making a sales call
[2465] Melksham Town - asleep or awake?
[2331] Certification Revisted - Lua
[2283] Everyone is in the customer relations business
[2190] How you are (re)presented at an exhibition
[2187] Are we IITT (Institute of IT Training) members?
[2161] Get it right ... if it goes wrong, it takes so much effort to sort out!
[2126] Weeding out old phone numbers
[2122] Commission Creep
[2044] Please Trouble me
[1913] Alastair Darling helps make paperwork and confusion
[1855] Volunteer v Employee - a skewed balance? (FSB)
[1713] Ways to accept credit cards - or not!
[1626] Early May - a short chance to regroup and improve
[1485] Copyright and theft of images, bandwidth and members.
[1453] What makes our courses special?
[1394] Business to Business Networking - North and West Wilts / Melksham
[1373] New Month, New Quarter, New Laws
[1342] Google, wwmdirectory, Freshwater, ATP - new scam?
[1319] Customer feedback - lifeblood of a business
[1263] 0800 043 8225 - a new phone number for Well House
[1260] An inspirational business talk from one of our prospective MPs
[1243] Heavy duty hole punch
[1165] Extended Credit request - train in June and be paid in September
[1157] Speed Networking - a great evening and how we arranged it
[1133] B-2-B Networking, 20th April. Useful for YOUR business?
[1084] Writing terms and conditions for conferences and other events
[1057] Selling by phone and Skype - our policy
[906] A commitment we won't be making
[883] Age discrimination law
[869] UNABLE TO ATTEND
[849] Staff Meeting
[808] Sales call
[766] Discounts and approved supplier lists
[664] Ruby course - oops - it's not happening
[652] Morning Post
[626] Not just a pretty face to answer the phone.
[536] Cancellations and penalties
[491] Being atypical is typical
[487] On line course booking - credit card protection
[467] Tell them three times
[457] Do the work and take the risk - a PHP contract to avoid
[438] Fair system for travel and accommodation expenses
[399] simplicity hides real size
[321] Sales - the alternative close
[297] A reminder that the customer is King
[226] Growing our systems
[217] Use of time
[211] Look after your staff and they'll look after you. AOL.
[200] Tips for the top
[188] Pink elephant and appreciation
[180] Skunk works
[157] Automatic service upgrades
[137] Certification schemes
[129] Trawling our site to prevent student copying
[125] Staff theft
[121] Fair and Simple
[108] A typical morning
[95] Five red flags
[88] Getting the right level of trainer
[77] Telephone systems
[68] Get the strategy worked out and the tactics just fall into place.
[27] Sales technique
[15] 90 to 10 or 80 to 20 rule
(
article) Free software - the joy of Open Source
(
article) Phone and fax to 070059 numbers in the UK
(
article) Creating Really Memorable Experiences
Subject G503 -
Newsletter and publicity
[4266] Facebook marketing - who are we reaching?
[3984] 20 minutes in to our 15 minutes of fame
[3974] TV show appearance - how does it effect your web site?
[3354] Sales and Marketing - adding advertising to the product
[3165] Journalism 101
[3153] Points West to Belfast
[2873] Another toot of the trumpet
[2564] Microblogging services - Plurk, Twitter, Jaiku and more
[2388] `Of Course` is back!
[2244] What should a web site cost you?
[2124] Building down expectations
[2051] A Presentation about our company - web and PHP
[1698] Dealing with The Press
[1673] Spam Filters ... are working!
[1494] A time to update pictures
[1284] An update on the West Wilts show ...
[1090] Too many instructions, too much detail
[1087] Telling a story in different ways
[1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong
[904] Of course I'll tell you by email
[734] Keeping customers informed by email
[480] New look to website
[458] Final courses of '05 coming up ....
[336] Targetted Advertising
[281] What they are saying about our OF COURSE newsletter
[57] Posting 1000 letters!
[48] PHP - onwards and upwards
Subject G504 -
Writing Notes
[4031] Showing what programming errors look like - web site pitfall
[4009] Clear, concise examples - Ruby classes and objects.
[3152] Jargon busting
[2828] Sharing our programs - easy. Sharing our data - harder.
[2812] What is Perl?
[2481] Sample code with errors in it on our web site
[2414] Hello World - a good traditional start to a Java course
[2192] Copy writing - allowing for the cut
[2010] How long should a training module be?
[1950] Copyright of Training Notes and Web Site
[982] Notes from the white board
[979] Empty seats, Nodding Donkeys and buses
[797] Writing up new C / C++ notes.
[407] Theft of training material
[398] Training course material - why we write our own
[394] A year on - should we offer certified PHP courses
[9] Study room - the Oxford train
[7] Writing on a Sunday
[4] Seeing the wood for the trees.
(
article) The Author of the Apache httpd and Tomcat Course
Subject G600 -
Well House Manor
[4715] Well House Manor - Still five out of five!
[4101] POETS day at Well House Manor
[3970] Comparing four VERY different places to stay
[3814] Returning guests - a sign of a good product. Cream teas and hotel rooms.
[3800] Fancy a weekend away? Try Well House Manor in Melksham, Wiltshire
[3702] Digital Champions think that Well House Manor is a champion venue!
[3549] Well House Manor - perhaps the best hotel rooms in Melksham
[3405] Where do businessmen stay in Melksham?
[2962] Well House Manor - the history of the hotel
[2565] Bright day, snowy day
[1706] The Story of Well House Manor
[1520] Terms and Conditions - Hotel, England - plain English
[1388] Well House Manor - a year on
[1332] Melksham Hotel - Five Star Kitchen!
[1211] A lot has happened in a year
[1072] Well House Manor in the Snow
[1059] Three sets of twins
[963] George Hotel and Well House Manor, Melksham
[933] Course Joining package - updated
[902] Brand new hotel and training centre, Melksham
[891] Well House Manor Hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire
[884] Drive time
[667] Well House Manor goes ahead
[643] If it's Sunday, it must be Bedwyn
[617] Easy, Free, Reliable internet access
[615] Looking for leading not bleeding edge
[598] Should we cruise around the world?
[594] Twice is a co-incidence and three times is a pattern
[582] DWIM and AWWO
[575] Eating for the single business traveller
[571] Well House Manor
[558] Converting between acres and hectares
[555] Hotel novelties
[550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure
[525] Vision AND venture
Subject G900 -
Miscellany
[3775] Alan Turing - 1912 to 1954
[3612] Help to get online in Melksham
[3315] Friday - Electrician, Food Festival, C++ Course, Rail Group Meeting
[3000] Looking forward - the next 3000
[2534] And now for some posts a bit more technical
[2258] Questions I have been asked on answering the phone
[2144] Looking for a career change - Physician to Web Site Designer
[2019] Baby Caleb and Fortune City in your web logs?
[1898] Every cloud has a silver lining
[1867] Domain Renewal Group
[1183] Improving searches - from OR to AND?
[1040] What the customer is looking for - effective training
[1038] Know to the police
[1024] Web site - a refresh to improve navigation
[636] What is your business latency and potential?
[397] Where now for dial-up providers?
[336] Targetted Advertising
[333] Do NOT follow links or read attachments in these emails
[201] 0870 telephone numbers
[170] MySQL, Java, PHP and Linux - new technical articles
Subject G901 -
Talks and lectures
[4284] Talk and walk to promote train service - Melksham Carnival
[3834] Geekmas 2012 - celebrating open source languages such as Perl, PHP and Python
[3351] Research and development with the help of your tutor or guide
[3221] How long is a speech?
[1459] Interactive training, and advancing techniques further
[1422] Wiltshire - speaker / after dinner talker offer
[1419] National Speaker - now to get the talk ready
[1242] Speaking at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University
[1101] Mushroom Curry and Perl Courses
[924] The LAMP Cookbook - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl
[310] Just in time - the talk is writ
[247] Extreme training
[134] Geekmas - a brief review
[128] Technical Weekend / Geekmas
[99] Should we call it 'Geekmas'?
[62] Technical Open House
(
article) Open Source - here to stay, or a flash in the pan?
(
article) Web applications using LAMP technologies
Subject G902 -
Web site techniques, utility and visibility
[4492] Almost so wrong, but perhaps it's right for some?
[4474] Effect on external factors on traffic to our web sites - an update
[4401] Selecting RECENT and POPULAR news and trends for your web site users
[4376] Well House Consultants, Well House Manor, First Great Western Coffee shop, TransWilts / 2014 web site reports
[4239] Facebook marketing - early experiences
[4136] How do I post automatically from a PHP script to my Twitter account?
[4115] More or less back - what happened to our server the other day
[4076] Web site - fully back!
[4001] Helping search engines with appropriate 400 error codes
[3974] TV show appearance - how does it effect your web site?
[3896] An email marathon
[3776] Some traps it's so easy to fall into in designing your web site
[3745] Legal change - You need to obtain user consent if you use cookies on your website
[3744] Short Web Addresses for Melksham
[3734] QR codes with marketing logos embedded
[3623] Some TestWise examples - helping use Ruby code to check your web site operation
[3589] Promoting a single one of your domains on the search engines
[3563] How big is a web page these days? Does the size of your pages matter?
[3554] Learning more about our web site - and learning how to learn about yours
[3532] Sharing the user experience - designing a form with the customer in mind
[3491] Who is knocking at your web site door? Are you well set up to deal with allcomers?
[3426] Automed web site testing scripted in Ruby using watir-webdriver
[3367] Google +1 - what is it?
[3197] Finding and diverting image requests from rogue domains
[3149] Looking back at www.wellho.net
[3087] Making the most of critical emails - reading behind the scene
[3022] Retaining web site visitors - reducing the one page wonders
[2981] How to set up short and meaningfull alternative URLs
[2668] Is it worth it?
[2569] How to run a successful online poll / petition / survey / consultation
[2552] Web site traffic - real users, or just noise?
[2532] Analysing Google arrivals by country of origin
[2519] Status Page / breaks of service in early December
[2410] Removal of technical resources from this site
[2389] Writing with our customers words
[2341] Koulutus, Open Source tietokone kielillä
[2340] ldning, Open Source dator språk
[2340] ldning, Open Source dator språk
[2339] Opplæring, Open Source datamaskinen språk
[2338] Uddannelse, Open Source computer sprog
[2337] Opleiding, Open Source computertalen
[2336] Formação, Open Source computador lÃÂnguas
[2335] Ausbildung, die Open-Source-Sprachen
[2334] Formazione, Open Source computer lingue
[2333] Formación, de los lenguajes de código abierto
[2332] Formation, des langages Open Source
[2225] How important is a front page ranking on a search engine?
[2065] Static mirroring through HTTrack, wget and others
[2056] Web Site Loading - experiences and some solutions shared
[1982] Cooking bodies and URLs
[1970] Plagarism - who is copying my pages?
[1961] Making our things easier to find
[1955] How to avoid duplicating web page maintainance
[1888] Find the link
[1856] A few of my favourite things
[1833] Web Bloopers - good form design - avoiding pitfalls
[1797] I have been working hard but I do not expect you noticed
[1793] Which country does a search engine think you are located in?
[1756] Ever had One of THOSE mornings?
[1747] Who is watching you?
[1711] Rapid growth leads to server move
[1653] How do Google Ads work?
[1634] Kiss and Book
[1630] To provide external links, or not?
[1610] PHP course dot co, dot uk
[1554] Online hotel reservations - Melksham, Wiltshire (near Bath)
[1541] Colour, Composition or Content
[1534] Where in the world / country is my visitor from?
[1513] Perl, PHP or Python? No - Perl AND PHP AND Python!
[1506] Ongoing Image Copyright Issues, PHP and MySQL solutions
[1505] Script to present commonly used images - PHP
[1494] A time to update pictures
[1437] Above the fold with First Great Western
[1297] Stuffing content into a web page - easy maintainance
[1237] What proportion of our web traffic is robots?
[1212] What brought YOU to our web site?
[1207] Simple but effective use of mod_rewrite (Apache httpd)
[1198] From Web to Web 2
[1186] Two new pages / sites
[1184] Finding resources - some pointers
[1177] Sorting out for a site map
[1104] Drawing dynamic graphs in PHP
[1055] Above the fold
[1029] Our search engine placement is dropping.
[1015] Search engine placement - long term strategy and success
[994] Training on Cascading Style Sheets
[976] Santa at the station
[916] Driving customers away
[893] Visibility
[800] Effective web campaign?
[767] Finding the language preference of a web site visitor
[757] Horse and Python training
[732] Where is a web site visitor browsing from
[718] Protecting images from theft
[681] Mirroring a dynamic site
[658] Keeping the visitors happy and browsing
[649] Denial of Service ''attack''
[533] Bigger Box Campaign
[528] Getting favicon to work - avoiding common pitfalls
[510] Dynamic Web presence - next generation web site
[492] New Navigation Aid - Launch of My Wellho
[414] Form Madness
[376] What brings people to my web site?
[369] CMS - the minefield of Choices
[348] Graveyard pages
[347] Frightening and from-friend viruses and spams
[322] More maps
[320] Ordnance Survey - using a 'Get a map'
[314] What language is this written in?
[311] Growth pains
[288] Colour blindness for web developers
[284] The Iconish language
[278] Cover all the options
[276] An apology to Mr Boneparte
[274] Our most popular resources
[268] Information request forms, cleaning up spam
[261] Putting a form online
[259] Responding to spam
[222] Who are all these visitors?
[202] Searching for numbers
[197] Allow for peak traffic on your web site
[182] Your personal Google ranking
[179] The hunt for unique words
[173] Data Mining
[165] Implementing an effective site search engine
[142] Colour for access
[117] A case of case
[109] URLs - a service and not a hurdle
[98] No more 'Error 404' pages. Something better.
[32] Web design platoon
[23] Skills and responsibilities
(
article) Spotting and stopping denial of service attacks
(
article) Suggesting alternative search terms to web site users
(
article) Making all your .html files run a Perl script
(
article) Error messages in PHP
(
article) Keeping the PHP and the HTML apart
{
googleplusone.html} Google +1 - source example of what you need in your page
Subject G903 -
Running and moderating forums and social media sites
[4492] Almost so wrong, but perhaps it's right for some?
[4403] The unbalanced relationship between customer and provider
[4315] Welcoming genuine forum posters quickly - but turning away off topic advertisers
[4307] Identifying and clearing denial of service attacks on your Apache server
[4283] Can a legitimate forum post become illegal a year later?
[4239] Facebook marketing - early experiences
[4234] Change to Libel and Defamation laws from 1st January 2014
[4065] Handling requests to a forum - the background process
[4025] Backups, Codebase, Strategy and more - dealing with forum incidents
[4017] Acceptable User Policy / vexatious interacter
[3910] Identifying your real customers and keeping them well informed fast
[3479] Practical Extraction and Reporting - using Python and Extreme Programming
[2820] Netiquette for forum newcomers
[2781] The 500 pound question to get you started
[2569] How to run a successful online poll / petition / survey / consultation
[2527] Flying tonight
[2526] A reluctance to move from old shoes to new
[2386] Computing under the influence of alcohol
[2254] Forum membership - a privilege not a right
[2177] Preventing forum spam - checks at sign up
[2162] Admins thoughts on banning a member from a forum
[2156] Stopping forum spam - control of the signup process
[2116] Why do we delay new forum members through authorisation?
[2103] Ask the Tutor - Open Source forum
[1972] Pettifog and forum boards away from public view
[1923] Making it all worthwhile
[1759] While the world sleeps ...
[1678] Software - changes and delays. But courses must run on time!
[1595] First Great Western Weekend
[1578] Please don't shout at me!
[1569] I dont care - goodbye
[1563] Guidlines for posting on a forum
[1539] A forum is not always the best vehicle
[1532] Comment spam blocked. Please comment via Forums
[1523] Ive just received an email from myself. Should I be worried?
[1485] Copyright and theft of images, bandwidth and members.
[1472] The Horse goes on and on
[1362] No Thank You
[1190] Save the Forum - A regular clean sweep
[1088] Why use BBC code not HTML?
[948] Running an on line campaign
[923] Why shouldn't I spam?
[919] Freedom for X is denial of privacy for Y
[841] Forum help - a push in the right direction
[828] Freedom of speech and freedom to post
[806] Check your user is human. Have him retype a word in a graphic
[651] Please Register with Opentalk - but just once!
[516] Open source questions? Anyone can ask.
[424] How not to run a forum
[248] Use me, but use me effectively
[231] Feedback as lifeblood
[204] The confidence to allow public comments
[130] Spelling and grammar
[115] Expiration dates or times on web pages
[29] Silence is Golden
[22] Falling out over the silliest things
(
article) Moderating a forum
Subject G904 -
Mac and OS X
[3174] Sharing a single hotel internet connection without carrying extra hardware
[3058] MacBook Air - hardware and system review
[2267] winmail.dat enclosure ... reading on an Apple
[1491] Apple Mac Operating System OS X - code names and version numbers
(
article) Running open source on Mac OSX
Subject G905 -
Blogging and Blog Administration
[4714] The technical article feed continues - personal updates more proactive on Facebook now!
[4568] Moderation - and the tendency to over-moderate
[4292] The Horse is back!
[4121] Has your Twitter feed stopped working? Switching to their new API
[4000] 9 years, and 4000 articles on
[3759] The five oldest blogs and the horses mouth
[3514] Microblogging - what I should have tweeted in the last 48 hours
[3208] Links for social media, microblogs and business networking
[3186] How to add a customised twitter feed to your site
[3163] Twitter - the special use of @ # and http: in tweets
[3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited
[2823] Where have all the bloggers gone?
[2751] Going off at a tangent, for a ramble
[2564] Microblogging services - Plurk, Twitter, Jaiku and more
[2517] Blogging accuracy - open invitation for any corrections
[2449] Four aspects - Chamber, Transport, Courses and Hotel
[2192] Copy writing - allowing for the cut
[2000] 2000th article - Remember the background and basics
[1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources
[1203] A Fresh horse
[1077] In answer to 'am I glad I started a blog' ...
[1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong
[876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance
[671] Both ends of the animal
[508] Comment, please!
[425] Caching an XML feed
[410] Reading a news or blog feed (RSS) in your PHP page
[405] Horse's Mouth is a year old
[390] Moderating wiki, blog, and forum contributions
[359] Chicken soup without the religion
[245] I'm not blogging it
[231] Feedback as lifeblood
[204] The confidence to allow public comments
[185] Who am I?
[177] Blogs come of age
[145] A comment on comments
[141] Too technical?
[18] Wanted: More hours in the day
[6] Blog v Forum
[1] First Jottings
Subject G906 -
Programming Standards
[3685] Programming Standards in Lua
[2364] Getting it right from the start - new programmers
[2363] Alpaca Case or Camel Case
[2322] Looking for a practical standards course
[1852] Perl and Blackberries
[1679] PHP - Sanitised application principles for security and useability
[1596] Selling curry to the chinese takeaway
[945] Code quality counts
[356] Sudoku helper or sudoku cheat
[343] Should I use structured or object oriented?
[272] More to programming than just programming
[148] Programming in isolation
{
fur4.py} Comments
{
fur1.py} Read, calculate, report
Subject G907 -
Recruitment and Career Development
[3740] Looking and Learning - even on Holiday
[3594] Back to Uni
[3490] How not to call when job seeking ...
[3440] Research is exciting. But should routine be automated?
[2294] Can you learn to program in 4 days?
[2255] Past PHP delegates / others - coding help needed for next 3 months
[2109] Why most training fails ...
[1967] LinkedIn - Thrice Asked, and joined.
[1963] Best source to learn Java (or Perl or PHP or Python)
[849] Staff Meeting
[759] Watch your Google profile
[751] Want to be a technical trainer in the UK?
[729] Career development advice
[722] I'm answering a job applicant
[587] Job vacancy - double agent wanted
[585] Looking for Python staff
[503] 10 years C# knowledge please
[408] Can an older person learn a programming language
[389] Tough Love
[285] What career opportunities for web designers
[253] Finding the right holes
[198] A new skill may not be quick and easy
[116] The next generation of programmer
(
article) Creating Really Memorable Experiences
Subject G908 -
Language Comparisons
[3785] Programming languages - what are the differences between them?
[3169] Rekeying a table - comparison in #Ruby #Perl and #Python
[3112] Public and private courses - subjects available for 2011
[3003] What will we be teaching in six years?
[2947] Teaching Lua to a Perl advocate
[2866] Ruby - how does it compare and where is it the right language?
[2755] Books in the store in the USA - still a portent of the UK market to come?
[2700] The same very simple program in many different programming languages
[1990] Speaking all the languages
[1717] Q - Should I use Perl or Python?
[1582] Ruby, C, Java and more - getting out of loops
[209] FAQ - Perl or PHP
(
article) errors v exceptions
{
incr.rb} Programming language Comparison - a ruby program
{
incr.cpp} Programming language Comparison - a C++ program
{
pee3.py} Invert (rekey) a file / Python
{
incr.py} Programming language Comparison - a Python program
{
incr.pl} Programming language Comparison - a Perl program
{
incr.php} Programming language Comparison - a PHP program
{
incr.tcl} Programming language Comparison - a Tcl program
{
pee3.pl} Invert (rekey) a file / Perl
{
incr.java} Programming language Comparison - a Java program
{
incr.c} Programming language Comparison - a C program
{
incr.lua} Programming language Comparison - a Lua program
{
incr.sh} Programming language Comparison - a bash shell program
{
pee3.rb} Invert (rekey) a file / Ruby
Subject G909 -
Spam, Spamming and Spammers
[4520] No cold sales calls please - but delighted to hear from others!
[4315] Welcoming genuine forum posters quickly - but turning away off topic advertisers
[4135] Introducing your product to Well House Consultants - single, personally tuned email please
[3946] Moving from a warning system to a control system - PHP, forum spammers
[3912] Sand to Arabia, Coals to Newcastle or Woodburners to Russia
[3910] Identifying your real customers and keeping them well informed fast
[3661] Keeping forum and blog comments clean
[3506] Cold call contacts - preference services and turning off spam sales approaches
[3352] World Trade Register - Certainly NOT worth 2985 Euros.
[3316] Twitter Phishing Trips ... and a great new alert service
[3190] What do the following web sites have in common?
[3166] Well house is strong - confirmed?
[3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited
[2884] Hotlinked images onto adult material sites
[2697] Email metrics and filtering
[2398] Websitemediasolution and a goldfish called Carl Johnson
[2276] Who is Marc Schneider of Multilingual Search Engine Optimization Inc
[2179] Offers that I can refuse
[2177] Preventing forum spam - checks at sign up
[2019] Baby Caleb and Fortune City in your web logs?
[1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources
[1817] Marc Schneider is still having email trouble
[1763] Co-operating to save, yet we dont
[1532] Comment spam blocked. Please comment via Forums
[1523] Ive just received an email from myself. Should I be worried?
[1115] Unexpected visitors to our site
[1037] Impact Engineering and Backscatter
[872] Email metrics
[495] More spam - a success story
[417] Telephone Preference Service - we're registered
[347] Frightening and from-friend viruses and spams
[338] OO techniques are hard to teach
[276] An apology to Mr Boneparte
[268] Information request forms, cleaning up spam
[259] Responding to spam
Subject G910 -
Scams
[4651] Pressure selling in the fire safety business
[4385] A booking that looks too good to be true? It probably is too good to be true!
[3859] Youve Been Selected for the 2012 Edition of the Global Registry
[3480] Direct Message: Really horrible blog about you ... a clever phishing trip, said to be from an MP
[3291] Pay and refund scam - alive and kicking against Melksham businesses
[3222] Clickjacking - another way to get you to follow a malicious link - Facebook issue
[2988] Not mugged in London!
[2895] Global Computer Maintenance Department
[2690] The World Company Register - is it another scam?
[2524] An update on legal changes from the FSB?
[2403] Hotel Booking Scam / Cost of calls to 070 numbers
[2373] Translation from Ghanaian to English
[1795] What have iTime, honeytrapagency and domain listing center got in common?
[1772] Ken Palm, iTime, and Domain Name Tasting
[1680] Astroturfing - the online definition
[1342] Google, wwmdirectory, Freshwater, ATP - new scam?
[1313] Tratum Technologies
[860] Warning - false emails, said to be from Paypal
[347] Frightening and from-friend viruses and spams
[178] Calling a spade a spade
[78] Domain Registry of America
(
article) Identity theft - Phishing for your details
Subject G911 -
Search Engine Optimisation
[4121] Has your Twitter feed stopped working? Switching to their new API
[3746] Google Analytics and the new UK Cookie law
[3670] Reading Google Analytics results, based on the relative populations of countries
[2748] Monitoring the success and traffic of your web site
[2686] Freedom of Information - consideration for web site designers
[2562] Tuning the web site for sailing on through this year
[2552] Web site traffic - real users, or just noise?
[2428] Diluting History
[2330] Update - Automatic feeds to Twitter
[2324] What search terms FAIL to bring visitors to our site, when they should?
[2137] Reaching the right people with your web site
[2107] How to tweet automatically from a blog
[2106] Learning to Twitter / what is Twitter?
[2065] Static mirroring through HTTrack, wget and others
[2045] Does robots.txt actually work?
[2019] Baby Caleb and Fortune City in your web logs?
[2000] 2000th article - Remember the background and basics
[1984] Site24x7 prowls uninvited
[1982] Cooking bodies and URLs
[1971] Telling Google which country your business trades in
[1969] Search Engines. Getting the right pages seen.
[1793] Which country does a search engine think you are located in?
[1344] Catching up on indexing our resources
[1029] Our search engine placement is dropping.
[1015] Search engine placement - long term strategy and success
[427] The Melksham train - a button is pushed
[165] Implementing an effective site search engine
Subject G912 -
Photography for the Web
[3402] That spec is a kingfisher ...
[3170] How far is something pictured from the camera?
[3104] Catering in Syracuse, the Saigon Cafe, stolen images and Christmas
[2884] Hotlinked images onto adult material sites
[2592] Re-using our pictures
[2252] Leaping dog, Leaping horse, copyright of old masters
[2224] Trowbridge - a missed opportunity? Melksham - into the breach?
[1895] Comparison - with and without flash
[1732] Old pictures and comparisons
[1568] What colour is the season?
[1506] Ongoing Image Copyright Issues, PHP and MySQL solutions
[1396] Using PHP to upload images / Store on MySQL database - security questions
[1194] Drawing hands on a clock face - PHP
[1188] What shape is your shake?
[1185] Themes for the web site
[1114] PHP Image upload script
[1087] Telling a story in different ways
[937] Display an image from a MySQL database in a web page via PHP
[819] My projector has a photo-id
[665] PHP Image viewing application
[563] Merging pictures using PHP and GD
[553] Keep that image small
[546] The relevance of the hairy woodpecker
[194] Published Photographer
[97] What makes a professional photographer?
Subject G913 -
Hardware and Devices
[4134] Setting up your MacBook Air as a mobile broadband router
[3596] Want to learn iPad and iPhone programming? Come along and learn with me for free.
[3457] Away to train - but still around by video for Melksham meetings
[3075] Change of balance, of attitude, and of work method
[3058] MacBook Air - hardware and system review
[2667] Web page to telephone calls / links using an iPhone
[2188] Camera to record where a picture was taken
[2055] Effect on server when memory runs out and swapping starts
[2033] Huawei D100 Wireless Router - Mobile Internet
[1993] Load Balancing - Hardware or Software?
[1827] What a shock
[1281] Latercomer to the technology
[630] Hostnames spring forward
Subject G914 -
Other Software
[4426] FileMaker Day to Unix Time conversion
[4303] Libre Office - unable to get past REOPEN WINDOWS? question
[4038] Using Pygments to colour our training examples
[3991] Email from Christopher Columbus to announce finding America?
[3896] An email marathon
[3648] iPad and iPhone programming - our seminar weekend with Xcode
[3599] Seeing how Melksham has changed over the years, via an iPad
[3584] QR codes - graphics images that provide quick phone links
[3213] Should I use Open Source or Commercial software?
[2906] Switching from Adobe Photoshop to Gimp - testing it on animals
[2600] Go Programming Language and Courses?
[2470] Windows 7 and Open Source Programming
[2191] RT @brento - a valuable source for the twitter newbie
[2106] Learning to Twitter / what is Twitter?
[75] It's just not cricket
{
ViewController.xib} Objective C nib file (ViewController.xib) - First iPad application
{
ViewController.m} Objective C source code - First iPad application
{
Viewcontroller.h} Objective C header - First iPad application
Subject G996 -
Newsletter Scripts
[3179] Oops - I typed ci not vi, and have lost my file ...
[2539] Changing Images
[2433] Controlling, supressing, enabling PHP error messages
[2360] Error Handling in Lua with assert and pcall
[2259] Grouping rows for a summary report - MySQL and PHP
[2145] Using the internet to remotely check for power failure at home (PHP)
[2046] Finding variations on a surname
[1954] mod_rewrite for newcomers
[1813] Ajax - going Asyncronous and what it means
[1743] First class functions in Lua lead to powerful OO facilities
[1665] Factory method example - Perl
[1601] Replacing the last comma with an and
[1505] Script to present commonly used images - PHP
[1487] Efficient PHP applications - framework and example
[1387] Error logging to file not browser in PHP
[1321] Resetting session based tests in PHP
[1217] What are factory and singleton classes?
[1123] mysqldump and mysqlrestore
[1066] Final, Finally and Finalize - three special words in Java
[1001] .pdf files - upload via PHP, store in MySQL, retrieve
Subject G997 -
Newsletter Lead Articles
[3202] Telling you something about us in just one line
[2743] Public Open Source Training Courses running this summer and autumn in Melksham
[2538] Open Source Training Centre and Courses for 2010
[2425] Weekend and Christmas Promotion - Well House Manor Hotel, Melksham
[2370] C++, Python, and other training - do we use an IDE
[2253] Walks in and around Melksham, Wiltshire
[2119] Make your business a DESTINATION business
[2052] How was my web site compromised?
[1912] Book now for 2009
[1819] Calling base class constructors
[1754] Upgrade from PHP 4 to PHP 5 - the TRY issue
[1663] Python in an afternoon - a lecture for experienced programmers
[1600] Cambidge - Tcl, Expect and Perl courses
[1545] Letting new visitors know we provide training courses
[1488] New trainee laptop fleet for our Open Source courses
[1386] New software product for warmblooded programmers
[1318] Well House Manor - feature comparison against the old place!
[1224] Object Relation Mapping (ORM)
[1136] Buffering output - why it is done and issues raised in Tcl, Perl, Python and PHP
[1065] Graham Ellis - an Introduction
[1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong
Subject G998 -
Newsletter Highlighted Box
[3168] Web Sites - Subject to Advertising Standards from 1st March - check your sites
[2520] Global and Enable - two misused words!
[2400] Are you wanting to learn PHP?
[2385] Reading all our recent news from a single source
[2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK
[2125] We have lost a regular business guest
[2050] Why the Pony Tail?
[1967] LinkedIn - Thrice Asked, and joined.
[1843] How many cups of coffee?
[1751] Public Training Course Dates until July 2009
[1629] A short introduction to our courses
[1621] Linux and Java Course in London
[1521] Evening drive across the roof of Wiltshire
[1475] Tcl/Tk - updating your display while tasks are running
[1375] Python v Ruby
[1307] Troy, up state New York
[1237] What proportion of our web traffic is robots?
[1132] Well House Manor, Melksham, Art Gallery
[1068] ls -l report, Linux / Unix - types and permssions
[1011] Well House Manor and Beechfield House, Hotels, Melksham
Subject G999 -
Keynote
[4588] What teach you in a week stays with you for a decade
[3164] Brown - or Mrs Sally Brown, accountant from Whitstable?
[2537] Faster network, but not faster browsing until ...
[2483] Clustering on Tomcat
[2384] Looking ahead to the Autumn season of training and accommodation
[2326] Learn a new programming language this summer.
[2228] Where do I start when writing a program?
[2216] Past Delegate Offer - Summer Holiday / Weekend Break
[2144] Looking for a career change - Physician to Web Site Designer
[1975] Well House Manor Hotel - on plan for 2009 business guests
[1955] How to avoid duplicating web page maintainance
[1929] 2009 - Hotel, Meeting, Training Course prices
[1859] Wiltshire at dawn - the tourist trail
[1857] November and December Public Course Schedule
[1773] The Longest Possible Day
[1748] Hotel room prices - Melksham, Wiltshire
[1676] A warm welcome for visitors from the USA
[1615] PHP training courses every month
[1555] Advanced Python, Perl, PHP and Tcl training courses / classes
[1492] Well House Consultants Training and Hotel - 2008 news
[1481] The Christmas Letter
[1414] What we teach - expained for the non-technical
[1319] Customer feedback - lifeblood of a business
[1317] 2008 course schedule - Perl, Python, PHP, Linux, Java Deployment, Ruby and more
[1245] Ensuring that our tutor answers YOUR questions
[1161] A contrast in room rates and facilities
[1079] Wilts and Berks - two conference / training rooms in Melksham
[929] Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire
[898] Courses at Well House Manor
[890] Open
[845] Course scheduling and Geekmas - are they traditions yet?
[774] Bed and Breakfast, or Hotel?
[695] In the hospitality business
[626] Not just a pretty face to answer the phone.
[549] 2005 - Come as a student, leave as a friend
[464] Technical Loneliness
[452] Is enough enough?
[428] Swindon - Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge - Westbury train service
[419] Most popular courses
[360] Spring turns to Summer
[295] Pricing strategy - simple and fair
[225] 10 years and counting
[164] Well House Consultants - review of 2004
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H: PHP programming and techniques
Overview H050 -
PHP - General
[4314] PHP training - refreshed modern course, backed up by years of practical experience
[3966] Our examples work with any recent version of PHP
[3952] PHP revision ... by example.
[3530] A typical weekend??
[3025] Learning to Program ... in PHP. Course examples.
[2663] Improve your PHP on a weekend away
[2589] Your PHP code does not work? Here is where to start looking.
[2559] Moving the product forward - ours, and MySQL, Perl, PHP and Python too
[2504] Learning to program in ...
[2430] Not just a PHP program - a good web application
[2400] Are you wanting to learn PHP?
[2227] Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses
[2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK
[2097] PHP Course - for hobby / club / charity users.
[1722] PHP examples - source code and try it out too
[235] Preparation for a day's work
[116] The next generation of programmer
(
article) What is PHP?
{
pcre.php} Regular Expression testbed
{
fourth.php} Straightforward form and simple validation
{
chris.php} Demonstration of form and pricing
{
p_fifth.php} One page application - design and human interface MATTERS
Module H101 -
Introduction to PHP
[4621] The power of scripting
[4118] We not only teach PHP and Python - we teach good PHP and Python Practice!
[3025] Learning to Program ... in PHP. Course examples.
[2097] PHP Course - for hobby / club / charity users.
[1958] PHP - Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end ...
[1753] Perl v PHP, choosing the right language
[1717] Q - Should I use Perl or Python?
[1198] From Web to Web 2
[1050] The HTML++ Metalanguage
[949] Sludge off the mountain, and Python and PHP
[924] The LAMP Cookbook - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl
[917] Syntax checking in PHP
[846] Is Perl being replaced by PHP and Python?
[795] Remember a site's non-technical issues too
[789] Hot answers in PHP
[712] Why reinvent the wheel
[691] Testing you Perl / PHP / MySQL / Tcl knowledge
[646] PHP - London course, Melksham Course, Evening course
[629] Choosing the right language
[624] It's REALLY easy to add a little PHP
[577] Learning to program in Perl or PHP
[433] FTP - how to make the right transfers
[382] Central London Courses - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, MySQL
[380] Bridging to the customer requirement
[341] Happy Birthday, PHP
[317] Programming languages - a comparison
[135] Too many Perls
[132] Portrait of the author
[124] PHP v Java
[93] Case Sensitive?
[55] Evening classes to learn PHP
[48] PHP - onwards and upwards
(
article) Portrait of the Author of PHP
(
article) What is PHP?
{
motor.php} Elements of a PHP Page
{
greetings} Entering and leaving PHP mode - documentation and comments
{
g2} First variables and calculations in PHP (stand alone)
{
t2.php} cost comparison script
{
greet3.php} Calculation in a web page, with inputs from a form
{
form3.html} Sample form for PHP application
{
greet4.php} Calculations in a page, inputs from an included form
{
g5} stand alone program in PHP, showing nested blocks
{
g4} Stand alone program in PHP, with conditions and loops
{
t3.php} Totalling script - daily, weekly, monthly, annual amounts
{
rupert.php} First program - and how to comment it!
{
greet2.php} Calculation within a web page
{
greet.php} The structure of a PHP page
{
greet5.php} Starting to add structure to your PHP application
{
g3} Stand alone program in PHP - read from keyboard, calculate, write to screen
{
abc.php} Some easy things to do with PHP
Module H102 -
A First PHP Web Page
[4074] A comment on comments in PHP
[3915] How does PHP work?
[2432] Using print_r in PHP to explore mysql database requests
[1448] Question on division (Java) - Also Perl, PHP, Python ...
[624] It's REALLY easy to add a little PHP
{
a1.html} Date stamping a page automatically (for copyright and audit)
{
g2.php} Multiple statements and functions calls
{
g3.php} Multiple print statements, showing case insignificance of functions
{
greeting.php} HTML page with embedded PHP
Module H103 -
Variables, Operators and Expressions
[4642] A small teaching program - demonstration of principles only
[4324] Learning to program - variables and constants
[3917] BODMAS - the order a computer evaluates arithmetic expressions
[3916] PHP variables - dynamically typed. What does that mean?
[3278] Do I need to initialise variables - programming in C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby or Java.
[2215] If nothing, make it nothing.
[748] Getting rid of variables after you have finished with them
[483] Double Dollars in PHP
{
k3a.php} Getting a form variable - new and somewhat more secure style
{
simsan.php} Simple sanitisation and sticky field example
{
k3.php} Getting a variable from a form - OLD style
{
result} Master and Header code merged
{
header.txt} File to be included in master example ?>
{
k1.php} A calculation in PHP
{
master.php} PHP page that calls in an include file ?>
{
k4.php} Example of comment types
{
k2.php} A calculation with variables
Module H104 -
Control Statements
[4323] Learning to program - Loop statements such as while
[4322] Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if)
[3914] While, for, foreach or something else to loop.
[3895] Flowchart to program - learning to program with Well House
[3397] Does a for loop evaluate its end condition once, or on every iteration?
[3200] How a for loop works Java, Perl and other languages
[2912] Predictions for the seagull population
[2304] Extracting real data from an exported file in PHP or Perl
[1825] Question Mark - Colon operator (Perl and PHP)
[1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ...
[1477] Decisions - small ones, or big ones?
[1220] for loop - how it works (Perl, PHP, Java, C, etc)
[1199] Testing for one of a list of values.
[1191] Smart English Output - via PHP and Perl ? : operator
[962] Breaking a loop - Ruby and other languages
[863] Double and Triple equals operator in PHP
[657] The ternary operator in Python
[421] Don't repeat code - use loops or functions
[406] Assignment, equality and identity in PHP
[353] Wimbledon Neck
[340] Code and code maintainance efficiency
{
condits.php} example simple if statements
{
houred.php} different image to reflect time of day
{
macorder.php} 2 page simple ordering system
{
units.php} Conversion of units of area
{
tt2.php} for loop
{
if2.php} if, block, else and elseif
{
timothy.php} demonstration of if / else / while
{
coin.php} switch, case, default and break
{
ttab.php} Temperature table - a while loop
{
ifvswit.php} if v switch / first "step through" application
{
floop.php} while, for and foreach loops
{
bristolgulls.php} Table of calculations
{
tt3.php} lazy operators, increments, +=, ? : and endfor
Module H105 -
Functions
[3026] Coding efficiency - do not repeat yourself!
[2929] Passing a variable number of parameters in to a function / method
[2737] Improving your function calls (APIs) - General and PHP
[2682] Adding extensions to PHP Open Source applications - callbacks
[2630] Static variables and ampersands in PHP
[2488] A variable number of arguments in a PHP function
[1784] Global - Tcl, PHP, Python
[1380] Static variables in PHP
[1357] Clean my plate, but keep my wine bottle. (PHP; Static)
[1267] is there a lookup function in php?
[1202] Returning multiple values from a function (Perl, PHP, Python)
[1163] A better alternative to cutting and pasting code
[1021] PHP - static declaration
[936] Global, Superglobal, Session variables - scope and persistance in PHP
[866] A lazy programmer is a good programmer
[775] Do not duplicate your code
[421] Don't repeat code - use loops or functions
[409] Functions and commands with dangerous names
[340] Code and code maintainance efficiency
[339] Passing information into and out of PHP functions
[308] Call by name v call by value
[223] There is a function in PHP to do that
[96] Variable Scope
{
dressing.inc} example of "call by name" and defaulting parameters
{
funsan.php} Simple sanitisation and sticky field example using functions
{
funk2.php} Example with local, global and static variables
{
scope2.php} Use of a function to separate out complicated / repeated code
{
near.php} Ordnance Survey and Map reference point calculations
{
hotdiary.php} PHP Diary generator
{
personetc.inc} for scope4 demo
{
funk3.php} Loading functions from an include file
{
callback} Calling a list of functions named in an array
{
dropahead.php} Selection from the week ahead
{
medical.inc} for scope3 demo
{
funky.php} Defining and calling a function
{
stademo.php} use of a static variable in PHP
{
scope3.php} function code now in separate file
{
bmi1.php} control example - showing need for functions and includes
{
scope1.php} Keyboard to Screen - simple PHP program
{
bmi2.php} functions and includes to make for shorter, more maintainiable code
{
scope4.php} Now using an Object Oriented approach
{
footer.inc} Inlcude file - a standard block of HTML
Module H106 -
Arrays
[4244] Disambiguation - PHP List
[4072] Splitting the difference with PHP
[4068] Arrays in PHP - contain different and even mixed data types
[3534] Learning to program in PHP - Regular Expression and Associative Array examples
[3379] Sorting data the way YOU want it sorted
[3004] Increment operators for counting - Perl, PHP, C and others
[2920] Sorting - naturally, or into a different order
[2915] Looking up a value by key - associative arrays / Hashes / Dictionaries
[2274] PHP preg functions - examples and comparision
[2215] If nothing, make it nothing.
[1614] When an array is not an array
[1451] More PHP sample and demonstration programs
[1199] Testing for one of a list of values.
[1116] PHP adding arrays / summing arrays
[832] Displaying data at 5 items per line on a web page
[773] Breaking bread
[603] PHP - setting sort order with an associative array
[409] Functions and commands with dangerous names
{
skills.php} A Small search tool
{
herbert.php} finding a value from a list of ranges
{
assoc.php} Associative array - sorting and traversing
{
walter.php} regular and associative arrays
{
nb.html} Speed networking - generate a page for an attendee
{
fullmenu.php} Ordering system from menu file
{
simgrep.php} read a file into an array and display selected items
{
rubys.php} read a file into an array and display selected items
{
a3.php} Array_walk example. Also the difference between null and empty
{
nbm.html} Speed networking - seating matrix generator
{
ts.php} Lengthen or shorten an array
{
a1.php} Setting up an array, looking at individual elements
{
pflog.php} Most viewed pictures (Mk 1)
{
a2.php} Array - dealing with missing elements and finding keys
{
arrarr.php} Summing arrays in PHP
{
menu.txt} Menu for fullmenu.php example
{
5pl.php} Display a list in columns
{
patrick.php} User defined sort
{
pflog2.php} Where are scripts loaded from (2)
{
arrx.php} Ways of passing through an array
Module H107 -
String Handling in PHP
[4072] Splitting the difference with PHP
[4071] Setting up strings in PHP
[3790] Solution looking for a problem? Lookahead and Lookbehind
[3789] More than just matching with a regular expression in PHP
[3788] Getting more than a yes / no answer from a regular expression pattern match
[3534] Learning to program in PHP - Regular Expression and Associative Array examples
[3516] Regular Expression modifiers in PHP - summary table
[3515] PHP - moving from ereg to preg for regular expressions
[3424] Divide 10000 by 17. Do you get 588.235294117647, 588.24 or 588? - Ruby and PHP
[3020] Handling (expanding) tabs in PHP
[2629] Curly braces within double quoted strings in PHP
[2238] Handling nasty characters - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, Lua
[2165] Making Regular Expressions easy to read and maintain
[2046] Finding variations on a surname
[1799] Regular Expressions in PHP
[1613] Regular expression for 6 digits OR 25 digits
[1603] Do not SHOUT and do not whisper
[1533] Short and sweet and sticky - PHP form input
[1372] A taster PHP expression ...
[1336] Ignore case in Regular Expression
[1195] Regular Express Primer
[1058] PHP Regular expression to extrtact link and text
[1008] Date conversion - PHP
[728] Looking ahead and behind in a Regular Expression
[716] Evaluating arithmetic expressions in configuration files
[642] How similar are two words
[608] Don't expose your regular expressions
[589] Robust PHP user inputs
[574] PHP - dividing a string up into pieces
[560] The fencepost problem
[558] Converting between acres and hectares
[493] Running a Perl script within a PHP page
[463] Splitting the difference
[422] PHP Magic Quotes
[337] the array returned by preg_match_all
[54] PHP and natural sorting
[31] Here documents
(
article) An overview of PHP String functions
(
article) Analysing incoming data lines
(
article) Nasty Characters in Web Applications
(
article) Pattern Matching - a primer on regular Expressions
(
article) Web Page and HTML Spell Checker
{
toke.php} String tokenising - strtok, implode, explode
{
popage.php} Counting in a log file - associative arrays and regular expressions
{
fvar.php} Filtering of variables
{
splitting.php} Ways of splitting a string
{
dlog.php} String handling example - extracting simple data from a complex line
{
s1.php} Single and double quoted strings
{
stickform.php} Stick Fields and Input Validation
{
secdo.php} Convert seconds to minutes and seconds
{
s2.php} Character string as an array
{
arrivals.php} Regex and associative arrays - search engine arrivals
{
sfex.php} Demo of sticky fields and security
{
bits.php} Ways of writing strings
{
sprint.php} Formatting with sprintf
{
extrawords} Extra words for spell checker
{
20101101_statlog.txt} Sample data from server operation log file
{
regex.php} Regular expression - validating an email address
{
pc1} ereg v preg
{
shunt.php} Evaluting BODMAS expression using MySQL cell tables
{
spell.php} Spell Checker
{
clformat.php} Formatting data [file] for quick web display
{
pmoffs.php} Capturing regular expression offsets
{
s3.php} String cleansing with functions such as strspn
{
strp.php} Curly braces in double quoted strings
{
myform.php} Robust, sticky form demo with field validation
{
code} Reaping from an HTML page with regular expressions
{
mystdinc.inc} Include file for sticky fields demo
{
ex2.php} various preg style functions in use
{
stdist.php} Search - do two words look or sound the same?
{
bustimes.php} Using PHP to format data (timetable in this example)
{
echovalley.php} How to put in blocks of HTML
Module H108 -
Objects in PHP
[4628] Associative objects - one object within another.
[4627] Caching results in an object for efficiency - avoiding re-calculation
[4626] Singleton design pattern - examples and uses
[4366] Changing what operators do on objects - a comparison across different programming languages
[4356] Object factories in C++, Python, PHP and Perl
[4073] Learning about Object Orientation in PHP - a new set of examples
[4057] stdClass in PHP - using an object rather than an associative array
[3953] Objects in PHP - Revision
[3843] Caching Design Patterns
[3841] Copying, duplicating, cloning an object in PHP
[3840] Autoload in PHP
[3609] How do classes relate to each other? Associated Classes
[3608] Design Patterns - what are they? Why use them?
[3607] Designing your application - using UML techniques
[3211] Computer Graphics in PHP - World (incoming data) to Pixel (screen) conversion
[3210] Catchable fatal error in PHP ... How to catch, and alternative solutions such as JSON
[3142] Private and Public - and things between
[2922] Getting the OO design write - with PHP a example
[2921] Does copying a variable duplicate the contents?
[2774] PHP - Object Oriented Design in use
[2741] What is a factory?
[2717] The Multiple Inheritance Conundrum, interfaces and mixins
[2680] Static class members in PHP - a documented example
[2641] Object Oriented Programming in PHP
[2632] Shipping a test harness with your class in PHP
[2435] Serialization - storing and reloading objects
[2434] Abstract classes, Interfaces, PHP and Java
[2380] Object Oriented programming - a practical design example
[2172] PHP4 v PHP5 - Object Model Difference
[2171] Cleaning up redundant objects
[2169] When should I use OO techniques?
[2160] PHP - getclass v instanceof
[1925] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
[1820] Sorting objects in PHP
[1819] Calling base class constructors
[1682] Accounts in PHP - an OO demo
[1535] OO PHP demonstration - comparing objects and more
[1217] What are factory and singleton classes?
[1153] Object Oriented Model - a summary of changes from PHP4 to PHP5
[1027] Cue the music, I'm happy.
[836] Build on what you already have with OO
[720] Planning a hotel refurb - an example of a Gant chart in PHP
[656] Think about your design even if you don't use full UML
[485] North, Norther and Northest - PHP 5 Objects
[421] Don't repeat code - use loops or functions
[343] Should I use structured or object oriented?
[205] PHP5 lets you say no
[124] PHP v Java
[67] Object Oriented Programming in PHP
{
animal3.php} Abstract class and interface example
{
dogdisc.php} Serialization of an object for save and restore
{
compo.php} Complete inheritance and object method demonstration
{
rest006.php} magic __tostring and comparator methods
{
bbcoo2.php} oo demo step 2 for BBC
{
accos.php} Complete example with polymorphism and inheritance
{
southbound.txt} Data for factory.php demo
{
clx.php} object assign and object clone
{
equtest.php4} Explicits PHP4 - objects, foreach, array_push ....
{
pps} Data for Gant Chart Demo
{
dog.inc} Simple class in PHP
{
pdemo.php} PHP application using places.inc - create array of place objects from file
{
rest001.php} First OO / class example
{
systems.txt} Data file for systems example
{
single3} Singleton AND dymanic data
{
systems.php} Objects and inheritance - main worked example program
{
pets.php} Test page for the dog.inc class
{
studentsys.inc} Student system - a derived class
{
third.php} Command line PHP classes - inheritance, overloading, polymorphism, comparator
{
ob2.php} Loading in a class from another file and using it
{
cwuseanimal.php} Test program for cwa class
{
rest004.php} This is my table test file
{
elligant.php} Gant chart in PHP
{
dogs.inc} Simple class in PHP
{
bewarethedog.php} Object copying - beware - differs in PHP4 and PHP5
{
aa.php} Autoload example
{
rest003.php} class example - data from file
{
hound.inc} Simple class in PHP
{
twigs.inc} class to be loaded in autoload example
{
factory.php} Example of a factory method and comparators
{
ns.php} Namespaces in PHP5 - a short syntax demo
{
equip.inc} equip.inc - define pieces of equipment (base class)
{
staffsys.inc} Staff system - a derived class
{
equtest.php} PHP example - objects, foreach, array_push ....
{
rest005.php} This is my table test file
{
stan.php} Standard Class stdClass
{
staticmember.php} Static class members - set up and use
{
valentines.php} Inheritance, Overloading, Polymorphism in PHP objects
{
places.inc} A PHP abstract class (places) with postcode, county and other subclasses
{
po8} Associative Objects
{
animal1.php} An Abstract class - cannot construct directly
{
litter.php} cloning and copying objects
{
allone.php} Complete OO example
{
kennel.php} Application to use class hound
{
demo.php} PHP Version tester
{
ob1.php} OO PHP demo - inhertitance, statics, test harness, etc
{
systems.php4} Objects and inheritance - main worked example program - PHP4 example
{
animal2.php} Abstract class, extended to a subclass, instantised via the subclass
{
visits.php} Factory method, static method, associated objects
{
rest002.php} class example - array of objects
{
oop5.php} Two classes, inheritance, factory, JSON, error handler, etc
{
serversys.inc} Server system - a derived class
{
cwa.inc} cwa class
Module H109 -
Input / Output
[4483] Moving from mysql to mysqli - simple worked example
[3424] Divide 10000 by 17. Do you get 588.235294117647, 588.24 or 588? - Ruby and PHP
[3159] Returning multiple values from a function call in various languages - a comparison
[3029] PHP data sources - other web servers, large data flows, and the client (browser)
[2964] An introduction to file handling in programs - buffering, standard in and out, and file handles
[1780] Server overloading - turns out to be feof in PHP
[1442] Reading a file multiple times - file pointers
[1113] File and URL reading in PHP
[1096] Sample script - FTP to get a file from within PHP
[1094] PHP fread - truncated data
[997] Most recent file in a directory - PHP
[709] Handling huge data files in PHP
[653] Easy feed!
[616] printf - a flawed but useful function
[114] Relative or absolute milkman
{
radio.php} look up current radio program in a text file
{
spammiest.php} The 20 spammiest emails in our filter records are ...
{
fread1.php} Read all lines from a data file, report matches
{
mcq.txt} data for Christmas Quiz
{
exchange.html} Exchange rate convertor
{
mail_analysis.php} Read and analyse spam report file
{
savepeople.php} Using PHP to download a data file
{
recent.php} Link to the recently updated file in a directory
{
cloak.php} Cloaking a web site in a PHP wrapper
{
eurorates.php} Read currency exchanges rates
{
secdo.php} Convert seconds to minutes and seconds
{
quote.htp} HTML template for quote demo -->
{
xmasq.php} Christmas Quiz in PHP
{
grabtitle.php} Grab the title of a web page (local or remote)
{
seedoku.php} highlighting a source file
{
top_pdf.php} Showing top 10 downloads from our site
{
fr2.php} Pulldown menu of files, then search for regex
{
fread2.php} File system and status reports and directory listings
{
timber.php} Reading and extracting from a remote URL
{
webhelpers.inc} Web Helpers for quote demo
{
saver.php} Write to file - simple diary page
{
buslogic.inc} Business logic for quote demo
{
quote.php} Quote demo - top level code
Module H110 -
HTML Web Page Data Handling
[3926] Filtering PHP form inputs - three ways, but which should you use?
[3036] Sending out an email containing HTML from within a PHP page
[2135] What features does this visitors browser support? (PHP)
[2107] How to tweet automatically from a blog
[2046] Finding variations on a surname
[2025] Injection Attack if register_globals in on - PHP
[1831] Text formating for HTML, with PHP
[1169] Emailing as HTML (Web Page) - PHP example
[1136] Buffering output - why it is done and issues raised in Tcl, Perl, Python and PHP
[1053] Sorting people by name in PHP
[1001] .pdf files - upload via PHP, store in MySQL, retrieve
[896] PHP - good coding practise and sticky radio buttons
[789] Hot answers in PHP
[589] Robust PHP user inputs
[50] Current cost in your local currency
(
article) Example - PHP form, Image upload. Store in MySQL database. Retrieve.
{
victor.php} Putting our conditional example on the web
{
urlex.html} Does a URL exist?
{
agnew.php} How to do it - sending header first
{
selfinfo.php} Information available from PHP
{
meldrew.inc} Helper function - set up an enquiry box
{
sticker.php} Sticky form demo ...
{
agone.php} How NOT to do it - sending header too late
{
mcheck.php} generate and select from radio boxes
{
feedlet.php} Bare Bones demo of password protection
{
veryniceform.php} Form completion with sticky fields and generalised code
{
melksham.php} Images at random - pictures of Melksham
{
pdfstore.php} store a .pdf that's uploaded into a MySQL database
{
myenv.php} The PHP environment - use of variables available to you
{
one_pizza.php} Validating a Pizza order in one page.
{
getpost.php} Using a PHP script to POST to another server
{
alang.php} What langauge does the visitor prefer?
{
pdfup.php} form to upload a .pdf to a PHP script
{
pdfget.php} download a .pdf file from a MySQL database
{
apull.php} Selection of database records via a pulldown menu
Module H112 -
Further Web Page and Network Handling
[4483] Moving from mysql to mysqli - simple worked example
[4070] Passing variable between PHP pages - hidden fields, cookies and sessions
[3918] Multiple page web applications - maintaining state - PHP
[3568] Telling which ServerAlias your visitor used - useful during merging domains
[3540] Easy session example in PHP - keeping each customers data apart
[3432] 3 digit HTTP status codes - what are they, which are most common, which should be a concern?
[3036] Sending out an email containing HTML from within a PHP page
[2918] Downloading a report from the web for further local analysis
[2729] Uploading a document or image to its own URL via a browser
[2679] How to build a test harness into your PHP
[2632] Shipping a test harness with your class in PHP
[1549] http, https and ajp - comparison and choice
[1518] Downloading data for use in Excel (from PHP / MySQL)
[1515] Keeping staff up to date on hotel room status
[1505] Script to present commonly used images - PHP
[1496] PHP / Web 2 logging
[1495] Single login and single threaded models - Java and PHP
[1485] Copyright and theft of images, bandwidth and members.
[1379] Simple page password protection - PHP
[1355] .php or .html extension? Morally Static Pages
[1210] PHP header() function - uses and new restrictions
[1187] Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl)
[1183] Improving searches - from OR to AND?
[1114] PHP Image upload script
[1009] Passing GET parameters through Apache mod_rewrite
[936] Global, Superglobal, Session variables - scope and persistance in PHP
[904] Of course I'll tell you by email
[847] Image maps for navigation - a straightforward example
[789] Hot answers in PHP
[767] Finding the language preference of a web site visitor
[675] Adding PHP tags to an old cgi program
[603] PHP - setting sort order with an associative array
[565] Using PHP to output images, XML, Style sheets, etc
[542] Morning image, afternoon image
[537] Daily Image Santafied
[484] Setting the file name for a downloaded document
[451] Accessing a page via POST from within a PHP script
[443] Server side scripting of styles to suit the browser
[425] Caching an XML feed
[410] Reading a news or blog feed (RSS) in your PHP page
[376] What brings people to my web site?
[372] Time calculation in PHP
[356] Sudoku helper or sudoku cheat
[345] Spotting a denial of service attack
[314] What language is this written in?
[220] When to use Frames
(
article) Using current exchange rates on a web page
(
article) Using Frames with PHP
(
article) Shopping cart application in PHP
(
article) A Web interface for your Linux admin tasks
(
article) Suggesting alternative search terms to web site users
{
pcook.php} Setting and checking a persistent cookie
{
fromwhere.php} Tracking how visitors reach a page
{
exchange.php} Exchange rate convertor
{
dopost.php} Using the POST method to read from a URL within a PHP script
{
d404.html} Script run when our web site can't find a requested page
{
gherkin.php} Download and store results from a web enquiry
{
sesscart.php} Session demo - shopping cart
{
sessdemo.php} Session demo - shopping cart - from PHP 4.2
{
sucksee.php} does a URL exist?
{
about_you.php} Information about the visitor avaialble to a web site provider
{
imap.php} Image map controlled by PHP script
{
automailer} PHP script to email from the command line
{
sessions.php5} Session demo for more recent PHP4 and PHP5 systems
{
upload_test.php} How to upload a file via a web page
{
uploader.php} Upload a file from a browser
{
favcol.php} cookie demo - lock in favourite colour
{
cook.php} Setting and reading a cookie
{
ppmh} Sending an email as HTML not plain text
{
cookie_demo.php} Setting and deleting a cookie
{
supermail.php} simple form for mailing
{
pubsales.php} Cookie check for new visitor
{
phpemenc} Emailing with enclosures from a web page
{
roomstates.php} Room State Reporter
Module H113 -
Using MySQL Databases in PHP Pages
[4483] Moving from mysql to mysqli - simple worked example
[4378] What FGW passengers want to talk about / and PHP programming to find out
[3455] MySQL, MySQLi, PDO or something else - how best to talk to databases from PHP
[3035] How to display information from a database within a web page
[2628] An example of an injection attack using Javascript
[2561] The future of MySQL
[2447] MySQL stored procedures / their use on the web from PHP
[2432] Using print_r in PHP to explore mysql database requests
[2320] Helping new arrivals find out about source code examples
[2259] Grouping rows for a summary report - MySQL and PHP
[2071] Setting up a MySQL database from PHP
[1983] Keeping PHP code in database and running it
[1561] Uploading to a MySQL database through PHP - examples and common questions
[1010] Dates, times, clickable diarys in PHP
[947] What is an SQL injection attack?
[937] Display an image from a MySQL database in a web page via PHP
[915] Paging through hundreds of entries
[723] Viewing images held in a MySQL database via PHP
[666] Database design - get it right from first principles
[647] Checking for MySQL errors
[581] Saving a MySQL query results to your local disc for Excel
[572] Giving the researcher power over database analysis
[515] MySQL - an FAQ
[104] mysql_connect or mysql_pconnect in PHP?
(
article) MySQL version 5, PHP version 5 and mysqli
(
article) MySQL and PHP - enquiry tool for ad-hoc requirements
(
article) Interfacing applications to a MySQL database engine
{
mqclim.php} searching and paging through results
{
sqlhelper.inc} PHP helper - make up a where clause element
{
sqltab.php} Full navigation around an SQL database from PHP
{
mqchunks.php} Pagination through a database - PHP and MySQL
{
sqldelete.php} deleting a database table from PHP
{
sekiy.php} Converts data into MySQL commands
{
select1.php} Selecting information from a database table - unchecked
{
sqladd.php} Add information to a database table
{
yikes.php} Downloading complete database via a PHP script
{
sqd.php} Algorithm selection of where clauses
{
sort_sql.php} Using an array to sort records off a database
{
showtowns.php} First steps on looking up data in an existing database on a web page
{
bookstats.php} PHP to front a MySQL multiway join
{
aos.php} Save a MySQL result set to the local machine
{
select2.php} Selecting information from a database table - fully validated
{
sqlreport.php} report on information held in a relational database
{
pic_up.php} Uploading an image from a form to a MySQL database via PHP
{
approach.php} Relational Databases - Comparison of approaches
{
people.php} Simple database lookup - using MySQL from PHP
{
picclim.php} Search a database of images
{
ild.php} mysqli - database to csv example
{
generic.php} Display a MySQL table, summarising rows
{
ildi.php} mysqli - database to csv example
{
agents.php} Joining MySQL database and searching results in PHP
{
picscript.php} Retrieve an image from a database and display it
{
pic_alog.php} view images stored in a MySQL database via PHP
{
sqlcreate.php} Create a MySQL table from a PHP page
{
sql_image_store.html} Web page to call up an image held in an SQL database
{
mysql_joins.php} Showing Joined tables on a web page
Module H114 -
Sourcing, installing and configuring PHP
[4437] Adding a PHP build option, rotating an image based on camera data, and a new look at thumbnails in PHP
[4319] PHP - some quick fixes if scripts have issues, and how to use our support
[3955] Building up from a small PHP setup to an enterprise one
[3635] Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING on brand new web site - why?
[3132] Virtual Hosting with Apache http server - an overall scheme, and avoiding common pitfalls
[2646] Compile but do not run PHP - syntax check only
[2589] Your PHP code does not work? Here is where to start looking.
[2433] Controlling, supressing, enabling PHP error messages
[2317] How to make a Risotto (PHP build style)
[1936] Quick Summary - PHP installation
[1768] What is built in to this httpd and PHP?
[1731] Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP - installation procedure
[1688] cannot restore segment prot after reloc message - PHP / httpd
[1667] Checking server performance for PHP generated pages
[934] Clustering, load balancing, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy
[481] PHP upgrade - traps to watch
[316] Development Environments
[192] Current MySQL and PHP paths and upgrades
(
article) Sourcing, installing and configuring PHP
{
yellowlion.php} Test for Apache httpd + PHP + MySQL interaction
{
railways.php} Start of an application in a page
{
ini.extras} Some commonly changed limits for PHP
Module H115 -
Designing PHP-Based Solutions: Best Practice
[4691] Real life PHP application using our course training MVC example
[4641] Using an MVC structure - even without a formal framework
[4326] Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code
[4118] We not only teach PHP and Python - we teach good PHP and Python Practice!
[4069] Even early on, separate out your program from your HTML!
[3926] Filtering PHP form inputs - three ways, but which should you use?
[3820] PHP sessions - a best practice teaching example
[3813] Injection Attacks - PHP, SQL, HTML, Javascript - and how to neutralise them
[3539] Separating program and artwork in PHP - easier maintainance, and better for the user
[2679] How to build a test harness into your PHP
[2430] Not just a PHP program - a good web application
[2221] Adding a newsfeed for your users to a multipage PHP application
[2199] Improving the structure of your early PHP programs
[1794] Refactoring - a PHP demo becomes a production page
[1694] Defensive coding techniques in PHP?
[1623] PHP Techniques - a workshop
[1533] Short and sweet and sticky - PHP form input
[1490] Software to record day to day events and keep an action list
[1487] Efficient PHP applications - framework and example
[1482] A story about benchmarking PHP
[1391] Ordnance Survey Grid Reference to Latitude / Longitude
[1390] Converting from postal address to latitude / longitude
[1389] Controlling and labelling Google maps via PHP
[1381] Using a MySQL database to control mod_rewrite via PHP
[1323] Easy handling of errors in PHP
[1321] Resetting session based tests in PHP
[1194] Drawing hands on a clock face - PHP
[1182] Painting a masterpiece in PHP
[1181] Good Programming practise - where to initialise variables
[1166] Back button - ensuring order are not submitted twice (PHP)
[1052] Learning to write secure, maintainable PHP
[1047] Maintainable code - some positive advice
[945] Code quality counts
[936] Global, Superglobal, Session variables - scope and persistance in PHP
[896] PHP - good coding practise and sticky radio buttons
[839] Reporting on the 10 largest files or 10 top scores
[572] Giving the researcher power over database analysis
[563] Merging pictures using PHP and GD
[426] Robust checking of data entered by users
[394] A year on - should we offer certified PHP courses
[340] Code and code maintainance efficiency
[261] Putting a form online
[237] Crossfertilisation, PHP to Python
[123] Short underground journeys and a PHP book
(
article) Portrait of the Author of PHP
(
article) The practical solution of requirements using PHP
(
article) Error messages in PHP
(
article) Keeping the PHP and the HTML apart
(
article) What makes a good variable name?
{
gruse.php} Capthca Driver
{
images.xml} XML data used by demonstration program
{
mvc_fhc.php} MVC Framework and Helpers / Components all in one!
{
sqldemo.inc} SQL functions for sc5 and sc6 demos
{
imnames.xsl} Style sheet used to get a list of all images held in XML file
{
hph.php} Using an array to set a generalised form
{
4lm_business.inc} business logic for 4 layer demo
{
hph2.php} Sticky form, Regex Validation, save to db when AOK
{
4lm_webhelpers.inc} Web Helpers for 4 layer model demo
{
sc5.php} Main demo script - uses sessions, functions, SQL, XML and XSLT
{
grgen.php} Generate a graphic to show a text string
{
niceform.php} Form, validation, sticky fields, email results
{
4lm_top.php} Full PHP application / 4 layer model - start here
{
slidetell.php} Look up records (paginated) in a MySQL table.
{
mvc2.php} MVC Framework and Helpers - with exceptions and validation
{
xsltdemo.inc} xslt functions for sc5 and sc5 demos
{
details.xsl} Style sheet to format one particular piece of information from an XML file
{
sc6.php} Main demo script; uses sessions, functions, SQL, XML and XSLT
{
4lm_template.htp} HTML template for 4 layer model
{
stdsess.inc} standard functions for sc5 and sc6 demos
{
demo.htp} Template for sc5.php4 and sc6 "best practise" examples
Module H116 -
Shopping Cart Application in PHP
[3820] PHP sessions - a best practice teaching example
[1634] Kiss and Book
[1623] PHP Techniques - a workshop
[1487] Efficient PHP applications - framework and example
[1321] Resetting session based tests in PHP
(
article) Shopping cart application in PHP
{
thankyou.htp} Template web page for carter.php4
{
carter.php4} Session demonstration - full shopping cart
{
s2.php} Free form shopping cart in a page
{
getshop.inc} Functions for carter.php4 and other shopping cart apps
{
getaddy.htp} Template web page for carter.php4
{
offer.htp} Template web page for carter.php4
{
getccard.htp} Template web page for carter.php4
Module H117 -
Security in PHP
[4642] A small teaching program - demonstration of principles only
[3813] Injection Attacks - PHP, SQL, HTML, Javascript - and how to neutralise them
[3747] An easy way to comply with the new cookie law if your site is well designed
[3698] How to stop forms on other sites submitting to your scripts
[3210] Catchable fatal error in PHP ... How to catch, and alternative solutions such as JSON
[2939] Protecting your images from use out of context
[2688] Security considerations in programming - what do we teach?
[2628] An example of an injection attack using Javascript
[2025] Injection Attack if register_globals in on - PHP
[1779] Injection Attacks - avoiding them in your PHP
[1747] Who is watching you?
[1694] Defensive coding techniques in PHP?
[1679] PHP - Sanitised application principles for security and useability
[1542] Are nasty programs looking for security holes on your server?
[1482] A story about benchmarking PHP
[1396] Using PHP to upload images / Store on MySQL database - security questions
[1387] Error logging to file not browser in PHP
[1323] Easy handling of errors in PHP
[1086] Injection attacks - safeguard your PHP scripts
[1052] Learning to write secure, maintainable PHP
[947] What is an SQL injection attack?
[920] A lion in a cage - PHP
[426] Robust checking of data entered by users
[345] Spotting a denial of service attack
(
article) Spotting and stopping denial of service attacks
{
inject.php} Injection attacks and preventing them
Module H118 -
Generating CSS through PHP
[996] Setting your colour theme through PHP
[565] Using PHP to output images, XML, Style sheets, etc
[501] .css - using PHP to make dynamic style sheets
{
west.html} Selecting and applying CSS themes through PHP
{
style.inc} Full demo - PHP to set style sheets
{
revinf.php} MySQL content report with counts, in PHP using CSS
{
index.php} full demo - top layer and main code file
{
picklet.php} Image library application using dynamic PHP style sheets
{
dss.php} Dynamic Style sheet
{
page.htp} Full demo - template for display
{
httpd.hta} full demo - .htaccess file
{
stdsess.inc} Full demo - web helper functions
Module H201 -
PHP and MySQL for Content Management
[3453] Reading and using emails including enclosures on your web server.
[2071] Setting up a MySQL database from PHP
[1745] Moodle, Drupal, Django (and Rails)
[1576] Making PHP and MySQL training relevant to the course delegates
[1555] Advanced Python, Perl, PHP and Tcl training courses / classes
[647] Checking for MySQL errors
{
tail.txt} Boiler plate HTML for the foot of every page -->
{
stdfuncs.inc} Standard functions for all pages e.g. open database connection, shopping cart handling
{
edit.php4} Offer the content editor a record to edit (or a blank record)
{
create.sql} File of SQL commands to create an empty database and tables for this example
{
error.txt} Error messages file - allows for translation into other languages
{
index.php4} Start of application - offer a series of search boxes, and also an editor's login form
{
offeredit.php4} Validate an editor's login if necessary, and offer a list of records that can be edited
{
top.txt} Boiler plate HTML for the head of every page
{
select.php4} List out all records that match the searcher's criteria, in the form of a selection menu
{
confirm.php4} Confirm and update to the content, and save it into database.
{
user.inc} User definable functions - optional file that may include functions to run on any of the database columns when the content is being reported
{
display.php4} Display a single record from the database in full detail
Module H202 -
Case Study
[4691] Real life PHP application using our course training MVC example
[2051] A Presentation about our company - web and PHP
[1495] Single login and single threaded models - Java and PHP
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
{
sendform.php} Emailing form entries to the web site owner
{
review.php} Form - course review
Module H203 -
Complete example - Registering for a get-together
(
article) Complete PHP example - Registering for a get-together
{
together.php} Complete source code - registering for a get-together
{
qmeet.php} Complete Application - meeting room quotation
Module H204 -
PHP and MySQL example application - adhoc database analysis
[572] Giving the researcher power over database analysis
{
helppage.php} Help system - template wrapper
{
help20.txt} Sample help file - result page
{
help11.txt} Sample help file - select rows
{
adhoc.conf} Configuration file for ad hoc MySQL query system
{
help12.txt} Sample help file - select columns
{
help10.txt} Sample help file - query type
{
sqlwrapper.inc} An SQL wrapper to aid portability
{
sampledata.sql} Commands used to create sample SQL database and tables
{
page_layout.htp} Template for adhoc MySQL Query system
{
help199.txt} Sample help file - logout
{
webhelpers.inc} standard functions 4 layer model applications
{
help1.txt} Sample help file
{
businesslogic.inc} BUSINESS LOGIC
{
adhoc_sql_query_engine.php} Application to look after generalise casual queries on a complex table structure
Module H212 -
[4378] What FGW passengers want to talk about / and PHP programming to find out
Module H300 -
PHP Revision
[4050] A couple of new fast-start PHP examples
[3953] Objects in PHP - Revision
[3952] PHP revision ... by example.
[2742] A simple server benchmark script
[1787] Howto - write and manage a news box on your web page
[1615] PHP training courses every month
{
oo1.php} First really simple object!
{
oo3.php} Third OO PHP example - factory and cache design patterns
{
seven.php} Regular Expression demo
{
oo2.php} Second OO example - object, inheritance, public / protected / private
{
one.php} first PHP revision example
{
four.php} form, completion, checking
{
nibs.php} Extracting data / complex text file format
{
index.php} Directory navigator
{
two.php} Second PHP revision example - arrays
{
showdb.php} Retreiving and displaying information from a database
{
three.php} third PHP revision example - functions
{
speed.php} Converting distance travelled and time taken into a speed
{
hf.php} Directory source display
{
xxy.php} Web Site news - a simple edit box
Module H301 -
Sticky fields and session
[4070] Passing variable between PHP pages - hidden fields, cookies and sessions
[3918] Multiple page web applications - maintaining state - PHP
[3820] PHP sessions - a best practice teaching example
[3540] Easy session example in PHP - keeping each customers data apart
[2738] What is all this SESSION stuff about? (PHP)
[2416] Automating access to a page obscured behind a holding page
[1911] Remember Me - PHP
[1766] Diagrams to show you how - Tomcat, Java, PHP
[1739] Bath, Snake or Nag?
{
firstmultipage.php} Session in use for multipage application / named pages
{
fru2.php} Sticky fields, and preventing injection attacks
{
stracker.php} Cookie demo - session alternative
{
westend.php} PHP Session - first principles
{
zxzx.php} Viewing session from another web page
{
wsss.php} Sessions - a demo of the mechanism
{
secondmultipage.php} Session in use for multipage application / named pages. Split template
{
dozen.php} Sending out holding pages before final result page
{
multitemplate.htp} Template for secondmultipage and thirdmultipage demos
{
tracker.php} Cookie demo - demonstration of session principles
{
thirdmultipage.php} Session in use for multipage application / named pages / webhelpers
Module H302 -
MVC, 4 layer model and templating
[4314] PHP training - refreshed modern course, backed up by years of practical experience
[4114] Teaching CodeIgniter - MVC and PHP
[4066] MVC and Frameworks - a lesson from first principles in PHP
[3956] Zend / layout of MVC and other files in an example application (PHP)
[3539] Separating program and artwork in PHP - easier maintainance, and better for the user
[3454] Your PHP website - how to factor and refactor to reduce growing pains
[2221] Adding a newsfeed for your users to a multipage PHP application
[2199] Improving the structure of your early PHP programs
[2174] Application design in PHP - multiple step processes
[1766] Diagrams to show you how - Tomcat, Java, PHP
[1716] Larger applications in PHP
[1634] Kiss and Book
(
article) Keeping the PHP and the HTML apart
{
z_view.htp} View (Template) for MVC demo
{
stages.php} Muliple page, session based application
{
george.htp} View - for view / program separation
{
t2.xxx} Look and feel (business logic elsewhere)
{
stages.finish2.inc} Read and record an incident record
{
shoptop.php} Top level
{
george.php} Simple separation of view from program
{
multiply.php} Separting look and feel from business logic - business logic
{
mvc_control.php} Control - All elements in one piece of code
{
stages.webhelpers.inc} Web helpers for stage.php demo
{
stages.prepare3.inc} prepare phase 3 - no form, just an onward link
{
mvc_principles.php} Model, View, Controller, Components, Framework and Helpers - single file
{
business.inc} Business Logic
{
mvc_split.php} Controller for Model, View, Controller demo
{
stages.htp} Multiple Stage Application
{
mpd.php} Session based multiple page application Mk 2
{
stages.prepare1.inc} prepare for phase 1
{
mpc.php} Session based multiple page application Mk 1
{
z_helpers.php} Helpers for MVC demo
{
template.txt} template file
{
mpa.php} First shell for multipage application
{
z_framework.php} Framework and bootstrap for MVC demo
{
stages.finish1.inc} validate email, name and department
{
web.inc} Web Helpers
{
simsess.php} Session demo / single included file
{
product.txt} Product listing
{
needed.inc} Sample included file
{
mpe.php} Session based multiple page application Mk 3
{
stages.prepare2.inc} prepare for phase 2
{
mpb.php} Stepping through and validating over multiple pages
{
z_model.php} Model for MVC demo
{
stages.finish0.inc} initialise for new visitor
Module H303 -
Long and short term cookies and security
[3813] Injection Attacks - PHP, SQL, HTML, Javascript - and how to neutralise them
[3698] How to stop forms on other sites submitting to your scripts
[2238] Handling nasty characters - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, Lua
[1911] Remember Me - PHP
[1646] Using cookies and sessions to connect different URLs - PHP
{
suggest.php} Cookie and clean form demo
{
codo.php} Memorising via a cookie
{
ss2.php} Session - logging time and remembering inputs
Module H304 -
DDA, Style and image handling
[3747] An easy way to comply with the new cookie law if your site is well designed
[2917] Upload Image, Store in database, redisplay in browser. PHP and MySQL
[2715] Uploading an image, document or pdf via a browser (php)
[2539] Changing Images
[2343] World Flags in your PHP pages
[2031] Choosing from an image with an image map
[1506] Ongoing Image Copyright Issues, PHP and MySQL solutions
[806] Check your user is human. Have him retype a word in a graphic
{
imagetodb.php} Save already uploaded image into database
{
gbs.php} What can PHP tell me about my browser?
{
imagefromdb.php} Display image held in database
{
park.php} Change image every minute. Retain style based on cookie (DDA)
{
imagine.php} Upload an image
{
browtype.php} Check browser type - feed out plain text or image / flash references
{
browsers.php} Counting browser types visiting our site
Module H305 -
Web server configuration
[3143] On time
[2981] How to set up short and meaningfull alternative URLs
[2774] PHP - Object Oriented Design in use
[2773] Dynamically watching your web site via a PHP wrapper
[2478] How did I do THAT?
[1938] Predictive Load Balancing - PHP and / or Java
[1778] Pointing all the web pages in a directory at a database
{
frontend} Front end task - Predictive Load Balancing
{
backend} Back end task - Predictive Load Balancing
Module H306 -
Who is your visitor?
[3946] Moving from a warning system to a control system - PHP, forum spammers
[3094] Setting your user_agent in PHP - telling back servers who you are
[2667] Web page to telephone calls / links using an iPhone
[2380] Object Oriented programming - a practical design example
[2343] World Flags in your PHP pages
[2135] What features does this visitors browser support? (PHP)
[1736] Current visitors from around the world - PHP
{
sqlshowrecent.php} Display recently visited pages
{
second.php} Web Log Analysis - example
{
parly.php} Welcome a User - but only between 3pm and 5pm on Wednesday!
Module H307 -
Web2 and caching
[4627] Caching results in an object for efficiency - avoiding re-calculation
[4136] How do I post automatically from a PHP script to my Twitter account?
[4106] Web server efficiency - saving repetition through caches
[4075] Further recent PHP examples
[4055] Using web services to access you data - JSON and RESTful services
[3999] Handling failures / absences of your backend server nicely
[3955] Building up from a small PHP setup to an enterprise one
[3458] On this day ... one PHP script with three uses
[3186] How to add a customised twitter feed to your site
[3094] Setting your user_agent in PHP - telling back servers who you are
[3029] PHP data sources - other web servers, large data flows, and the client (browser)
[2545] Scraping content for your own page via PHP
[2321] Uploading and Downloading files - changing names (Perl and PHP)
[2196] New Example - cacheing results in PHP for faster loading
[1995] Automated server heartbeat and health check
[1926] Flash (client) to PHP (server) - example
[1814] Javascript/HTML example, dynamic server monitor
[1813] Ajax - going Asyncronous and what it means
[1812] Starting Ajax - easy example of browser calling up server data
[1733] memcached - overview, installation, example of use in PHP
[1647] Exchange Rates - PHP with your prices in your users currency
[1633] Changing a screen saver from a web page (PHP, Perl, OSX)
(
article) Using current exchange rates on a web page
{
cademo.php} Caching between pages via memcached
{
train_graphic.php} Display info from application server on an image
{
a_logshow.php} Log file analysis (2) - code optimised for readability
{
xavier.php} demonstration of caching
{
proxydown.php} Redirecting failed proxy request to valid page
{
twitblog.php} Twitter feed from your PHP program
{
prod.php} Web Site performance test page
{
service.php} Service layer demonstration
{
ajax456.html} Asyncronous call from Javascript on client to PHP on server
{
caching} Caching in an object
{
rs.php} Web service to give user current server stats
{
a_papershow.php} Log file analysis (3) - results cached for run time efficiency
{
a_timbershow.php} Log file analysis (1) - base case - functioning but poorly structured
{
ajaxcode.php} Web Service provider - first Ajax demo ajax123.html
{
exr.php} Grab exchange rates to/from Euro
{
ajax123.html} JavaScript to load data from server
{
phping.php} Heartbeat script to watch vital server
{
sendimage.php} Serve a download from a database
{
currency.inc} Currency abbreviations and names
{
scraper.php} Scraping a remote URL content
{
hb.php} Heartbeat script to check server
{
client.php} Service layer - sample client
{
ajaxstatus.html} Ajax demonstration - a dynamically updating status page.
{
pset.php} Setting the User Agent in your PHP code
{
ostell.php} Demonstration of cached resource
{
train_pixelreport.php} An easy way to add an image point to a file
Module H308 -
Searches, and search engines
[4401] Selecting RECENT and POPULAR news and trends for your web site users
[3163] Twitter - the special use of @ # and http: in tweets
[3159] Returning multiple values from a function call in various languages - a comparison
[2631] How to show a large result set page by page in PHP
[2166] Crossrefering documents with uniqueness and inconsistency issues - PHP proof of concept demo
[2137] Reaching the right people with your web site
[1735] Finding words and work boundaries (MySQL, Perl, PHP)
[1020] Parallel processing in PHP
{
liked.php} Algorithm for sorting most recent likes
{
ntx} File of surnames for matching demo
{
globalindex.html} ") {
{
page_it.php} Paging through a result set
{
pplev.php} Looking for a similar surname
Module H309 -
Maps, Graphics and Geographics
[4655] Image indexer / thumbnail display scripts in PHP
[4437] Adding a PHP build option, rotating an image based on camera data, and a new look at thumbnails in PHP
[4365] The changing face of Christmas
[4178] Where are you? How to write a geosensitive application
[3817] Fpdf - generating .pdf documents easily from your PHP program
[3734] QR codes with marketing logos embedded
[3584] QR codes - graphics images that provide quick phone links
[3536] UK Mapping Data - and more to come - under government Open Data measures
[3447] Needle in a haystack - finding the web server overload
[3211] Computer Graphics in PHP - World (incoming data) to Pixel (screen) conversion
[3197] Finding and diverting image requests from rogue domains
[3133] An image from a website that occasionally comes out as hyroglyphics
[3027] Server logs - drawing a graph of gathered data
[2939] Protecting your images from use out of context
[2729] Uploading a document or image to its own URL via a browser
[2675] Redirecting to your main domain for correct security keys
[2583] Reducing image size on digital photos - PHP
[2390] Dynamic / changing images on your web page
[2361] Geocoding - converting address to latitude / Longitude with PHP via Google
[2343] World Flags in your PHP pages
[1956] Images for Christmas
[1923] Making it all worthwhile
[1756] Ever had One of THOSE mornings?
[1752] Dynamic maps / geographics in PHP
[1734] All around the world?
[1724] addslashes v mysql_real_escape_string in PHP
[1628] Gant charts - drawing them with a PHP script
[1391] Ordnance Survey Grid Reference to Latitude / Longitude
[1390] Converting from postal address to latitude / longitude
[1389] Controlling and labelling Google maps via PHP
[1194] Drawing hands on a clock face - PHP
[1104] Drawing dynamic graphs in PHP
[937] Display an image from a MySQL database in a web page via PHP
[665] PHP Image viewing application
[563] Merging pictures using PHP and GD
[320] Ordnance Survey - using a 'Get a map'
{
thumbnew.php} Image rotate and thumbnail
{
popup.php} A popup window to show details of an item on a page
{
railinfo.php} Convert Latitude and Longitude to nearest stations
{
isp.php} Plotting your web site visitors on a world map
{
fpdf_demo.php} Sample using fpdf (free PDF convertor from www.fpdf.org)
{
train_graphic.php} Display info from application server on an image
{
tfdt.txt} Sample text file - location of places on image
{
isp_eu.php} Plot web site visitors on a map of Europe
{
th_2.php} Thumbnail library, Mk 2 - thumbnail generator
{
index.php} All the images in a folder as thumbnails
{
latlong2os.php} latitude / longitude to ordnance Survey grid positions
{
tgf.html} Graphic and report based on data from application server
{
showmap.php} Selecting from an image map
{
tfd.txt} Bare data that we've cached from our application server
{
totem.php} BR Totem graphic generator
{
yearson.php} Plot years v data
{
serverlog.php} Graphing server log files
{
pictureindex.php} Thumbnail library, Mk 2 - main program
{
railuse.php} Table and graph of same data
{
railstats.txt} Railway Station codes, locations, usage 2004 - 2014
{
shift_graphic.php} Shift Graphic Demo
{
train_pixelreport.php} An easy way to add an image point to a file
{
railtrends.php} OO based GD graphics example
{
qr_demo.php} Dynamic qr code
{
showmanor.php} Slide Show - single file example
Module H310 -
Putting it all together
[3454] Your PHP website - how to factor and refactor to reduce growing pains
[2931] Syncronise - software, trains, and buses. Please!
[2635] A PHP example that lets your users edit content without HTML knowledge
[2275] Debugging multipage (session based) PHP applications
[1962] Index Card System for Game Characters in PHP
[1840] Validating Credit Card Numbers
[1794] Refactoring - a PHP demo becomes a production page
[1754] Upgrade from PHP 4 to PHP 5 - the TRY issue
[1716] Larger applications in PHP
[687] Presentation, Business and Persistence layers in Perl and PHP
[468] Stand alone PHP programs
{
todo4.htp} Template for the wiki demonstration
{
jndex.php} Simple wiki demonstration
{
indexcard.php} Index Card System - Version 0.9
{
dot_htaccess} .htaccess file for wiki demonstration
{
paged.php} paged display of station data
Module H311 -
Testing your PHP
[4652] Testing new algorithms in PHP
[3959] Testing code coverage (have I tested everything?) in PHP
[3958] Testing classes for your PHP website with PHPUnit
[3623] Some TestWise examples - helping use Ruby code to check your web site operation
[3426] Automed web site testing scripted in Ruby using watir-webdriver
{
oo3.php} A Sample class for testing demos
{
p4l} Spike solution and algorithm testing
{
five.php} phpunit - main program example
Module H312 -
Tips and Techniques
[4621] The power of scripting
[4426] FileMaker Day to Unix Time conversion
[4319] PHP - some quick fixes if scripts have issues, and how to use our support
[4310] Problem ... I want to print a series of numbered forms
[4074] A comment on comments in PHP
[2981] How to set up short and meaningfull alternative URLs
[2478] How did I do THAT?
[2274] PHP preg functions - examples and comparision
[2025] Injection Attack if register_globals in on - PHP
[1983] Keeping PHP code in database and running it
[1958] PHP - Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end ...
[1684] Two PHP include files to make easy web site indexing and navigation
[1667] Checking server performance for PHP generated pages
[1649] Easy conversion - image formats, currencies and distances
[1270] PHP Standalone - keyboard to screen
[1010] Dates, times, clickable diarys in PHP
[917] Syntax checking in PHP
[789] Hot answers in PHP
{
msf.php} generates HTML to link to files in
{
robert} Sample data for crossreference demo
{
ppq.php} Crossreferencing data markers to web pages
{
dxy.php} Using .html URLs to search a data file
{
callback.php} How a Callback works in PHP
{
myod.php} generates HTML to link to subdirectories
Module H313 -
Page Application and Service Layer
[4059] Curl and curling from PHP
[4055] Using web services to access you data - JSON and RESTful services
[4053] Frameworks - learning through exploring and understanding data sources
Module H321 -
CodeIgniter
[4114] Teaching CodeIgniter - MVC and PHP
[4062] Sessions, forms and validation in CodeIgniter - early examples
[4060] CodeIgniter - an excellent PHP framework with an easy start point
[4053] Frameworks - learning through exploring and understanding data sources
{
header.php} header for first CodeIgniter example
{
placetime.php} view - transport form Mk 2
{
mycontroller.php} CodeIgnitor - first example controller
{
transwilts_views_mainpages.php} main page content
{
footer.php} Footer for first CodeIgniter example
{
transport.php} 2nd CodeIgniter example - sessions and form - controller
{
transwilts_views_transwilts_tail.php} footer
{
index.html} Holding / home page outside CodeIgnitor
{
transwilts_views_transwilts_top.php} header
{
dot_htaccess} Typical CodeIgniter .htaccess file
{
placetime.hld} view - transport form Mk 1
{
main.php} Main view - hello CodeIgnitor World
{
transwilts_htaccess} map most URLs onto CodeIgniter
{
transwilts_models_places_model.php} model - business logic
{
success.php} success view - 2nd CodeIgniter example
{
transwilts_config_config.php} config file - added encryption key at about line 228
{
transwilts_controllers_passenger.php} main controller functions
{
transwilts_views_mailpage.php} Form demonstration
Module H400 -
Open Source Applications in PHP
[2682] Adding extensions to PHP Open Source applications - callbacks
Module H401 -
Some extra PHP modules
[3454] Your PHP website - how to factor and refactor to reduce growing pains
[3453] Reading and using emails including enclosures on your web server.
[2682] Adding extensions to PHP Open Source applications - callbacks
[2343] World Flags in your PHP pages
[732] Where is a web site visitor browsing from
{
mailme.php} Reading emails from a POP3 mailbox
{
windex.html} Combining blog and forum feeds using MagpieRSS
{
525i.php} Using PHP mysqli functions - a working example
Module H998 -
ADOdb
{
adodb.php} Adodb example - selecting from a database
{
mysql.php} MySQL example - selecting from a database
Module H999 -
Additional PHP Material
[4655] Image indexer / thumbnail display scripts in PHP
[3210] Catchable fatal error in PHP ... How to catch, and alternative solutions such as JSON
[3118] Arrays of arrays - or 2D arrays. How to program tables.
[2684] Exception handling in PHP
[2215] If nothing, make it nothing.
[2073] Extra PHP Examples
[1623] PHP Techniques - a workshop
[1519] Flipping images on your web page
[1505] Script to present commonly used images - PHP
[1485] Copyright and theft of images, bandwidth and members.
[1451] More PHP sample and demonstration programs
[1391] Ordnance Survey Grid Reference to Latitude / Longitude
[1390] Converting from postal address to latitude / longitude
[1389] Controlling and labelling Google maps via PHP
[1270] PHP Standalone - keyboard to screen
[1194] Drawing hands on a clock face - PHP
[1104] Drawing dynamic graphs in PHP
[1053] Sorting people by name in PHP
[1020] Parallel processing in PHP
[1010] Dates, times, clickable diarys in PHP
[937] Display an image from a MySQL database in a web page via PHP
[917] Syntax checking in PHP
[839] Reporting on the 10 largest files or 10 top scores
[822] PHP - a team member leaves
[806] Check your user is human. Have him retype a word in a graphic
[789] Hot answers in PHP
[687] Presentation, Business and Persistence layers in Perl and PHP
[665] PHP Image viewing application
[603] PHP - setting sort order with an associative array
[563] Merging pictures using PHP and GD
[493] Running a Perl script within a PHP page
[483] Double Dollars in PHP
[468] Stand alone PHP programs
[372] Time calculation in PHP
[337] the array returned by preg_match_all
[322] More maps
[320] Ordnance Survey - using a 'Get a map'
[239] What and why for the epoch
[54] PHP and natural sorting
(
article) Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs)
(
article) Example - PHP form, Image upload. Store in MySQL database. Retrieve.
{
tear.php} Tear from one image to another
{
2dar.php} 2 dimensional array in PHP
{
fader.php} Fade from one image to another
{
gmap.php} Google Maps / PHP - show your office
{
image2.php} Generating a button with variable graphics and text in PHP
{
gobbler} Forking in PHP - parallel processing
{
imglist.xsl} Sample XSLT template as used in xslt.php4 example and others
{
aso.php} First sorting example
{
hands.php} Draw hands on a clock
{
xslt.php} Process an XML file through an XSLT template and insert result in a PHP page
{
nats.php} Natural Sort Order demo
{
feeder.php} Script to handle image library in MySQL database as if it was a directory of images
{
php_parallel} Parallel processing example in PHP
{
images.xml} Sample XML file as used in xslt.php4 example and others
{
xml3.php} Using PHP to handle XML, stand alone!
{
ml1.php} Simple Author extraction from Medline
{
xml1.php} Xml handling in PHP
{
exp.php} Exceptions in PHP
{
imgdump.php} Generate the html to call up 10 images from a database
{
uso.php} User defined sorting
{
image1.php} Generating a graphic in PHP
{
rome.php} Random image for use in a web page
{
th.php} dynamic thumbnail generator
{
site_title} Stand alone script - grab title of remote web page
{
hml.inc} Horses Mouth - latest topic feed
{
loclook.php} Google Maps / Geocoding demo
{
mustcount.php} Script to accompany access counter discussion
{
thumb.php} thumbnailing an image in one file and saving in another
{
mergeover.php} Stippleover from one image to another
{
oursites.php} Parallel processes in PHP
{
tinso.php} Sorting an associative array
{
whowentwhere.php} Practical example of 2 dimensional array in use
{
grids.php} Shows you where a place is on an Ordnance Survey Map
{
vars.php} Variable types in PHP
{
picclim.php} Search a database of images
{
xdo.php} Reading an RSS feed in your PHP page
{
exc.php} An exercise in sorting
{
xml2.php} Second example - using PHP to handle XML
{
ac_check.php} Sorting an associative array
{
lottery.php} Array manipulation functions range, shuffle etc
{
os2latlong.php} Convert Ordnance survey grid positions to latitude / longitude
{
imgflip.php} Flipping an image in PHP
{
showcount.php} Show counter record file
{
mkgraphic.php} Stand along programming in PHP / also graphics example
{
uso2.php} More complex user defined sort
{
thumbview.php} Thumbnail index and image view application
{
dademo.php} Date and Time and sorting em in PHP
{
imgfeed.php} Show an image held in a MySQL database
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J: Java programmming including Web
Overview J050 -
Java - General
[4430] The spirit of Java - delegating to classes
[4412] Java -making sure you have the right versions
[4317] Java - an update of the basics
[4305] Learning to program in Java - yes, we can help.
[3573] New in Java 7 - and why we are not running public Java 7 courses
[2861] MySQL and Java - connectivity past, present, and future thoughts
[2504] Learning to program in ...
[2420] Exceptions in Java - why and how
[2417] Java Programming Fundamentals
[2114] Which Version of Java am I running?
[2091] C, C++ and C# ... Java and JavaScript
[2087] Comparing Java Courses - what can we do?
(
article) Overview of Java
{
WellHouseInput.java} Reading from the keyboard or a file
{
Bernie.java} static method (function) calls
{
Fred.java} Reading user input from keyboard
{
Xena.java} Example with and without exception handling
{
Wendy.java} Test program within a class
{
Niamh.java} loading a method from a class in a package
{
Lenny.java} Static Methods, comparing objects
{
Steve.java} A second extended class
{
Viv.java} An ArrayList - an extendable array
{
Combo2.java} Combined demonstration - phase 2
{
Adam.java} Hello World, and command line input
{
Zoe.java} StringTokeniszer, ArrayList and Exception demonstration
{
Margaret.java} String handling example
{
Peter.java} underlying (base) class
{
Edward.java} Shared code - load and run method from another class
{
Quentin.java} Calling in an extended class
{
Rolf.java} Extended class
{
Time.java} Base class for examples up to Lenny
{
Julie.java} Array of arrays (i.e. 2 dimensional array)
{
Yvonne.java} Directory listing, file i/o and formatting demo
{
Trevor.java} Polymorphism - an array of different objects
{
Chloe.java} First use of variables and conditionals
{
Combine.java} Step 1 combo for full demo
{
Glenda.java} loop, with break and continue
{
Daniel.java} Integer Calculation
{
Aileen.java} Sorting an ArrayList
{
Orlando.java} Class within a package
{
Ulrika.java} An array of objects
{
Irene.java} Arrays - setup, fill, pass, process, length
{
Keith.java} Using a class
{
Hilary.java} Passing values in and out of a local method
Module J601 -
Java Introduction
[4332] First Java Application - calculating the weight of a tablecloth
[2536] All the Cs ... and Java too
[2423] What is a JVM, a JRE, a JDK - components of the core Java Environment
[2115] Finding your java program - the CLASSPATH variable
[1908] Java CLASSPATH explained
[1766] Diagrams to show you how - Tomcat, Java, PHP
[1557] Trying out our Java examples on our web site
[1497] Training Season Starts again!
[1466] Effective Java training - the bootcamp approach
[1418] A Golf Club Decision - Perl to Java
[1158] Private Java Course - A customer's pictures
[1049] Java 6, Apache Tomcat 6.
[871] Java oversold?
[792] Is Java the right language to learn?
[317] Programming languages - a comparison
[124] PHP v Java
[111] Training notes available under Open Distribution license
[25] Release numbers
(
article) Overview of Java
(
article) Book review - Beginning Java 2
{
demolet.java} Sample Servlet - init doGet and doPost methods
{
Hello.java} Program to test basic operation of Java tools.
{
FirstFull.java.oo1} Full program - prompt, read, calculate, print
Module J606 -
Java Roadmap - Beyond the Fundamentals
[4305] Learning to program in Java - yes, we can help.
[3043] Gathering information - logging - with log4j. First steps.
[2036] Java Tag Libraries / how they work / Tomcat Deployment
[1910] Java - Generics
[1562] Java Compiler - needs all classes, compiles them all too
[1049] Java 6, Apache Tomcat 6.
Module J607 -
Servlets, JSP, Tomcat
[2642] What does a web application look like under Tomcat?
[2147] A very easy JSP (Java Server Page)
[2058] Invoker and cgi servlets on Tomcat 6
[1766] Diagrams to show you how - Tomcat, Java, PHP
Module J608 -
Naming Conventions and Code Management
[2604] Tips for writing a test program (Ruby / Python / Java)
[2415] Variable names like i and j - why?
Module J610 -
Archived examples from previous versions of courses
[2654] Java - from applets to servlets. JSPs and more
[1070] Java Deployment course - lunch break
{
ivy.java} ivy.java
{
chaffinch.java} chaffinch.java
{
redstart.java} redstart.java
{
Whitfell.html} Whitfell.html
{
crossbill.html} crossbill.html
{
lapwing.java} lapwing.java
{
fittleton.java} fittleton.java
{
chestnut.java} applet to show colours
{
t1.java} t1.java
{
raven.html} raven.html
{
PastelFilter.java} PastelFilter.java
{
Whernside.html} Whernside.html
{
Task.java} Task.java
{
bradford.java} file manipulation
{
Commem.java} extending a base class AND implementing an interface
{
dunlin.java} Java Properties - what version / OS / etc
{
coot.html} coot.html
{
mp.html} mp.html
{
dice_1.java} Random throws of a die
{
woodborough.java} woodborough.java
{
amesbury.java} read from keyboard via a supplied class
{
durrington.java} while, if, break
{
pack_5.java} pack_5.java
{
redshank.java} redshank.java
{
goftp.java} ftp from a java program
{
Snowdon.java} Snowdon.java
{
Fish.java} Simple base class (see Catchfish)
{
Obj_v_prim.java} Obj_v_prim.java
{
ford.java} ford.java
{
moorhen.html} moorhen.html
{
parcel.java} parcel.java
{
chirton.java} Non rectangular 2D arrays
{
bradley.java} file handling
{
Canisp.html} Canisp.html
{
Whitfell.java} Whitfell.java
{
magpie.html} magpie.html
{
patrick.java} patrick.java
{
rserver.java} rserver.java
{
chalfield.java} using an enumeration
{
aspen.html} aspen.html
{
lavington.java} lavington.java
{
enford.java} basics of using an array
{
avocet.java} Internationalisation / resource strings
{
hawfinch.html} hawfinch.html
{
brambling.java} general graphing applet
{
linnet.html} linnet.html
{
gargany.java} extended gadwall
{
green2.html} green2.html
{
raven.java} raven.java
{
Phone_002.java} Phone_002.java
{
marden.java} marden.java
{
milston.java} milston.java
{
suspect_card_8.java} suspect_card_8.java
{
longer.java} longer.java
{
hawthorn.java} hawthorn.java
{
t3.java} t3.java
{
worton.java} worton.java
{
Swsmall.java} Swsmall.java
{
pack_1.java} pack_1.java
{
jay.java} jay.java
{
goldfinch.java} goldfinch.java
{
rowde.java} rowde.java
{
Eiger.html} Eiger.html
{
fcdata.java} socket programming (client)
{
AllNames.html} AllNames.html
{
chestnut.html} chestnut.html
{
new_street.java} new_street.java
{
alton.java} while loop demonstration
{
cyprus.java} border layout in awt
{
pagestats.java} pagestats.java
{
tree.html} tree.html
{
svlmp.java} svlmp.java
{
pack_4.java} pack_4.java
{
playing_card_8.java} playing_card_8.java
{
svl_o2.html} svl_o2.html
{
willow.java} willow.java
{
DialApplet.java} Dialler applet using Swing
{
fir.html} fir.html
{
birch.html} birch.html
{
quote.java} quote.java
{
coot.java} dynamic graphics drawing
{
potterne.java} potterne.java
{
teal.html} teal.html
{
beech.java} More applet components
{
curlew.html} curlew.html
{
charlton.java} Array of array (quasi 2D array)
{
bromham.java} hello world
{
fclient.java} socket programming (client)
{
chough.java} font handling
{
svl_l2.html} svl_l2.html
{
box.html} box.html
{
wraxall.java} wraxall.java
{
waxwing.java} Generalised Graphing Applet
{
redshank.html} redshank.html
{
ash.html} ash.html
{
blunsdon.java} Unicode and character string handling
{
lime.java} lime.java
{
Tryfan.java} Tryfan.java
{
card_6.java} card_6.java
{
crossbill.java} Command line and stand alone added to an applet
{
porton.java} porton.java
{
brambling.html} brambling.html
{
Scafell.java} Scafell.java
{
larkhill.orig.java} larkhill.orig.java
{
twite.html} twite.html
{
skylark.html} skylark.html
{
svl_left.html} svl_left.html
{
packages.html} packages.html
{
TreeDemo.java} TreeDemo.java
{
MoelHebog.java} MoelHebog.java
{
cholderton.java} if and else
{
calne.java} calne.java
{
hen.java} hen.java
{
acorn.html} acorn.html
{
pack_3.java} pack_3.java
{
Coin.java} abstract base class
{
t2.java} t2.java
{
lapwing2.html} lapwing2.html
{
aspen.java} applet components
{
Caldemo.java} Caldemo.java
{
atworth.java} exception handling
{
imgframe.java} imgframe.java
{
willow.html} willow.html
{
burton.java} arrays of objects
{
pochard.java} pochard.java
{
larkhill.java} larkhill.java
{
swift.java} swift.java
{
ImageHold.java} ImageHold.java
{
gadwall.java} Server (present swap on port 7979) with graphic monitor
{
oak.html} oak.html
{
MoelHebog.html} MoelHebog.html
{
smew.java} smew.java
{
nuthatch.java} nuthatch.java
{
crow2.html} crow2.html
{
fifield.java} labels - also break v continue v exit
{
Maovally.html} Maovally.html
{
redpoll.html} redpoll.html
{
grabpage.java} grabpage.java
{
took.html} took.html
{
whitley.java} whitley.java
{
tilshead.java} tilshead.java
{
idmiston.java} idmiston.java
{
rsp.java} rsp.java
{
heron.java} heron.java
{
spruce.java} spruce.java
{
hen.html} hen.html
{
Phone.java} Phone.java
{
jay.html} jay.html
{
lapwing.html} lapwing.html
{
Phone_001.java} Phone_001.java
{
bremhill.java} Heavily commented simple program
{
talker.java} talker.java
{
maple.java} maple.java
{
linnet.java} linnet.java
{
buzzard.html} buzzard.html
{
swallow.java} swallow.java
{
scaup.html} scaup.html
{
fyfield.java} fyfield.java
{
kingsdown.java} kingsdown.java
{
siskin.java} siskin.java
{
haxton.java} haxton.java
{
Tryfan.html} Tryfan.html
{
Nevis.java} Nevis.java
{
beech.html} beech.html
{
smew.html} smew.html
{
nettleton.java} nettleton.java
{
pack_2.java} pack_2.java
{
suspect_card_6.java} suspect_card_6.java
{
Chocolate.java} Extending a class
{
waxwing.html} waxwing.html
{
svl_temp.html} svl_temp.html
{
jackdaw.java} jackdaw.java
{
maple.html} maple.html
{
mildenhall.java} mildenhall.java
{
Daily.java} extending the class Coin
{
jackdaw2.html} jackdaw2.html
{
figheldean.java} a first for loop
{
pack_6.java} pack_6.java
{
lechlade.java} lechlade.java
{
Dunkery.java} for loop and Float objects
{
elm.java} elements that can be drawn on a canvas
{
Canisp.java} a telephone keypad using awt
{
jackdaw.html} jackdaw.html
{
BigginHill.java} Command line input / validation
{
chough.html} chough.html
{
greenshank.java} greenshank.java
{
Eiger.java} awt GridBag
{
heron.html} heron.html
{
BeinnDearg.java} Character frequency analysis in a data file
{
holly.java} holly.java
{
all.java} all.java
{
seend.java} seend.java
{
Maovally.java} Maovally.java
{
wilsford.java} wilsford.java
{
yew.html} yew.html
{
Whernside.java} Whernside.java
{
svl_outer.html} svl_outer.html
{
elm.html} elm.html
{
inglesham.java} inglesham.java
{
lockeridge.java} lockeridge.java
{
redpoll.java} redpoll.java
{
gp2.java} Grabbing a page of html
{
ramsbury.java} ramsbury.java
{
winEvent.java} winEvent.java
{
blackbird.java} threading example via the runnable interface
{
birch.java} Grid layout with buttons
{
chippenham.java} chippenham.java
{
nuthatch.html} nuthatch.html
{
teal.java} teal.java
{
grittleton.java} grittleton.java
{
hawthorn.html} hawthorn.html
{
card_8.java} card_8.java
{
corsham.java} corsham.java
{
Catchfish.java} extending a class and calling the base class constructor
{
green3.html} green3.html
{
oak.java} oak.java
{
Hms2.java} Hms2.java
{
siskin.html} siskin.html
{
gp3.java} gp3.java
{
playing_card_6.java} playing_card_6.java
{
alderton.java} Test program to call intter classes example
{
scaup.java} scaup.java
{
brambling2.html} brambling2.html
{
graphic_finger.java} a graphic client program to call up the finger daemon
{
greenfinch.java} greenfinch.java
{
fir.java} border layout example
{
westwood.java} westwood.java
{
Scafell.html} Scafell.html
{
bulford.java} while loop
{
honeystreet.java} honeystreet.java
{
suspect_card_9.java} suspect_card_9.java
{
Trip.java} Trip.java
{
greenshank.html} greenshank.html
{
n2.java} n2.java
{
broughton.java} exception handling
{
curlew.java} test program to log events generated by an applet
{
shrewton.java} shrewton.java
{
Pocket.java} Pocket.java
{
lemon.java} lemon.java
{
spot.html} spot.html
{
palm.java} palm.java
{
hawfinch.java} hawfinch.java
{
BenHutig.java} AWT grid layout
{
goldfinch.html} goldfinch.html
{
moorhen.java} moorhen.java
{
twite.java} twite.java
{
greenfinch.html} greenfinch.html
{
bremhill.html} bremhill.html
{
Swapp.java} Swapp.java
{
card_9.java} card_9.java
{
rook.html} rook.html
{
mailout.java} mailout.java
{
mallard.java} mallard.java
{
bullfinch.html} bullfinch.html
{
new_street.html} new_street.html
{
rook.java} rook.java
{
palm.html} palm.html
{
playing_card_9.java} playing_card_9.java
{
marlborough.java} marlborough.java
Module J702 -
Hello Java World
[4350] Keyboard reader for Java programming newcomers
[2859] Using java, javac, jar, and CLASSPATH - a simple example
[2414] Hello World - a good traditional start to a Java course
(
article) Overview of Java
(
article) Hello Java World
{
Two.java} Second Java program - calls methods
{
Hello.java} "Hello World!" in Java
Module J703 -
Variables
[4345] Incrementing a variable in Java - Pre and Post Increment
[4324] Learning to program - variables and constants
[3917] BODMAS - the order a computer evaluates arithmetic expressions
[3365] Turning bright delegates into bright and knowledgable ones
[3278] Do I need to initialise variables - programming in C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby or Java.
[3041] Java - basic rules for arithmetic, variables and conversion
[3038] Setting up individual variables, and arrays, in Java - some commented examples
[2153] Class Loading and Variable Conversion in Java
[2148] Variable scope in Java Servlets and other web applications
[1448] Question on division (Java) - Also Perl, PHP, Python ...
[127] Conversion and coercion in Java
{
WellHouseInput.java} Easy user interaction class
{
Plus.java} Pre and Post increment in Java
{
Add2.java} Adding and declaring variables in a single statement
{
Addup.java} Simple use of variables - adding
{
Av3.java} Average - *this* one works
{
Cost.java} Reading a cost from the user
{
Somevars.java} Declaration and initialisation of variables
{
Av3b.java} An alternative working example
{
Bnd.java} Setting up variables, reading values, calculating and output
{
Av2.java} Average - fails at compile
{
Average.java} Averages - how NOT to (try to) do it
Module J704 -
Loops and Conditional Statements
[4427] Java example - for loop and conditionals from course exercise
[4346] A behaviour driven example of writing a Java program
[4323] Learning to program - Loop statements such as while
[4322] Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if)
[3397] Does a for loop evaluate its end condition once, or on every iteration?
[3200] How a for loop works Java, Perl and other languages
[3038] Setting up individual variables, and arrays, in Java - some commented examples
[2734] for and foreach in Java
[1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ...
[1582] Ruby, C, Java and more - getting out of loops
[1220] for loop - how it works (Perl, PHP, Java, C, etc)
[353] Wimbledon Neck
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
{
Sindoll.java} Excerise - Singapore to US Dollar table
{
Day2a.java} Sample program for exercise
{
Capacity.java} Course Exercise - capacity of tables in a restaurant
{
Loop1.java} 'While' loop example
{
Secondif.java} Nested 'ifs', and 'else'
{
Firstif.java} Example of a first if statement
{
Updown.java} Example of a boolean variable
{
Bills.java} Nested loops, conditionals, breaks, labels etc
{
Forloop.java} the 'for' loop in Java
{
Loop2.java} Breaking from a loop
{
Newtab.java} First read - calculate - loop program
Module J705 -
Arrays
[4428] Using the lead - passing arrays and other collections in Java
[4413] Binomial Coefficient (Pascal Triangle) objects in Java
[4347] Arrays in Java - an introduction for newcomers
[3118] Arrays of arrays - or 2D arrays. How to program tables.
[3039] Fresh Paint - Java Arrays
[3038] Setting up individual variables, and arrays, in Java - some commented examples
[2648] Java arrays - are they true arrays or not?
[1614] When an array is not an array
[1498] Java is a dynamic language .... (and comparison)
[1497] Training Season Starts again!
{
Arr1.java} First Array in Java
{
Cornet.java} Sample exercise answer (2)
{
Hurdy.java} Pascal's traingle using a two dimensional array
{
Flute.java} Sample exercise answer (1)
{
Bowerhill.java} Dynamic Array sizing (multidimensional)
{
Arx.java} Array demonstration
{
rowby.java} Dynamic use of arrays
{
A365.java} Array - length, initialise throughout, arrays or strings
{
compton.java} Array initialisation
{
rushall.java} Two dimensional array
{
Ax1.java} Passing arrays by their references
{
A350.java} Array - setting up, filling, looking for highest and lowest values
{
Weekend.java} Array of Objects
{
Charlton.java} Setting up and using array of arrays
{
PascalAsObject.java} Pascal Triangle as Object
{
Wilsford.java} Two Dimensional non-rectangular Array */
{
upavon.java} Array Manipulation
{
Gurdy.java} Pascal's triangle using dynamic arrays
Module J706 -
Objects and Classes
[4422] Objects - from physical to virtual or abstract - Java
[4413] Binomial Coefficient (Pascal Triangle) objects in Java
[2651] Calculation within objects - early, last minute, or cached?
[2616] Defining a static method - Java, Python and Ruby
[2422] Looking inside Java classes - javap and javadoc
[2169] When should I use OO techniques?
[1925] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
[1906] Long, Longer, Longest in Java
[1500] First Class Java. First step and moving forward.
[1296] An example of Java Inheritance from scratch
[1163] A better alternative to cutting and pasting code
[477] Class, static and unbound variables
[96] Variable Scope
{
Ourpets.java} Our Pets - example application
{
Film2.java} A class of objects with static methods, public variables, overloaded constructors and private internal methods */
{
Film.java} Defining a simple class of objects in Java */
{
Ourmenag.java} Sample application for use during practical
{
Eve2.java} Example class that uses the Film2 class */
{
Eve.java} Example class that uses the Film class */
{
Animal.java} Sample class for use during practical
{
Eve3.java} Static methods and comparing objects - test harness
{
Film3.java} Static methods and comparing objects - class
{
Ourzoo.java} Ourzoo - sample application
Module J707 -
Strings
[4414] Java - converting an integer to a fixed length string
[4393] Splitting Java strings and extracting numbers
[3048] String handling - from first steps to practical examples
[2649] Length, size or capacity in Java?
[1557] Trying out our Java examples on our web site
[1446] An answer to a student asking 'Help'
(
article) Analysing incoming data lines
{
cricklade.java} String object manipulation
{
Station.java} Extracting data from a string, passing to factory
{
ashton.java} Comparing Strings
{
malmesbury.java} Stringbuffer
{
StringBreaker.java} Splitting and interpertting a string
{
purton.java} startsWith endsWith and other string comparison methods
{
highworth.java} More character variables
{
oaksey.java} indexOf and substring
{
Vest.java} Open file, read line by line, do string manipulation
{
minety.java} Accessing characters within a string object
{
crudwell.java} copyValueOf and toCharArray examples
{
marston.java} Arrays of Character String Objects
{
ransbury.java} char variables and char arrays
Module J708 -
Packages
[2865] Relationships between Java classes - inheritance, packaging and others
[2419] Where is my Java class?
[2114] Which Version of Java am I running?
[754] tar, jar, war, ear, sar files
{
Isobel.java} packaged class for Geraldine / Hilda / Hattie demo
{
pack.java} Package class example
{
Geraldine.java} Class and calling code - all in same file
{
sopworth.java} Calling a class in a subpackage
{
axford.java} Calling a class in current package
{
sherston.java} Importing a class from a package
{
Hilda.java} Calling a class - using import to save repeated package names
{
Hattie.java} Calling a class in another package
Module J709 -
Class Access
[4398] Accessing variables across subroutine boundaries - Perl, Python, Java and Tcl
[3142] Private and Public - and things between
[3047] What is a universal superclass? Java / Perl / Python / Other OO languages
[2535] When should I use Java, Perl, PHP, or Python?
[2419] Where is my Java class?
[874] Who can use which access door?
(
article) "Java Cookbook" - review
{
luckington.java} Inner class example
Module J710 -
Extending Classes and More
[4422] Objects - from physical to virtual or abstract - Java
[4419] Java Inheritance example - group of classes - step by step
[4394] Philosophy behind object design - and how I applied in to a Java example
[4366] Changing what operators do on objects - a comparison across different programming languages
[4334] Splitting out code into name blocks for clarity and reusability
[3047] What is a universal superclass? Java / Perl / Python / Other OO languages
[2860] What methods are available on this Java object?
[2604] Tips for writing a test program (Ruby / Python / Java)
[2434] Abstract classes, Interfaces, PHP and Java
[2185] Abstract Classes - Java
[1819] Calling base class constructors
[1556] Java - a demonstration of inheritance on just one page
[1538] Teaching Object Oriented Java with Students and Ice Cream
[1501] Java - using super to call a method in the parent class
[1294] An example of Java Inheritance from scratch
[1217] What are factory and singleton classes?
[1066] Final, Finally and Finalize - three special words in Java
[831] Comparison of Object Oriented Philosophy - Python, Java, C++, Perl
[656] Think about your design even if you don't use full UML
{
Student.java} second subclass for use in exercise
{
Book.java} Inheriting from the Universal Superclass. Also test harness in same file as class.
{
Lecturer.java} Lecturer - subclass for use in exercise
{
insurable.java} Interface definition
{
Round.java} Exercise template - calculate price of a round
{
Tv.java} Another extended class - TV
{
BaseFile.java} An abstract base class
{
Interit2.java} Interitance bundle + array, abstract, super, overload
{
Babysitter.java} Application that uses Hire, Cinema and TV films
{
HireFilm.java} Class HireFilm (extends film from other module)
{
Hire.java} Hire Film - extended class
{
Hires.java} Application to use HireFilm
{
Ipay.java} Application using an array of objects that implement an interface
{
Lecture.java} Lecture - application for exercise
{
Interit.java} Interitance demo bundle - 4 files in Java
{
People.java} People - base class for use in exercise
{
User.java} Hiding detailed logic in (static) methods
{
House.java} Another class than implements an interface
{
Cinema.java} extended class example
{
Car.java} Class that implements an interface
{
Lunch.java} Using methods inherited from the base class Object
Module J711 -
Java in the Web Page
[3049] Computer Graphics is fun - even if Java Applets are Old Hat
[2036] Java Tag Libraries / how they work / Tomcat Deployment
[1325] Java - Client side applet applications as well as server side
{
Puffin.html} Demonstration of double buffering
{
box.java} Applet to draw a rectangle in a border
{
Mountain.java} Buttons, Fonts, drawing on a Canvas in an applet
{
Mountain.html} HTML test framework for Mountain applet
{
Puffin.java} Applet that demonstrates double buffering
Module J712 -
Exceptions
[4396] Java Utility class - flexible replacement for array. Also cacheing in objects and multiple catch clauses example.
[4350] Keyboard reader for Java programming newcomers
[3048] String handling - from first steps to practical examples
[3045] After Course Resources - do we publish sample answers. Example from Java Exceptions module.
[2862] Fail Safe Error Handling in Java via Exceptions
[2622] Handling unusual and error conditions - exceptions
[2420] Exceptions in Java - why and how
[1875] What are exceptions - Python based answer
[1066] Final, Finally and Finalize - three special words in Java
(
article) errors v exceptions
{
Adder.java} Solution to Addbase exercise
{
card_7.java} for neston demo - interface card
{
Keira.java} try, catch, finally - full example
{
suspect_card_7.java} class used within "neston" demonstration
{
E1.java} Class to which to add exception handling during practicals
{
KeyRead.java} Keyboard Read for use during early exercises
{
Jane.java} Define your own exception class
{
Bikini.java} Practical Exception Handling Example
{
E1a.java} Sample answer - handling exceptions on reading use input
{
wadswick.java} Sample program that will throw an exception, not catch it, and fail
{
neston.java} First example of an exception
{
Addbase.java} Exercise Base - make this user proof
{
playing_card_7.java} class of playing_card, used in "neston"
Module J713 -
More Input and Output
[4420] Flexibility in input - read from file, web resource or keyboard
[4414] Java - converting an integer to a fixed length string
[4350] Keyboard reader for Java programming newcomers
[2420] Exceptions in Java - why and how
[1239] End of File on a Java BufferedReader
(
article) Formatting to a fixed number of decimal places
{
bratton.java} Formatted Printing
{
d3y.java} Exercise based on day 2 template
{
snip1} Code snippet - reading from a file
{
wellreader.java} Sample Input class from earlier courses and modules
{
d2x.java} Application using multiple classes
{
Javafgrep.java} Example for modification exercise
{
farleigh.java} Checking file status, reading and writing
{
winsley.java} File Manipulation examples
{
snip2} File existence checking
{
snip3} Writing to a file
Module J714 -
Fundamental classes
[4431] A Java servlet that is also a stand alone program. And a server that is also a web client.
[4421] How healthy are the stars of stage and screen?
[4396] Java Utility class - flexible replacement for array. Also cacheing in objects and multiple catch clauses example.
[4330] Java - factory method, encapsulation, hashmap example
[3048] String handling - from first steps to practical examples
[2920] Sorting - naturally, or into a different order
[2734] for and foreach in Java
[2649] Length, size or capacity in Java?
[2421] Sorting Collections of Objects in Java
[2418] Viv.java uses unchecked or unsafe operations - explanation and cure
[2323] Java Collection Objects in the java.util package
[1910] Java - Generics
[1502] Java, sorting, ArrayList example, generics
[1062] Java sorting - comparable v comparator
[42] Do languages change?
(
article) Want something more dynamic than an array?
(
article) Fundamental classes java.lang, java.util and others
{
Arlist.java} ArrayList in Java
{
Bynum.java} A Comparator class
{
Strtok.java} StringTokenizer Example
{
Handbag.java} A class in which descructor calls are delayed
{
About.java} System Properties
{
Mhs2.java} A further example of sorting in Java
{
Station.java} Station class used in Network example
{
Train.java} To accompany Trans3 demo
{
Network.java} Vector to replace an array
{
Mypocket.java} Forcing a destructor to run
{
NetworkStation.java} class uses in AUtil demo
{
Ptr.java} To accompany Trans3 demo
{
Bus.java} To accompany Trans3 demo
{
ByValue.java} Comparator for Trans3 demo
{
outmarsh.java} Using a stack
{
Hmap.java} Hashmap example
{
Discfree.java} Running an operating system command from Java
{
floater} Float object v float primitive
{
AUtil.java} Creating a hash of objects
{
Hset.java} Hashset example
{
Access.java} Access Log analysis / String Tokenizer
{
Mathop.java} Maths operations
{
stuff} Data for Trans3 demo
{
Tshirt.java} Utility classes ArrayList and Hashmap set up to help analyse data file
{
Objvprim.java} Object to primitive comparison
{
Hmapsort.java} Sorting in Java - using collections
{
Acsort.java} Sorting in Java using the comparable interface
{
Trans3.java} ArrayList, Hashmap and Collections sorting
{
holt.java} Using a Vector object
{
hinton.java} An Example of a Hashtable
{
Thing.java} Example of destructor
Module J715 -
Putting the Java Language Together
[4430] The spirit of Java - delegating to classes
[4326] Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code
[2735] Type checking, Java arrays and collections
[1181] Good Programming practise - where to initialise variables
[836] Build on what you already have with OO
{
PF3.java} Third example application
{
Area.java} defintion of an area of the UK
{
Station.java} Class of objects from file or URL, factory, Vector and HashMap, select, sort, output
{
Place.java} Solution - base class (abstract)
{
MF.java} Final example application
{
PF2.java} Second example application
{
District.java} definition of a district of the UK
{
PF4.java} Final lookup on data example, ignoring area v district distinction
{
Person.java} Calculating BMI of various stars
{
PF1.java} Sample extended class
{
Multifinder.java} Full application
{
P3.java} Example object
{
Placefinde.java} Solution - application class
{
P4.java} Object P4 definition
Module J801 -
Review of Java Basics
[4394] Philosophy behind object design - and how I applied in to a Java example
[1082] Straight from the .jar
(
article) Overview of Java
{
Aviary.java} Sample program - using Duck and Gull classes
{
Desert.java} Base Class for use in Dairy Queen demo
{
Colddesert.java} Part of the Dairy Queen demo
{
Duck.java} inheriting and implementing class
{
Bird.java} Base (abstract) class
{
DairyQueen.java} Main application to show inheritance and polymorphism
{
Friend.java} Interface to define an extra API
{
Insurable.java} Dairy Queen demo - just a shell interface to show the implements mechanism
{
Av2.java} An array of objects of different types
{
Icecream.java} A subclass of Desert
{
Gull.java} Class in a package, extends another, implements an interface
Module J802 -
Abstract Windowing Toolkit
[3049] Computer Graphics is fun - even if Java Applets are Old Hat
[2654] Java - from applets to servlets. JSPs and more
[2649] Length, size or capacity in Java?
[2245] Client side (Applet) and Server side (Servlet) Graphics in Java
[1325] Java - Client side applet applications as well as server side
(
article) Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs)
{
ash.java} Constructs and scaling - AWT and Applets
{
awtfont.java} Fonts, text manipulation, graphics. Applet or stand alone application.
{
acorn.java} Basic Graphic Applet
{
magpie.java} A Histogram of financila results
{
skylark.java} General Purpose Graphing Applet
{
yew.java} Applet, nested panels and layouts
Module J803 -
Applet Parameters
[2654] Java - from applets to servlets. JSPs and more
[1325] Java - Client side applet applications as well as server side
{
crow.java} Graphing Applet that picks up parameters from the HTML
{
crow.html} Web page calling applet with data parameters
Module J804 -
Threads
[3040] Doing several things at the same time - Java threads
[2212] Dripping taps, Java threads and the single thread model
{
robin.java} Using threads via the runnable interface
{
wren.java} Using threads by extending the Thread class
{
redtail.java} Syncronisation problem
{
redwing.java} Syncronisation solution
Module J807 -
Images
[2245] Client side (Applet) and Server side (Servlet) Graphics in Java
{
gannet.html} HTML frame for applet
{
starling.java} Graphing Applet with command line interface too
{
starling.html} HTML to load a parameter driven applet
{
waxwing.java} Graphic Applet - labelled, markers, etc
{
gannet.java} Applet to load an image
{
waxwing.html} Load an applet with data parameters
{
ConfirmDialog.java} Dialog Confirmation Class
{
Imgfilter.java} Changing the colours of an image to make a subtle background
Module J808 -
Network Programming
[4420] Flexibility in input - read from file, web resource or keyboard
[2863] Writing a server in Java
[1976] Where is this IP address, IPv4 and IPv6
(
article) "Java Cookbook" - review
{
Station.java} Class of objects from file or URL, factory, Vector and HashMap, select, sort, output
{
Leanne.java} Multithreaded tcp/ip server in Java
Module J809 -
Serialization
[2435] Serialization - storing and reloading objects
[1149] Turning objects into something you can store - Pickling (Python)
[1067] Serialization in Java - all layers required!
{
Bead.java} The Serialiable class itself
{
kingfisher.java} Application to demonstrate serialiasble objects
{
Drawing.java} A class managing a vector of selializable objects
{
mousehandler.java} Serialiazable demo mouse handler class
Module J810 -
Internationalization
[3497] Not the same language - but based on the same constructs
{
pintail.java} Numbers, currency and date - internationalization
{
buzzard.java} An Applet to show and navigate a Unicode font
{
Avocet.java} Resource bundles in use
Module J811 -
JDBC - Relational Database Access
[3046] Java Beans, tag libraries and JSPs - what and why.
[2861] MySQL and Java - connectivity past, present, and future thoughts
[2154] Bean Classes in Java and Java Database Connections
[515] MySQL - an FAQ
(
article) Interfacing applications to a MySQL database engine
{
J850insert.java} Servlet that adds a MySQL table row
{
J850select.java} Servlet to run a MySQL select (jdbc)
{
Oralink.java} Connecting to an Oracle database
{
J850_jdbc.java} Class to perform a MySQL table insert
{
jdbc1.java} Connecting to a MySQL database
{
J850staff.java} Servlet to insert into and report on a table
{
Maggie.java} MySQL Database Connection and Query
{
J850sjdbc.java} Generic database insert and select code (MySQL demo)
{
make_J850.java} Create table for J850 series of demos
Module J812 -
Java Beans
[3046] Java Beans, tag libraries and JSPs - what and why.
[2155] No subject or title?
[1074] Java beans and classes, .war and .jar files
{
Cube.java} Java Bean example as used by Tag library (J907)
Module J815 -
Handling XML in Java
(
article) Handling XML in Java
Module J816 -
Regular Expressions in Java
[1195] Regular Express Primer
(
article) Regular Expressions in Java
{
Reg3.java} Look for all lines containing a term and report the first field from matching lines
{
Reg6.java} Regular expressions - match and replace
{
Reg1.java} Regular expressions - look for email address
{
Reg2.java} Regular expressions - look for all matching lines in a file
{
Reg4.java} Look for email address on command line and report on user and domain name parts
Module J901 -
Servlets
[4432] Java web application for teaching - now with sessions and clustering / load balancing demonstrations
[3997] Servlet v JSP (Java Server Page). What is the difference?
[3044] Changing a Servlet - more that just editing and compiling
[2652] Reading and writing cookies in Java Servlets and JSPs
[1909] javax.servlet cannot be resolved - how to solve
(
article) Sessions in Servlets
{
symdyn.html} Dynamic operation of a Servlet
{
svl_right.java} Servlet to read form and echo
{
svl.html} Servlet demo - HTML form
{
Maryland.java} Checking and setting cookies in a Servlet
{
Memo.java} Linking requests together via a session in a servlet
{
Lifeanswer.java} Basic Servlet - simple calculation and a visit counter
{
Noah.java} A simple servlet, and how to modify it
Module J902 -
Extending Graphics in Java
[1326] GUI design - Sketch it out first! (Java / Swing example)
[1325] Java - Client side applet applications as well as server side
(
article) Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs)
(
article) Extending Graphics in Java
(
article) Extending Graphics in Java part 2
(
article) Extending Graphics in Java Part 3
{
Dialapplet.java} Swing Applet - dialler example
{
S1.java} JFrame, JLabel and Jbutton - Swing
{
Dialer.java} Java dialer with echo in a Jlabel
{
TreeDemo2.java} Jtree with contents and interaction
{
swsmall.java} Event handler - Swing
{
Swtiny.java} Swing - tiny example (JFrame and JLabel)
{
S2.java} Grid layout - Jbuttons for telephone dialer
{
TreeDemoSetup.java} Jtree
Module J906 -
Servlets in More Detail
[4432] Java web application for teaching - now with sessions and clustering / load balancing demonstrations
[4431] A Java servlet that is also a stand alone program. And a server that is also a web client.
[3293] Distributing the server load - yet ensuring that each user return to the same system (Apache httpd and Tomcat)
[3044] Changing a Servlet - more that just editing and compiling
[2717] The Multiple Inheritance Conundrum, interfaces and mixins
[2652] Reading and writing cookies in Java Servlets and JSPs
[2183] Servlet life cycle, and Java Servlet variable scope
[1909] javax.servlet cannot be resolved - how to solve
[1550] Java (JSP and Servlet examples) live on our server
[1495] Single login and single threaded models - Java and PHP
[479] New servlet from old
(
article) Sessions in Servlets
{
Barman.java} Simple Session Tracking
{
Station.java} Station class (transport demo)
{
Framework.java} Main servlet / stand alone program (transport demo)
{
ByName.java} Comparator class for Stations (transport demo)
{
PubWatch.java} Session Tracking for Cluster and Load Balance demos
{
web.xml} Example URL to servlet class mappings
{
Landlord.java} Simple Session Tracking servlet reporting all users
{
MyStream.java} MySteam web or file reader (transport demo)
{
HelloServlet.java} Hello Servlet World
Module J907 -
JSP - JavaServer Pages
[3997] Servlet v JSP (Java Server Page). What is the difference?
[3046] Java Beans, tag libraries and JSPs - what and why.
[2525] Using JSPs, Tag Libraries, Java Beans, Tomcat in one short example
[2183] Servlet life cycle, and Java Servlet variable scope
[2151] What is a JSP tag library?
[2147] A very easy JSP (Java Server Page)
[1550] Java (JSP and Servlet examples) live on our server
[1050] The HTML++ Metalanguage
[79] Last day of Java
{
tcform.html} Form to read a temperature in degrees F
{
gje2.jsp} JSP example - Java separated from HTML
{
Book.java} net.wellho.Book class - Java Bean to look up on MySQL database
{
Store6.java} Store class, used to maintain state in JSP demo */
{
lovely.jsp} JSP example linking a series of pages, good practise shown
{
boxes.jsp} JSP / Tag Library / Java Bean - the JSP part
{
products.txt} Product data for Shopping cart demo
{
web.xml} Session timeout changed to 120 minutes -->
{
index.jsp} A Shopping cart JSP that maintains state -->
{
gje3.jsp} JSP - Form input and validation
{
tcvt.jsp} JSP to read temperature in C and convert to F
{
course.jsp} Simple JSP, displaying a calculation in a page
{
bookjava.jsp} Replacing Java Source code with Tags - some equivalents
{
counter.jsp} Sessions in a JSP
{
graham.jsp} Hello JSP world
{
rep_aut_2.jsp} Web -> Tomcat -> JSP -> Tag Library -> MySQL - booklookup
{
report_author.jsp} Web -> Tomcat -> JSP -> MySQL - booklookup
{
Tconv.java} Class for use from JSP using standard tag library
Module J909 -
Putting it all together
[4305] Learning to program in Java - yes, we can help.
[2653] Java Server Pages - putting it all together
[2525] Using JSPs, Tag Libraries, Java Beans, Tomcat in one short example
(
article) A multithreaded server in Java
(
article) What makes a good variable name?
{
Room.java} Business logic for JSP demo (price)
{
hello.jsp} Simple JSP calling in business logic from a class
{
price.jsp} Example of a JSP and what the raw Java would be
{
loglook.jsp} JSP to read and analyse data from a file
{
Beast.java} Java Bean for JSP demo (hello)
Module J910 -
Introduction to Ant
[694] Ant and Make
(
article) Overview of Ant - a Java based build tool
{
build.xml} ant instructions for Babysitter application -->
Module J950 -
Tomcat Sourcing, Installation and Initial Testing
[2219] Configuring httpd, or Tomcat, to run CGI scripts in Perl
[2218] Multiple web applications under Tomcat - what are the options?
Module J951 -
Tomcat - Configuring Web Applications
[754] tar, jar, war, ear, sar files
Module J953 -
Combined Java Web Example: Servlets, JDBC and Graphics
[2245] Client side (Applet) and Server side (Servlet) Graphics in Java
[1466] Effective Java training - the bootcamp approach
{
Im2.java} Generating an image file (AWT) using data from a database (JDBC) */
{
Im4.java} An image (AWT) with form selected data (HTTP) from a database (JDBC) via a web page (Servlet) */
{
Im3.java} An image file (AWT) from a database (JDBC) via a web page (Servlet) */
{
web.xml} Tomcat config file for the sample application -->
{
Im1.java} Generating an image file through AWT */
{
formpage.html} Web form that uses Im4.java -->
{
multigraph.html} Web form that uses Im4.java (multiple images in one page) -->
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M: Well House Manor; hotel and events
Subject M100 -
Introduction to Well House Manor
[4715] Well House Manor - Still five out of five!
[4613] Our best hotel customers help us ... to help them ... be our best customers.
[4299] The Best Bed and Breakfast in Melksham?
[4147] A hidden hotel gem in Melksham
[3985] Special weekend at Well House Manor - come and see Wiltshire
[3864] Guest Guide for Well House Manor and Melksham
[3800] Fancy a weekend away? Try Well House Manor in Melksham, Wiltshire
[3765] Christmas in June? Melksham hotel bookings and Santa train
[3611] A customer thanks Well House Manor
[3202] Telling you something about us in just one line
[3115] Perl, Python, PHP, Lua, Linux, and more - and business hotel too. Menu for 2011
[3014] Well House Manor - the next six years
[2978] Christmas 2010 - Well House Manor, Melksham, Hotel
[2941] Wedding season in Melksham - somewhere good to stay
[2923] Fresh air and beautiful places in Wiltshire
[2425] Weekend and Christmas Promotion - Well House Manor Hotel, Melksham
[2125] We have lost a regular business guest
[2119] Make your business a DESTINATION business
[2076] A New Advert for Well House Manor
[1975] Well House Manor Hotel - on plan for 2009 business guests
[1968] Review of 2008
[1866] What a difference a day made
[1706] The Story of Well House Manor
[1492] Well House Consultants Training and Hotel - 2008 news
[1388] Well House Manor - a year on
[1384] An email update for past guests and delegates
[1371] Hotel in Melksham at Christmas
[1332] Melksham Hotel - Five Star Kitchen!
[1261] High summer at Well House Manor
[1211] A lot has happened in a year
[1132] Well House Manor, Melksham, Art Gallery
[1112] Bank Holiday country breaks in Melksham, Wiltshire
[1072] Well House Manor in the Snow
[1069] Rail trouble forced me to buy hotel
[1018] Open Source Courses and Business Hotel - products and prices for 2007
[1002] Meet the neighbours
[978] Wellhouse Manor, Hotel, Melksham
[940] Winter at Well House Manor - Open Houses
[902] Brand new hotel and training centre, Melksham
[891] Well House Manor Hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire
[793] The Wilts and Berks Canal
[756] Seeing the bricks for the trees
[677] Sympathetic development
[571] Well House Manor
[512] Exciting futures - the Well House Manor project
Subject M101 -
Business Accommodation in Melksham
[4614] PC Plod - alive and scaremongering in Wiltshire?
[4603] Happy New Year. Our customers are our ambassadors
[4570] A warm welcome awaits you at Well House Manor, Melksham
[4137] Early morning - welcoming business and leisure guests to Melksham
[4005] New guest ... becoming returning guest
[3969] Four in a Bed comes to Melksham tonight
[3405] Where do businessmen stay in Melksham?
[3107] Hotel and Training Course prices - the effect of the VAT rise on 4th January 2011
[2984] Customer Review - Hotel Room, Melksham
[2925] Well House - the pictures
[2821] Chancellor George Osborne inspires Perl Program
[2581] Snow scenes - and how snow effected our business
[2558] Happy new decade - and course and hotel prices for 2010
[2024] Carry on Training - in spite of the weather
[1929] 2009 - Hotel, Meeting, Training Course prices
[1907] Melksham Hotel Rates
[1824] Which is your best hotel room?
[1808] We love children ... but our hotel is not going to be their scene
[1748] Hotel room prices - Melksham, Wiltshire
[1701] Training Course and Business Conference Technology
[1676] A warm welcome for visitors from the USA
[1520] Terms and Conditions - Hotel, England - plain English
[1318] Well House Manor - feature comparison against the old place!
[1164] Grand Central Station
[1089] Playing old games
[1079] Wilts and Berks - two conference / training rooms in Melksham
[1059] Three sets of twins
[1011] Well House Manor and Beechfield House, Hotels, Melksham
[963] George Hotel and Well House Manor, Melksham
[926] Training rooms to learn Open Source programming
[902] Brand new hotel and training centre, Melksham
[889] Opening approaches!
[873] Hotel Exchange Rates
[857] Strikingly busy
[844] Hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire
[731] Hotel Technology Requirements
[721] Residential
[717] A customer service company
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article) Good places to stay in Melksham
Subject M102 -
Well House Manor - booking system
[4232] Not wanted here - hotel guests who will not be happy
[4153] Rooms available tonight - how to code an algorithm from first principles
[4144] Getting the best hotel rates - customer and hotelier viewpoints
[4138] Should a hotel accept guests who book for just one night?
[4122] Well House - booking through agents
[3976] Easy pricing, quick and easy checkout
[3932] River nearly bursting its banks in Melksham
[3825] Well House Manor - direct hotel bookings help us improve the customer experience
[3281] Does Well House Manor Hotel in Melksham offer lots of discounts?
[2705] Hotel booking in Melksham made easy!
[2436] Melksham Hotel Rooms - pictures
[2403] Hotel Booking Scam / Cost of calls to 070 numbers
[2377] Wiltshire / Melksham Weddings - guest accommodation
[1907] Melksham Hotel Rates
[1815] Hotel Guest Surveys
[1554] Online hotel reservations - Melksham, Wiltshire (near Bath)
[1311] What do people look for on a hotel web site?
[1084] Writing terms and conditions for conferences and other events
[864] Add to shopping cart - NO VACANCIES sign
Subject M103 -
Getting to and from Well House Manor
[4264] Weekend breaks by train to Melksham, Wiltshire
[4175] An alternative format for a new train service timetable
[4174] What would the extra trains from Melksham mean to your journey?
[3849] New bus times - Melksham to Bath
[3752] Melksham Visitors Map - Bus routes and train lines to and from the town
[3751] Public transport for international arrivals into Melksham
[3276] International travel to the UK - coming to Melksham
[2926] Journey times to Melksham, Wiltshire
[2791] Bath to Melksham buses - times
[2789] Melksham to London (Heathrow, and Central London)
[2634] London to and from Melksham by public transport
[2493] Melksham buses to/from Chippenham, Trowbridge, Bath, Devizes, London
[2249] Public Transport from London to Melksham, Wiltshire
[2248] Getting home from Melksham
[1802] Motorcycles welcome at Well House Manor
[1511] Buses from Well House Manor, Melksham, to Bath
[1452] Santa on the train to Melksham
[1200] Training information - England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
[952] Coming from London to Melksham by train for a course
[814] Melksham Railway Calendar 2007
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article) It's easy to get to Melksham, and there's things to do!
Subject M104 -
Finding Well House Manor.
[2659] New numbers, as 01225 707126 and 01225 709638 are being retired
[1802] Motorcycles welcome at Well House Manor
[1311] What do people look for on a hotel web site?
[933] Course Joining package - updated
[555] Hotel novelties
Subject M105 -
Where to eat
[4582] A near-empty plate of pastries - sign of a breakfast enjoyed
[4567] Japanese and Malaysian food in Melksham
[4018] Afternoon Teas and Breakfasts at Well House Manor
[3977] A variety of continental breakfasts
[3861] Melksham Food Festival - the food fayre - pictures
[3719] Strawberry Cream Teas, Well House Manor, Melksham, starting this weekend
[3708] Strawberry Cream Teas in Melksham - available every day this summer
[3643] Hotel food, Melksham - enjoy the variety of the American way
[3327] Why are chefs miserable?
[3308] Behind the scenes - setting up a cafe
[3304] Scones with or without fruit?
[3295] Strawberry Cream Teas, Coffee straight from the Bean and freshly squeezed orange juice - Melksham, every afternoon
[3199] Lunch for Melksham Businesses
[3182] What we look for in a lunchtime cafe restaurant in Melksham
[3127] Burger me!
[2593] Food and drink launch
[2584] Melksham Food and Drink Festival, 2010
[2239] Cornerstone Cafe, Melksham
[1957] Why are cooks bad tempered?
[1843] How many cups of coffee?
[1359] Little Gems but not Lettuce
[1332] Melksham Hotel - Five Star Kitchen!
[1329] Subway Restaurant in Melksham, Wiltshire
[1226] Melksham Art Cafe
Subject M106 -
We suggest these local businesses
[4327] Good, stable, reliable local businesses
[4254] Where is Melksham Market? In the Market Place, every Tuesday
[4019] Coffee Shop in Melksham
[3597] Niche businesses in Melksham. From glass painting to Tcl and Lua courses.
[3337] Home Grown Pigs, near Melksham Station
[2793] They do weddings, we do courses.
[2591] Melksham Hotel, B and B or business accommodation?
[2027] Who sticks by you in the snow?
[2021] Short health and safety course
[1894] Shopping in Melksham
[1883] Spa Road Garage and Convenience Store, Melksham
[1655] A date for your diary - 16th July 2008
[1559] Calling on Melksham / Trowbridge / Devizes / Chippenham businesses
[1394] Business to Business Networking - North and West Wilts / Melksham
[1257] Data cabling (Cat 5e), Melksham, Wiltshire
[1253] Key new contacts
[1250] Business speed networking - a place tonight!
[1223] Asda opening large new store in Melksham
[1208] Meet other local businesses in Melksham
[1085] Lawrence Webb's Melksham Taxi service
[894] Where quality costs less
[851] Emergency First Aid Training
[315] Supporting local business
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Subject M107 -
Well House Manor Newsreel
[4543] Saturday morning at Well House Manor
[4358] A brilliant finish to 2014 training and business guests, and a look to 2015
[4262] Updated staff systems helps us look after our customers better
[4183] Reaching a hotel standard where 99% of guests would return - and maintaining that standard
[4116] International Melksham - industry, and beautiful countryside
[4101] POETS day at Well House Manor
[3967] Hotel bedroom - even larger TV!
[3965] Well House Manor, Melksham - on national TV next week
[3963] National TV - Melksham - 9th January 2013, Pre-alert.
[3883] Apple Pressing Day 2012
[3858] The apple crop of 2012
[3834] Geekmas 2012 - celebrating open source languages such as Perl, PHP and Python
[3828] Pimms and Croquet in Edwardian Melksham - 8th September 2012 - Food Festival Event
[3827] Melksham Community Apple Pressing Day
[3821] Well House Manor at Dawn ... and later in the day
[3645] Keeping our hotel looking like new, by using our gained experience
[3586] Emergency First Aid Provision at Well House Manor - part of the service
[3535] Melksham, Luxury Hotel Rooms, Christmas.
[3505] Well House Manor - Winter Warmers - Open 7 days a week, 11 to 5 ++
[3405] Where do businessmen stay in Melksham?
[3014] Well House Manor - the next six years
[2984] Customer Review - Hotel Room, Melksham
[2424] A Winter Weekend Special at Well House Manor
[2076] A New Advert for Well House Manor
Subject M149 -
Well House Manor - FAQ
[3848] Where do I find .... (Our hotel FAQ)
[3600] Visa, MasterCard and American Express - changing payment profiles
[3359] Cash and Cheque policy - UK Hotel
[3263] Come as a customer, leave as a friend - Well House Manor, Hotel, Wiltshire
[3071] Well House Price list, January to March 2011
[2838] Respecting our customers anonimity
[2352] Printed Directories - the start of the updating season
[2014] First Class
[1809] Coming home tonight
[1683] Plenty of car parking at Well House Manor, Hotel, Melksham
[1263] 0800 043 8225 - a new phone number for Well House
[820] Robert and William Whitworth
[617] Easy, Free, Reliable internet access
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article) Good places to stay in Melksham
Subject M150 -
For users of Well House Manor.
[4613] Our best hotel customers help us ... to help them ... be our best customers.
[4567] Japanese and Malaysian food in Melksham
[4379] Well House Consultants / Well House Manor - Prices for 2015
[3976] Easy pricing, quick and easy checkout
[3552] Melksham Training Centre and Hotel internet speed - how does it compare?
[3544] Looking for hotel rooms in Melksham over Christmas? We still have some availability
[2962] Well House Manor - the history of the hotel
[2660] One number for Well House - 01225 708225
[2590] A healthy, local breakfast in Melksham
[2307] Breakfast in Mexico
[2253] Walks in and around Melksham, Wiltshire
[1290] Badges, Breakfasts and Trigger
[582] DWIM and AWWO
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article) Creating Really Memorable Experiences
Subject M151 -
Conference Facilities
[4570] A warm welcome awaits you at Well House Manor, Melksham
[4285] Pictures of Melksham Heritage Discovery Fair
[4158] Wedding from Well House Manor - an excellent base in Melksham
[4155] Wedding Reception preps at Well House Manor
[4049] Business meetings in Melksham - Well House Manor
[3992] Conference and Meeting Rooms available in Melksham
[3983] Upcoming courses at Well House Manor - Ruby, Python, Perl
[2941] Wedding season in Melksham - somewhere good to stay
[2663] Improve your PHP on a weekend away
[2068] Playing Catchup
[1942] Christmas scenes and events
[1929] 2009 - Hotel, Meeting, Training Course prices
[1701] Training Course and Business Conference Technology
[1683] Plenty of car parking at Well House Manor, Hotel, Melksham
[1264] Business events in Melksham
[1255] Interviewing job candidates in Melksham
[1227] Melksham businesses - networking together
[1211] A lot has happened in a year
[1100] Wondering where I have been
[998] The year of the exploding projector
Subject M152 -
Hotel Facilities
[4644] In your room at Well House Manor, Melksham, Wiltshire
[4614] PC Plod - alive and scaremongering in Wiltshire?
[4582] A near-empty plate of pastries - sign of a breakfast enjoyed
[4521] Should we get an AA or Visit Wiltshire hotel assessment?
[4026] The coffee of the Stars comes to Melksham
[4019] Coffee Shop in Melksham
[3924] The bedrooms at Well House Manor
[3865] What makes Well House Manor different?
[3863] Five new fans at Well House Manor
[3831] Our Melksham Hotel is not quiet - but we are waiting to give you a quiet welcome. Big difference!
[3552] Melksham Training Centre and Hotel internet speed - how does it compare?
[3549] Well House Manor - perhaps the best hotel rooms in Melksham
[3437] Light bulbs
[3373] Another busy Week at Well House Manor ... pictures from the midweek
[3308] Behind the scenes - setting up a cafe
[3296] Dog, hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire?
[3212] Well House Manor - a home from home for the business and leisure guest in Melksham
[2847] Local information for Melksham Hotel Guests
[2559] Moving the product forward - ours, and MySQL, Perl, PHP and Python too
[2490] Friendly Hotel in Melksham, near Bath
[2424] A Winter Weekend Special at Well House Manor
[2303] Turning potential customers away
[2216] Past Delegate Offer - Summer Holiday / Weekend Break
[2076] A New Advert for Well House Manor
[1328] Oliver says ....
Subject M153 -
Training Facilities
[3816] Want to escape the Olympics? Learn to program in the countryside!
[3612] Help to get online in Melksham
[3521] Emergency First Aid at Work (HSE) training in Melksham - places available for 19.1.2012
[2943] Our facilities to support Well House Consultants Courses
[2538] Open Source Training Centre and Courses for 2010
[2537] Faster network, but not faster browsing until ...
[1227] Melksham businesses - networking together
[379] Getting the lighting right
Subject M160 -
Environmental
[3863] Five new fans at Well House Manor
[3134] Melksham Weather - Warm and windy becoming colder and calmer
[2794] The Farming Industry pictured around Melksham
[2762] Well House - Mission and Policy summaries
[2730] Bird Watching on the Melksham Avon
[2707] A walk on the Kennet and Avon
[2253] Walks in and around Melksham, Wiltshire
[1800] Spiders Web
[1499] Climate change, renewable resources and paper v plastic
[1276] On flooding in Wiltshire and elsewhere in the West of England
Subject M161 -
Gardens at Well House Manor
[4666] Spring at Well House Manor
[4166] Pimms and Croquet - Melksham Festival of Food and Drink
[4162] Pimms and Croquet at Well House Manor - 7th September 2013
[4155] Wedding Reception preps at Well House Manor
[4139] Out of doors (mostly) at Well House in Melksham
[4083] Spring at Well House Manor - Teas and Coffees, Museum, Garden, Rooms
[4030] What is on OUR pond?
[3980] Well House Manor in the snow
[3883] Apple Pressing Day 2012
[3856] Edwardian day with Croquet - Well House Manor, 8th September 2012 - Pictures
[3855] Mad week done - so come for Croquet
[3842] Relax at Well House Manor - gardens, fountain, hotel
[3836] In the garden at Well House Manor
[3814] Returning guests - a sign of a good product. Cream teas and hotel rooms.
[3708] Strawberry Cream Teas in Melksham - available every day this summer
[3314] Garden Seating, Well House Manor
[3296] Dog, hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire?
[1786] Picturing the rain
[1683] Plenty of car parking at Well House Manor, Hotel, Melksham
[1196] The last tree to leaf
[1142] Planters in the Spring
[707] A story of goldfish
Subject M162 -
Disabled Facilities
[876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance
[654] Making use of disabled facilities
[252] A West End show
Subject M200 -
Wiltshire
[4702] Up and down TransWilts - some pictures off the rails!
[4084] New Pictures - Melksham Pack Horse Bridge
[3989] Plenty to see and do - even in Winter - on a Well House Manor weekend
[3806] 2011 Census results - initial figures for Wiltshire.
[3800] Fancy a weekend away? Try Well House Manor in Melksham, Wiltshire
[3729] Then and now pictures of Melksham - on show through the summer
[3723] Bank Holiday Monday, so it was pouring with rain.
[3513] Olympic Torch - dates and places in Wiltshire in 2012
[2923] Fresh air and beautiful places in Wiltshire
[2888] Recent Pictures
[2882] Seeing Wiltshire - from a Melksham base
[2750] Views of Wessex
[2713] History is all around us
[2594] Melksham Area - your community view is sought
[2411] Further North - long summer days and lovely countryside
[2288] Wiltshire Community Area Partnerships
[2279] Understanding the new local government structure in Wiltshire
[2176] Balloon Journey in Wiltshire
[2128] Wiltshire - where everybody matters
[1981] Bitter cold
[1859] Wiltshire at dawn - the tourist trail
[1521] Evening drive across the roof of Wiltshire
[1428] Travel Across Wiltshire - the game
[1399] Pictures Framed
[1156] Two by One by Wiltshire
[1129] Golfing, Wiltshire (near Melksham)
[1112] Bank Holiday country breaks in Melksham, Wiltshire
[1106] Spring Pictures
[971] Wiltshire letterboxes
[946] Look around this mouth.
[942] Index of Pictures
[829] Where to go within 30 minutes of Melksham
{
osmap.tk} Draw a Tk Canvas using Ordnance Survey data
{
game01.php} Choosing start and end points for a game
{
tracks.txt} OS data for Wiltshire Public Transport
Subject M201 -
Around Melksham, Wiltshire
[4701] Pretty at the station too
[4357] Seeing Christmas Coming to Melksham
[4169] Around and about - Melksham
[4151] Tell me a bit about Melksham
[4145] After the storm
[4141] My pictures of Melksham Carnival, 13th July 2013
[4119] Melksham - Flower Town
[4084] New Pictures - Melksham Pack Horse Bridge
[3962] Melksham welcomes visitors - new blue plaque trail and more
[3960] Picture - between Lacock and Melksham
[3949] Melksham Spa from Woolmore Farm
[3944] Melksham Christmas Lights, 2012
[3897] Autumn scenes from Melksham
[3869] How have Melksham shops changed in 60 years?
[3864] Guest Guide for Well House Manor and Melksham
[3837] Evening behind Melksham Spa
[3822] Town Clean - Melksham
[3771] Fine evening, country walk from Melksham - pictures
[3744] Short Web Addresses for Melksham
[3735] A walk around Melksham this morning. Can you place all of these?
[3720] Melksham ATC - freedom of the town
[3712] Some unpublished and historic pictures - Museum of Melksham
[3704] The Bowerhill Villager - a newsletter for Bowerhill, Melksham
[3703] A Museum for Melksham History. Open from 12th May 2012.
[3697] Events in Melksham - read all about them, and tell us about yours
[3692] Deeper than Art - An exhibition of the tattoo Canvas - Melksham
[3659] Welcome to Melksham - our new communities
[3657] Basham Festival, Melksham, early August 2012 - a welcome
[3656] TrainWest 2012 - 14th and 15th April, Melksham, Wiltshire
[3647] Along the brook - East Melksham to Melksham
[3646] Exploring Melksham with a film maker
[3644] The way of the Prioress - Melksham history pictured today
[3605] Snow comes to Melksham, Wiltshire - pictures
[3569] Images of the new year in Melksham
[3543] Some different pictures from Melksham
[3526] Melksham has a Heart - Montage picture for sale
[3525] Melksham has a heart - come and see the pictures. Sunday, 11 to 3, Assembly Hall
[3520] Quintessentially English - scenes from our Wiltshire town
[3507] Melksham Forward - meeting summary and pictures
[3502] Sunday Evening ... newest and oldest Melksham pictures
[3499] Images of Melksham
[3470] Currently pictured in Melksham
[3389] Plenty to do in Melksham
[3337] Home Grown Pigs, near Melksham Station
[3305] Getting away from the madding crowd - an intercontinental journey
[3266] Easter on the Canal - near Melksham, Wiltshire
[3258] Morning in Melksham
[3248] What have these pictures in common?
[3232] Around and about Melksham in more pictures
[3227] Her favourite store
[3209] Seeing Electricity Pylons near Melksham
[3050] Views of Melksham - November 2010
[3023] Autumn walk from Bowerhill
[2950] Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, turns first sod in Melksham Link Canal
[2854] Melksham Food and Drink Fair and Town Crier Competition
[2829] Dauncey Gardens, Melksham
[2739] Melksham Scouts
[2716] Melksham in Pictures
[2708] The bull on the footpath
[2691] New brochures for the Melksham area
[2665] Early Spring walk in Melksham
[2588] Freddies Wood and the K and A Canal
[2585] Consultation in Melksham, on Melkshams future
[2528] Melksham Christmas Lights
[2497] Brown horses in Melksham
[2480] Pantomimes around Melksham - 2009/2010 season
[2349] Businesses effected by road works in Melksham
[2329] Great to be in Melksham
[2297] Standing on the corner, Melksham Carnival
[2262] History is not always pretty
[2253] Walks in and around Melksham, Wiltshire
[2175] Melksham in pictures
[2168] In honour of the photograph, I present ... a walk from Reybridge to Lacock
[2142] Riverside Development
[2066] Melksham Industrial
[2064] East of Melksham Countryside
[2043] Confidence, Customer Service and Tourism in Melksham
[2008] The Month Ahead - What is happening in Melksham
[1986] Walk to Bowerhill
[1977] Going round the block
[1928] Melksham Oak Community School, Melksham, Wiltshire
[1451] More PHP sample and demonstration programs
[1436] A little touring help during a business trip to England
[1368] Getting the local voice heard
[1360] Asda in Melksham - Welcome or not?
[1343] Melksham Laundrette
[1341] Moving to Melksham? Househunting map.
[1330] While waiting for Melksham Post Office
[1271] Till the cows come home
[1266] Party in the Park
[1206] Where and When - can you place the picture?
[1177] Sorting out for a site map
[1137] Wiltshire Circles
[1117] Newport Male Voice Choir
[977] Melksham and Norwich
[957] Improving the historic town of Melksham
[929] Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire
[879] Tuesday night is party night
[866] A lazy programmer is a good programmer
[847] Image maps for navigation - a straightforward example
[830] Butterflies in a Wiltshire garden
[811] Melksham in Bloom
[805] Melksham Carnival Parade
[676] Melksham, Wiltshire
[437] Outside of the box
(
article) It's easy to get to Melksham, and there's things to do!
Subject M202 -
West Wiltshire
[4653] Coats of arms - towns and authorities in Wiltshire
[4623] Rambling from Westbury
[3722] Walking by the wiver
[3641] Swindon to Trowbridge - transport and travel options
[3498] Which West Wilts Town? A picture quiz for you
[3493] West Wilts Rail User Group - Walk yesterday from Bradford-on-Avon to Trowbridge
[3216] Images of a Spring Walk
[3195] Sunny day - Clanger and Picket Woods, Shearwater, and Westbury
[2852] Atworth Village Fete - on the Melksham Community Area Partnership stand
[2709] Old trackways and routes near Melksham
[2677] Blowing out the winter cobwebs
[2305] Hot Tap at West Wilts Show
[2302] See us at the West Wilts Show
[2224] Trowbridge - a missed opportunity? Melksham - into the breach?
[2142] Riverside Development
[2131] Patterns in street names
[1834] Seend, near Melksham, Wiltshire
[1710] At the Westbury Bypass Enquiry
[1583] Businesses in West Wiltshire - networking
[1252] Westbury Bypass - how it would effect Melksham
[1154] As I came back from Tesco
[1103] Dilton Marsh
[1030] Hotel for Trowbridge
[938] Bratton and Edington new town, Wiltshire
[929] Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire
[880] Celebration circles
[842] Dramatic Skys at Longleat
[840] Computers, Brides and Cream Teas
[814] Melksham Railway Calendar 2007
[812] Minimal Signage
[804] The Courts, Holt
[713] Pictures from my travels
Subject M203 -
North Wiltshire
[4653] Coats of arms - towns and authorities in Wiltshire
[3341] Farewell to the Hercules?
[3267] Reybridge, Easter Monday
[3207] Lambing at Lackham
[3206] Wiltshire College / Lackham College - the animals
[2819] Some more pictures ...
[2685] Stairs
[1625] Box from end to end
[1512] Summer Ball at Bowood - Saturday 12th July 2008
Subject M204 -
Salisbury District
[4653] Coats of arms - towns and authorities in Wiltshire
[4622] Frosty morning, beauty of Wiltshire
[3723] Bank Holiday Monday, so it was pouring with rain.
[3709] Queen to visit eight Wiltshire areas - will she know what she misses in the other 13 areas?
[3642] Wiltshire Travel Times - Chippenham, Trowbridge, Salisbury and other places too
[2473] Exploring Old Railways
[2453] Dark to dark
[1652] Old Sarum airfield brings back fond memories
[1398] Someone else's wedding
[1128] Avon Vale hunt at the Point to Point
[1127] A day at the races
[880] Celebration circles
[833] Old Wardour Castle
[325] Gone Racing - Larkhill, Wiltshire
Subject M205 -
Kennet District
[4653] Coats of arms - towns and authorities in Wiltshire
[4233] Open for the new year - Imber
[3482] Taking a boat down Caen Hill Locks
[3382] What is the picture?
[3376] Kennet and Avon - Walk from Bedwyn to Pewsey. TransWilts day out.
[3284] What to do in the evening during a Tcl course
[2830] Poulshot Village Fete
[2687] A lovely spring afternoon
[2443] Contrasting Cambridge, Bristol and Wiltshire
[2362] Thornham Farm Shop, Seend Cleeve, nr Melksham
[2146] An evening excursion to Devizes and Avebury
[1916] Why I remember East Grafton
[1846] Old Piles of the South West
[1842] Lua Course, and the Wiltshire Countryside too
[1830] Caen Hill and Olivers Castle
[1640] Walking on The Wiltshire Downs
[1635] Spring in Devizes
[1346] Evening, Devizes and Sells Green
[1071] Making a mountain out of a molehill
[1070] Java Deployment course - lunch break
[935] Autumn leaves in Wiltshire - Potterne
[865] Catching the slope
[861] Ballooning from Devizes
[854] Morgans Hill
[825] Pictures of the Vale of Pewsey
[824] Pictures of Avebury, Longleat and Dyrham
[809] What to do during a Linux build
[670] Architectural Heritage - Devizes
Subject M206 -
Swindon
[4702] Up and down TransWilts - some pictures off the rails!
[4653] Coats of arms - towns and authorities in Wiltshire
[4265] A lovely meal in Swindon - just a short walk from the station
[3860] Melksham to Steam in Swindon, by train - great day out
[3641] Swindon to Trowbridge - transport and travel options
[1130] Science Museum - larger exhibits / store, Wroughton, Swindon
[1078] Wiltshire - multicultural community
[958] Plain Ole nice pictures
[950] Python and the Magic Roundabout
[793] The Wilts and Berks Canal
Subject M207 -
Bath and North East Somerset
[3247] Light and dark at Green Park
[2237] Taking a pride in the community
[1930] Bath Christmas Market
[1851] Pictures from a delegate
[1822] Claverton Pump
[1821] Autumn
[1723] Bath - Melksham - Devizes. Bus route changes, new timetable
[1662] Westonbirt Arboretum Postcode
[1612] Comfy Chair - Floating Harbour, Bristol
[1611] Gauging point at entrance to Bristols Floating Harbour
[958] Plain Ole nice pictures
[929] Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire
[848] Bath - a tourist city on our doorstep
[824] Pictures of Avebury, Longleat and Dyrham
[680] Letter Boxes
Subject M208 -
Mendip - North Somerset
[3884] Pictures - across the park, French Weir and River Tone, Taunton
[2664] Oliver Cromwell at Bristol Temple Meads
[1846] Old Piles of the South West
[1609] Chew Valley Lakes
[1291] Day trip to Weymouth
[1218] Sunday afternoon
[1118] Origin of Jack and Jill and little Jack Horner
Subject M300 -
Behind the scenes
[4365] The changing face of Christmas
[4302] Sunday is never quiet at Well House Manor
[3961] Well House Staff Party
[3844] Rooms ready for guests - each time, every time, thanks to good system design
[3743] Sunday - no longer a day of rest
[3093] How many toilet rolls - hotel inventory and useage
[2961] Initial handling of phone calls and walk in visitors
[2960] The Well House team - September 2010
[2916] Testing the robustness of our hotel and training systems - holiday and sickness times
[2910] Robust - testing the system
[2396] Easing off in our 50s?
[2247] A day in the life of a hotelier
[2125] We have lost a regular business guest
[1991] Rules for a King
[1973] Required Request
[1957] Why are cooks bad tempered?
[1948] Blame Culture
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes
[1900] Table Topics
[1854] Three Seasonal Pictures
[1637] Providing exceptional service - and carrying on doing so.
[1571] Await guests in the early hours
[1520] Terms and Conditions - Hotel, England - plain English
[1515] Keeping staff up to date on hotel room status
[1490] Software to record day to day events and keep an action list
[1441] On cancellations, rebooking, and pricing schemes
[1371] Hotel in Melksham at Christmas
[1369] One business, four different angles!
[1319] Customer feedback - lifeblood of a business
[1311] What do people look for on a hotel web site?
[1285] In the army, or in civvie street?
[1189] Meet, greet and welcome
[1179] Sizing sheets and other domestic issues
[1159] It can take more that one plus one to get two.
[1105] A week is a long time in the life of a conference centre
[1083] Behind the scenes
[1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong
[951] What happened at Geekmas
[939] Swipe cards for hotel rooms - Security issues
[931] Before and After - Well House Manor
[927] Hotel door furniture
[897] Too much for the National Trust
[868] Smoking, or no
[813] Monday Morning at Well House Consultants Melksham
[769] King Edward VII - days of empire
[742] A visit from the solicitor
[677] Sympathetic development
[203] Holes in on line information
(
article) From Day Hotel to Hotel - not such a big change
{
toiletrolls.pl} How many toilet rolls per day does our hotel use?
Subject M301 -
The Well House Manor team
[4227] Happy Christmas from the Well House Manor team
[4004] Annual Accounts - a big job for a small business
[3988] Three cheers for the staff at Well House Manor
[3871] On getting noticed for the right reasons when you ask about job availability
[3425] Our National Autograss Champion, from Melksham
[3312] Are you cheerful, reliable and available on Saturday mornings?
[3201] A change to the Well House team - thank you and good luck, Chris
[2952] Concluding the interview process
[2946] Level playing fields, job vacancies, lemons and peaches
[2938] An opportunity to join our team!
[2924] Job applicants - wondering why they apply
[2037] The Interview and The Lift
[2027] Who sticks by you in the snow?
[2021] Short health and safety course
[1927] Team changes at Well House - looking forward
[1839] Job application
[1805] Carlisle High School - Class of 1973 Reunion
[1585] Well House Consultants / Manor - Staff
[1580] Congratulations, Martin and Marta
[1324] Well House Manor appoints a General Manager
[1083] Behind the scenes
[1065] Graham Ellis - an Introduction
[1002] Meet the neighbours
[972] Both one team and two
[895] Welcome, Martin
[849] Staff Meeting
Subject M302 -
Networking with other businesses
[3521] Emergency First Aid at Work (HSE) training in Melksham - places available for 19.1.2012
[2793] They do weddings, we do courses.
[2127] Call in the professionals!
[2008] The Month Ahead - What is happening in Melksham
[1760] An opportunity for something new
Subject M350 -
Well House Manor - project diary
[4739] A year of changes for Lisa and Graham Ellis, and Well House
[4012] A course is not just for a year - its for a career
[3968] Expecting nothing, but prepared for anything
[3963] National TV - Melksham - 9th January 2013, Pre-alert.
[3847] The Accidental Hotelier
[3645] Keeping our hotel looking like new, by using our gained experience
[3585] The changing Hotel and Bed and Breakfast business in Melksham
[3014] Well House Manor - the next six years
[1975] Well House Manor Hotel - on plan for 2009 business guests
[1211] A lot has happened in a year
[1098] Three big events - TWSW, Business of the year and the police
[1087] Telling a story in different ways
[1069] Rail trouble forced me to buy hotel
[941] Snagging
[932] A tale of a wee wall
[931] Before and After - Well House Manor
[902] Brand new hotel and training centre, Melksham
[894] Where quality costs less
[890] Open
[881] Coming together.
[862] 4 weeks to go
[858] From the Manor written
[855] Fitting our bathrooms
[844] Hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire
[816] Above the parapit, Well House Manor
[776] Naming Rooms
[756] Seeing the bricks for the trees
[744] We can offer a room, but we can't operate on a dog
[739] The eye
[721] Residential
[720] Planning a hotel refurb - an example of a Gant chart in PHP
[677] Sympathetic development
[571] Well House Manor
[555] Hotel novelties
[550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure
Subject M400 -
The Hospitality Business
[4613] Our best hotel customers help us ... to help them ... be our best customers.
[4603] Happy New Year. Our customers are our ambassadors
[4543] Saturday morning at Well House Manor
[4521] Should we get an AA or Visit Wiltshire hotel assessment?
[4321] Are administration / review charges on hotel guests acceptable?
[4232] Not wanted here - hotel guests who will not be happy
[4202] Excellent Railfuture conference, but some setup lessons
[4051] On reading a new hotel review
[4033] Official Star ratings for hotels - still worth having?
[3988] Three cheers for the staff at Well House Manor
[3909] Every Customer Counts
[3838] Guest review - Well House Manor, Melksham
[3832] A busy day at Well House Manor - so come in and make it even busier!
[3743] Sunday - no longer a day of rest
[3660] A Pivotal Incident - learning how to welcome your guests
[3309] Tipping Policy - Well House Manor
[3164] Brown - or Mrs Sally Brown, accountant from Whitstable?
[3147] Hotel star ratings - towards a better system of review
[2936] The service that customers should receive
[2879] Night Porter and reception - 24 hours a day?
[2724] Escapee Grandparents welcome - Henfield and Melksham
[2593] Food and drink launch
[2303] Turning potential customers away
[2283] Everyone is in the customer relations business
[2007] Launch of Melksham Food and Drink Festival
[1877] Guests doing a bunk?
[1792] All the pieces fall into place - hotel and courses
[1622] An extra step - victory from defeat
[1548] Hotelympia - show report - the lighter side
[1445] Looking after you Christmas Customer Crowds
[1422] Wiltshire - speaker / after dinner talker offer
[1421] Castle Lodge Hotel, Ely, Cambridgeshire
[1284] An update on the West Wilts show ...
[1248] How NOT to oversell a hotel
[1180] Conjugation
[1161] A contrast in room rates and facilities
[1122] Hotel - online feedback forms compared
[1108] Express service
[1084] Writing terms and conditions for conferences and other events
[1048] Getting rid of people - hotel techniques
[1046] Bounce, bounce, bounce
[1002] Meet the neighbours
[988] You should think you're first in a hotel room
[922] Staying at your own hotel
[884] Drive time
[774] Bed and Breakfast, or Hotel?
(
article) From Day Hotel to Hotel - not such a big change
(
article) Creating Really Memorable Experiences
Subject M401 -
Seeing how others do it
[4443] Seventh stay away this year - and it's still only February!
[4373] A long and disappointing evening
[4348] Taking my life in my hands in Swansea
[4321] Are administration / review charges on hotel guests acceptable?
[4255] Making a personal gain from a more expensive business hotel stay
[4245] It always happens to me when I'm in Borehamwood!
[4177] Setting and publishing your hours to suit your customer base
[4109] What might you find at a tiny bed and breakfast?
[4093] More things to make sure that we do NOT do ...
[4091] A reminder of why we opened Well House Manor for our customers
[4081] Pushing down the advertised price, pushing up the total price charged.
[4058] The highs and lows of customer service - Cheltenham
[3975] Being an amateur hotel inspector helps me run a professional hotel
[3970] Comparing four VERY different places to stay
[3963] National TV - Melksham - 9th January 2013, Pre-alert.
[3900] The Xxxxx Guest House in Xxxxxxxxxxx - my stay reviewed
[3794] Should hotel staff sit on the toilet in the customer bedrooms?
[3776] Some traps it's so easy to fall into in designing your web site
[3754] Eyes Wide Open
[3368] Well House Manor hotel, Melksham - recommended to you by our customers
[3333] Honesty and a friendly welcome goes a long way
[3054] Longhope Hotel
[2911] Feeding the Grockles
[2885] Twenty Questions
[2502] Monday night, Tuesday night
[2441] Not your cup of tea?
[2413] Sanity checking the price, and selling up to increase income
[2311] Floor to ceiling
[2308] A new place in pictures
[2127] Call in the professionals!
[2105] Hire Car, from Atlanta Airport
[2007] Launch of Melksham Food and Drink Festival
[1915] Quietly putting prices up
[1758] Lindors Hotel, near St. Briavels, Wye Valley
[1672] The Composting Cone Challenge
[1597] Comparing hotels - as a guest and from the proprietors view
[1547] New bathing idea for hotels from Hotelympia
[1525] Just one thing let the service down - but that is my memory
[1458] The wrong way to put up prices
[1454] From Sunday to Monday, from Melksham to the Balkans
[1413] The little gestures that can really count
[1406] Away or home - which do I prefer?
[1374] Maidenhead Coffee Challenge
[1356] Crystal Ball - How long do I need to be online?
[1354] Match the Bedroom to the Hotel
[1347] Wireless Internet Access at hotels - an update and some pitfalls
[1333] Kasteel Elsloo - Michelin rated hotel.
[1301] Plastic or China
[1287] Work and play at Well House Manor - Football and Shell Shortcuts
[1205] Arrival and Departure experiences - another hotel
[1091] The Psyche is all wrong.
[1026] The Wheatsheaf 2, The Bell 0
[1011] Well House Manor and Beechfield House, Hotels, Melksham
[966] CSL, KISS and RTFM
[736] New Tape Librarian
[714] Room for Octopuses
[699] Extremes costs of getting on line
[693] The on line booking experience
[619] If its Sunday, it must be the Norland
[514] Crazy Day-sies
[17] Differing tastes
Subject M402 -
[3024] Testing the new pavement ready for Christmas
Subject M444 -
Four in a Bed
[4474] Effect on external factors on traffic to our web sites - an update
[4468] Four in a Bed - most popular answers
[4241] Four in a Bed - the story continues
[4232] Not wanted here - hotel guests who will not be happy
[4204] With the Shpigs and Donkeys
[4156] A further chance to see Melksham on TV
[4147] A hidden hotel gem in Melksham
[4138] Should a hotel accept guests who book for just one night?
[4112] Really good friends - four in a bed!
[3984] 20 minutes in to our 15 minutes of fame
[3977] A variety of continental breakfasts
[3975] Being an amateur hotel inspector helps me run a professional hotel
[3973] Well House Manor on Four in a Bed - the ongoing story
[3972] Four in a Bed - comment on results
[3971] The Experience
[3970] Comparing four VERY different places to stay
[3968] Expecting nothing, but prepared for anything
[3965] Well House Manor, Melksham - on national TV next week
[3962] Melksham welcomes visitors - new blue plaque trail and more
[3948] Quiet little town? Advanced Technology Centre?
[3933] Behind Melksham Spa - Mood Mist over wet fields.
[3924] The bedrooms at Well House Manor
[3864] Guest Guide for Well House Manor and Melksham
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Overview P050 -
Perl - General
[4301] Perl - still a very effective language indeed for extracting and reporting
[4296] Polishing the Perl courses - updated training
[3911] How well do you know Perl and / or Python?
[3902] Shell - Grep - Sed - Awk - Perl - Python - which to use when?
[3823] Know Python or PHP? Want to learn Perl too?
[3407] Perl - a quick reminder and revision. Test yourself!
[3332] DNA to Amino Acid - a sample Perl script
[3322] How much has Perl (and other languages) changed?
[3093] How many toilet rolls - hotel inventory and useage
[2971] Should the public sector compete with businesses? and other deep questions
[2825] Perl course - is it tailored to Linux, or Microsoft Windows?
[2783] The Perl Survey
[2736] Perl Course FAQ
[2504] Learning to program in ...
[2374] Lead characters on Perl variable names
[2242] So what is this thing called Perl that I keep harping on about?
[2228] Where do I start when writing a program?
[1897] Keeping on an even keel
[1750] Glorious (?) 12th August - what a Pe(a)rl!
[743] How to debug a Perl program
[400] New in the shops
[116] The next generation of programmer
(
article) "Perl - I didn't know you could do that"
Module P201 -
Introduction
[2832] Are you learning Perl? Some more examples for you!
[2812] What is Perl?
[2070] Converting to Perl - the sort of programs you will write
[1852] Perl and Blackberries
[1753] Perl v PHP, choosing the right language
[1717] Q - Should I use Perl or Python?
[924] The LAMP Cookbook - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl
[846] Is Perl being replaced by PHP and Python?
[743] How to debug a Perl program
[691] Testing you Perl / PHP / MySQL / Tcl knowledge
[629] Choosing the right language
[604] Perl - multiprocess applications
[594] Twice is a co-incidence and three times is a pattern
[577] Learning to program in Perl or PHP
[382] Central London Courses - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, MySQL
[317] Programming languages - a comparison
[25] Release numbers
(
article) New to programming. Portable code. Perl or Java?
{
pex3} Same thing - sorted!
{
urler} Splitting out a URL
{
pex4} Short Perl program ... XML output
{
pex2} Extended end of day one demonstration
{
calc} Command line / STDIN Perl calculator
{
pear_ex} A short program to handle substantial data
{
whc.pm} Sample standard set of subroutines to share between applications
{
s_c3} Screen Counter demo - look for RasterFlex boards
{
talker} Simple talker written in Perl
Module P202 -
Perl Fundamentals
[4324] Learning to program - variables and constants
[3917] BODMAS - the order a computer evaluates arithmetic expressions
[3574] Perl functions such as chop change their input parameters
[3542] What order are operations performed in, in a Perl expression?
[3398] Perl - making best use of the flexibility, but also using good coding standards
[3329] Perl from basics
[3278] Do I need to initialise variables - programming in C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby or Java.
[3102] AND and OR operators - what is the difference between logical and bitwise varieties?
[3059] Object Orientation in an hour and other Perl Lectures
[2876] Different perl examples - some corners I rarely explore
[2832] Are you learning Perl? Some more examples for you!
[2442] Variable storage - Perl, Tcl and Python compared
[1946] Variable Types in Perl
[1826] Perl - Subs, Chop v Chomp, => v ,
[1726] Hot Courses - Perl
[1448] Question on division (Java) - Also Perl, PHP, Python ...
[1312] Some one line Perl tips and techniques
[748] Getting rid of variables after you have finished with them
[184] MTBF of coffee machines
{
hello} "Hello World"
{
av2} average of 2 ages, shows precedence and string to number conversions
{
rw2} Using chop to get rid of the newline
{
average} Calculate and print average of 2 ages
{
read_write} Read a value, calculate, output an answer
{
chopin} Read from user, write to screen WITH FAULT
{
bod} Precedence of operators
{
mfrp} Plan ahead - write the comments first
{
ages} compare two ages
{
one_line} two names are echoed back on one line
{
codemo} Coercion - i.e. silent data type conversion
{
bmi2} First Practical Program - including comments and documentation
{
poor} A program that does something unexpected
{
couple} reads two names and echos them
{
yikes} chop - altered incoming value and returned value
{
greeting} prompt and read user input
{
wrong} A program with a syntax error
{
language} Perl language fundamentals - example
{
hello_again} Performing one action after another - a sequence of statements
Module P203 -
More about the Perl Environment
[2876] Different perl examples - some corners I rarely explore
[1865] Debugging and Data::Dumper in Perl
[748] Getting rid of variables after you have finished with them
[743] How to debug a Perl program
[328] Making programs easy for any user to start
(
article) Parrot - Perl's new Virtual Machine
{
assume} Perl assumes empty variables
{
rw2} read, calculate, print results (2)
{
d2} Prompt, read, chop and echo with comments, warnings and POD documentation
{
symbols.pm} Package used within simple perl example
{
rw3} Calculate, using a module
Module P204 -
Conditionals and Loops
[4323] Learning to program - Loop statements such as while
[4322] Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if)
[4031] Showing what programming errors look like - web site pitfall
[3895] Flowchart to program - learning to program with Well House
[3397] Does a for loop evaluate its end condition once, or on every iteration?
[3004] Increment operators for counting - Perl, PHP, C and others
[2832] Are you learning Perl? Some more examples for you!
[2711] For loop - checked once, or evety time? Ruby v Perl comparison and contrast
[2550] Do not copy and paste code - there are much better ways
[2351] Ternary operators alternatives - Perl and Lua lazy operators
[1727] Equality and looks like tests - Perl
[1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ...
[1607] Learning to program in Perl
[1477] Decisions - small ones, or big ones?
[1468] Lexical v Arithemetic testing, Bash and Perl
[1191] Smart English Output - via PHP and Perl ? : operator
[930] -> , >= and => in Perl
[353] Wimbledon Neck
{
d2r2} Illustration of looping to process a series of values, accumulating totals
{
summer} Answer to practical (reading and summing numbers)
{
ask} if, elsif and else (right)
{
readandtotal} Reading and totalling numbers - sample answer
{
bmi4} bmi demonstration with loops
{
nask} if, elsif and else (wrong use of =)
{
lp1} Blocks within blocks
{
d2r1} Illustration of looping to process a series of values
{
din} Use of shorthand operators
{
dinners} nested blocks - loops and conditionals
{
bmi3} Demonstration with conditionals
{
bitwise} Demonstration of bitwise and logical operators
{
lp2} Blocks within blocks (shows \ protection)
{
numbers} how to write numeric constants
{
condition} if and if - else; blocks.
{
looper} while loop
Module P205 -
Initial String Handling
[3770] Sample answers to training course exercises - available on our web site
[3548] Dark mornings, dog update, and Python and Lua courses before Christmas
[3547] Using Perl to generate multiple reports from a HUGE file, efficiently
[3411] Single and double quotes strings in Perl - what is the difference?
[3005] Lots of ways of doing it in Perl - printing out answers
[2963] Removing the new line with chop or chomp in Perl - what is the difference?
[2832] Are you learning Perl? Some more examples for you!
[2816] Intelligent Matching in Perl
[2798] Perl - skip the classics and use regular expressions
[1860] Seven new intermediate Perl examples
[1849] String matching in Perl with Regular Expressions
[1608] Underlining in Perl and Python - the x and * operator in use
[1195] Regular Express Primer
[987] Ruby v Perl - interpollating variables
[970] String duplication - x in Perl, * in Python and Ruby
[324] The backtick operator in Python and Perl
[254] x operator in Perl
[31] Here documents
{
pattern} Regular expression learning tool
{
heredoc} Use of a here document for copyright block
{
pig} Regular expression - first example with anchors, literals, groups, and counts
{
sc} Case insensitive comparison
{
proper} Case changes on string
{
chx} Comparison of chop and chomp
{
stringers} Strings in Perl
{
lms} comparing . and ,
{
perlstring} Ways of writing strings in Perl
{
bticks} backtick operator - runs an operating system command
{
finsent} Trimming a sentence
{
im10} Intelligent match on scalars
{
dqs} Single, double and back quotes
{
pfilter} Filter roads.xyz to match a pattern
{
eqt} Numeric, String and match comparisons
{
singlename} regex to look for a single name
{
fil_tar} Filtering a log file for 'lua'
{
prop2} Using double quoted strings to change case
{
pws} Use of eq rather that == for string comparison
{
xz} Printing out variable contents with labelling text
{
greeting} use of x operator
{
romance} Quoted strings, qq strings and here documents
{
prop3} single and double quotes, q and qq strings
{
plook} Simple example of reading and filtering a data file
{
cs} Exercise answer - completing a sentence
{
pf2} Filter roads.xyz to match a pattern (using open or die)
{
izit} ~~ =~ eq and == operators compared
{
deepmidwinter} Course exercise - sample answer
{
midwinter} Course exercise - sample answer
{
autumn} Sample answer - course exercise
{
fd} Delimiting a variable name
{
firststring} low level string functions demonstrated
{
winter} Course exercise - sample answer
Module P206 -
More Loops and Conditionals
[3914] While, for, foreach or something else to loop.
[3619] Ruby v Perl - a comparison example
[3398] Perl - making best use of the flexibility, but also using good coding standards
[3200] How a for loop works Java, Perl and other languages
[2972] Some more advanced Perl examples from a recent course
[2967] Multiway branches in Perl - the given and when syntax
[2892] Alternative loops and conditionals in Ruby and Perl
[2832] Are you learning Perl? Some more examples for you!
[2824] A pint of Black Rat, and a lazy barman
[2817] Setting a safety net or fallback value in Perl
[2815] switch and case, or given and when in Perl
[2711] For loop - checked once, or evety time? Ruby v Perl comparison and contrast
[1825] Question Mark - Colon operator (Perl and PHP)
[1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ...
[1582] Ruby, C, Java and more - getting out of loops
[1220] for loop - how it works (Perl, PHP, Java, C, etc)
[1191] Smart English Output - via PHP and Perl ? : operator
[962] Breaking a loop - Ruby and other languages
[657] The ternary operator in Python
[299] What - no switch or case statement?
[138] Perl - redo and last without a loop
{
eloop} Labelled block style of loop
{
throwz} Sample answer - throwing a die
{
tel4} Usin the ? : operator instead of if and else
{
telegram} if and else example
{
mls} Knock out Competition - how many teams?
{
golf} Knockout competition - how many teams / players needed?
{
swit} Use of label to mimic a switch
{
g4} String formatting, conditionals and loops
{
qc} while loop, rewritten as for loop
{
power} inverted until loop example
{
p023.c} read an array of numbers from a text string
{
forloop} Good and bad examples of a for loop
{
jumps} demonstration of next, last and redo
{
safety_net} The // defined or operator
{
bip} Different conditionals and comparisons
{
dunt} A do ... until loop - reprompt until you get valid input.
{
andor} and, or, &&, || - precendence
{
dice} Sample answer - rolling a die
{
pswit} given and when - a switchlike syntax
{
iffy} Read - calculate - conditional - output
{
tel2} unless, and if and unless written in reverse
{
tae} Checking user input
{
given_demo} given (Perl 5.10 onwards)
{
tel3} Conditional operators "and" and "or"
{
lazyops} Lazy and and && operators
{
jump2} Using a label in Perl to jump out of nested loops
{
qc2} use of triadic operator
{
dowhile} a while loop that runs at least once
{
jumps2} Using a label in Perl to jump out of nested loops
Module P207 -
File Handling
[3839] Spraying data from one incoming to series of outgoing files in Perl
[3830] Traversing a directory in Perl
[3548] Dark mornings, dog update, and Python and Lua courses before Christmas
[3326] Finding your big files in Perl - design considerations beyond the course environment
[2833] Fresh Perl Teaching Examples - part 2 of 3
[2821] Chancellor George Osborne inspires Perl Program
[2818] File open and read in Perl - modernisation
[2405] But I am reading from a file - no need to prompt (Perl)
[2233] Transforming data in Perl using lists of lists and hashes of hashes
[1861] Reactive (dynamic) formatting in Perl
[1860] Seven new intermediate Perl examples
[1841] Formatting with a leading + / Lua and Perl
[1709] There is more that one way - Perl
[1467] stdout v stderr (Tcl, Perl, Shell)
[1442] Reading a file multiple times - file pointers
[1416] Good, steady, simple example - Perl file handling
[1312] Some one line Perl tips and techniques
[1312] Some one line Perl tips and techniques
[867] Being sure to be positive in Perl
[702] Iterators - expressions tha change each time you call them
[618] Perl - its up to YOU to check your file opened
[616] printf - a flawed but useful function
[255] STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR and DATA - Perl file handles
[114] Relative or absolute milkman
[12] How many people in a room?
(
article) Writing to and reading from files
{
newread} <> v readline
{
biggy} Finding huge files
{
legacy} Divide money between children and print neatly
{
christmas} Formatted printing - splittin money between the grandchildren
{
tin} Filter and reformat a data file
{
perlwget} Running an OS command from within a Perl script
{
sp} Formatted printing
{
procmon} Process monitoring - demonstration of principle
{
reporter} file status operators -x and -s
{
costa} Output file handles, open, and defaults
{
leedspark} alternative answer to practical at end of module
{
paut} Piping a ping into your program
{
wacsal} Re-active formatting
{
forvat} Formatting strings and numbers
{
sswd} Directory parsing, formatting data read
{
park} Sample answer to "the park" exercise
{
bridges} sample answer - town with Bridges in name
{
pe2rl} Single parse of data, multiple reports generated
{
addplus} Formatter - adding a leading plus
{
ck} Splitting money many ways - formatted printing
{
fsv} File open, read, write test example
{
fan} One input and five output files in a single program
{
fprint} Formatted printing - some specifier details
{
piper} Use of file handles to pipe from and to processes
{
ddd} Splitting and reformatting data
Module P208 -
Lists
[4609] Mapping an array / list without a loop - how to do it in Perl 6
[3939] Lots of ways of doing the same thing in Perl - list iteration
[3906] Taking the lead, not the dog, for a walk.
[3870] Writing more maintainable Perl - naming fields from your data records
[3669] Stepping through a list (or an array) in reverse order
[3548] Dark mornings, dog update, and Python and Lua courses before Christmas
[3400] $ is atomic and % and @ are molecular - Perl
[2996] Copying - duplicating data, or just adding a name? Perl and Python compared
[2833] Fresh Perl Teaching Examples - part 2 of 3
[2813] Iterating over a Perl list and changing all items
[2484] Finding text and what surrounds it - contextual grep
[2295] The dog is not in trouble
[2226] Revision / Summary of lists - Perl
[2067] Perl - lists do so much more than arrays
[1918] Perl Socket Programming Examples
[1917] Out of memory during array extend - Perl
[1828] Perl - map to process every member of a list (array)
[1703] Perl ... adding to a list - end, middle, start
[1316] Filtering and altering Perl lists with grep and map
[1304] Last elements in a Perl or Python list
[968] Perl - a list or a hash?
[928] C++ and Perl - why did they do it THAT way?
[773] Breaking bread
[762] Huge data files - what happened earlier?
[622] Queues and barrel rolls in Perl
[560] The fencepost problem
[463] Splitting the difference
[355] Context in Perl
[240] Conventional restraints removed
[230] Course sizes - beware of marketing statistics
[140] Comparison Chart for Perl programmers - list functions
[28] Perl for breakfast
(
article) Data Monging
(
article) Context - List, scalar and double quotes
{
lx} $ atomic, @ molecular
{
404h} Exercise answer - looking for all "404" accesses from certain hosts
{
fanlist} List functions such as chomp and push in use
{
dmore} dicey list sample answer
{
linelen} Using a list to count records of various lengths
{
prog.pl} Iterating through a list
{
prog2.pl} mapping a list, iterating a list with your own counter
{
towns.xyz} Data file - list of States, Towns, Countries etc
{
vgrep} Verbose grep - illustration of list slices
{
im2} Using ~~ to match lists (arrays)
{
prg} Lottery selection
{
c1} Context, and splitting a list into named scalars
{
booklook} chomp, grep, split, unshift and join example
{
salad} setting up lists, looping through lists, list slices
{
dins} Demonstration of some facilities of lists
{
back} Setting up, using and looping through a list
{
li1} First example of a list
{
404hunter} Look for all "error 404" pages from certain hosts.
{
yumyum} Elegant Context Demo
{
dow} Anonymous list example
{
cont2} List, scalar and double quote contexts
{
odd} Shuffling a list
{
ctx} Lists and contexts
{
sal2} Context examples
{
grepplus} grep altering the incoming list
{
li2} looping through a list
{
escape} naming list members
{
gm} grep to comb, map to alter
{
context} context demonstration
{
lat.pl} copy a list - duplicates it
{
sameness} File Comparison
Module P209 -
Subroutines in Perl
[3833] Learning to use existing classes in Perl
[3574] Perl functions such as chop change their input parameters
[3066] Separating groups of variables into namespaces
[2929] Passing a variable number of parameters in to a function / method
[2833] Fresh Perl Teaching Examples - part 2 of 3
[2550] Do not copy and paste code - there are much better ways
[2069] Efficient calls to subs in Perl - avoid duplication, gain speed
[1921] Romeo and Julie
[1860] Seven new intermediate Perl examples
[1850] Daisy the Cow and a Pint of Ginger Beer
[1826] Perl - Subs, Chop v Chomp, => v ,
[1784] Global - Tcl, PHP, Python
[1782] Calling procs in Tcl and how it compares to Perl
[1202] Returning multiple values from a function (Perl, PHP, Python)
[1163] A better alternative to cutting and pasting code
[969] Perl - $_ and @_
[775] Do not duplicate your code
[588] Changing @INC - where Perl loads its modules
[531] Packages in packages in Perl
[357] Where do Perl modules load from
[308] Call by name v call by value
[96] Variable Scope
{
valread.pm} standard subroutines to include in several programs
{
mysub} calling a subroutine in the same file
{
ct2} Coverage test - application using coverage objects
{
mailfilter.pm} package to encapsulate information - NOT really objects.
{
mc2} using email objects
{
standardstuff.pm} Standard and repeated code - in own file
{
utils.pm} Standard functions - tipsy demo
{
bandq.pm} package with "romeo" example
{
substamp} Sample use of subroutines
{
melkservice} First use of training class
{
coverage.pm} Routines to combine integer ranges to provide overall coverage information
{
covertest} Sample application - coverage test given ranges of integers
{
mailister2} including package name in package methods
{
ua.pm} Identify whether a web access record is from a spider
{
train.pm} Class for training - first use
{
email.pm} email class of objects - a very simple class
{
control} Example of how you should NOT repeat code
{
bridges.pm} subroutines called up from example applications
{
subgnrange} Passing parameters in and out of subroutines
{
subby} repeated code in a sub
{
funcall} passing a hash to a sub
{
splitty} using subs to avoid repitition
{
tipsy} Calling in a module from you Perl program
{
romeo2} Answer to Romeo and Juliet question
{
mc} Email analysis via a package
{
tip1} Parameters in and out of a sub
{
future} Using a class in Perl
{
courses.pl} Sample (test) program to try out a diary
{
ms2} calling subroutines in a different file
{
myvar} Use of my to reduce variable persistance and scope
{
mf2.pm} package of subroutines for mailfilter2
{
cov2.pm} Coverage as a class. Allows multiple parallel coverage sets!
{
l2} lists / context demo
{
tip2} passing data in and out of subs
{
diaryev.pm} Sample class for courses.pl demo
{
scope} Scope - our, my and local
{
subgetnum} Sample use of subroutines - returned parameters
{
romeo} Romeo and Julie - solution
{
maillister} using a module to retain information
{
globvar} demonstration that variables default to global
Module P210 -
Topicalization and Special Variables
[4700] Obfurscated code - it might work, but is it maintainable?
[4682] One line scripts - Awk, Perl and Ruby
[4395] Preparing data through a little bit of Perl
[4301] Perl - still a very effective language indeed for extracting and reporting
[3449] Apache Internal Dummy Connection - what is it and what should I do with it?
[2972] Some more advanced Perl examples from a recent course
[2876] Different perl examples - some corners I rarely explore
[2833] Fresh Perl Teaching Examples - part 2 of 3
[1922] Flurinci knows Raby Lae PHP and Jeve
[1860] Seven new intermediate Perl examples
[1829] Dont bother to write a Perl program
[1728] A short Perl example
[1705] Environment variables in Perl / use Env
[1704] Finding operating system settings in Perl
[1508] How not to write Perl?
[1444] Using English can slow you right down!
[1289] Pure Perl
[1232] Bathtub example
[1221] Bathtubs and pecking birds
[1136] Buffering output - why it is done and issues raised in Tcl, Perl, Python and PHP
[969] Perl - $_ and @_
[639] Progress bars and other dynamic reports
[493] Running a Perl script within a PHP page
(
article) The wonders of Perl
{
shhh} script to run on every line of a file
{
johnny.vegas} Output from select demo
{
topic1} Variable used many times - candidate for topicalisation
{
shh} Counting Unique visitors in a log file
{
rqu} Use of awk-like options with Perl
{
topper} File handle <>
{
bcv} Use of @ARGV command line and $_
{
top3} Further use of $_
{
oddgrep} Using grep and map with $_
{
commline} Handling the command line via @ARGV
{
spout} Special variables to control output formatting of lists
{
gop} Handling the command line via Getopt. Also Usage lines.
{
delay} select to change default output
{
paws} Progress bar / progress reports
{
topic2} Topicalisation in use
{
hodo} Filter looking for IP addresses of computer(s) with "tea" in name
{
ama} Use of $" to produce a csv output
{
allhosts} Special variable $/; reading whole file to scalar
{
special1} Program using a variety of special variables
{
infovars} English and short names for informational special variables
{
cv} rewrite of "dos2unix" in Perl
{
ticker} Clock, using autoflush to update screen every second
{
sample} Filter - takes names and attempts to capitalise correctly
{
cl2} Program that generates a warning
{
spot} Using implicit loop with -n
{
start} BEGIN - CHECK - INIT - main code - END
{
was} Use of command line options in Perl
{
perltodiamond} Using the -p option on the command line
{
exact} map, grep and $_ save loops
{
gop2} Handling command line options - getopt
Module P211 -
Hashes
[3662] Finding all the unique lines in a file, using Python or Perl
[3451] Why would you want to use a Perl hash?
[3400] $ is atomic and % and @ are molecular - Perl
[3106] Buckets
[3072] Finding elements common to many lists / arrays
[3042] Least Common Ancestor - what is it, and a Least Common Ancestor algorithm implemented in Perl
[2920] Sorting - naturally, or into a different order
[2915] Looking up a value by key - associative arrays / Hashes / Dictionaries
[2836] Perl - the duplicate key problem explained, and solutions offered
[2833] Fresh Perl Teaching Examples - part 2 of 3
[1917] Out of memory during array extend - Perl
[1856] A few of my favourite things
[1826] Perl - Subs, Chop v Chomp, => v ,
[1705] Environment variables in Perl / use Env
[1334] Stable sorting - Tcl, Perl and others
[968] Perl - a list or a hash?
[930] -> , >= and => in Perl
[738] (Perl) Callbacks - what are they?
[386] What is a callback?
[240] Conventional restraints removed
{
account} Sample - extracting statistics from an access log file
{
envrep} use of %ENV
{
stdhash3} Hash keys must be unique - so make up a new keu
{
cbdemo} How sort callbacks work
{
aco_1} Access log - listing hosts via a hash
{
stdcodes} Dialling codes for use with course exercises
{
pathit} List out all programs on the current $PATH
{
acc_0} Loading from a module in another file
{
niports} hash - manipulation
{
sthash2} Keys must be unique - solution 1 - Append all possible values
{
langies} List of all the skills in a file, and who has them
{
nip2} set up and loop though a hash in various ways
{
stdhash} keys must be unique - example illustrates the problem
{
so2} Sort using your own sort subroutine
{
nip4} Sorting the keys of a hash
{
bankout} initialising a hash
{
stdhash4} Keys must be unique - design new keys, add accessor loops to find multiple keys
{
ukports} fill and look up a hash
{
im3} Using intelligent matches to check hash keys
{
channel} Ferries to France - data file
{
web_count} Sample answer - web access counter question 1
{
ha1} Setting up, then displaying contents, of a hash
{
so4} sort using a more complex routine
{
h1} Setting up, adding to, changing a hash (associative array)
{
hash1.pl} setting up and using a hash
{
blx.pl} Use of hashes in Perl / CGI
{
fwom} Hash - keys must be unique
{
acl} Sample answer - web_c2, page 152
{
nip3} the danger of jumping out of an each loop
{
so5} sorting with a comparison block
{
requests.xyz} Data file for hash demos and exercises
{
env2} ENV module to import variables as globals
{
sorter} Demonstration of default dort order
{
webc2} Sample answer - 2nd question
{
ford.pm} Module for use with account demo
{
access_log.xyz} Log file used in many Well House exercises
{
peeps.pl} Set up a hash of people
Module P212 -
More on Character Strings
[4452] Binary data handling - Python and Perl
[3927] First match or all matches? Perl Regular Expressions
[3707] Converting codons via Amino Acids to Proteins in Perl
[3650] Possessive Regular Expression Matching - Perl, Objective C and some other languages
[3630] Serialsing and unserialising data for storage and transfer in Perl
[3546] The difference between dot (a.k.a. full stop, period) and comma in Perl
[3411] Single and double quotes strings in Perl - what is the difference?
[3332] DNA to Amino Acid - a sample Perl script
[3322] How much has Perl (and other languages) changed?
[3100] Looking ahead and behind in Regular Expressions - double matching
[3059] Object Orientation in an hour and other Perl Lectures
[2993] Arrays v Lists - what is the difference, why use one or the other
[2877] Further more advanced Perl examples
[2874] Unpacking a Perl string into a list
[2834] Teaching examples in Perl - third and final part
[2801] Binary data handling with unpack in Perl
[2657] Want to do a big batch edit? Nothing beats Perl!
[2379] Making variables persistant, pretending a database is a variable and other Perl tricks
[2230] Running a piece of code is like drinking a pint of beer
[1947] Perl substitute - the e modifier
[1735] Finding words and work boundaries (MySQL, Perl, PHP)
[1727] Equality and looks like tests - Perl
[1510] Handling Binary data (.gif file example) in Perl
[1336] Ignore case in Regular Expression
[1305] Regular expressions made easy - building from components
[1251] Substitute operator / modifiers in Perl
[1230] Commenting a Perl Regular Expression
[1222] Perl, the substitute operator s
[943] Matching within multiline strings, and ignoring case in regular expressions
[928] C++ and Perl - why did they do it THAT way?
[737] Coloured text in a terminal from Perl
[608] Don't expose your regular expressions
[597] Storing a regular expression in a perl variable
[586] Perl Regular Expressions - finding the position and length of the match
[583] Remember to process blank lines
[453] Commenting Perl regular expressions
(
article) Analysing incoming data lines
(
article) Pattern Matching - a primer on regular Expressions
{
reg} Stepping through regular expressions
{
n3} Capturing groups into a list
{
name2} Match and substitute - (example that fails)
{
ogado} Anagrams of First Great Western served stations
{
pusher} Single v global match and alternatives
{
glomatch} Use of "g" modifier
{
rogues} Using tr to find invalid characters in a string
{
bincopi} Read and analyse binary .gif files
{
pwline2} using tr to change multiple characters; also c and s switches
{
name} Match and substitute (long winded way!)
{
pcrd} Modifiers im matching
{
newsub} Examples of the =~ s for substitute operator
{
holiday} Packing and unpacking binary data
{
n5} Special variables $' $& and $`
{
tophat} Hashes, Regular Expressions, Topicalisation ... end-of-course example
{
greedyvglobal.pl} Greedy matches v Global matches
{
bindemo} Printing out and reading in binary numbers
{
favex.pl} Postcode, Zipcode, credit card no. etc - regular expression matches
{
name3} Match and substitute executed block
{
slurpex} matching lines - whole file at a time
{
cats2} Sample answer 2
{
n4} Special variables $' $& and $`
{
emma_hunter} Match and Capture - email address
{
itsperl} Serialise and unserialise strings
{
catshow} Sample answer 1
{
ystwyth.pl} binary data handling - examine a .gif file
{
cstr} Defining Strings
{
totext} Converting < > and & to web standard sequences
{
pcv1} Postcode extractor - mark 1
{
html2} Sparse matching, looking for an HTML tag
{
pwline} Character by character translation with tr
{
pcv2} Postcode extractor Mk2 - save into named variables
{
n2} Capturing groups into $1 and $2
{
stuff} storing a compiled regular expression - qr
{
html1} Matching HTML - a greedy match doesn't work
{
3to3} translate a DNA 3-character codon to an amino acid
{
names} Regular expression match - revision
{
yem} Perl regular expression - information returned
{
phone} Substitution using back reference
{
html3} Global matching in a scalar context
{
packet} pack and unpack
{
sedm} Substitue operator
{
filler} Using Regular Expressions to "mailmerge"
{
letters} Look for word starting and ending with same letter
{
getlinks} Find all href links from a page
{
emre} KISS - keep it simple - regular expression
{
pcv3} Postcode, Mk3 - extract multiple postcodes
{
trandy} tr (or y) and its modifiers
{
regextra} Splitting up a URL via a regex - sample exercise answer
{
html4} Global matching in a list context
{
murl} Regular expression with comments
{
sting} different ways of defining a string
Module P213 -
Creating your own Classes
[4607] Classes and object - first steps in Perl 6
[3833] Learning to use existing classes in Perl
[3098] Learning Object Orientation in Perl through bananas and perhaps Moose
[3059] Object Orientation in an hour and other Perl Lectures
[2969] What does blessing a variable in Perl mean?
[2877] Further more advanced Perl examples
[2834] Teaching examples in Perl - third and final part
[2169] When should I use OO techniques?
[1925] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
[1864] Object Oriented Perl - First Steps
[1664] Example of OO in Perl
[1435] Object Oriented Programming in Perl - Course
[1320] Perl for Larger Projects - Object Oriented Perl
[983] Blessing in Perl / Member variable in Ruby
[975] Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions
[246] When to bless a Perl variable
[227] Bellringing and Programming and Objects and Perl
(
article) Is Perl truly an OO language?
(
article) Object Orientation in Perl - First Steps
{
medium} OO with inheritance demonstrated
{
need1} calling subs via bare words
{
peeps.pm} Definition of two classes and polymorphism
{
scemail} quick check of email address format
{
need2} Solving the bare word
{
room.pm} A simple class which uses a blessed hash
{
antest} Introduction to Objects
{
message.htp} Sample template for use in other demos
{
nsp} variables in packages (autovivification!)
{
big} How Object Inheritance is done in Perl
{
tiny} Towards OO in Perl
{
at2} Hello Perl Object World
{
ub2} A test program to use the "book" class
{
message.pl} None-OO example of template filling
{
bd1.pm} A simple class, using a scalar to store object information
{
thing.pm} Generic class for use during exercises
{
housing.pm} Definition of house, castle and igloo classes
{
book.pm} A simple class with a constructor and 2 access methods
{
bd3.pm} A simple class, storing each object in a hash
{
small} True OO example
{
ce.pm} Object interface to call events
{
roar} Sample program to use room.pm
{
higloo} houses and igloos - an OO example
{
oco} Using the house, castle and igloo classes
{
ramble.pm} A class that includes a factory method
{
commute.pm} commute.pm - used in factory demo
{
journey} Call to factory class. See ramble.pm and commute.pm
{
ubany.pl} Test program for ub1 ub2 and ub3 classes
{
spammer} Using global matching to extract all matches
{
usebook} Sample application, constructs and uses book objects
{
massage.pl} Template object and test program
{
blessing} Blessing and resultant polymorphism
{
wheretogo} Example that uses commute.pm and ramble.pm
{
bd2.pm} A simple class, using a list to store information about each object
{
3cl} Object Orientation - 2 classes and polymorphism
{
ub3} Another test program to use the book class
Module P214 -
System Dependencies
[2825] Perl course - is it tailored to Linux, or Microsoft Windows?
[1702] Running operating system commands in Perl
[733] Perl for Systems Admin - suid scripts
{
msword} extracting from a Word document ready for upload!
{
courseend.pl} OS independent admin example - bundling up all training examples after a course
{
registry.pl} Example of using registry from Perl
{
faad} A template system report summary
{
info_more} looking at your perl configuration in detail
{
msexcel} Creating an Excel spread sheet
{
back} system dependent backquotes
{
userinfo} use of getpwnam for user information
{
cv} End of line character conversion - Windows to Linux / Unix
{
hostinfo} Looking up host by IP address and name
{
ws1.wsf} Using Windows Script to list out special directories
{
blockshell} running a series of shell commands
{
ws2.wsf} Windows script - report on a datafile
{
mytemp} template for faad example
Module P215 -
More about Files
[3839] Spraying data from one incoming to series of outgoing files in Perl
[3412] Handling binary data in Perl is easy!
[3320] Reading the nth line from a file (Perl and Tcl examples)
[2964] An introduction to file handling in programs - buffering, standard in and out, and file handles
[2405] But I am reading from a file - no need to prompt (Perl)
[1832] Processing all files in a directory - Perl
[1709] There is more that one way - Perl
[1225] Perl - functions for directory handling
(
article) Writing to and reading from files
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
{
lowther.pl} Reading data from the end of the program file
{
dotty} globbing on a file handle
{
whatsmypath} Lists out all duplicate executables
{
dend} Data on end of program file
{
chdirddemo} Using directory functions cwd, chdir, opendir, readdir
{
file} _ and $_ in file operators
{
ft} testing file existence, size and other stats
{
allin} Read and report contents of a directory
{
segment} Spray one input file across 16 different outputs
{
fal} split an incoming file lots of ways
{
inter} See is STDIN is interactive, and prompt if it is
{
af} using the stat function to report on a file
{
hunt} Random access to a file of fixed length records
{
dxyz} Finding all files with names matching a pattern
{
f2} Formatting using "format" and "write"
{
ab_file} Using some of the file status operators
Module P216 -
Handling Dates and Time
[765] Perl - turning seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds
[454] Time conversions in Perl
[239] What and why for the epoch
{
tim} Converting times between epoch seconds and regular time
{
dante} Date and time demos
{
dt4} use of time and localtime
{
dt5} compare a stated date and time with now!
{
dt2} dt2 - file last modified (seconds from 1.1.1970)
{
dt1} file last modified (days ago)
{
hf} Modified "chivvy" - perhaps less OS dependent
{
dt3} current date and time (system dependent!)
{
sigint} Use of Signals in Perl to trap ^C (Control C)
{
chivvy} Using %SIG to timeout keyboard entry
Module P217 -
More than Simple Lists and Hashes!
[3906] Taking the lead, not the dog, for a walk.
[3577] How to do multidimensional arrays (or rather lists and hashes) in Perl
[3444] Take the dog on a lead - do not carry her. Perl references.
[3406] Not multidimentional arrays - but lists of lists. Much more flexible. Perl!
[3399] From fish, loaves and apples to money, plastic cards and BACS (Perl references explained)
[3118] Arrays of arrays - or 2D arrays. How to program tables.
[3105] Adventure with references to lists and lists of references
[3072] Finding elements common to many lists / arrays
[3007] Setting up a matrix of data (2D array) for processing in your program
[2996] Copying - duplicating data, or just adding a name? Perl and Python compared
[2877] Further more advanced Perl examples
[2840] Just pass a pointer - do not duplicate the data
[2241] Perl references - $$var and \$var notations
[1514] Autovivification - the magic appearance of variables in Perl
[293] Course follow-ups
[43] Hash of lists in Perl
{
refs} References - a first demo
{
2tiny} A list of lists - autovivification
{
menu} Passing a reference to a list
{
rrr} Setting up a list of lists (like a 2D array) from a file
{
ref2} References - the fundamentals
{
ar4} Reading a data file into a structure
{
hali} Example of a hash of lists
{
multikey} A Hash of lists - a more complex example
{
d2} Passing list, passing reference to list comparison
{
ar3} Rekeying data
{
show_acc} Setting up a list of lists
{
lili} lists of lists - like a multidimensional array
{
deal} A list of lists - dealing a pack of cards
{
revise} Revision of reference notations in Perl
{
m2} Passing a reference to a hash
{
rain} Setting up a hash of lists
{
rn2} Pushing a list v pushing a reference to a list
{
d3} Collection of collections (i.e. 2D array)
{
rq2d} Setting up a hash of lists
{
ar2} Combining lists - list of lists v one long list
{
clutter} Finding items common to a number of liats
{
2ds} Setting up a list of lists (like a 2D array)
{
lilo} Collections and references to collections
{
ar3.cgi} Rekeying data / presenting it on a web page
{
haha} A hash of hashes
{
lili2} List of lists
{
slush} Setting up a list of lists in Perl
{
hohum} hash of list of hashes
{
deal2} List of lists - flexible example
Module P218 -
More Objects
[4366] Changing what operators do on objects - a comparison across different programming languages
[4356] Object factories in C++, Python, PHP and Perl
[4098] Using object orientation for non-physical objects
[4096] Perl design patterns example
[3941] Building an object based on another object in Perl
[3581] Perl - calls to methods that use => - what do they mean?
[3377] What do I mean when I add things in Perl?
[3098] Learning Object Orientation in Perl through bananas and perhaps Moose
[3097] Making Perl class definitions more conventional and shorter
[2972] Some more advanced Perl examples from a recent course
[2876] Different perl examples - some corners I rarely explore
[2811] Igloos melt in the summer, but houses do not
[2717] The Multiple Inheritance Conundrum, interfaces and mixins
[2651] Calculation within objects - early, last minute, or cached?
[2427] Operator overloading - redefining addition and other Perl tricks
[1949] Nuclear Physics comes to our web site
[1819] Calling base class constructors
[1665] Factory method example - Perl
[1664] Example of OO in Perl
[1435] Object Oriented Programming in Perl - Course
[1320] Perl for Larger Projects - Object Oriented Perl
[1217] What are factory and singleton classes?
[930] -> , >= and => in Perl
[831] Comparison of Object Oriented Philosophy - Python, Java, C++, Perl
[656] Think about your design even if you don't use full UML
[592] NOT Gone phishing
[588] Changing @INC - where Perl loads its modules
[531] Packages in packages in Perl
[246] When to bless a Perl variable
[227] Bellringing and Programming and Objects and Perl
(
article) Is Perl truly an OO language?
(
article) Object Orientation in Perl - First Steps
{
tharness} Perl program, calls 2 classes, polymorphism and interitance
{
phisherman.pm} A simple class in Perl
{
angler} Program to demonstrate use of phisherman class
{
dish.pm} package showing Exporter
{
teacup.pm} For use with require demo
{
ua} Looking at data via Data::Dumper
{
animal.pm} A framework for a generic base class
{
cafe3} cafe3 - offer a number of dishes
{
bne} a standard base class?
{
offspring.pm} class offspring - an animal that need attention
{
commemorative.pm} A class which uses simple inheritance
{
basket} Sample program - polymorphism in Perl OO
{
coin.pm} Simple base class defining a coin
{
pet.pm} a pet is an animal ... inheritance ...
{
pover} overloading operators
{
lookinc} Display the @INC list
{
runner.pm} Multiple classes in a single file
{
cafe} Test application - use of EXPORTER
{
test_class_1} Test harness for class "animal"
{
overload_add.pl} Operator (+) and to_string overloading, Perl
{
oo6} SUPER example
{
tabby.pm} calling the base class constructor in Perl
{
fruit.pm}
{
fldo} Set up obects via a utility factory (main prog)
{
test_class_2} Test harness for the various subclasses of animal
{
rider} Application that uses the horse.pm module
{
tptest} Test program for the trainingprogram.pm class
{
opolop} Operator Overloading in Perl
{
runtest} Test code - for polymorphism / inheritance demo
{
visit.pm} Set up obects via a utility factory (classes prog)
{
collect} Application that uses commememorative coin class
{
li2} the @INC list and the %INC hash
{
needbr} require is runtime, use is compiletime
{
ptest} test harness for the program.pm class
{
horse.pm} BEGIN END DESTROY and import special methods
{
transport.pm} Definition of a transport animal
Module P219 -
Libraries and Resources
[3377] What do I mean when I add things in Perl?
[3101] The week before Christmas
[3009] Expect in Perl - a short explanation and a practical example
[2931] Syncronise - software, trains, and buses. Please!
[2427] Operator overloading - redefining addition and other Perl tricks
[2234] Loading external code into Perl from a nonstandard directory
[2229] Do not re-invent the wheel - use a Perl module
[1865] Debugging and Data::Dumper in Perl
[1863] About dieing and exiting in Perl
[1444] Using English can slow you right down!
[1391] Ordnance Survey Grid Reference to Latitude / Longitude
[1235] Outputting numbers as words - MySQL with Perl or PHP
[1219] Judging the quality of contributed Perl code
[760] Self help in Perl
[737] Coloured text in a terminal from Perl
[712] Why reinvent the wheel
[358] Use standard Perl modules
[357] Where do Perl modules load from
[112] Avoid the wheel being re-invented by using Perl modules
[86] Talk review - Idiomatic Perl, David Cross
(
article) "Perl - I didn't know you could do that"
{
dadu}
{
mod_demo} Use of standard modules
{
ac1} perl -w / turning warnings on and off
{
stx} croak - like die, but reports line in calling package
{
wholenumbers} The integer pragma illustrated
{
togridref} Latitude / Longitude to UK Ordnance Survey Grid Reference convertor.
{
tolatlong} UK Ordnance Survey Grid Reference to Latitude / Longitude convertor
{
colpert} printing coloured text in your terminal window
Module P221 -
Perl on the Web
[3875] Using CGI and Perl to put a simple application online. Sometimes still the best way.
[2551] Perl and the Common Gateway Interface - out of fashion but still very useful?
[1198] From Web to Web 2
[975] Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions
[687] Presentation, Business and Persistence layers in Perl and PHP
[662] An unhelpful error message from Apache httpd
[641] Simple but rugged form handling demo
[590] Danny and Donna are getting married
[493] Running a Perl script within a PHP page
[433] FTP - how to make the right transfers
{
hww.pl} Simple CGI example with urldecoding and webify
{
nice.htp} Template file for log analysis application
{
templ.htp} Template for sdo2.pl Perl / CGI demo
{
loganal.pl} Full cgi example - log file analysis
{
onweb.pl} Looking up data in a file on the web
{
echo.htp} Form / template to go with echo.pl demo
{
sdo2.pl} Multiple page Perl / CGI application
{
job3.pl} Select, display, edit job opportunities application
{
st_look.pl} Form, template, validation, POST and GET all in one example
{
letterlinks.pl} Perl on the web - simple file lookup
{
demo.pl} First cgi program - read and echos form content
{
railstats-1.xyz} data for st_look.pl demo
{
echo.pl} Web basics - echo form content
{
tabfeed.pl} Display list of SQL tables and/or table content on a web page
{
samform.html} Sample form for an CGI script
Module P222 -
Programming Efficiency and Style
[4611] Hungarian, Camel, Snake and Kebab - variable naming conventions
[2688] Security considerations in programming - what do we teach?
[2657] Want to do a big batch edit? Nothing beats Perl!
[2399] Firefighting with Perl
[1181] Good Programming practise - where to initialise variables
[743] How to debug a Perl program
{
try7} regular expression efficiency demo - index rather than regex
{
try3} regular expression efficiency demo - remove use of $&
{
trybench} regular expression efficiency demo - testing with benchmark module
{
try1} regular expression efficiency demo - start with literal
{
try5} regular expression efficiency demo - read into list
{
control} regular expression efficiency demo - control
{
try2} regular expression efficiency demo - start with anchor
{
try4} regular expression efficiency demo - process line by line
{
try6} regular expression efficiency demo - via foreach
Module P223 -
Interprocess Communication
[3940] Run other processes from within your Perl program
[3412] Handling binary data in Perl is easy!
[3011] What are .pid files?
[3010] Children, zombies, and reaping processes
[2970] Perl - doing several things at the same time
[2694] Multiple processes (forking) in Python
[1918] Perl Socket Programming Examples
[604] Perl - multiprocess applications
(
article) Controlling multiple asynchronous processes in Perl
{
pingalong} Parallel (forked) processes communicating via pipes
{
dodo} running another process from Perl
{
pinga2} Parallel (forked) processes communicating via signals and files
{
nonfat} A process that responds to signals
{
two_roles} Forking in Perl - two processes
{
h_report} Two processing in parallel (via fork) communicating (via a pipe)
{
fdem} Forking in Perl, then communicating between processes
{
breadknife} Forking a process, then the two communicating
{
f1.pl} Forking a process
{
kidgoes} Children signalling to parents as they complete
{
check} Expect - choreographing multiple pings and analysing result
{
knife} fork and two separate processes
{
pingpong} piping from another process
{
pinga3} Parallel (forked) processes communicating via signals and pipes
{
breeder} Parent forking multiple independent children
{
butter} Send a signal to a registered process
{
talker} Simple talker written in Perl
Module P224 -
Intersystem Communications
[2970] Perl - doing several things at the same time
[2876] Different perl examples - some corners I rarely explore
[2695] TCP v UDP / Client v Server - Python examples
[2402] Automated Browsing in Perl
[1918] Perl Socket Programming Examples
[1073] Heartbeat script in Perl
[604] Perl - multiprocess applications
{
netgrep} Network grep server - connect via telnet on port 5678
{
perl_robot_client} robot.txt collector in Perl from a list of sites
{
myweblib.pm} module to go with s1 web grab example
{
pfinger} Client in Perl - talks to remote finger daemon
{
victoria} fork and talk
{
albert} Forking, Piping and Signals
{
pg1} LWP - simplest test
{
pg2} LWP - sets own User Agent
{
s1} Grab a web page
Module P251 -
Perl Review
[3430] Sigils - the characters on the start of variable names in Perl, Ruby and Fortran
[3407] Perl - a quick reminder and revision. Test yourself!
[3042] Least Common Ancestor - what is it, and a Least Common Ancestor algorithm implemented in Perl
[3007] Setting up a matrix of data (2D array) for processing in your program
[2242] So what is this thing called Perl that I keep harping on about?
{
c1.pm} simple class
{
pocket} Using a simple class
{
ref2} References, lists, hashes, multidimensional structures
{
ref1} Lists and refrences
{
snobol} Various variable types in Perl
Module P252 -
Perl on the Network
[2047] Small Web Server in Perl
(
article) Making all your .html files run a Perl script
Module P254 -
Moving Programs from Perl 4 to Perl 5
[1417] What software version do we teach?
Module P255 -
Converting yourself to Perl
{
greet} Regular Expression to match a floating point number
{
flipper} Reporting size and age of files
{
peephole} Read data into a hash and sort keys
{
oops} Reading from user, echo, calculation
{
peeps.txt} Sample Data
{
pcode} Filtering a log file for images
{
loglooker} Further log file analysis
{
al1} Passing a list in Perl
{
cf} A quick tool - web log filtering
{
allo} Lists rather than arrays
{
prg} Lottery selection
{
demo.html} Sample output from pod2html
{
c1} Perl Context - another demonstration
{
gdi} Throwing a die question - sample answer
{
cstr} Writing Strings in Perl
{
lll1} Log File Analysis
{
fil_tar} Filtering a log file for 'lua'
{
diane_horse} Inverted blocks and less common conditionals
{
skillstep} Report on the first word on [each] line.
{
superls} Report on recently modified files
{
al2} Passing by reference in Perl
{
filer} Directory Processing
{
extras.pm} Module forl use in al3 demo
{
demo} Documentation for you Perl program
{
log2} Analyse requests to our server by IP address
{
lidem} List manipulation examples
{
onion} Look for IP addresses that have accesses common images
{
logger} Filtering all matching lines from a log file
{
al3} Passing to an included file
{
xmas} giving out Christmas money
{
self} Using Perl for Sys Admin
Module P256 -
Perl 6 Look Ahead
[3077] Perl 6 - significantly nearer, and Rakudo looks very good
[2967] Multiway branches in Perl - the given and when syntax
[2817] Setting a safety net or fallback value in Perl
[2816] Intelligent Matching in Perl
[2815] switch and case, or given and when in Perl
[2559] Moving the product forward - ours, and MySQL, Perl, PHP and Python too
[1721] Perl 6 - When will we have a production release?
[1417] What software version do we teach?
[1215] An update on Perl - where is it going?
[995] Ruby's case - no break
[582] DWIM and AWWO
[550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure
[113] A Parallel for Perl 6
[89] When will Perl 6 be available
(
article) Overview of what we're expecting in Perl 6
(
article) Parrot - Perl's new Virtual Machine
{
oldperl.pl} Romeo and Juliet - Perl 5
{
newperl.pl} Romeo and Juliet - Perl 6
Module P257 -
Use with Microsoft software
(
article) Using Perl to read Microsoft Word documents
{
msword} extracting from a Word document ready for upload!
{
registry.pl} An example of using the registry from Perl
{
msexcel} Creating an Excel spread sheet
{
ws1.wsf} Using Windows Script to list out special directories
{
ws2.wsf} Windows script - report on a datafile
Module P258 -
Solaris, OSX and Linux
[2834] Teaching examples in Perl - third and final part
[2022] Pre and post increment - the ++ operator
[1702] Running operating system commands in Perl
[1633] Changing a screen saver from a web page (PHP, Perl, OSX)
{
change_screen.pl} Changing Images and starting Screensaver
{
sed_awk} Linux / Unix system calls
Module P301 -
Variables in Perl
[4608] Introspecion in Perl 6
[4398] Accessing variables across subroutine boundaries - Perl, Python, Java and Tcl
[3430] Sigils - the characters on the start of variable names in Perl, Ruby and Fortran
[3059] Object Orientation in an hour and other Perl Lectures
[2972] Some more advanced Perl examples from a recent course
[2877] Further more advanced Perl examples
[2374] Lead characters on Perl variable names
[2241] Perl references - $$var and \$var notations
[1946] Variable Types in Perl
[1581] What is an lvalue? (Perl, C)
[975] Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions
{
tgd} typeglobs - a package deal (one of everything!)
{
ref2} Modifying values passed in to a subroutine
{
sfact3} Using package names to supress strict warnings
{
vartypedemo} 6 variable types in Perl
{
vbn} Soft References
{
mkd2} Anonymous lists using [ and ]
{
sfact} Beware of variable scope in recursive code
{
ty} Setting up and exercising a typeglob
{
splitter} select and typeglobs for file handles - alternative to array of file handles
{
ref3} handling a list of lists element by element, by row, and as a whole
{
mkpascal} Pascal's triangle; clever use of formatting
{
scal_type} ref function - what is in a scalar
{
sfact1} Use of strict to flag scoping dangers
{
danger} What variables have I used?
{
phash} data munging - unpack, splice, regular expressions etc
{
st2} Dumping out all variables defined
{
fact} recursion in Perl
{
iiw} my, local and global variables
{
pers} persistent my variable
{
st} Accessing Perl's symbol tables
{
ref1} References
{
gawd} Typeglob - one each of file handle, scalar, hash and list
{
dele} delete, undef, defined and exists
{
scope} variable scope illustration
{
myscope} Scoping of our and my variables
{
my2} scoping with "my"
{
henry} Variable types
Module P302 -
The Selfloader
[2876] Different perl examples - some corners I rarely explore
Module P303 -
Miscellany
[3159] Returning multiple values from a function call in various languages - a comparison
[3012] Exception handling in Perl - using eval
[2877] Further more advanced Perl examples
[2876] Different perl examples - some corners I rarely explore
[2427] Operator overloading - redefining addition and other Perl tricks
[2219] Configuring httpd, or Tomcat, to run CGI scripts in Perl
{
spt3} A subroutine prototype defined too late
{
pmg} magic goto
{
gogo} Goto based on string
{
asp} Command line options to add implicit read loop and split
{
hoco} the continue block
{
spt4} A subroutine prototype defined in time
{
go4} Goto an array of possibilities
{
go1} The goto statement ... if you must ...
{
owncheck} Use of caller and wantarray
{
cmc.pm} Defining a subroutine prototype
{
sptest2} Using a prototyped method incorrectly
{
dob} uses of "do"
{
pex} Exception Handing in Perl
{
sudemo} Operation that will fail if run tainted
{
evx} try and catch simulation via eval
{
mudemo2} Testing to see if a variable is tainted
{
sptest1} Using a prototyped method correctly
{
protodemo} subroutine prototype
{
goflavours} goto, and jumping with last
{
go2} goto based on a value - a sort of switch
{
mudemo} running an operating system command
{
waw} warnings, caller, wantarray, ref, $#_
Module P304 -
Tieing
[3409] When variables behave differently - Tie in Perl
[3007] Setting up a matrix of data (2D array) for processing in your program
[2379] Making variables persistant, pretending a database is a variable and other Perl tricks
[2243] Changing a variable behaviour in Perl - tieing
{
textfile.pm} tie class that treats a file as a scalar
{
acmagic} Persistant hash - NOT lost when the program exits
{
alias_list} Accessing Unix's aliases database directly
{
lower.pm} Tie class to force all strings to lower case
{
ac3} Using a tie class to force lower case
{
ac2} Using a tie class to force lower case
{
acnset1} Crreating a database file through tie
{
ah} Tieing a variable to change its behaviour
{
bowtie} Using a variable tied to a file
{
aphash.pm} tie class definition - an appending hash
{
flash.pm} Appending hash tie class definition
{
acnlook} Tieing a database file to a hash
{
game} Appliaction that uses a scalar as a stack
{
pwl2} Looking up user accounts, case insensitive
{
fyle.pm} links a variable to a file
{
stack.pm} Tie class that hides a stack under a scalar
{
thash.pm} Tie class to access a disc file as a hash, with caching
{
persist} Persistant variable via a tie class
{
allcodes} tied hash, unique key solution
{
acnset2} Tying a text file to a hash
{
codes} location lookup
{
codes2} Place lookup without tie - variables are cas sensitive
{
pwlook} Looking up users, case sensitive
{
acm2} tieing a text file to a hash
Module P305 -
User Input
[2876] Different perl examples - some corners I rarely explore
[2382] Giving up on user input - keyboard timeout in Perl
[2213] Keyboard reading in Perl - character by character not line by line
{
kbcheck} select to check input availability
{
fc2} Reacting to each keystroke rather than awaiting a new line
{
ask} Send a signal to program h1
{
fi2} Reporting maximum field per line count
{
kb2} Giving the user a limited time to make an entry
{
h1} Long running program with interaction
{
file_in} Unpacking characters
{
askpw} Using ioctls and POSIX to provide a password entry system
{
kbtest} If the user has started typing, wait for a whole line. Otherwise carry on
{
pcr} Binary file copy
{
keyin} print out ASCII decimal equivalents of entries
Module P306 -
Plain Old Documentation
[760] Self help in Perl
[668] Python - block insets help with documentation
[242] Satisfaction of training
(
article) POD (Plain Ole Documentation) - how to check it
{
pod1} Example of POD
{
d4} Sample code - alternatives to if and while
{
pod1.html} Example of HTML generated from POD
Module P307 -
Perl/Tk
[3009] Expect in Perl - a short explanation and a practical example
[1340] Tk locks up - 100% c.p.u. on a simple program (Tcl, Perl, Python)
[1310] Callbacks - a more complex code sandwich
[738] (Perl) Callbacks - what are they?
[599] Perl/Tk real time display
[596] The magic of -textvariable
[595] Add a friendly front end with Tk
(
article) Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs)
{
tk3} An interactive application with a Tk GUI
{
tk1} A simple GUI with Perl/Tk
{
ptkclock.pl} Simpler version of Perl/Tk clock
{
tk3.pl} A toggle button implemented in Perl/Tk
{
tk2} Drawing graphics on a canvas with Perl/Tk
{
tk4.pl} An interactive form on a grid (tk)
{
ptkcl2.pl} Clock using Perl/Tk
{
bobbb} An interactive application with a Tk GUI
{
bob} An interactive application with a Tk GUI
{
tk5.pl} Tk demo - fill in form, moving graphic
Module P308 -
Using SQL Databases from Perl
[3099] Perl - database access - DBD, DBI and DBIx modules
[2561] The future of MySQL
[2381] Checking the database connection manually
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes
[1885] Hiding a MySQL database behind a web page
[1224] Object Relation Mapping (ORM)
[975] Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions
[644] Using a MySQL database from Perl
[515] MySQL - an FAQ
(
article) Interfacing applications to a MySQL database engine
{
orange.pl} DBI used in a CGI script as a GUI to a table
{
D2.sql} Sample people database
{
D3_Main.pm} Second DBIx Demonstration - headline file for loading Schema
{
D3_Main_People.pm} Define table/object data mapping for People and how they relate to Computers
{
D3_Main_Computers.pm} Define table to object data mapping for Computers and link to people
{
hellosql} Accessing and SQL database with DBI and DBD modules
{
D2_Main.pm} First DBIx Demonstration - headline file for loading Schema
{
fifthdbi} Perl DBI - display contents of MySQL table
{
D2.pl} Adding DBIx on top of DBI and DBD - First simple example
{
D3.sql} SQL source data for D3 demo (SQLite / DBIx / Perl)
{
trains.sql} Data to create and populate train table for other examples
{
dbdhash.pm} Tie a Perl hash to a MySQL table through DBI
{
aggy} Connecting Perl to a MySQL database
{
tie_main} Exercise - main program to die hash to database
{
edbi} Example using many database access methods from DBI
{
traintimes} Connect to an SQL database of train times
{
sqlping} Using DBI and DBD to establish a connection and list available tables
{
firstdbi} Simple Perl DBI Query
{
D3.pl} Adding DBIx on top of DBI and DBD - Select on joined tables
{
aclog2table} Set up database for web access log records
{
D2_Main_People.pm} Define the table to object data mapping
{
D1.pl} SQLite - DBD and DBI - create, insert, select, drop
Module P310 -
Moose
[3098] Learning Object Orientation in Perl through bananas and perhaps Moose
[3097] Making Perl class definitions more conventional and shorter
{
B6.pl} use of Universal superclass
{
B5.pl} Base class, subclasses, polymorphism
{
M6.pl} Default values - Moose
{
B2.pl} Turning packaged hash references into Objects
{
M5.pl} Roles and Inheritance with Moose
{
B1.pl} Package, constructor and accessor
{
M7.pl} Adding functionallity with after
{
M1.pl} Basic set up of a class with Moose
{
B4.pl} Use of caller to examine the sub stack
{
M4.pl} Moose - calling automatically generated methods
{
M2.pl} Moose - setting defaults
{
B3.pl} Checking method calls / confess and croak
{
M3.pl} Data Type checking in Moose
{
B7.pl} Factory Method
Module P402 -
Writing Your Own Simple Client and Server
[3874] Using Perl to read an RSS feed off a web site and extract data - via LWP and XML modules
[2047] Small Web Server in Perl
{
pt4} Using local OS commands to run network processes
{
pf1} Finger client
{
pf3} Better finger client
{
pt3a} time and date from a series of hosts
{
sts} Simple Perl time SERVER
{
dot2} Buffering - progress bar in dots
{
dot} buffering - dotd come out all together
{
mcopy} End of line conversion - moving data file between operating systems
{
miniserver.pl} Small Web Server in Perl
{
ptime} Simple client
Module P403 -
The Common Gateway Interface
[3445] Perl and CGI - simple form, and monitoring script.
[2834] Teaching examples in Perl - third and final part
[2551] Perl and the Common Gateway Interface - out of fashion but still very useful?
[2238] Handling nasty characters - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, Lua
[45] CGI v mod_perl
{
seedcalc.pl} Shows structure of a CGI script
{
perlcycle.pl} cycling through images using CGI
{
formone.cgi} Running a script when a form has been submitted
{
shoots.pl} CGI script - sets up form, also handles form response, in a single page
{
whc_filter.pm} utilities for CGI use
{
withval.cgi} CGI page with some data validation
{
wedlist} Wedding list application
{
roadfinder.pl} Looking up an "A road" on a web site
{
rf1.pl} Looking up an "A Road" - test program
{
slip} Simple Perl / CGI script to calculate BMI
{
area.pl} Single page ruggedised CGI form
{
logone.pl} Filtering an access log file from a browser
{
first.html} First HTML page to call up CGI script -->
{
mypage.htp} HTML template for shoots.pl demo -->
{
firstform.html} A first web form -->
{
theywant.renew} Wedding list data
{
formurl.pl} URL decoding - training example
{
mydate.cgi} CGI first example - menu based on day of week
{
seeding.html} Sample form - two boxes to submit to a CGI script -->
{
bmic.cgi} Simple CGI script with separated view and elementary validation only
{
rsq} Analaysis of a file to the web.
Module P404 -
Extending Flexibility Using CGI
[1365] Korn Shell scripts on the web
[1187] Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl)
[641] Simple but rugged form handling demo
[590] Danny and Donna are getting married
[426] Robust checking of data entered by users
(
article) Nasty Characters in Web Applications
(
article) Accessing a MySQL database via a browser, Perl and CGI
{
docwrite.pl} Writing a document within a CGI script
{
mulcgi.pl} Handling a form with multiple fields
{
twopost.pl} Collection information via POST
{
jumper.pl} Random jump - return a location header
{
twoa.pl} More generalised form handling
{
envlist.pl} Environment and input lister
Module P405 -
Web Service - Our Own Client
[2402] Automated Browsing in Perl
[2229] Do not re-invent the wheel - use a Perl module
{
grablunch} Command line program to access webpage object
{
pwebclient} Stand alone program to use web_fetch module to find links
{
xmx} Parsing an XML feed which we get off a web server
{
web_fetch.pm} Simple web client subroutine - connect via HTTP and get a page
{
pwebserver} Perl server - low level socket programming - HTTP protocol tool
{
cgiwebclient} CGI script to fetch page from another server
{
webpage.pm} Module to connect to a web server and grab a page
{
get_courses} Script to call an OO module that grabs a web page
{
pg1} LWP - simplest test
{
wtserv} Web server in Perl to expose file system
{
pg2} LWP - sets own User Agent
{
wclient} Simple web client - collect all links
Module P406 -
More CGI Programs and Facilities
[2321] Uploading and Downloading files - changing names (Perl and PHP)
[1187] Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl)
[1009] Passing GET parameters through Apache mod_rewrite
[641] Simple but rugged form handling demo
(
article) Making all your .html files run a Perl script
{
utils.pm} Utilities for CGI
{
mailer.pl} Emailing and working out the browser type
{
useredit.pl} Edit a file all on one page!
{
upfile.html} Uploading a file (live demo)-->
{
winmailer.pl} emailing from Perl on a Windows box
{
up.cgi} CGI script to receive uploaded file
{
upsend.cgi} CGI script to receive and display uploaded file
{
up.html} Form for uploading a file -->
{
nph-clock.pl} Multipart and updating CGI document
{
down.pl} Download a file off the server
Module P407 -
State and Cookies
[1951] Whisky - Setting and reading cookies from Perl
[243] new 'Perl on the Web' example
(
article) Handling Cookies through CGI.pm
{
sweetest.pl} Perl, CGI, sessions - complete application template, full demo
{
sweeter.pl} Perl, CGI, sessions - complete application template second steps
{
whisky.pl} Cookies from first principles - demonstration
{
sweet.pl} Perl, CGI, sessions - application template, first principles
Module P408 -
Standard Web Modules
[4100] Perl Dancer - from installation to your first real application
[4099] Perl Dancer - a Perl Framework - Installation and first test
[3485] Perl - retrieving and caching web resources
[2416] Automating access to a page obscured behind a holding page
[2402] Automated Browsing in Perl
[2229] Do not re-invent the wheel - use a Perl module
[975] Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions
(
article) Using LWP to write Web Clients
{
askuser.tt} Second template (form) - Dancer
{
bin_app.pl} Perl Dancer - Controllers and routes
{
cgi1.pl} Simple demo of CGI.pm
{
cookie.pl} Setting, reading and deleting cookies
{
fred} Grabbing a web page for echo
{
cgilite.pl} Using CGI_Lite.pm - simple example
{
page_checker} Using LWP::Simple to find all links from a web page
{
cc2} Use LWP UserAgent to check and see if a remote site has changed
{
townstyle.css} Style sheet - Dancer
{
cgis.pl} Using CGI.pm as a structured code
{
wellhouseframe.tt} layout example - Dancer
{
grab2} A first example - grabbing a web page via LWP
{
freda} Grabbing a web page for cache
{
config.yml} configuration - Dancer
{
goodlinks} Validate links from a page (LWP)
{
frederick} Grabbing a web page for cache if refresh needed
{
ecbgrab.pl} Grabbing a network resource through LWP UserAgent
{
township.tt} first inner template - Dancer
Module P409 -
Searching
[2233] Transforming data in Perl using lists of lists and hashes of hashes
[1183] Improving searches - from OR to AND?
{
robotic_search.pl} Setting of a background indexer from a CGI script
{
ar5.cgi} Rekeying data - CGI example with form based control
{
searchform.html} Search form
{
my_search.pl} recursive search through HTML files
{
indexer.pl} Simple search through a few web pages
{
bigger_search.pl} Setting up search indexes
{
yetwider.pl} Wider area search using a pregenerated central keyword resource
Module P410 -
Automated Email Answering
[2235] Sending awkward characters by email in Perl
[2232] Why sendmail one way, and pop3 the other?
[872] Email metrics
{
automail} Emailing from a Perl Script
{
pop3.pl} Using POP3 protocol to read emails into a Perl program
{
mailsender.pl} Mail form - sending email from Perl
{
am2} Emailing from a Perl script to a variety or recipients
Module P412 -
Using CGI.pm
[2231] What is CGI.pm / A dozen new examples
(
article) Handling Cookies through CGI.pm
{
upload_form.pl} Using CGI.pm to upload an image - initial form
{
upload_handler.pl} Using CGI.pm to upload an image - submission handler
{
cgiobjects.pl} Hello Object Oriented CGI.pm
{
cook3.pl} CGI.pm / sessions with hidden fields / page 2
{
with.pl} Simple seb page with CGI.pm
{
cgi_cookies.pl} Report on cookies from browser
{
formdumper.pl} Finding what fields have been submitted - CGI.pm
{
favbrek.pl} Sample exercise answer - favourite breakfast
{
cgitables.pl} Setting up tables with CGI.pm
{
cgi_shoppingcart.pl} Complete shopping cart demo - using CGI.pm
{
extrapath.pl} CGI.pm - how to find server parameters such as remote address
{
cgi_serverpush.pl} Server push - a series of responses pages
{
cook2.pl} CGI.pm - sessions using hidden fields
{
cgiform.pl} How to set up a form using CGI.pm
{
cgireadback.pl} Reading back from a form via CGI.pm
{
cgihello.pl} Hello CGI.pm world
{
without.pl} Simple seb page withOUT CGI.pm (for comparison)
{
bookkeeper.pl} function to clear old session files
{
cookstart.pl} CGI.pm OO form / for hidden field session demo
Module P413 -
Embperl
{
adder.html} Embperl - a form and action example
{
t2.epl} Embperl - first simple example -->
Module P420 -
SQL databases from a browser via Perl and CGI
[1885] Hiding a MySQL database behind a web page
(
article) Accessing a MySQL database via a browser, Perl and CGI
{
testtabs} SQL test command
{
addoperation} Add via form to operation table
{
patients} patients data
{
operations} Operations Data
{
gempage} Display joined SQL tables via Perl and Web and Browser
{
gem} Display joined SQL tables via Perl
{
addpatient} Add via form to patient table
{
mktabs} Create table structure (SQL for demo)
Module P600 -
Perl 6
[4620] Perl 6 - a Practical Extraction and Reporting example!
[4611] Hungarian, Camel, Snake and Kebab - variable naming conventions
[4610] Sorting by key or by comparator - Perl 6
[4609] Mapping an array / list without a loop - how to do it in Perl 6
[4608] Introspecion in Perl 6
[4607] Classes and object - first steps in Perl 6
[4606] Using Perl 6 to analyse and report on data
[4605] Hello World - in Perl 6
[4604] Perl - version 6 - official version launched at Christmas
[2816] Intelligent Matching in Perl
[582] DWIM and AWWO
{
position.pl6} Practical script - finding smaller stations
{
mapper} Read file, map all lines, sort results and display top 25
{
hello.pl6} Hello Perl 6 world
{
classdemo.p6} A first class definition and use
{
quieter.pl6} First data file analysis - using arrays, hashes, etc
{
rstats2015.txt} Data for Perl 6 demo programs in P600 module
Module P602 -
Advanced File and Directory Handling
[3429] Searching through all the files in or below a directory - Ruby, Tcl, Perl
[3412] Handling binary data in Perl is easy!
[2876] Different perl examples - some corners I rarely explore
[1861] Reactive (dynamic) formatting in Perl
[1832] Processing all files in a directory - Perl
[1709] There is more that one way - Perl
[1225] Perl - functions for directory handling
[975] Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions
[839] Reporting on the 10 largest files or 10 top scores
(
article) File Locking
{
pls} Four ways of finding the contents of a directory
{
ndd} Accessing NDBM files
{
huge2} A progress line - hunting for huge files
{
webfiles} Using typeglobs to handle an effective array of files
{
loglook} reading a specific number of bytes
{
recur} recursively scanning directories
{
pfc} Copying a file block by block
{
huge} finding lost disc space - hunting for huge files
{
flockdemo} Co-operative file locing with flock
{
bchop} Random access to a file - using a binary chop
{
ftype} Establishing the type of a file system object
{
nf} Use of $! to find out why an action failed
{
nopen} $! in a string and a numeric context
{
biggest} Look for biggest files in a tree
{
wr_loop} Using file locking constants
Module P604 -
Using Perl for Web Site Management
[3445] Perl and CGI - simple form, and monitoring script.
[2532] Analysing Google arrivals by country of origin
[2399] Firefighting with Perl
[314] What language is this written in?
{
admin.pl} Report on server status
Module P605 -
Perl Tools and Utilities
[316] Development Environments
Module P608 -
Robots, Crawlers and Spiders
[2402] Automated Browsing in Perl
[2229] Do not re-invent the wheel - use a Perl module
[2045] Does robots.txt actually work?
[1031] robots.txt - a clue to hidden pages?
Module P609 -
Network Security
[2688] Security considerations in programming - what do we teach?
[2238] Handling nasty characters - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, Lua
[426] Robust checking of data entered by users
Module P616 -
FTP and Telnet Modules
[975] Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions
[531] Packages in packages in Perl
{
ftpdemo} Simple FTP retreival in Perl
{
telnetdemo} Log in to a remote host and run a command
{
sshlet} Using ssh to contact a remote host
{
ftp2} Recursive FTP client in Perl
Module P623 -
Alternatives to CGI
[975] Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions
{
sinp.pl} Simple server in Perl
{
mp.pl} Simple modPerl Example
Module P667 -
Handling Huge Data
[3375] How to interact with a Perl program while it is processing data
[3374] Speeding up your Perl code
[2834] Teaching examples in Perl - third and final part
[2806] Macho matching - do not do it!
[2805] How are you getting on?
[2376] Long job - progress bar techniques (Perl)
[1924] Preventing ^C stopping / killing a program - Perl
[1920] Progress Bar Techniques - Perl
[1397] Perl - progress bar, supressing ^C and coping with huge data flows
[975] Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions
[762] Huge data files - what happened earlier?
[639] Progress bars and other dynamic reports
(
article) Data Monging
{
rt2} Handling data in chunks - chunk overlap issue solved
{
slurp} slurping and sampling
{
huge3} Asking a long running application for intermediate reports
{
reg_opt2} Regular expression match - use of "o" modifier
{
out.txt} Example of search results written to file
{
reg_opt3} Regular expression match - more specific and faster
{
huge2} Providing user feedback while handling huge data
{
optim} Optimising code to avoid repeating calculations
{
hugehunter} Long log file analysis, with progress and intermediate reporting
{
makedirs} Preprocessing a huge data file to set up indexes
{
paws} Progress Bar Techniques
{
readtime} Efficiency - reading a file in large blocks
{
useindex} Grab first ten sites on a topic area - QUICKLY via index
{
behind} looking behind in huge data files
{
huge1} A program to test handling a small part of a huge data set
{
opt3} Improving sort efficiency
{
mtx} Merging two huge files
{
makeindex} Generating a list of markers to a huge sorted data set
{
big.start} Finding largest file, with intermediate status reports
{
reg_opt4} Regular expression match - a start assertion speeds it up!
{
site.pm} Class used in other examples in this module
{
opt4} Improving sort efficient further - caching record analysis
{
reg_opt} Regular expression match - inefficient example
{
huge3.pid} Example of the huge.pid file
{
reg_opt1} Regular expression match - don't save $' $` and $&
{
opt2} Sorting and data filtering efficiency
Module P668 -
Handling XML in Perl
[3874] Using Perl to read an RSS feed off a web site and extract data - via LWP and XML modules
[2555] Bookkeeping
[2378] Handling XML in Perl - introduction and early examples
(
article) Using LWP to write Web Clients
{
xml0.pl} Parsing XML - first test program
{
camels.xsl} XSLT sample for xlst1.pl demo
{
medireport.pl} Using XML::Parser to extract information - practical example
{
p2} Sample RSS data feed (XML data)!
{
apps-admin.xml} Sample data file used in XML example
{
p1} SAX parser - extracting titles from XML stream
{
exp.pl} Direct use of the Expat module
{
xml3.pl} Illustration of handling a stream
{
xml1.pl} Using debug mode to quickly check a document
{
xml5.pl} Alternative - using handlers
{
gnome.pl} Parsing XML through LibXML
{
medline.pm} Class of XML element handlers
{
xslt1.pl} Using XML and XSLT to turn data into a web page
{
goblin.pl} Altering an XML document through LibXML
{
camels.xml} XML sample for xslt1 demo
{
index.xml} Sample RSS data feed (XML data)
{
xml4.pl} Converting an XML document into a tree in Perl collection variables
{
mediweb.pl} Parsing XML within a cgi script
{
stdsubs.pm} Standard cgi handler to collect form data
{
xml2.pl} Using Subs to report on an XML source
Module P669 -
Data Munging
[4620] Perl 6 - a Practical Extraction and Reporting example!
[3764] Shell, Awk, Perl of Python?
[3707] Converting codons via Amino Acids to Proteins in Perl
[3335] Practical Extraction and Reporting
[2702] First and last match with Regular Expressions
[2129] Nothing beats Perl to solve a data manipulation requirement quickly
[1947] Perl substitute - the e modifier
[1509] Extracting information from a file of records
[1316] Filtering and altering Perl lists with grep and map
[597] Storing a regular expression in a perl variable
(
article) Data Monging
{
new1} List iteration
{
anagram} Perl program to look for anagrams
{
pc2} Using the power of lists to save code and time
{
memsave} Compressing data to save memory
{
filedata} List manipulation - sorting files by size and reporting largest 10
{
filedata2} Sorting files by size - shortened example, harder to follow?
{
pc1} (Somewhat) conventional programming methods to parse data
{
cdk.fasta} Data for sample bioinformatics program in Perl
{
oldfash} Handling an "arraY" - really a list - the oldfashioned way
{
new2} Alternative list iteration
{
pc3} Handling a file as a single string of text
{
bacon} Conversion Codons -> Amino Acids -> Protein
Module P701 -
What is Perl?
[3446] Awk v Perl
[1753] Perl v PHP, choosing the right language
Module P704 -
Managing Perl Projects
[2375] Designing your data structures for a robust Perl application
[2070] Converting to Perl - the sort of programs you will write
[1395] Dont just convert to Perl - re-engineer!
[836] Build on what you already have with OO
Module P711 -
An Introduction to Standards in Perl
[4326] Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code
[3398] Perl - making best use of the flexibility, but also using good coding standards
[2875] A long day in Melksham ...
[2688] Security considerations in programming - what do we teach?
[2375] Designing your data structures for a robust Perl application
[1863] About dieing and exiting in Perl
[1853] Well structured coding in Perl
[1728] A short Perl example
[1555] Advanced Python, Perl, PHP and Tcl training courses / classes
[1395] Dont just convert to Perl - re-engineer!
[1345] Perl and Shell coding standards / costs of an IT project
[1221] Bathtubs and pecking birds
[1047] Maintainable code - some positive advice
[965] KISS - one action per statement please - Perl
[945] Code quality counts
[743] How to debug a Perl program
[668] Python - block insets help with documentation
[242] Satisfaction of training
(
article) What makes a good variable name?
{
avoidthis} Bad code - multiple actions in one statement
{
chink} About dieing in Perl
Module P770 -
A Quick Look Ahead
[1215] An update on Perl - where is it going?
Module P772 -
Practical Example - Perl in use
[2657] Want to do a big batch edit? Nothing beats Perl!
[2129] Nothing beats Perl to solve a data manipulation requirement quickly
[2047] Small Web Server in Perl
{
combine} Combine source code files into single dbn file
{
place_people} Application that demonstrates integration of all the fundamental elements of Perl
{
requests} Data file for place_people
{
lpo} Manipulating a file of records to extract a report
Module P773 -
Packaging Modules
{
Changes} Revision history - sample
{
Makefile.PL} Sample Makefile.PL scrtipt to check distribution
{
README} Sample of install documentation
{
MANIFEST} Sample list of contents
{
1.t} Test routine for a sample module
{
WhcStd.pm} Sample Object in CPAN / standard distribution form
Module P774 -
Good CGI scripting.
[4391] Refactoring Perl applications to give them a rosy future
[4320] An example of Model-View-Controller techniques in a Perl / CGI script
[263] Harmony
[262] A little bit of fun - the new Perl Quiz
[261] Putting a form online
{
msgsys.pm} Message System in Perl
{
questionset.pm} Business logic for quiz system demo
{
myhelpers.pm} Helpers for Perl Framework, MVC demo
{
mymodel.pm} Model for Perl Framework, MVC demo
{
main.htp} Template for Quiz system demo -->
{
myview.htp} View for Perl Framework, MVC demo
{
thing.pm} Generic object used within business logic
{
Perl.1} Some sample quiz questions
{
quiz.pl} Top level code for quiz system demo
{
myframework.pl} The FRAMEWORK for a common gateway interface application
{
q15.pl} Quiz - Statistical table generator
{
whc_web.pm} Web helpers for quiz demo (and others too)
{
bmic.pl} Simple CGI script with separated view and elementary validation only
{
mycontroller.pm} Controller for Perl Framework, MVC demo
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Q: General programming subjects
Overview Q050 -
General Technical Subjects
[3213] Should I use Open Source or Commercial software?
[3112] Public and private courses - subjects available for 2011
[2800] The Merchants And
[2568] Forums for your Melksham and open source discussions
[2322] Looking for a practical standards course
[2099] Should I maintain the programming code on my own website?
[462] Big number
(
article) Open Source - here to stay, or a flash in the pan?
(
article) Web applications using LAMP technologies
(
article) Free software - the joy of Open Source
Module Q100 -
Learning to Progam
[4575] Learning not just what a program does, but how to design it in the first place.
[4337] Learning to program sample program - past its prime, but still useful
[4326] Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code
[4325] Learning to program - what are algorithms and design patterns?
[4324] Learning to program - variables and constants
[4323] Learning to program - Loop statements such as while
[4322] Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if)
[4318] Learning to Program - how we start to teach you at Well House Consultants
[4008] Reading and checking user inputs - first lessons - Ruby
[3895] Flowchart to program - learning to program with Well House
[3551] Some terms used in programming (Biased towards Python)
[3120] Learning to write good programs in C and C++ - separating out repeated code
[2973] Learning to program - where to start if you have never programmed before
[2898] Programming Standards from the start!
[2505] I almost put the bins out this morning
[2504] Learning to program in ...
[2326] Learn a new programming language this summer.
[2294] Can you learn to program in 4 days?
[2286] New to programming? It is natural (but needless) for you to be nervous
[2092] Tracking difficult bugs, the programmer / customer relationship
[2048] Learning to program in PHP, Python, Java or Lua ...
[2001] I have not programmed before, and need to learn
[1985] Learning to program as a part of your job
[1963] Best source to learn Java (or Perl or PHP or Python)
[1605] Learning and understanding scripting programming techniques
[116] The next generation of programmer
(
article) Why so many different courses?
{
vcy} Second validation example (function) / Ruby
{
first.c} A first program - a series of instructions
{
vcz} Third validation example (catching errors) / Ruby
{
colin} Ruby example - planning and documenting your code
{
second.c} Calling named blocks of code
{
small_demo.php} A first useful program in PHP
{
fifth.c} Named blocks of code (functions)
{
seven.c} Repeating blocks of code with a loop
{
sixth.c} Conditional code
{
Chloe.java} First use of functions and command line - Java
{
fur3.py} Conditionals
{
ten.c} An array to store multiple values
{
third.c} Calculate and print
{
vcw} without validation / Ruby
{
twelve.c} #define, breaking a loop, == testing
{
furry.py} Whole program
{
fourth.c} Calculations and precedence
{
eleven.c} Reading data from file
{
stuff.txt} Data for eleven.c and twelve.c
{
fur2.py} Operator precedence
{
vcx} Quick first validation example / Ruby
Module Q101 -
Programming Principles
[4645] What are callbacks? Why use them? An example in Python
[4632] Remember to ask the question before you listen for the answer
[4611] Hungarian, Camel, Snake and Kebab - variable naming conventions
[4325] Learning to program - what are algorithms and design patterns?
[4206] Writing the perfect program in Tcl?
[4153] Rooms available tonight - how to code an algorithm from first principles
[4118] We not only teach PHP and Python - we teach good PHP and Python Practice!
[4090] Test Driven Development in Python - Customer Comes First
[4061] Seamless, integrated IT - we have a long way to go!
[4003] Web and console - same principle, same code - Ruby example
[3954] Lesson 1 in programing - write clean, reuseable and maintainable tidy code
[3928] Storing your intermediate data - what format should you you choose?
[3878] From Structured to Object Oriented Programming.
[3673] Object oriented or structured - a comparison in Python. Also writing clean regular expressions
[3551] Some terms used in programming (Biased towards Python)
[3548] Dark mornings, dog update, and Python and Lua courses before Christmas
[3542] What order are operations performed in, in a Perl expression?
[3456] Stepping stones - early coding, and writing re-usable code quickly
[3026] Coding efficiency - do not repeat yourself!
[2964] An introduction to file handling in programs - buffering, standard in and out, and file handles
[2915] Looking up a value by key - associative arrays / Hashes / Dictionaries
[2878] Program for reliability and efficiency - do not duplicate, but rather share and re-use
[2769] Easy - but for whom?
[2737] Improving your function calls (APIs) - General and PHP
[2586] And and Or illustrated by locks
[2550] Do not copy and paste code - there are much better ways
[2510] The music of the stock market
[2415] Variable names like i and j - why?
[2327] Planning!
[2310] Learning to write high quality code in Lua
[2228] Where do I start when writing a program?
[2022] Pre and post increment - the ++ operator
[2001] I have not programmed before, and need to learn
(
article) copying an object - copy the reference
{
cbv2.c} Call by value and name - extended example
{
askuser.py} Sample module for sharing ...
{
fvm} difference between function and method
{
design.001} Designing an application - start here
{
cd1.c} Comments and sequence of statements
{
algo_cgi.pl} CGI equivalent of Station Name / anagram program
{
utilz.py} Simple sample module
{
sweat} First Conditional
{
whatos} Implementation of a design
{
perspire} First Loop
{
afresh} Modular programming!
{
cbv.c} Call by value and call be name
{
compat_stage1} reusing code in a module / Python
{
rubfunc1} Ruby example - define and call a named block of code
{
day2_1} Functional (structured) coding
{
algo} Use of a sub to avoid repeating code
{
compat} Sharing code between modules / Python
{
comp_control} Control case / Python
Module Q102 -
Choosing your language
[3785] Programming languages - what are the differences between them?
[3764] Shell, Awk, Perl of Python?
[3619] Ruby v Perl - a comparison example
[3558] Python or Lua - which should I use / learn?
[3169] Rekeying a table - comparison in #Ruby #Perl and #Python
[2866] Ruby - how does it compare and where is it the right language?
[2700] The same very simple program in many different programming languages
[2536] All the Cs ... and Java too
[2535] When should I use Java, Perl, PHP, or Python?
[2507] Admission
[2048] Learning to program in PHP, Python, Java or Lua ...
[2001] I have not programmed before, and need to learn
[1990] Speaking all the languages
[76] Learning to program in
(
article) Is Perl truly an OO language?
(
article) New to programming. Portable code. Perl or Java?
{
revl.rb} Counting down in Ruby
{
revl.c} Counting down in C
{
revl.lua} Counting down in Lua
{
revl.py} Counting down in Python
{
revl.java} Counting down in Java
{
revl.php} Counting down in PHP
{
revl.shell} Counting down in Shell (Ksh or Bash)
{
revl.pl} Counting down in Perl
{
revl.tcl} Counting down in Tcl
{
revl.cpp} Counting down in C++
Module Q104 -
[4575] Learning not just what a program does, but how to design it in the first place.
Module Q110 -
Programming Algorithms
[4707] Some gems from an introduction to Python
[4656] Identifying the first and last records in a sequence
[4652] Testing new algorithms in PHP
[4410] A good example of recursion - a real use in Python
[4402] Finding sum, minimum, maximum and average in Python (and Ruby)
[4401] Selecting RECENT and POPULAR news and trends for your web site users
[4325] Learning to program - what are algorithms and design patterns?
[3662] Finding all the unique lines in a file, using Python or Perl
[3620] Finding the total, average, minimum and maximum in a program
[3451] Why would you want to use a Perl hash?
[3102] AND and OR operators - what is the difference between logical and bitwise varieties?
[3093] How many toilet rolls - hotel inventory and useage
[3072] Finding elements common to many lists / arrays
[3042] Least Common Ancestor - what is it, and a Least Common Ancestor algorithm implemented in Perl
[2993] Arrays v Lists - what is the difference, why use one or the other
[2951] Lots of way of converting 3 letter month abbreviations to numbers
[2894] Sorting people by their names
[2617] Comparing floating point numbers - a word of caution and a solution
[2586] And and Or illustrated by locks
[2509] A life lesson from the accuracy of numbers in Excel and Lua
[2259] Grouping rows for a summary report - MySQL and PHP
[2189] Matching disparate referencing systems (MediaWiki, PHP, also Tcl)
[1949] Nuclear Physics comes to our web site
[1840] Validating Credit Card Numbers
[1391] Ordnance Survey Grid Reference to Latitude / Longitude
[1187] Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl)
[1157] Speed Networking - a great evening and how we arranged it
[642] How similar are two words
[227] Bellringing and Programming and Objects and Perl
[202] Searching for numbers
(
article) File Locking
{
lif.py} Counting the number of times something occurs
{
universe.pl} Handling unique lines from a file - Perl (list)
{
uni2.pl} Handling unique lines from a file - Perl (generator)
{
d2.9} summing a collection
{
amm} Program to read in numbers and return some analysis (Python)
{
algorithms} Some common algorithms applied to a file of data
{
fodder_stats} Minimum, maximum, total, average, count (Ruby)
{
scat} Getting multiple results from a single data traversal
{
lca} Least Common Ancestor
{
d2.8} finding extreme values from a collection
{
universe.py} Handling unique lines from a file - Python
Module Q111 -
Programming Security - the considerations.
[4090] Test Driven Development in Python - Customer Comes First
Module Q456 -
Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development
[4652] Testing new algorithms in PHP
[4634] Regression testing - via a very short C testing framework
[4542] The principle of mocking - and the Python Mock package
[4457] Test framework for TCL - Tcltest - some examples
[4387] Regression Testing my website - Cucumber and Watir
[4380] Behaviour Driven Development / Ruby and Cucumber
[4374] Test driven development, and class design, from first principles (using C++)
[4346] A behaviour driven example of writing a Java program
[4336] Test Driven Development - a first example of principle in C
[4326] Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code
Module Q624 -
HTML - An Overview
[4034] The VERY basics of a web page ... and web site
[1831] Text formating for HTML, with PHP
[1463] All the special characters in HTML ...
[1160] HTML - example of a simple web page
[857] Strikingly busy
[433] FTP - how to make the right transfers
{
reminder.html} Sample HTML document from this module
{
index.html} Demo - home page -->
Module Q625 -
HTML for Web Application Authors
[2913] Six languages in one file - an HTML++ web page
[2246] What difference does using the XHTML standard really make?
{
tabledemo.html} A Sample Table
{
former.html} Sample form showing each main element -->
{
tabledemo.php4} Generating a table from a PHP script
{
envlist.pl} List form and environment information
Module Q777 -
[2971] Should the public sector compete with businesses? and other deep questions
[2607] Answers on Ruby on Rails
[1976] Where is this IP address, IPv4 and IPv6
[1513] Perl, PHP or Python? No - Perl AND PHP AND Python!
Module Q801 -
What are Regular Expressions?
[4763] Regex Reference sheet
[4505] Regular Expressions for the petrified - in Ruby
[2844] Learning about Regular Expressions in C through examples
[2563] Efficient debugging of regular expressions
[1195] Regular Express Primer
(
article) Pattern Matching - a primer on regular Expressions
{
mare} Some Advanced Regular Expression handling (Perl)
Module Q802 -
Regular Expression Elements
[4763] Regex Reference sheet
[4505] Regular Expressions for the petrified - in Ruby
[2804] Regular Expression Myths
[1849] String matching in Perl with Regular Expressions
[1799] Regular Expressions in PHP
[1766] Diagrams to show you how - Tomcat, Java, PHP
[1480] Next course - 7th January 2008, Regular Expressions
[453] Commenting Perl regular expressions
(
article) Pattern Matching - a primer on regular Expressions
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
Module Q803 -
Regular Expressions - Extra Elements
[3650] Possessive Regular Expression Matching - Perl, Objective C and some other languages
[3516] Regular Expression modifiers in PHP - summary table
[3100] Looking ahead and behind in Regular Expressions - double matching
[3089] Python regular expressions - repeating, splitting, lookahead and lookbehind
[2909] Be gentle rather than macho ... regular expression techniques
[1860] Seven new intermediate Perl examples
[1735] Finding words and work boundaries (MySQL, Perl, PHP)
[1613] Regular expression for 6 digits OR 25 digits
[1601] Replacing the last comma with an and
[1372] A taster PHP expression ...
[1336] Ignore case in Regular Expression
[943] Matching within multiline strings, and ignoring case in regular expressions
{
ahead} Negative look ahead
{
posso} Sparse, Greedy and Possessive matching
{
pcode} Perl - match and extract from a postcode
{
lazyvgreedy.py} Comparison of Greedy and Sparse [python] ...
{
lookbehind.py} Negative lookbehind - fail if you have just passed over [python]
{
bref} Back References
{
lookahead.py} Negative lookahead - does not consume / must fail to match [Python]
{
pocohunter} Post Code hunter / Perl
{
isbn} Testing validity of ISBN number, including check digit
Module Q804 -
Regular Expression Internals
[3091] How do regular expressions work / Regular Expression diagrams
[3090] Matching to a string - what if it matches in many possible ways?
[2806] Macho matching - do not do it!
[2727] Making a Lua program run more than 10 times faster
[1480] Next course - 7th January 2008, Regular Expressions
Module Q805 -
Advanced Regular Expression Components
[3790] Solution looking for a problem? Lookahead and Lookbehind
[3100] Looking ahead and behind in Regular Expressions - double matching
[3089] Python regular expressions - repeating, splitting, lookahead and lookbehind
[2909] Be gentle rather than macho ... regular expression techniques
[728] Looking ahead and behind in a Regular Expression
{
ahead.pl} Checking if part of a string matches twice with look-ahead
{
ex3.php} negative lookahead - example and alterative
Module Q806 -
Regular Expression Cookbook
[3788] Getting more than a yes / no answer from a regular expression pattern match
[3218] Matching a license plate or product code - Regular Expressions
[2804] Regular Expression Myths
[2727] Making a Lua program run more than 10 times faster
[2702] First and last match with Regular Expressions
[2608] Search and replace in Ruby - Ruby Regular Expressions
[2563] Efficient debugging of regular expressions
[2165] Making Regular Expressions easy to read and maintain
[1840] Validating Credit Card Numbers
[1305] Regular expressions made easy - building from components
[1230] Commenting a Perl Regular Expression
[672] Keeping your regular expressions simple
(
article) Regular Expressions in Java
{
ex1.php} Regular Expressions in PHP - from simple yes/no to ancilliary responses
{
easier.py} making regular expressions easier to read [Python]
Module Q904 -
Analysing a Programming Task
[3895] Flowchart to program - learning to program with Well House
[3461] From flowchart to program - code design for the newcomer
[3366] Specification, Design, Implementation, Testing and Documentation - stages of a (Java) programming project
[3329] Perl from basics
[2834] Teaching examples in Perl - third and final part
[2715] Uploading an image, document or pdf via a browser (php)
[2327] Planning!
[1853] Well structured coding in Perl
[1850] Daisy the Cow and a Pint of Ginger Beer
[1607] Learning to program in Perl
[1513] Perl, PHP or Python? No - Perl AND PHP AND Python!
[1345] Perl and Shell coding standards / costs of an IT project
[747] The Fag Packet Design Methodology
{
topd} Top down design - first example in Perl
{
summer} Planning a simple application - the result
{
tconv.c} Well Structured program in C. Read / calc / report
{
Trainlength.java} Analysing a problem - how long a train?
Module Q906 -
Object Orientation: Individual Objects
[4650] Why populate object with values as you construct them?
[4591] From single block to structure and object oriented programming
[4448] What is the difference between a function and a method?
[4021] Spike solution, refactored and reusable, Python - Example
[3721] Naming blocks of code, structures and Object Orientation - efficient coding in manageable chunks
[3436] Moving from scripting to Object Orientation in Python
[2651] Calculation within objects - early, last minute, or cached?
[2393] A first demonstration of OO, including polymorphism
[2173] Basic OO principles
[2171] Cleaning up redundant objects
[1925] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
[1864] Object Oriented Perl - First Steps
[1543] Learning Object Oriented Principles (and perhaps Java)
[507] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
[227] Bellringing and Programming and Objects and Perl
(
article) Incr-Tcl - Object Oriented extension to Tcl
(
article) Object Orientation in Perl - First Steps
{
cap_singleblock.py} single block coding
{
ringer} Test program for the "bells" class
{
cap_object.py} Object coding
{
ua} Final example - calling basic Perl classes
{
animal.pm} Creating and using Perl objects in a class
{
after2.c} Functions - fundamental calls
{
sc.java} Structured code in Java
{
ua01} Calling functions in Perl from another file
{
ua02} Calling functions from a module in Perl
{
an01} creating a hash of data in Perl
{
cap_functional.py} Functional coding
{
sc.perl} Structured code in Perl
{
ua03} Creating and using objects in Perl
{
an02} creating a hash of data in a package in Perl
{
gap} Log file gap reporter - single code block (Python)
{
develop.cpp} Methods (C++) - functions that run on an object
{
osx.php} An array of objects
{
oogap} Log file gap reporter - using logtime object (Python)
{
rails_oo} Using the Object Oriented idiom
{
an03} Creating and accessing simple objects in Perl
{
after3.c} Functions - passing in a structure
{
classic.php} First Class demo
{
rails_script} Using the scripting idiom
{
bells.pm} Bell change class - notation and change interpreter
{
oogap2} Log file gap reporter - using multiple objects (Python)
Module Q907 -
Object Orientation: Design Techniques
[4628] Associative objects - one object within another.
[4449] Spike solution, refactoring into encapsulated object methods - good design practise
[4430] The spirit of Java - delegating to classes
[4374] Test driven development, and class design, from first principles (using C++)
[4098] Using object orientation for non-physical objects
[3978] Teaching OO - how to avoid lots of window switching early on
[3928] Storing your intermediate data - what format should you you choose?
[3887] Inheritance, Composition and Associated objects - when to use which - Python example
[3878] From Structured to Object Oriented Programming.
[3844] Rooms ready for guests - each time, every time, thanks to good system design
[3798] When you should use Object Orientation even in a short program - Python example
[3763] Spike solutions and refactoring - a Python example
[3760] Why you should use objects even for short data manipulation programs in Ruby
[3607] Designing your application - using UML techniques
[3454] Your PHP website - how to factor and refactor to reduce growing pains
[3260] Ruby - a training example that puts many language elements together to demonstrate the whole
[3085] Object Oriented Programming for Structured Programmers - conversion training
[3063] Comments in and on Perl - a case for extreme OO programming
[2977] What is a factory method and why use one? - Example in Ruby
[2953] Turning an exercise into the real thing with extreme programming
[2889] Should Python classes each be in their own file?
[2878] Program for reliability and efficiency - do not duplicate, but rather share and re-use
[2865] Relationships between Java classes - inheritance, packaging and others
[2785] The Light bulb moment when people see how Object Orientation works in real use
[2747] Containment, Associative Objects, Inheritance, packages and modules
[2741] What is a factory?
[2717] The Multiple Inheritance Conundrum, interfaces and mixins
[2523] Plan your application before you start
[2501] Simples
[2380] Object Oriented programming - a practical design example
[2327] Planning!
[2170] Designing a heirarcy of classes - getting inheritance right
[2169] When should I use OO techniques?
[1538] Teaching Object Oriented Java with Students and Ice Cream
[1528] Object Oriented Tcl
[1435] Object Oriented Programming in Perl - Course
[1224] Object Relation Mapping (ORM)
[1217] What are factory and singleton classes?
[1047] Maintainable code - some positive advice
[836] Build on what you already have with OO
[831] Comparison of Object Oriented Philosophy - Python, Java, C++, Perl
[747] The Fag Packet Design Methodology
[656] Think about your design even if you don't use full UML
[534] Design - one name, one action
[507] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
[236] Tapping in on resources
[80] OO - real benefits
(
article) Mapping database rows to objects in a class
{
HotelRoomBooking.cpp} Function definitions for class being developed
{
bobclass} Moving detail into classes
{
Hotel003.cpp} Designing and implementing a class - C++ - stage 3 - define methods
{
poc.pm} Perl Module - for poctest demo
{
TestPattern.h} Headers for test pattern
{
poc3} Piece of Content - using Perl's OO features
{
poc5} Piece of Content - a list of objects
{
nr301} Associative class example - log file analysis - Ruby
{
oo2.py} Muliple classes / inheritance / polymorphism
{
oo1.py} First Class definitions and use
{
oo4.py} high, higher, highest (static method)
{
oo3.py} Comparator across multiple classes
{
poc4} Piece of Content - add a catch-all AUTOLOAD
{
Hotel002.cpp} Designing and implementing a class - C++ - stage 2 - add API definition
{
Hotel004.cpp} Designing and implementing a class - C++ - stage 4 - initial test reporting
{
da.txt} Data for rail stock demo
{
Hotel007.cpp} Designing and implementing a class - C++ - stage 7 - separate files
{
railstock.structured} Rail Stock Demonstration - structured
{
poc2} Piece of Content - encapsulate logic in package
{
HotelRoomBooking.h} Headers for main class being developed
{
Hotel005.cpp} Designing and implementing a class - C++ - stage 5 - functional test reporting
{
poc1} Piece of Content - encapsulation in a package
{
poc7} Piece of Content - extended class and inheritance
{
poctest} Piece of Content - main program to use poc.pm module
{
poc6} Piece of content - setters and getters
{
Hotel006.cpp} Designing and implementing a class - C++ - stage 6 - test pattern object
{
Hotel005a.cpp} Designing and implementing a class - C++ - stage 5a - adding another accessor method
{
Hotel001.cpp} Designing and implementing a class - stage 1, test program
{
TestPattern.cpp} Function definitions for Test Pattern Class
{
railstock.oo} Rail stock demonstration - Object Oriented
Module Q908 -
Object Orientation: Design Patterns
[4673] Separating detailed data code from the main application - Ruby example
[4663] Easy data to object mapping (csv and Python)
[4626] Singleton design pattern - examples and uses
[4581] Thin application, thick objects - keep you main code simple. Example in Ruby
[4421] How healthy are the stars of stage and screen?
[4396] Java Utility class - flexible replacement for array. Also cacheing in objects and multiple catch clauses example.
[4377] Designing a base class and subclasses, and their extension, in C++
[4359] How to avoid too many recalculations within an object
[4356] Object factories in C++, Python, PHP and Perl
[4330] Java - factory method, encapsulation, hashmap example
[4325] Learning to program - what are algorithms and design patterns?
[4098] Using object orientation for non-physical objects
[4096] Perl design patterns example
[4021] Spike solution, refactored and reusable, Python - Example
[3843] Caching Design Patterns
[3810] Reading files, and using factories to create vectors of objects from the data in C++
[3716] Learning C++ - a design pattern for your first class
[3608] Design Patterns - what are they? Why use them?
[2977] What is a factory method and why use one? - Example in Ruby
[2741] What is a factory?
[2322] Looking for a practical standards course
[1224] Object Relation Mapping (ORM)
[485] North, Norther and Northest - PHP 5 Objects
{
demo1.php} caching design pattern
{
runners} Full OO example / various design patterns in Perl
{
single} Singleton class in PHP
{
pages.py} Factory for webpage objects
{
Validate.pm} Validation of parameters object
{
umli.php} Code to illustrate UML examples
{
uml2.php} Factory, Comparator, Object Sort routine
{
valerie} Test and demonstration for Validate.pm
Module Q909 -
Object Orientation: Composite Objects
[4450] Deciding whether to use parameters, conditional statements or subclasses
[4394] Philosophy behind object design - and how I applied in to a Java example
[4377] Designing a base class and subclasses, and their extension, in C++
[3979] Extended and Associated objects - what is the difference - C++ example
[3609] How do classes relate to each other? Associated Classes
[3251] C++ - objects that are based on other objects, saving coding and adding robustness
[3152] Jargon busting
[3142] Private and Public - and things between
[2922] Getting the OO design write - with PHP a example
[2865] Relationships between Java classes - inheritance, packaging and others
[2641] Object Oriented Programming in PHP
[2170] Designing a heirarcy of classes - getting inheritance right
[1348] Screw it or Glue it? Access to Object variables - a warning
[1345] Perl and Shell coding standards / costs of an IT project
[592] NOT Gone phishing
[477] Class, static and unbound variables
(
article) Inheritance
{
Petanimal.java} Pet subclass - Java
{
puma.php} Inheritance, Overriding, Polymorphism, Object comparison of different types [Python]
{
transport.py} March 2015 / multiple classes in Python
{
Shapes002.cpp} Inheritance example - Constructors and first accessors
{
Shapes001.cpp} Framework for Inheritance example
{
Shapes003.cpp} Adding a factory / static method
{
Shapes004.cpp} Adding test harness
{
Anyanimal.java} Base class - Java
{
Shapes005.cpp} Adding operator overloading
{
flightdemo.cpp} Associated object - in C++
{
Farmanimal.java} Farm Subclass - Java
{
whm3} Residents and Delegates - extended from customers [Python]
{
doggies.php} A set of classes in PHP, factory method, comparators and test harness
{
Anitest.java} Test Harness - Java
Module Q910 -
GUI principles
[4589] Principles or a GUI and their practical application using wxPthon
[4258] Keeping you Tkinter display up to date while monitoring
[3081] wxPython - simple example to add GUI to a server log file analysis
[2746] Model - View - Controller demo, Sqlite - Python 3 - Qt4
(
article) Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs)
{
tourist.py} Model (data class) - complete PyQt (Python 3, Qt4) GUI app
{
accomlist.py} Controller - complete PyQt (Python 3, Qt4) GUI app
{
tic_view.py} First View - complete PyQt (Python 3, Qt4) GUI app
{
ticfull.py} Alternative View - complete PyQt (Python 3, Qt4) GUI app
{
model.py} Model - complete PyQt (Python 3, Qt4) GUI app
Module Q912 -
Network Programming Principles
[630] Hostnames spring forward
Module Q913 -
Computer Graphics Principles
[3262] Some SVG Elements, pixel and percent positioning
[3261] Scalable Vector Graphics - easy, low bandwidth, high resolution, dynamic.
[3211] Computer Graphics in PHP - World (incoming data) to Pixel (screen) conversion
[3148] OpenGL / C / C++ - an example to get you started
[3049] Computer Graphics is fun - even if Java Applets are Old Hat
[2992] Matplotlib - graphing in Python - teaching examples
[2758] But what will you DO with all those pictures?
[2633] Why do I teach niche skills rather than mainstream?
[2245] Client side (Applet) and Server side (Servlet) Graphics in Java
{
tryme.svg} Fixed and relative positioning
{
svgframe.html} How to include an SVG file in a web page
{
oursub.svg} Sample of an SVG file
{
glb.c} OpenGl / C / Mac OS X
Module Q914 -
Principles of Code Optimisation
[2092] Tracking difficult bugs, the programmer / customer relationship
Module Q915 -
Principles of Model - View - Controller
[4691] Real life PHP application using our course training MVC example
[4641] Using an MVC structure - even without a formal framework
[4527] Hello Flask world / Python web micro framework
[4391] Refactoring Perl applications to give them a rosy future
[4320] An example of Model-View-Controller techniques in a Perl / CGI script
[4114] Teaching CodeIgniter - MVC and PHP
[4066] MVC and Frameworks - a lesson from first principles in PHP
[4010] Really Simple Rails
[3919] What is a web framework?
[3705] Django Training Courses - UK
[3624] Why do we need a Model, View, Controller architecture?
[3454] Your PHP website - how to factor and refactor to reduce growing pains
[3237] Using functions to keep look and feel apart from calculations - simple C example
[2612] The Model, View, Controller architecture (MVC) - what, why and how.
[2199] Improving the structure of your early PHP programs
[687] Presentation, Business and Persistence layers in Perl and PHP
{
o247.htp} Tempate for bus service choice
{
col.data} Bus user choice - the things the user must weigh up
{
choice.php} Framework - Bus Service Choice
{
choice.data} Weights table - bus future choice
{
4lm_business.inc} 4 layer model - business logic for selecting bus futures
{
4lm_webhelpers.inc} Web Helpers - updated for bus future choice example
{
row.data} result text - bus service choice demo
Module Q916 -
Database design principles
[2749] Delegate Question - defining MySQL table relationships as you create the tables
[918] Databases needn't be frightening, hard or expensive
[666] Database design - get it right from first principles
[572] Giving the researcher power over database analysis
[375] Oops - I got my initial database design wrong
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R: Ruby programming and use
Overview R050 -
Ruby - General
[4583] Back in the saddle again - excellent open source course from Well House Consultants
[4294] A bright new gem - updated Ruby training
[3799] Ruby Documentation through rdoc
[3158] Ruby training - some fresh examples for string handling applications
[2866] Ruby - how does it compare and where is it the right language?
[2826] Ruby - training for automated testing users
[2605] Ruby on Rails - a sample application to teach you how
[2504] Learning to program in ...
[2227] Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses
[2104] Ruby Programming and Rails - 4 different courses in one
(
article) Ror - Ruby on Rails
(
article) Converting to Ruby? Start here
{
eight} log file analysis
{
amazing} Initial Demo - finding matching lines in a file
{
six} loop showing iterations
{
col2} Simple Ruby Program - read, calculate, output
{
rs06} All together - class, factory, comparable, exception, files, strings, arrays
{
latest_log} Sample Application - Read and analyse a web access log file
{
pmf} Subclass, Inheritance, Polymorphism, static methods, factories ...
{
four} prompt, read, echo, calculate
{
two} calculation, coercion, etc
{
one} Hello world and elsewhere
{
five} if elif else ... and while
{
three} read - calculate - output
{
seven} Simple file parsing
{
googletrace} Where has Googlebot crawled?
Module R101 -
Introduction
[4498] Ruby - where one statement ends and the next begins
[4369] Ruby - the second rung of learning the language
[2607] Answers on Ruby on Rails
[2287] Learning to program in Ruby - examples of the programming basics
[2286] New to programming? It is natural (but needless) for you to be nervous
[1887] Ruby Programming Course - Saturday and Sunday
[1375] Python v Ruby
[1302] Ruby, Ruby, Ruby. Rails, Rails, Rails.
[1041] Learnt in London - Ruby, Martini, Coral and the Core
[1027] Cue the music, I'm happy.
[664] Ruby course - oops - it's not happening
[550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure
(
article) Ruby Regular Expressions
(
article) Conditionals, loops, and iterators in Ruby
{
hello.rb} Some simple Ruby stuff
{
d2.2} Use of intermediate variables
{
e1} Simple input, calculate, print
{
d2.3} Use of intermediate variables - alternative
{
d2.1} Prompt, read from user, calculate, output in Ruby
{
col1} First Variables in Ruby
Module R102 -
Hello Ruby Objects
[4673] Separating detailed data code from the main application - Ruby example
[4581] Thin application, thick objects - keep you main code simple. Example in Ruby
[4580] Easy example - data record to object and object to data record mapping in Ruby
[4369] Ruby - the second rung of learning the language
[4009] Clear, concise examples - Ruby classes and objects.
[2603] Ruby objects - a primer
[2287] Learning to program in Ruby - examples of the programming basics
{
d2.10} Define class, create and use instances of it
{
beast.rb} Sample class in its own file
{
yesyes} data record to object and object to data record mapping
{
d2.12} Calling program to access class in another file
{
stations.rb} thick class, thin application example
{
d2.11} Use of 'self' in Ruby
{
shapes.rb} Object Orientation in Ruby - Training Example
{
nother} Operators as methods - polymorphism in *
{
f1} Moving detail into objects - before
{
obrub4.rb} Application to call in group of classes from a library file
{
trainclass4.rb} Definition of a train - to be shared between all railway applications
{
f2} Moving detail into objects - after
{
obrub1.rb} Define and use a class
{
hit.rb} A class showing each variable scope in use
Module R103 -
Basic Ruby Language Elements
[4504] Where does Ruby load modules from, and how to load from current directory
[4369] Ruby - the second rung of learning the language
[4324] Learning to program - variables and constants
[3917] BODMAS - the order a computer evaluates arithmetic expressions
[3758] Ruby - standard operators are overloaded. Perl - they are not
[3430] Sigils - the characters on the start of variable names in Perl, Ruby and Fortran
[3278] Do I need to initialise variables - programming in C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby or Java.
[2617] Comparing floating point numbers - a word of caution and a solution
[2613] Constants in Ruby
[2296] Variable scope - what is it, and how does it Ruby?
[2287] Learning to program in Ruby - examples of the programming basics
[986] puts - opposite of chomp in Ruby
{
rub1} FAILS to continue a line
{
print.rb} Print alternatives
{
calcbetter.rb} A simple calculation in Ruby
{
floater} Floating point rounding errors
{
muck} Common Ruby Pitfalls
{
x01} Constants in Ruby
{
d2.5} Calculations within double quotes
{
bw.rb} Formatting strings and conversions
{
calc.rb} Some early gotchas!
{
bluepeter} Throw a die and track sum of throws
{
d2.4} Easier output formatting in double quoted strings
Module R104 -
Control Structures
[4674] Alternating valuses / flip-flop / toggle - example in Ruby
[4504] Where does Ruby load modules from, and how to load from current directory
[4503] Separating your code for easier testing, understanding and re-use; example in Ruby
[4402] Finding sum, minimum, maximum and average in Python (and Ruby)
[4370] Conditionals, loops and methods in Ruby - a primer with simple examples
[4323] Learning to program - Loop statements such as while
[4322] Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if)
[3769] Muttable v immutable and implications - Ruby
[3620] Finding the total, average, minimum and maximum in a program
[3619] Ruby v Perl - a comparison example
[3422] Assigning values to variables within other statements - Ruby
[3397] Does a for loop evaluate its end condition once, or on every iteration?
[3254] Multiple inputs, multiple out, ruby functions
[3253] Is this number between? Does this list include? - Ruby
[3200] How a for loop works Java, Perl and other languages
[3159] Returning multiple values from a function call in various languages - a comparison
[3158] Ruby training - some fresh examples for string handling applications
[3156] Splitting data reading code from data processing code - Ruby
[2975] Why do I need brackets in Ruby ... or Perl, Python, C or Java
[2892] Alternative loops and conditionals in Ruby and Perl
[2711] For loop - checked once, or evety time? Ruby v Perl comparison and contrast
[2619] Passing code to procedures and yield in Ruby
[2471] A short form of if ... then ... else
[2287] Learning to program in Ruby - examples of the programming basics
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes
[1891] Ruby to access web services
[1887] Ruby Programming Course - Saturday and Sunday
[1870] What to do with a huge crop of apples
[1738] Clean code, jump free (Example in Lua)
[1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ...
[1587] Some Ruby programming examples from our course
[1582] Ruby, C, Java and more - getting out of loops
[1220] for loop - how it works (Perl, PHP, Java, C, etc)
[1163] A better alternative to cutting and pasting code
[995] Ruby's case - no break
[985] Equality in Ruby - == eql? and equal?
[962] Breaking a loop - Ruby and other languages
[960] 1st, 2nd, 3rd revisited in Ruby
(
article) Converting to Ruby? Start here
(
article) Conditionals, loops, and iterators in Ruby
{
llen2} calculating default parameters
{
d2.6} if elsif elsif else
{
exx} Putting common code in a name block (function)
{
ident} mutable object (array)
{
llen3} Default a parameter to nil
{
doubleret} multiple returns and unlimited parameters
{
yetan} immutable object (integer)
{
moretrains} Requiring a module from the current directory
{
tog} toggling a variable - ruby
{
mi} redefine a method in Ruby
{
ex} Class exercise - ordering lunches
{
loopy.rb} Loop structures in Ruby
{
d2.7} while, until and for loops - comparison
{
ddd.rb} Iterators in Ruby
{
dm2.rb} Method, parameter, optional parameter
{
ctors.rb} Comparators - what is true?
{
llen} Methods and default parameter
{
howcome} Multiple actions in a single statement
{
sid} Loop and conditional - exercise
{
dm.rb} Defining and using a method
{
loop.rb} Loop in ruby - run until it breaks
{
rmi} Multiple return values from a function
{
dice} Throwing dice, summing, printing average
{
u1} How many teams needed?
{
yrb} yield (co-routines / generator)
{
cx} between and include
{
rubber} ? : conditional operator in Ruby
{
lazyops.rb} Lazy operators
{
collect} for and each loops over an array. Also sorting
{
amp_pass} Passing code blocks to procedures
{
mwpar} In Ruby you can redefine a function ...
{
dbu} Variable and method of same name
{
scram.rb} Break redo next and retry
{
five} Some unusual conditionals and loops
{
dm3.rb} Dynamic redefinition of a method
{
csep} Separation of repeated and specialist code
{
condi.rb} Example of Ruby conditionals
{
vcx} Quick first validation example
Module R105 -
Classes and Objects
[4502] Reading and parsing a JSON object in Ruby
[4009] Clear, concise examples - Ruby classes and objects.
[3421] Ruby off the Rails?
[2651] Calculation within objects - early, last minute, or cached?
[2616] Defining a static method - Java, Python and Ruby
[2609] Scope of variables - important to Ruby on Rails
[2603] Ruby objects - a primer
[2292] Object Orientation in Ruby - intermediate examples
[1925] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
[983] Blessing in Perl / Member variable in Ruby
(
article) Basic class definition and use in Ruby
{
thirdrail} File -> Objects -> Analysis
{
tj2.rb} Displaying via an Inset class
{
mm.rb} Accessing class variables, and adding methods
{
ucl.rb} Use a class defined in another file
{
obtest.rb} Static (class) method definition and use
{
dp.rb} Just define a class for use elsewhere
{
thapp.rb} Call in a class from another file
{
myo.rb} Define and use a class
{
triang.rb} Simple class and use
{
train.rb} Sample class with accessors and comparator methods
{
disc} How to define and use a class
{
tharn.rb} A class with a test harness
{
stan.rb} Standard methods!
Module R106 -
Input and Output in Ruby
[4678] Expect with Ruby - a training example to get you started
[4499] Significant work - beyond helloworld in Ruby
[3429] Searching through all the files in or below a directory - Ruby, Tcl, Perl
[2974] Formatting your output - options available in Ruby
[2893] Exclamation marks and question marks on ruby method names
[2621] Ruby collections and strings - some new examples
[2614] Neatly formatting results into a table
[2290] Opening and reading files - the ruby fundamentals
[1887] Ruby Programming Course - Saturday and Sunday
[1587] Some Ruby programming examples from our course
{
webreader.rb} Read a page given its url
{
d3_3} Reading from another process
{
filemore} Analysing a file / counting events
{
d3_1} iterating through a file, file output
{
amaze1} Find and count matching lines in file
{
finfo.rb} File status checks
{
formprint} Formatted printing
{
ndo} Running another process - netstat example
{
sysact.rb} Run a process from Ruby, stream output back
{
two} chop and chop!
{
filestuff.rb} File handling demonstration
{
afid.rb} All files in a directory
{
courseprice} Checking if a file exists and writing to a file
{
large} Checking a whole directory tree
{
ddd} parse a directory
{
d3_2} Testing files
Module R107 -
Collections (Arrays and Hashes) in Ruby
[4502] Reading and parsing a JSON object in Ruby
[4499] Significant work - beyond helloworld in Ruby
[4368] Shuffling a list - Ruby and Python
[3757] Ruby - a teaching example showing many of the language features in short but useful program
[3435] Sorta sorting a hash, and what if an exception is NOT thrown - Ruby
[3257] All possible combinations from a list (Python) or array (Ruby)
[3255] Process every member of an array, and sort an array - Ruby
[3253] Is this number between? Does this list include? - Ruby
[2976] Creating, extending, traversing and combining Ruby arrays
[2621] Ruby collections and strings - some new examples
[2618] What are Ruby Symbols?
[2606] Sorting arrays and hashes in Ruby
[2291] Collection objects (array and hash) in Ruby
[991] Adding a member to a Hash in Ruby
{
tim} A Hash of arrays in ruby
{
h2.rb} First hash in Ruby
{
d3_7} Setting up and using a hash
{
d3_6} Array of arrays
{
d3_8} Simple but practical hash example
{
rrs} Sorting the keys of a hash
{
randimages} Randomiser of images
{
pophand.rb} Read, interpret a data file
{
tessa} all possible combinations from an array
{
logan} Read an Apache httpd access log file and count statuses
{
swapper} Swapping two variables
{
h1.rb} First hash in Ruby
{
a3.rb} methods on arrays
{
favr} Defining, adding to, iterating through an array
{
arar.rb} Arrays of arrays
{
a1.rb} First Array
{
pw.rb} %w to set up an array, and compact
{
d3_5} Array methods such as grep
{
d3_9} Using a hash to count web server accesses
{
a2.rb} Basic Array manipulation
{
mar} Combining arrays - element by element "and" and "or"
{
pwc.rb} Copying an object in Ruby
{
bone} Combining arrays
{
toppers.xx} Hash to count server accesses
{
others} Symbols
{
kvp} Sorting in Ruby
{
lunch} array sorting and iterating
{
amaze4} Array of counters - log file statistics
{
ddd} Symbols v strings
{
d3_4} Arrays, and iterating through them
Module R108 -
More Classes and Objects
[4551] Testing your new class - first steps with cucumber
[4550] Build up classes into applications sharing data types in Ruby
[4504] Where does Ruby load modules from, and how to load from current directory
[4366] Changing what operators do on objects - a comparison across different programming languages
[3782] Standard methods available on all objects in Ruby
[3781] Private, Protected, Public in Ruby. What about interfaces and abstract classes in Ruby?
[3760] Why you should use objects even for short data manipulation programs in Ruby
[3260] Ruby - a training example that puts many language elements together to demonstrate the whole
[3158] Ruby training - some fresh examples for string handling applications
[3154] Changing a class later on - Ruby
[3142] Private and Public - and things between
[2980] Ruby - examples of regular expressions, inheritance and polymorphism
[2977] What is a factory method and why use one? - Example in Ruby
[2717] The Multiple Inheritance Conundrum, interfaces and mixins
[2623] Object Oriented Ruby - new examples
[2620] Direct access to object variable (attributes) in Ruby
[2616] Defining a static method - Java, Python and Ruby
[2604] Tips for writing a test program (Ruby / Python / Java)
[2603] Ruby objects - a primer
[2601] Ruby - is_a? v instance_of? - what is the difference?
[2292] Object Orientation in Ruby - intermediate examples
[1587] Some Ruby programming examples from our course
[1217] What are factory and singleton classes?
[656] Think about your design even if you don't use full UML
[184] MTBF of coffee machines
(
article) Basic class definition and use in Ruby
(
article) Modules, Mixins and Comparators in Ruby
{
overload_add.rb} Operator (+) and to_string overloading, Ruby
{
ststsort} Data manipulation - structured approach
{
finex} Simplest Inheritance Example
{
inh1.rb} Inheritance in Ruby
{
O2.rb} Copy v clone
{
stanley} Listing of standard methods
{
stobsort} Data manipulation - object approach
{
stations.rb} Sample class used in sharing example
{
station.feature} gherkin / features of station class
{
cmquick} static and dynamic member variables and methods
{
transact.data} Class / Interitance / Test program data
{
ob2.rb} A class with some class (static) and singleton members
{
dub3} no returns on a Ruby method
{
slogan} Server Log Analysis
{
transact.rb} Class / Interitance / Test program example showing good practise
{
second} second program that uses classes
{
attr} attribute accessors
{
in4.rb} Inheritance, factories, statics, DATA, lazy ops, to_s
{
d4_2} Single class example for extension by inheritance
{
transport.rb} Cluster of related (inheriting) transport classes and test program
{
d4_3} Object and Class variables (dynamic and static)
{
O1.rb} Amending a base class even after it has been extended
{
journey.rb} Sample class used in sharing example
{
dubber} default - variables are LOCAL
{
disc2} Comparator methods (larger and smaller)
{
reallyshort} Inheritance, Class methods, Attribute Accessors, operator overloading
{
dub2} With $ - variables are global
{
multifood.rb} Class demo - lots of extras
{
d4_4} Static Method
{
slash} Server Log Analysis (2)
{
olop.rb} Operator overloading
{
third} third example use of classes
{
food.rb} Single class demo
{
station_steps.rb} Cucumber implemented test code for station.feature behaviour
{
d4_5} Inheritance in Ruby
Module R109 -
Strings and Regular Expressions
[4549] Clarrissa-Marybelle - too long to really fit?
[4505] Regular Expressions for the petrified - in Ruby
[4388] Global Regular Expression matching in Ruby (using scan)
[3758] Ruby - standard operators are overloaded. Perl - they are not
[3757] Ruby - a teaching example showing many of the language features in short but useful program
[3621] Matching regular expressions, and substitutions, in Ruby
[3424] Divide 10000 by 17. Do you get 588.235294117647, 588.24 or 588? - Ruby and PHP
[2980] Ruby - examples of regular expressions, inheritance and polymorphism
[2623] Object Oriented Ruby - new examples
[2621] Ruby collections and strings - some new examples
[2614] Neatly formatting results into a table
[2608] Search and replace in Ruby - Ruby Regular Expressions
[2295] The dog is not in trouble
[2293] Regular Expressions in Ruby
[1891] Ruby to access web services
[1887] Ruby Programming Course - Saturday and Sunday
[1875] What are exceptions - Python based answer
[1588] String interpretation in Ruby
[1305] Regular expressions made easy - building from components
[1195] Regular Express Primer
[987] Ruby v Perl - interpollating variables
[986] puts - opposite of chomp in Ruby
[970] String duplication - x in Perl, * in Python and Ruby
(
article) Pattern Matching - a primer on regular Expressions
(
article) Ruby Regular Expressions
(
article) String Functions in Ruby
{
stdo.rb} Using some of ruby's string methods
{
rex1.rb} Ruby regular expression demo
{
sop.rb} + and * on strings in Ruby
{
d4_1} Using a string as a collection
{
se1} Regular Expression Primer Example
{
d4_8} Regular Expression (including documenation)
{
ii} Formatting example - splitting money between nieces and nephews
{
e2} Embedded variables in strings
{
kiddos} Formatting a table of data
{
rex2.rb} Splitting at a regular expression
{
globalmatch} Scan for global matches
{
regex_sub.rb} Regular Expression Substitution
{
kids} Formatting values in Ruby
{
bc} Some String Handling
{
heredocs.rb} Here Documents in Ruby
{
pareea} Class for email addresses / regex for splitting and checking
{
names} formatting - adjust for longest string
{
pc} extracting sections from a match
{
vest} Cleaning up a phone number and checking a postcode
{
shalt} the compact method removes nil elements from an array
{
d4_7} Running a piped command via backquotes
{
summatelse} Regular Expression Alternative Example
{
str_types.rb} Ways of writing a string
{
mlre.rb} Commenting a regular expression
{
d4_6} Formatted printing
{
finder} search, search / replace, search / execute / replace
Module R110 -
Special Variables and Pseudo-Variables
[4682] One line scripts - Awk, Perl and Ruby
[4502] Reading and parsing a JSON object in Ruby
[3757] Ruby - a teaching example showing many of the language features in short but useful program
[2623] Object Oriented Ruby - new examples
[2613] Constants in Ruby
[2296] Variable scope - what is it, and how does it Ruby?
[1891] Ruby to access web services
[1587] Some Ruby programming examples from our course
[1586] Variable types in Ruby
[990] Ruby - Totally Topical
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article) Solution Centre - all article listing
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
{
av} Command Line Parameters to a Ruby program
{
gloop1} Topicalisation - before
{
tiny} Autosplit mode, a loop round your code, BEGIN and END
{
cc} begin block
{
rerub} Cleaning an incoming string in Ruby
{
pgv.rb} Predefined global variables and resources
{
vvx} variable types
{
topic.rb} Topicalisation - the use of $_
{
c3.rb} Process every line via topicalisation
{
gloop2} Topicalisation - after
{
ruby_awk.rb} implicit loop around code - awk mode
{
envx} reading and setting environment variables from and for shell commands
{
answer} Data manipulation example (table inversion)
Module R111 -
Exceptions.
[4675] Exceptions in Ruby - throwing, catching and using
[4008] Reading and checking user inputs - first lessons - Ruby
[3435] Sorta sorting a hash, and what if an exception is NOT thrown - Ruby
[3433] Exceptions - a fail-safe way of trapping things that may go wrong
[3260] Ruby - a training example that puts many language elements together to demonstrate the whole
[3177] Insurance against any errors - Volcanoes and Python
[2622] Handling unusual and error conditions - exceptions
[2621] Ruby collections and strings - some new examples
[2620] Direct access to object variable (attributes) in Ruby
[2615] String to number conversion with error trapping in Ruby
[1875] What are exceptions - Python based answer
(
article) errors v exceptions
{
bmi.rb} BMI (Body Mass Index) calculator
{
except} raisieng and catching exceptions between methods
{
catcher} Converting String to Integer and handling errors
{
mycode} input a number from user, deal with errors / exceptions
{
mc} Catching user errors - a short demonstration
{
fsta.rb} File Reporter - assumes all is OK
{
fstb.rb} File Reporter - handle problems with open
{
chq} catching exceptions - file handling
{
fstc.rb} File Reporter - handle multiple problems and re prompt
{
mighty.rb} Passing exceptions back to calling code
Module R112 -
Parallelism
[4680] Processing data line by line - iterator in Ruby with yield
[3156] Splitting data reading code from data processing code - Ruby
[2979] Ruby - yield; parallel routines
{
ytb.rb} Your own data iterator
{
lynes.rb} How to write and use an iterator
{
tap} Reading a file in parallel to processing
{
papo} yield - calling back to a code block
{
feeder} yield and iterator - practical example
{
faucet} a series of methods in a production line
Module R113 -
Further Input and Output
[4678] Expect with Ruby - a training example to get you started
[4676] Running shell (operating system) commands from within Ruby
[4553] RUby - loading, using, changing, storing JSON format data
[4502] Reading and parsing a JSON object in Ruby
[4008] Reading and checking user inputs - first lessons - Ruby
{
tj3.rb} Descending into a complex (json) object
{
jload} making use of data in a JSON object
{
exprub} Ruby server check with Ruby - Expect
{
cashell} Calling Shell commands from Ruby
{
wread} Read a web resource into a program
Module R114 -
Ruby on the Web
[4502] Reading and parsing a JSON object in Ruby
[4003] Web and console - same principle, same code - Ruby example
[3773] Ruby on the web - a simple example using CGI
[3623] Some TestWise examples - helping use Ruby code to check your web site operation
[3432] 3 digit HTTP status codes - what are they, which are most common, which should be a concern?
[3431] Ruby at both extremes of your website
[2607] Answers on Ruby on Rails
[2605] Ruby on Rails - a sample application to teach you how
[1891] Ruby to access web services
{
testwise1.rb} TestWise - example pasted from a Firefox Capture
{
south.rb} CGI Server application from first principles
{
testwise2.rb} TestWise - multiple stories
{
brightred} Ruby script / CGI - demo reporting current log file
{
rubypost} Automated browser to collect from web service
{
testwise.in} Testwise data file
{
tj.rb} Reading a Json object from a web site and displaying it
{
ruby_100} analysis of web server log file
{
testwise4.rb} Testwise - testing in a loop, and expecting failure
{
testwise.log} Testwise - output log
{
hello_ruby_cgi_world} Hello Web World
{
testwise3.rb} TestWise - conditionals - making decisions based on pages returned
{
testwise5.rb} Testwise - a first page object
{
testwise6.rb} testwise - reading from file, writing to console and logfile
Module R115 -
Using Ruby with Other Languages
[4676] Running shell (operating system) commands from within Ruby
[3155] Rake - a build system using code written in Ruby
{
rakefile} Rakefile for complete C++ example
{
shelley} running a bash script in a ruby wrapper
Module R116 -
Security Issues.
[3781] Private, Protected, Public in Ruby. What about interfaces and abstract classes in Ruby?
[2604] Tips for writing a test program (Ruby / Python / Java)
[945] Code quality counts
{
current} private and protected
Module R117 -
Ruby GUIs, XML, SQL Database Connectivity
[4679] Reading in XML in Ruby with xmlsimple
[4006] Ruby / SQLite3 example program, showing JOIN v LEFT JOIN
[2714] A simple example - XML from a Ruby program
[1890] MySQL database from Ruby - an example
(
article) Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs)
(
article) Interfacing applications to a MySQL database engine
{
tago} SQLite example
{
dbl} Using MySQL databases from Ruby
{
x1.rb} REXML - XML in Ruby - absolute basics
{
myrssfeed.xml} Sample XML data
{
xmls.rb} XML in Ruby with xmlsimple gem
{
tag2} SQLite example with table joins
Module R118 -
Ruby Sources and Resources
[3783] Load path, load and require in Ruby, and a change from 1.8 to 1.9
[3622] Loading Ruby classes - where does Ruby look?
[3435] Sorta sorting a hash, and what if an exception is NOT thrown - Ruby
[3426] Automed web site testing scripted in Ruby using watir-webdriver
[2931] Syncronise - software, trains, and buses. Please!
[2621] Ruby collections and strings - some new examples
[2610] Cheat Sheet - what do you need for Ruby on Rails?
[550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure
{
rubbers} Use of a debug flag to add and remove traces
{
onsite.rb} Testing a webiste with watir-webdriver
{
quote_test_log.txt} logfile example watir-webdriver demo
Module R119 -
Ruby Miscellany
[3799] Ruby Documentation through rdoc
[3783] Load path, load and require in Ruby, and a change from 1.8 to 1.9
[3622] Loading Ruby classes - where does Ruby look?
[3428] How many days to Christmas?
[3155] Rake - a build system using code written in Ruby
[1890] MySQL database from Ruby - an example
[1889] Ruby mixins, modules, require and include
[1720] Some Ruby lesser used functions
[1586] Variable types in Ruby
[1181] Good Programming practise - where to initialise variables
(
article) Modules, Mixins and Comparators in Ruby
{
mixdem.rb} Mixins in Ruby - a short demo
{
pat.rb} Delivery objects - postman sort
{
wot.rb} Work out tax - use Taxcalc.rb
{
taxcalc.rb} Tax Calculation Module
{
tcalc.rb} Tax Calculation Module for Mixin
{
rubytime} Time objects
Module R202 -
Ruby on Rails
[4013] Web Frameworks - nested templates
[4010] Really Simple Rails
[3919] What is a web framework?
[3780] Ruby of Rails - cleanly displaying model data in the view
[3779] Adding validation to form entries and sticky fields - Ruby on Rails
[3778] Providing a form to allow the user to add data to the model - Ruby on Rails
[3777] Multiple views in a single appication - sharing common parts of the template - Ruby on Rails
[3772] Hello World - Ruby on Rails - a checklist of each step
[3756] Ruby on Rails - how it flows, and where the files go
[3624] Why do we need a Model, View, Controller architecture?
[2609] Scope of variables - important to Ruby on Rails
[2607] Answers on Ruby on Rails
[2605] Ruby on Rails - a sample application to teach you how
[1745] Moodle, Drupal, Django (and Rails)
[1375] Python v Ruby
[1302] Ruby, Ruby, Ruby. Rails, Rails, Rails.
[1050] The HTML++ Metalanguage
(
article) Ror - Ruby on Rails
{
views_floor_addaisle.html.erb} The view for the "add aisle" page
{
views_floor_addproduct.html.erb} The view for the add product page
{
db_seeds.rb} Seeding data for use when application is installed
{
models_ailse.rb} How to validate an Aisle object
{
views_floor_stock.html.erb} View to list out what we sell, listed aisle by aisle
{
controller_floor_controller.rb} Our main shop floor controller
{
greeting.rhtml} Some Ruby at the top of a view
{
models_product.rb} How to validate a Product object
{
views_floor_index.html.erb} Home page for Ruby-on-rails sample application
{
config_routes.rb} Routing for product and aisle resources - configuration
{
controller_application_controller.rb} Controller General Helpers
{
igot} Rails - application to display from Model, Controller and View
{
views_layouts_floor.html.erb} Template that encloses all pages in the application
{
ilib.rb} Hello Rails World controller
Module R203 -
Installing and setting up Rails
[3772] Hello World - Ruby on Rails - a checklist of each step
[2610] Cheat Sheet - what do you need for Ruby on Rails?
(
article) Ror - Ruby on Rails
{
product.rb} Hello Rails World, Model
{
seeds.rb} Seed data for product model
{
productlister_controller.rb} Controller for Hello Rails World
{
index.erb} View template - hello Rails world
Module R211 -
RSpec
[4681] Ruby testing with RSpec - a new example
[4579] Behaviour and test driven development in Ruby using RSpec
[4544] RSpec - Ruby testing (stand alone example / no cucumber)
[4386] Guide exercise to help you learn Gherkin, Cucumber and Rspec
[4383] Improved test in Cucumber with RSpec
{
tables.feature} Behaviour definition - for a restaurant table
{
tables.rb} Definition of tables derived from behaviour and test specs
{
several.rb} Testing with multiple data values
{
rsx} Class testing with rspec
{
rs001} First RSpec example (no cucumber)
{
tables_steps.rb} Steps for implementing test behaviou for restaurant tables
{
testmatrix.rb} Matrix of tests with rspec
Module R212 -
Test::Unit
[4389] Cucumber example - test::unit, scenario outlines, datafile driven test
[4326] Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code
{
pilot.txt} Test case data file
{
quotation.feature} Gherkin - A table of examples for a scenario
{
quotation_steps.rb} Step definitions - using test::unit
Module R221 -
Introduction to Cucumber
[4552] Scenario outlines - tables of values to test - in Gherkin / Cucumber
[4551] Testing your new class - first steps with cucumber
[4386] Guide exercise to help you learn Gherkin, Cucumber and Rspec
[4384] Installing Cucumber on Ubuntu - cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError) message
[4383] Improved test in Cucumber with RSpec
[4382] Second step Cucumber and Gherkin - beyond Hello World
[4381] Installing Cucumber (Ruby)
[4380] Behaviour Driven Development / Ruby and Cucumber
{
hello.feature} Feature description - in Gherkin for Cucumber
{
station.feature} Scenario outline / table of example values
{
second_steps.rb} Step implementation of second scenario
{
third_steps.rb} Step implementation of third scenario - using RSpec
{
capacity.feature} Feature - Scenario, Given, When and Then
{
greet.rb} Code to implement a behaviour
{
train.rb} Code to implement a behaviour / second example
{
hello_steps.rb} How the behaviour is to be tested
{
station_steps.rb} Steps for scenario outline example
Module R222 -
Cucumber / web site testing with watir webdrivers and capybara
[4501] Defining the behaviour of your web site and testing that it works
[4389] Cucumber example - test::unit, scenario outlines, datafile driven test
[4387] Regression Testing my website - Cucumber and Watir
[3426] Automed web site testing scripted in Ruby using watir-webdriver
{
plym.feature} Feature - first test of lunches
{
titleregister.json} Json sample
{
plymouth.txt} Sample output of running final example
{
second_steps.rb} implementation tests for lunch application
{
quotation.feature} Gherkin Behaviour for a web site
{
hello_quotation.feature} Gherkin - Behaviour description
{
hello_sel_steps.rb.hold} Tests - using Selenium
{
lunches.php} Test Application for Ruby / Cucumber
{
first.feature} Simplest feature file
{
tamarsteps.rb} steps for plym,tamar and gunnislake
{
hello_wat_steps.rb.hold} Tests - using Watir
{
one_steps.rb} implementation of first features
{
quotation_steps.rb} Step definitions for web site testing
{
tamar.feature} First simple connectivity test
{
framework.inc} include file for microPHP site for testing
{
second.feature} Testing lunch requirements
{
breakfast.php} First sample page to test
{
gunnislake.feature} features - back end JSON service
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S: Databases / the MySQL database
Overview S050 -
MySQL - General
[3361] Blowing our own trumpet - MySQL resources
[2861] MySQL and Java - connectivity past, present, and future thoughts
[2567] Extra MySQL course dates (2 day course, UK)
[2561] The future of MySQL
[2559] Moving the product forward - ours, and MySQL, Perl, PHP and Python too
[2426] Which version of MySQL am I running?
[2240] How do I query a database (MySQL)?
[2134] Oracle take over Sun who had taken over MySQL
[2085] MySQL - licensing issues, even with using the name
[2053] What a difference a MySQL Index made
(
article) Left Joins to link three or more tables
(
article) Management overview of MySQL - background and Philosophies
(
article) MySQL Extras
{
sample_mysql_table} Create a table with duplicate records to remove as an exersize
Module S151 -
Introduction to SQL and MySQL
[3928] Storing your intermediate data - what format should you you choose?
[3269] Files or Databases? MySQL, SQLite, or Oracle?
[2786] Factory methods and SqLite in use in a Python teaching example
[2567] Extra MySQL course dates (2 day course, UK)
[2561] The future of MySQL
[2134] Oracle take over Sun who had taken over MySQL
[924] The LAMP Cookbook - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl
[918] Databases needn't be frightening, hard or expensive
[691] Testing you Perl / PHP / MySQL / Tcl knowledge
[591] Key facts - SQL and MySQL
[515] MySQL - an FAQ
[444] Database or Progamming - which to learn first?
[382] Central London Courses - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, MySQL
[175] Worthwhile
[85] Present and future MySQL
[84] MySQL - nuggets
(
article) Management overview of MySQL - background and Philosophies
(
article) Justification - MySQL v Oracle, Open Source v Commercial
Module S152 -
SQL Primer as Used in MySQL
[4007] Which database should I use? MySQL v SQLite
[3061] Databases - why data is split into separate tables, and how to join them
[3060] INSERT, DELETE, REPLACE and UPDATE - changing the content of SQL tables
[2240] How do I query a database (MySQL)?
[591] Key facts - SQL and MySQL
[515] MySQL - an FAQ
[502] SELECT in MySQL - choosing the rows you want
[494] MySQL - a score of things to remember
[270] NULL in MySQL
[158] MySQL - LEFT JOIN and RIGHT JOIN, INNER JOIN and OUTER JOIN
(
article) MySQL joins - using left join and right join to find orphan rows
(
article) Left Joins to link three or more tables
{
joiner.sql} Create two tables, link them with left join
{
pop_dvd.sql} Insert rows into sample dvd table
{
make_dvd.sql} Create a database and table for a DVD collection
{
tab2} Second table for advanced join demos
{
loader.sql} Loading data from csv files
{
seeds.mysql} MySQL example - table joins
{
linked.sql} Two tables ... an illustration of the different joins
{
tab1} First table for advanced join demos
{
sql_demo.sql} Adding and amending data in a database table
Module S153 -
Sourcing, Running and Configuring MySQL
[4487] Starting MySQL. ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file - how we fixed it.
[4406] Fixing damaged MySQL tables - Error 1712 and Error 2013
[4390] Checking MySQL database backups have worked (not failed)
[2458] Cant connect to local MySQL server through socket /tmp/mysql.sock
[2445] Securing MySQL on a production server
[2444] Potted MySQL installation
[2426] Which version of MySQL am I running?
[2209] Monitoring and Tuning your MySQL installation
[2085] MySQL - licensing issues, even with using the name
[1935] Summary of MySQL installation on a Linux system
[1771] More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java
[1731] Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP - installation procedure
[1689] Some sideways thoughts on the news
[1131] MySQL - Password security (authentication protocol)
[1123] mysqldump and mysqlrestore
[1095] Apache httpd , browser, MySQL and MySQL client downloads
[907] Browser -> httpd -> Tomcat -> MySQL. Restarting.
[591] Key facts - SQL and MySQL
[535] MySQL permissions and privileges
[515] MySQL - an FAQ
[489] Which MySQL server am I using?
[334] Symbolic links and hard links
[192] Current MySQL and PHP paths and upgrades
(
article) Management overview of MySQL - background and Philosophies
(
article) Justification - MySQL v Oracle, Open Source v Commercial
(
article) Load balancing and robustness - httpd, tomcat, PHP, Servlets, MySQL
(
article) Windows - running Apache and MySQL from a CD
Module S154 -
Designing an SQL Database System
[4426] FileMaker Day to Unix Time conversion
[3494] Databases - when to treat the rules as guidelines
[3361] Blowing our own trumpet - MySQL resources
[3270] SQL - Data v Metadata, and the various stages of data selection
[2749] Delegate Question - defining MySQL table relationships as you create the tables
[2204] Images in a database? How big is a database? (MySQL)
[2085] MySQL - licensing issues, even with using the name
[2053] What a difference a MySQL Index made
[1771] More HowTo diagrams - MySQL, Tomcat and Java
[1575] Database design for a shopping application (MySQL)
[1423] MySQL - table design and initial testing example
[945] Code quality counts
[937] Display an image from a MySQL database in a web page via PHP
[918] Databases needn't be frightening, hard or expensive
[666] Database design - get it right from first principles
[515] MySQL - an FAQ
[494] MySQL - a score of things to remember
[375] Oops - I got my initial database design wrong
[361] Binary Large Objects or bars
[59] MySQL - Pivot tables
(
article) Mapping database rows to objects in a class
(
article) Example - PHP form, Image upload. Store in MySQL database. Retrieve.
(
article) When to denormalise your MySQL data
(
article) Many to many table mapping (Pivot tables)
(
article) Replicating servers in MySQL - Why and how
{
pivot.sql} SQL to load book, author and pivot tables
{
docjoin.sql} Select for design / complex join example
{
just.php} Skeleton application - design / complex join example
{
authors.tab} Author table
{
docs.sql} Database and table setup for design / complex join example
{
tabled.php} Display normalised MySQL tables on a web page
{
books.tab} Book table
{
docdata.sql} Data for design / complex join example
{
pivots.tab} Pivot table
{
sql} Table Design - Restaurants / Category / Line item
Module S156 -
Interfacing Applications to MySQL Databases
[4436] Accessing a MySQL database from Python with mysql.connector
[3455] MySQL, MySQLi, PDO or something else - how best to talk to databases from PHP
[3447] Needle in a haystack - finding the web server overload
[3099] Perl - database access - DBD, DBI and DBIx modules
[3035] How to display information from a database within a web page
[2790] Joining a MySQL table from within a Python program
[2745] Connecting Python to sqlite and MySQL databases
[2381] Checking the database connection manually
[2263] Mysqldump fails as a cron job - a work around
[1885] Hiding a MySQL database behind a web page
[1561] Uploading to a MySQL database through PHP - examples and common questions
[1518] Downloading data for use in Excel (from PHP / MySQL)
[1450] Easy selection of multiple SQL conditions from PHP
[1381] Using a MySQL database to control mod_rewrite via PHP
[723] Viewing images held in a MySQL database via PHP
[663] Python to MySQL
[644] Using a MySQL database from Perl
[104] mysql_connect or mysql_pconnect in PHP?
(
article) MySQL version 5, PHP version 5 and mysqli
(
article) MySQL and PHP - enquiry tool for ad-hoc requirements
(
article) MySQL and PHP - enquiry tool for ad-hoc requirements
(
article) Interfacing applications to a MySQL database engine
(
article) Accessing a MySQL database via a browser, Perl and CGI
{
t1.php4} PHP table insert into two tables / join / enquire
{
mqxyz.php} Simple demo of PHP table from SQL
{
mkexcel.php} Returning data from a database via a URL as an excel spread sheet in PHP
{
mkexcel2.php} Returning data, opening Excel including formulas, from PHP
{
t1.sql} create tables for t1 demo
Module S157 -
More MySQL commands
[4481] Extracting data from backups to restore selected rows from MySQL tables
[3270] SQL - Data v Metadata, and the various stages of data selection
[3061] Databases - why data is split into separate tables, and how to join them
[2647] Removing duplicates from a MySQL table
[2645] Optimising and caching your MySQL enquiries
[2644] Counting rows in joined MySQL tables
[2643] Relating tables with joins in MySQL
[2448] MySQL - efficiency and other topics
[2259] Grouping rows for a summary report - MySQL and PHP
[2110] MySQL - looking for records in one table that do NOT correspond to records in another table
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes
[1735] Finding words and work boundaries (MySQL, Perl, PHP)
[1574] Joining MySQL tables revisited - finding nonmatching records, etc
[1331] MySQL joins revisited
[1235] Outputting numbers as words - MySQL with Perl or PHP
[1213] MySQL - the order of clauses and the order of actions
[673] Helicopter views and tartans
[591] Key facts - SQL and MySQL
[581] Saving a MySQL query results to your local disc for Excel
[572] Giving the researcher power over database analysis
[567] Combining similar rows from a MySQL database select
[517] An occasional chance, and reducing data to manageable levels
[515] MySQL - an FAQ
[513] MySQL - JOIN or WHERE to link tables correctly?
[502] SELECT in MySQL - choosing the rows you want
[494] MySQL - a score of things to remember
[449] Matching in MySQL
[279] Getting a list of unique values from a MySQL column
[159] MySQL - Optimising Selects
[158] MySQL - LEFT JOIN and RIGHT JOIN, INNER JOIN and OUTER JOIN
(
article) Copying databases and tables in MySQL
(
article) MySQL joins - using left join and right join to find orphan rows
(
article) MySQL SELECT - JOIN versus UNION, WHERE versus HAVING, GROUP etc.
(
article) Left Joins to link three or more tables
(
article) When to denormalise your MySQL data
(
article) MySQL Extras
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
{
homes.tab} Houses for sale - Trowbridge, Melksham, etc
{
perlit} 6 tables ordering system model - perl program
{
agents.tab} Estate agent details - Trowbridge, Melksham, etc
{
seeder} Data for join v left join demonstration
{
rz} 6 tables ordering system model - running output
{
shopper} 6 tables ordering system model - Design and test in SQL
{
agents} SQL statements for Agent and Property demo
Module S158 -
GUI tools for MySQL
[1724] addslashes v mysql_real_escape_string in PHP
[572] Giving the researcher power over database analysis
(
article) MySQL and PHP - enquiry tool for ad-hoc requirements
Module S159 -
MySQL 5 and PHP 5
[3455] MySQL, MySQLi, PDO or something else - how best to talk to databases from PHP
[2172] PHP4 v PHP5 - Object Model Difference
[1766] Diagrams to show you how - Tomcat, Java, PHP
[1754] Upgrade from PHP 4 to PHP 5 - the TRY issue
[1455] Connecting to MySQL 5 from PHP on Mac OSX Leopard
[1417] What software version do we teach?
[1131] MySQL - Password security (authentication protocol)
[515] MySQL - an FAQ
[494] MySQL - a score of things to remember
[104] mysql_connect or mysql_pconnect in PHP?
(
article) MySQL version 5, PHP version 5 and mysqli
{
vlatesti.php5} How NOT to use mysqli - don't just add an i
{
vlatest.php5} A simple example using PHP mysql functions
{
5,2,5,i.php5} Using PHP mysqli functions - a working example
Module S161 -
Data Access and Security in MySQL
[4493] Forgotten / lost MySQL root password
[4491] Web Server Admin - some of those things that happen, and solutions
[4481] Extracting data from backups to restore selected rows from MySQL tables
[4406] Fixing damaged MySQL tables - Error 1712 and Error 2013
[4390] Checking MySQL database backups have worked (not failed)
[3270] SQL - Data v Metadata, and the various stages of data selection
[2647] Removing duplicates from a MySQL table
[2263] Mysqldump fails as a cron job - a work around
[2204] Images in a database? How big is a database? (MySQL)
[1131] MySQL - Password security (authentication protocol)
[947] What is an SQL injection attack?
[647] Checking for MySQL errors
[535] MySQL permissions and privileges
[401] What is an SQL injection attack?
[193] The wrong MySQL
[192] Current MySQL and PHP paths and upgrades
(
article) Copying databases and tables in MySQL
Module S162 -
Replication in MySQL
[2210] MySQL server replication
(
article) Copying databases and tables in MySQL
(
article) Replicating servers in MySQL - Why and how
Module S163 -
Stored Procedures in MySQL
[2749] Delegate Question - defining MySQL table relationships as you create the tables
[2447] MySQL stored procedures / their use on the web from PHP
[2446] Learn about MySQL stored procedures
{
stp4} Stored procedure to return a result set
{
stored5.php} PHP call to a MySQL stored procedure that returns a result set
{
seed.sql} Data to seed tables for stored procedure demos
{
stored6.php} PHP call to a MySQL store procedure that calculates / loops
{
stored3.php} PHP call to a stored procedure to run a fixed query
{
stp6} Stored procedure calculating from a query
{
stored4.php} PHP call to a MySQL stored procedure passing a parameter
{
stp3} Simple stored procedure definition
{
stp5} Stored Procedure taking a parameter
{
twcrp.sql} MySQLdump sample - twcrp test database for store procedure use
Module S200 -
SQLite
[4024] SQL databases from Python - an SQLite example
[4007] Which database should I use? MySQL v SQLite
[4006] Ruby / SQLite3 example program, showing JOIN v LEFT JOIN
[3269] Files or Databases? MySQL, SQLite, or Oracle?
[3139] Steering our Python courses towards wxPython, SQLite and Django
[3099] Perl - database access - DBD, DBI and DBIx modules
[2786] Factory methods and SqLite in use in a Python teaching example
[2746] Model - View - Controller demo, Sqlite - Python 3 - Qt4
[2745] Connecting Python to sqlite and MySQL databases
[2744] PyQt (Python and Qt) and wxPython - GUI comparison
[2561] The future of MySQL
{
seeds.sqlite} SQLite example - table joins
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T: Tcl, Tcl/Tk, wish and Expect
Overview T050 -
Tcl, Tcl/Tk and Expect - General
[4616] Still teaching Tcl in 2016?
[4460] Using Object Oriented Tcl and the Tk toolkit together - real life example
[4434] Public training courses - upcoming dates
[4206] Writing the perfect program in Tcl?
[3286] Should we cover expect and/or Tk on our public Tcl courses?
[3192] Tcl - Some example of HOW TO in handling data files and formats
[2681] Tcl - a great engineering language
[2504] Learning to program in ...
[2474] Using Tcl and Expect to automate repetitive jobs
[2429] Tcl scripts / processes on a web server via CGI
(
article) Why have Tcl/Tk been around for so long?
(
article) Incr-Tcl - Object Oriented extension to Tcl
(
article) The Typist and the Engineer
{
myfuncs} File of function(s) for common operations
{
day3} A good - but not perfect - second program
{
day2} A good - but not perfect - early program
{
distance_graph} itcl and tk together - full app
Module T201 -
What is Tcl?
[4616] Still teaching Tcl in 2016?
[2463] Tcl - a true interpretive, command based language
[1268] Changes in advertising cut lines / Buscot / Tcl course
[1174] Installing Tcl and Expect on Solaris 10 - a checklist
[691] Testing you Perl / PHP / MySQL / Tcl knowledge
[382] Central London Courses - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, MySQL
[133] Tcl embeds
(
article) Why have Tcl/Tk been around for so long?
Module T202 -
Tcl Fundamentals
[4453] Tcl variable names - no real limits!
[4324] Learning to program - variables and constants
[3917] BODMAS - the order a computer evaluates arithmetic expressions
[2442] Variable storage - Perl, Tcl and Python compared
[1469] Curley brackets v double quotes - Tcl, Tk, Expect
[1426] Buffering up in Tcl - the empty coke can comparison
[1282] Stringing together Tcl scripts
[1136] Buffering output - why it is done and issues raised in Tcl, Perl, Python and PHP
[782] Converting between Hex and Decimal in Tcl
[362] The ireallyreallywanna operator
[349] Comments in Tcl
[328] Making programs easy for any user to start
[210] Joining lists in Tcl. Indirect variables in Tcl.
[3] Looking for a donkey
(
article) Brackets and Braces in Tcl
{
greet} Reading from the user in Tcl
{
hddh} Hexadecimal to decimal, and decimal to hex, in Tcl
{
gry} Variables in Tcl - first use
{
anno2} Comments - inline and continuations
{
pricer} Completed simple application in Tcl - pricing tickets
{
gr2} Double quote substitution in Tcl
{
anno} A trivial Tcl program with comments
Module T203 -
Conditionals and Loops
[4455] Working out distance between places, using OS grid references and a program in Tcl
[4323] Learning to program - Loop statements such as while
[4322] Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if)
[3571] Comparing loop commands in Tcl
[3570] Trapping errors in Tcl - the safety net that catch provides
[3397] Does a for loop evaluate its end condition once, or on every iteration?
[3189] Tcl - the danger of square brackets in a while command
[2681] Tcl - a great engineering language
[2471] A short form of if ... then ... else
[2261] Tcl - nice and nasty
[1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ...
[1477] Decisions - small ones, or big ones?
[1401] Tcl - using [] or {} for conditions in an if (and while)
[210] Joining lists in Tcl. Indirect variables in Tcl.
{
dthrow} The switch command
{
globber} Switch - exact, glob and regex
{
lazy} The ? : conditional operator
{
food} Alternative conditions - while loop
{
wtot} breaking out of a Tcl loop
{
lunches} Lunches for each day of the week
{
wd} The while command in Tcl
{
validlunches} Lunches - validating user input within range
{
diy} The for command
{
diy2} The foreach command
{
wipats} More flexible alternative to a switch
{
group} The if command in Tcl
{
group4} deferred execution blocks with { and }
{
group5} if, elseif and else in Tcl
{
flt} for while and foreach loops compared
{
morelunches} Lunches - different places to go
{
ftoc} F to C conversion - exercise
{
ftoc2} Is water a solid, a liquid or a gas?
{
older} Conditional Operator ? and :
{
minimax} Answer to practical - minimum and maximum
Module T205 -
String Handling in Tcl
[4455] Working out distance between places, using OS grid references and a program in Tcl
[4454] Everything is a string - even a list
[4205] Regular Expression Substitution - Tcl
[3576] Tcl - apparently odd behaviour of string trimleft
[3285] Extracting data from a string / line from file - Tcl
[3192] Tcl - Some example of HOW TO in handling data files and formats
[2472] split and join in tcl and expect
[1601] Replacing the last comma with an and
[1410] Tcl / regsub - changing a string and using interesting bits
[1403] Square Bracket protection in Tcl
[943] Matching within multiline strings, and ignoring case in regular expressions
[779] The fragility of pancakes - and better structures
[404] How to check that a string contains a number in Tcl
(
article) Analysing incoming data lines
{
stringman} Manipulating a string
{
hunter} Example of analysis of a log file
{
stringinfo} Getting information from a text string
{
iconfinder} search for all icon references in a web log
{
ccat} lappend and concat - the difference
{
rematch} String matching using a regular expression
{
match} String matching - using globing
{
datematch} Matching a date using a regular expression
{
rf2a} Using scan's return value
{
dm2} A further date match example
{
poco} Postcode identifier and string splitter
{
rf} Opening and reading a file
{
apfo} format and append commands
{
ac_report} Complete example - Access log file analysis
{
rf2} Using scan to get a field from a string
{
brax} Literally matching round brackets in regular expressions
Module T206 -
Lists
[4455] Working out distance between places, using OS grid references and a program in Tcl
[4454] Everything is a string - even a list
[4209] Lists in Tcl - fundamentals in a commented source code example
[3618] lists and struct::list in Tcl - Introduction to struct::list and examples
[3583] Expanding a list of parameters in Tcl - {*} and eval
[3582] Tcl collections - lists, dicts and array
[3415] User defined sorting and other uses of callbacks in Tcl and Tk
[3394] The difference between lists and strings - Tcl
[3285] Extracting data from a string / line from file - Tcl
[2472] split and join in tcl and expect
[2468] What are Tcl lists?
[1601] Replacing the last comma with an and
[1405] Sorting in Tcl - lists and arrays
[1402] Tcl - append v lappend v concat
[1334] Stable sorting - Tcl, Perl and others
[1283] Generating traffic for network testing
[1282] Stringing together Tcl scripts
[781] Tcl - lappend v concat
[463] Splitting the difference
[144] Tcl sandwich - lists in Tcl
{
distance_between} Finding distances between places base on OS grid references
{
pk4.tcl} Generate a series packet sizes for network testing
{
acr2} Treating lines of data read from file as a list
{
expand} Handling a list of command parameters
{
stdlook} Look up Florida dialling codes
{
liimp} List basics in a nutshell
{
arx} how an lsort callback works
{
os_letters.txt} Easting and Northing additions for OS grid references
{
growth} station growth program
{
days} A list of days
{
fido} Open and read a file line by line
{
dt4u} extract field pairs from lines
{
slist} list manipulation with struct::list
Module T207 -
Procedures and Variable Scope
[4398] Accessing variables across subroutine boundaries - Perl, Python, Java and Tcl
[3629] Sharing lots of values in Tcl without having lots of global declarations
[3414] Passing back multiple results in Tcl - upvar and uplevel
[3192] Tcl - Some example of HOW TO in handling data files and formats
[2929] Passing a variable number of parameters in to a function / method
[2520] Global and Enable - two misused words!
[2476] Tcl - uplevel to run code at calling level
[2466] Tcl - passing arrays and strings in and back out of procs
[1782] Calling procs in Tcl and how it compares to Perl
[1404] Tcl - global, upvar and uplevel.
[1163] A better alternative to cutting and pasting code
[775] Do not duplicate your code
[409] Functions and commands with dangerous names
[308] Call by name v call by value
[122] Passing arrays to procs in Tcl
[96] Variable Scope
{
gsc} The global scope
{
dresser} Changing a value within a proc and returning the altered value
{
whatandwhen} Exercise - please write the proc to complete
{
p2} Sharing a variable using upvar
{
pr3} loading a file of procs shared with other applications
{
p1} Sharing a variable using global
{
wwbetter} Better sample answer - "getnumber"
{
dr2} Optional parameter in Tcl
{
yetan} uplevel to store a value in parent
{
uv} Call by value and call by name
{
p5} Sharing a variable using uplevel - obscure!
{
addindemo} Sample code to complete - final exercise
{
knots} Unloading an array of inputs as local variables in a proc
{
tied} Using an array of inputs as if they were local variables in a proc
{
uquery} Shared file of procs
{
p3} Sharing a variable using upvar and call by name - RECOMMENED
{
p4} returning a variable - RECOMMENED for passing 1 piece of data back
{
wwanswer} First sample answer - "getnumber"
{
cbn} Using upvar to call by name
{
add2} Answer to final exercise
{
scope1} Variable default to being local
{
vardemo} Calling a proc with a variable number of arguments
{
doublit} Another upvar example for learners
{
up1} Using upvar to effect a variable in the calling code
{
pr1} Defining a proc (command) and using it
{
another} upvar to return a second value
Module T208 -
Arrays and dicts
[3638] Sorting dicts and arrays in Tcl
[3614] Tcl - dicts - a tutorial and examples
[3582] Tcl collections - lists, dicts and array
[3415] User defined sorting and other uses of callbacks in Tcl and Tk
[3192] Tcl - Some example of HOW TO in handling data files and formats
[2466] Tcl - passing arrays and strings in and back out of procs
[1614] When an array is not an array
[1427] Arrays in Tcl - a demonstration
[1405] Sorting in Tcl - lists and arrays
[1283] Generating traffic for network testing
[1282] Stringing together Tcl scripts
[779] The fragility of pancakes - and better structures
[122] Passing arrays to procs in Tcl
{
dnicer} test program for station data
{
arr_log} Access log counter using arrays
{
arr_log_3} Passing arrays in and out of procs - using upvar
{
mini} 2nd program using railutils
{
dict1} setting up and get, dict
{
ar3} looping though an array with array get
{
topskill} setting up an array of lists, sorting, listing out elements
{
dict4} dict for
{
ar1} First use of arrays
{
stfinal} final exercise - array of dialling codes
{
dict2} Conrol - using a string as a list
{
nested} nested dicts
{
ifinder} search for icon references; list icon names
{
ar2} Checking if an array key exists
{
arr_log_2} Selecting elements from an array - glob matching to keys
{
ifinder2} search for icon references and count them
{
dicdem} dicts - using the various subcommands
{
rail_dict} Sorting a dict
{
dict3} iterating through the keys of a dict
{
au} Demo of use of upvar
{
railutils} File of procs to do with station info
{
ar_rail} Setting up an array and sorting the elements by key
{
dla} list, array, dict
Module T209 -
File and Directory Handling
[4524] Tcl - a new example for data reformatting
[4523] Catching failed commands and not crashing the program in Tcl
[4461] Reading from a URL, and reading Json, from your Tcl script
[3617] The fileutil package and a list of file system commands in Tcl
[3429] Searching through all the files in or below a directory - Ruby, Tcl, Perl
[3320] Reading the nth line from a file (Perl and Tcl examples)
[3192] Tcl - Some example of HOW TO in handling data files and formats
[2467] Tcl - catching an error before your program crashes
[1467] stdout v stderr (Tcl, Perl, Shell)
[1426] Buffering up in Tcl - the empty coke can comparison
[1407] Reading from another process in Tcl (pipes and sockets)
[785] Running external processes in Tcl and Tcl/Tk
[779] The fragility of pancakes - and better structures
{
recent} List all files modified in the last hour
{
rail} Data extraction and reporting from multiple files
{
disc_status} Piping input from an operating system command
{
multifile} Output to stdout and several files at the same time
{
diary} diary data for for_qa script
{
filework} Report file statuses
{
bigbelow.v2} biggest below - practical example that traps empty folders
{
failer} Using catch to trap file open failures
{
for_qa.tcl} Data reformatting example / course end tie together
{
dnstab} Read a file, extract from it
{
bigbelow} Find biggest file in or below a specified folder
{
biggest} using glob to check all files in a directory
{
files} fileutil package in use
Module T211 -
What is Expect? Why use it?
[4678] Expect with Ruby - a training example to get you started
[4405] Backup procedures - via backup server
[3572] Adding Expect on top of Tcl - what is it and where can I get a training course to learn about it?
[3286] Should we cover expect and/or Tk on our public Tcl courses?
[3009] Expect in Perl - a short explanation and a practical example
[2489] Parallel Pinging, using Python Threads or Expect spawn lists
[2474] Using Tcl and Expect to automate repetitive jobs
[1602] Automating processes through Expect
[1531] Expecting a item from a list of possibles
[1469] Curley brackets v double quotes - Tcl, Tk, Expect
[1411] Buffering of inputs to expect, and match order
[1409] What is Expect?
[1174] Installing Tcl and Expect on Solaris 10 - a checklist
[1173] Cheat Sheet / Check list for Expect maintainers
[435] Expect for Windows
[286] Automating regular manual procedures
(
article) A Web interface for your Linux admin tasks
{
evening} Automated backup
{
e2} Ping via expect, echo back a value from the report
{
plet.exp} Expect for Windows - ping a host and guess its distance from you
{
yap} Expecting from a list (expect block)
{
qp} Expect to automate a series of pings
{
e1} Simplest ping check via expect
{
wuff} Expecting from a list (regular expression)
{
ftp1} First Expect example
{
e3} expect - do not grab indeterminate
{
xpx} quick ping around a series of hosts
{
linksandimages} Grab a web page, report all links and images
{
gup} Grabbing a log file and locally analysing
{
weblinks} Grab a web page and report all links
{
ftp2} Expect with some error checking and decisions
Module T212 -
Expect Processes
[4678] Expect with Ruby - a training example to get you started
[3448] Checking all the systems on a subnet, using Expect and Tk
[2489] Parallel Pinging, using Python Threads or Expect spawn lists
[2474] Using Tcl and Expect to automate repetitive jobs
[1785] What is running on your network? (tcl and expect)
[1173] Cheat Sheet / Check list for Expect maintainers
[675] Adding PHP tags to an old cgi program
[287] Checking that all our servers are up and accessible
{
osx_tkpingle} Checking which machines are online - Mac OSX
{
tkpingle} Checking network continuity using ping, Expect and a Tk GUI
{
livetest.exp} Web based script - ping a series of remote hosts
{
botget} parallel expect example - get robots.txt from several servers
{
mex} multiple processes through expect
{
server.tce} Expect script, web server, CGI
{
exp_ping} expect - multiple parallel pings, Red Hat Linux version
{
pingle} parallel pings - Caldera Linux version
Module T213 -
Libraries, Packages and Namespaces
[4522] Loading packages in your Tcl program
[3418] Tcl packages, pkg_mkIndex, pkgIndex.tcl -what are they and why use them.
[3417] What is a namespace and why do we need them?
[3066] Separating groups of variables into namespaces
[2476] Tcl - uplevel to run code at calling level
[1529] Tcl - learning how to use namespaces, packages and libraries together
[1339] Packages and Namespaces are like Suitcases and Aircraft
[146] example of Tcl namespaces and packages
{
tpack.tcl} package chicken - part of dinpack demo
{
toes.tcl} Package to go with twice demo
{
nsq} Adding a package to a namespace
{
show.tcl} Defining a package
{
ns_up} Variables saved between proc calls in the next code level up
{
gpack.tcl} package goose - goes with dinpack
{
nsp} setting up and using a namespace
{
packs} Loading a package
{
tabby.tcl} a namespace wrapped in a package
{
dinpack} Using packages and namespaces together
{
twice} Using a package - without namespaces
{
ns_no} shows how variables are lost between proc calls
{
ns_y2} Counting proc calls using a namespace - shorter example
{
legals.tcl} Definition of a package
{
2wice} Using a package that contains a namespace
{
ns_exim} Namespace export and import
{
doubler.tcl} define a package to contain a namespace
{
ns_yes} Saving variables in a namespace
{
rules.tcl} Definition of a package with namespace
{
nex} packages with and without namespace
{
updown} uplevel - performed in calling code variable space
Module T214 -
Other Facilities in Tcl
[4762] Coverage map in Tcl - how many times has each proc been called?
[4525] What does Tcl do if you try to run a command that is not defined?
[4523] Catching failed commands and not crashing the program in Tcl
[4207] Exception handling in Tcl
[3583] Expanding a list of parameters in Tcl - {*} and eval
[3570] Trapping errors in Tcl - the safety net that catch provides
[3287] Exceptions - Tcl style
[2467] Tcl - catching an error before your program crashes
[1338] Handling Binary data in Tcl (with a note on C)
[1334] Stable sorting - Tcl, Perl and others
[1277] AgtInvoke - a command to drive Agilent Tcl software extensions
[782] Converting between Hex and Decimal in Tcl
[748] Getting rid of variables after you have finished with them
[461] Shortened interactive commands
[366] Error handling in Tcl through catch
[364] pu daily and p hourly
[239] What and why for the epoch
(
article) errors v exceptions
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
{
edo} Running an external process in Tcl
{
fishing} exceptions in Tcl
{
times} proc coverage example
{
dunno} unknown command calls unknown proc
{
vt} Tcl program that manipulates a variable
{
vtt} Tcl program that uses the trace command to report the manipulation of a variable
{
firstline} Using catch to trap runtime errors
{
lick} Finding size of .gif image in Tcl - binary scan
{
goalie} catching exceptions - Tcl style
{
netting} catch - catching error, and error message too
{
err1} Example of a Tcl program that fails
{
err2} A Tcl program that uses catch to trap a run time error
Module T216 -
Introduction to Tk
[4460] Using Object Oriented Tcl and the Tk toolkit together - real life example
[4208] Tcl + Tk (Wish) - an introduction and revision example
[2040] Error: Cant read xxxxx: no such variable (in Tcl Tk)
[595] Add a friendly front end with Tk
(
article) Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs)
{
gui_2} Classis Tk structure - procs, widgets, geometry ...
{
tk_accesscount} Tcl/Tk - Access Log File counter!
{
tk_hello} Tcl/Tk - Report Date Information
{
tk_h2} Report Date Information on a widget
{
udq} Widgets, Geometry Managers and Events
Module T217 -
First Widgets, Geometry and Events
[4458] A new Tcl/tk example - a window to show system status
[3575] Multiple buttons calling the same proc in wish (tcl/tk)
[3415] User defined sorting and other uses of callbacks in Tcl and Tk
[309] Writing a Tcl/Tk GUI is as easy as baking a cake
{
deferintk} Deferred execution can cause a problem in Tk
{
tk_b3} Tk - attributes of a button
{
tk_event} Tcl/Tk - Event demo
{
tk_b2} Tcl/Tk - button test 2
{
tk_b4} Tcl/Tk - button states
{
tk_wm} Tcl/Tk - First Frame
{
tk_b1} Tcl/Tk - button test 1
{
colmat} Sample answer 1 - coloured labels and layout question
{
admin} Tk GUI to provide system state reporting box
{
colmat2} Sample answer 3 in development
{
colmat3} Sample answer 3 - Completed layout question
Module T218 -
Geometry Managers
[1470] fill and expand on Tcl/Tk pack command
[1340] Tk locks up - 100% c.p.u. on a simple program (Tcl, Perl, Python)
[1335] Expanding a grid - Tcl/Tk
[787] Tk - laying out your GUI with frames, pack and grid
[445] Sticky news
[212] Tcl/Tk (wish) Grid layout example
{
tk_log} Grid geometry manager - first example
{
tk_l2} Grid geometry manager, showing cell size via colour
{
numpad} Laying out a numeric keypad on a grid
{
tk_wh3} An example of the place geometry manager in use
{
tk_wh2} Grid geometry manager - cells spanning multiple rows and columns
{
tk_l3} Grid geometry manager, expanding cells via -sticky news
{
tk_l4} Grid geometry manager - column weights to control resize behaviour
{
tk_which} Grid geometry manager, using -rowspan and -columnspan
Module T219 -
Drawing on Canvases
[4460] Using Object Oriented Tcl and the Tk toolkit together - real life example
[2211] Tcl/Tk - why does the canvas widget use a display list?
{
can3} Demo of different graphic objects
{
can2} Drawing shapes on a canvas and dragging them with the mouse
{
imgoncanvas.tk} Placing a GIF on a canvas
{
histo} Histogram drawn on a canvas - generalised code
{
can4} Line styles on a Tk canvas
{
tktext} text options in Tk - colour, font, size, centring
{
can1} Drawing on a canvas
Module T220 -
Frames and Other Topics
[4459] Managing the window size (and layout) in Tcl/Tk
[1471] Cliff Lift simulator- Lynton to Lynmouth - in Tcl/Tk
[1335] Expanding a grid - Tcl/Tk
[787] Tk - laying out your GUI with frames, pack and grid
{
tls} Scrolling a canvas (canvas, scrollbar, toplevel, frame, grid)
{
tk_fvar_2} Tk frames - flexibility of layout
{
willie} Check buttons - defaulting to be selected or not
{
sltvtl} Slider, text variable and pop up
{
linedisplay} Display with frames, canvas, window manager
{
clifflift} Tcl/Tk - Scales linked like a cliff lift
{
tk_scale} Tcl/Tk - First Scales
{
tk_fvar_1} Tk frames using variables to allow extra flexibility
{
tk_sc2} Tk scales with variable feedback
{
tk_frames} Nested frames - first completed example
{
tk_ru2} Tcl/Tk - Are you sure window using a message widget
{
tk_rusure} Tk - popup box to ask "are you sure" written using Tk basics
Module T221 -
Menus
[1475] Tcl/Tk - updating your display while tasks are running
{
mb1} First menu button
{
mb2} Various options for menu buttons
{
mb3} Menu bar system based on array or lists
{
idletasks} use of update idle tasks to update the display
Module T222 -
Resources
[1474] Using Tcl/Tk resource files for flexible applications
{
lookandfeel} Demonstration file of Tk resources
{
resource3} Resources file for tk_res3
{
bright} Resource file - answer to exercise
{
tk_res3} Use of two files of Tk resources.
{
skeleton} Template for resource exercise
Module T223 -
Textish Widgets
[1475] Tcl/Tk - updating your display while tasks are running
[596] The magic of -textvariable
{
form2} Second form using Tk entry widget.
{
teditor} Simple text editor in Tk
{
listbox1} Tk listbox example
{
tktx2} Marks and tags and editing in a Tk text widget
{
tktext} a Tk text widget used as a vehicle for custom text editing
{
tkt} A Tktable is a tabulator widget in Tcl/Tk
{
form} Form using Tk entry widget
{
tktxt} Tk - Text Widget - first easy example
{
listbox2} Tk second listbox example (code snippet only).
{
lbex} Sample answer - listbox to choose types of fruit.
Module T224 -
Events in Tk
[4258] Keeping you Tkinter display up to date while monitoring
[3575] Multiple buttons calling the same proc in wish (tcl/tk)
[1473] Making a variable dynamically visible in a Tcl/Tk GUI
[386] What is a callback?
(
article) Defining events including variable values in Tk
{
caneve} Binding canvas events and keys
{
tkbb} Button Binding example
{
tke3} Button bindings to a single proc.
{
tke5} Button binding for all keys, down and up
{
tke2} Events to toggle text on a widget.
{
tke6} Keysym Tester
Module T241 -
Tcl on the Web
[4461] Reading from a URL, and reading Json, from your Tcl script
[2429] Tcl scripts / processes on a web server via CGI
[2238] Handling nasty characters - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, Lua
[2040] Error: Cant read xxxxx: no such variable (in Tcl Tk)
[1785] What is running on your network? (tcl and expect)
(
article) Nasty Characters in Web Applications
{
formrep.tcl} Using Tcl as a CGI scripting language - form collection
{
getpagejson} Reading json via http
{
tcl_process.html} Form for data entry for formrep.tcl demo
{
demoform.html} Demo form to submit to a Tcl handler -->
{
scale.tcl} Sample Tclet to run within a browser
{
tclcourse.tcl} CGI , Server side programming basics
{
tlet.html} Embedding Tcl in your browser (client side) -->
{
isitnz.tcl} web application - is it from New Zealand?
{
getpage} Reading http from Tcl
Module T242 -
More on Expect
[3448] Checking all the systems on a subnet, using Expect and Tk
[3009] Expect in Perl - a short explanation and a practical example
[2475] Quick easy and dangerous - automated logins via Tcl / Expect
[1531] Expecting a item from a list of possibles
[1475] Tcl/Tk - updating your display while tasks are running
[1411] Buffering of inputs to expect, and match order
[1173] Cheat Sheet / Check list for Expect maintainers
[435] Expect for Windows
(
article) The Typist and the Engineer
{
engineer} send_human in expect
{
immortal} Catching signals in expect
{
rupple} Expect - run rup on a named host
{
tcenhance} Telnet wrapper using interact; provides filtering too
{
tctel} Telnet wrapper using interact
{
multisigs} Trapping multiple signals in Expect
{
chammy} Automated Logging In
{
subnet_test} Check a subnet for pingable systems
{
typist} Second example of expect's "send_human" command.
{
sslo} Send slow example - expect
{
pingabout} Expect to run ping on a named host; able to switch host during run
Module T243 -
Using Tcl from C
[3416] Storing Tcl source code encoded, and running via your own C program
[208] Examples - Gadfly, NI Number, and Tcl to C interface
{
mytcl.c} Simplest call from C to Tcl - just a wrapper
{
fred_extended} Tcl used to demo extension with same command
{
fred} Demo Tcl for mytcl example
{
makefile} Makefile for C applications in this module
{
extend.c} Extending Tcl with C - an extra command written in C
{
secret.c} Run a Tcl script from an encoded file
{
fullapp.c} C program that invokes a Tcl Interpreter
Module T244 -
Socket Programming
[4462] Server program written in Tcl using sockets
[785] Running external processes in Tcl and Tcl/Tk
{
kesclient} GUI (Tk) client which uses information provided by kesserv server
{
tclserver} food server - pass on previous persons contribution
{
kesserv} Tcl Server - read from a Linux device and serve information entered by TCP/IP
Module T245 -
[incr-Tcl]
[4460] Using Object Oriented Tcl and the Tk toolkit together - real life example
[4456] Objects in Tcl - iTcl - updated first steps example
[3142] Private and Public - and things between
[1925] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
[1819] Calling base class constructors
[1528] Object Oriented Tcl
[656] Think about your design even if you don't use full UML
[290] Object Orientation in Tcl - [incr-Tcl]
(
article) index
(
article) Loading incr-tcl into tclsh
(
article) Incr-Tcl - Object Oriented extension to Tcl
{
bigger.itcl} [Incr-Tcl] Demonstration 2
{
pet.itcl} itcl - second sample class
{
petal} Example that loads Itcl into tclsh
{
ootcl02} Creating and using objects, cget and configure
{
weekend.itcl} [incr-Tcl] - Inheritance and Polmorphism - main file
{
itlist} Using [incr-Tcl] to hold a list of objects
{
exv} Multiple classes and inheritance demonstration
{
ootcl01} Creating and using objects
{
animal2.itcl} class that loads Itcl into basic Tclsh
{
find.itcl} List available classes in [Incr-Tcl]
{
hello.itcl} [Incr-Tcl] Demonstration
{
film.itcl} [incr-Tcl] - Base class and two classes that inherit from it
{
animal.itcl} A simple class in [incr-tcl]
{
inherits.itcl} Multiple inheritance and constructor calls
Module T246 -
Tix Megawidgets
[1327] Tktable - Laying out data in a matrix - Tcl/Tk
{
tix005} Tix Control - feedback into widgets
{
tixbunch} Showing a selection ot Tix Megawidgets
{
tix004} Practical demo - Tix MegaWidget
{
tix001} Tix Control widget demonstration
{
tix007} - mulitple feedbacks on Tix MegaWidgets
{
tixtree} Tix - Tree of big files below a specified directory
{
tixfs} Tix File selection application
{
tix003} Tix Demonstration of standard widget options
Module T247 -
Advanced Regular Expressions
[4205] Regular Expression Substitution - Tcl
[1613] Regular expression for 6 digits OR 25 digits
[1412] Sparse and Greedy matching - Tcl 8.4
[1410] Tcl / regsub - changing a string and using interesting bits
[1336] Ignore case in Regular Expression
[1305] Regular expressions made easy - building from components
[1195] Regular Express Primer
[943] Matching within multiline strings, and ignoring case in regular expressions
(
article) Pattern Matching - a primer on regular Expressions
{
T247.tcl} Tcl in use for CGI scripting
{
aretest} advanced regular expression match demo
{
blob} Progressive regsub examples
{
sparkle} Sparse v Greedy regular expressions
Module T248 -
A Review of Tcl and Tk Basics
[4208] Tcl + Tk (Wish) - an introduction and revision example
[1469] Curley brackets v double quotes - Tcl, Tk, Expect
[1181] Good Programming practise - where to initialise variables
[1174] Installing Tcl and Expect on Solaris 10 - a checklist
[1092] Tcl training - often for a larger group
(
article) Brackets and Braces in Tcl
(
article) What makes a good variable name?
Module T249 -
The Tcltest Package
[4457] Test framework for TCL - Tcltest - some examples
(
article) Using Tcl to test a system with the tcltest module
{
ttest} tcltest - first steps
{
tt3.test} tcltest example that runs only if constraints are met
{
tt1.test} Test under tcltest, version 2
{
ttrun} tcltest - an example running all the tests in a directory
{
tt2.test} tcltest example using setup and cleanup blocks
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U: Lua programming and use
Overview U050 -
Lua - General
[4575] Learning not just what a program does, but how to design it in the first place.
[4297] Lua courses - an update
[4260] Why we teach Lua
[3724] Learning to Program in Lua - public / open training course / class
[3528] December courses - PHP, Python, Perl - and a weekend Lua course
[2947] Teaching Lua to a Perl advocate
[2555] Bookkeeping
[2504] Learning to program in ...
[2492] Lua Classes - open enrolement
[2331] Certification Revisted - Lua
[2318] For Lua Programmers AND for Town Planners
[2315] New Lua Examples - for last weeks delegates
[2309] Lua training class in Spanish
[2227] Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses
{
tap.lua} include file to load data and functioanllity
{
towns.lua} Town simulation - town type definitions
{
towns_about} Overview of Town Simulation example
{
towns_output} Town Simulation - the program outputs ...
{
town_simulation} Main program - town simulation exercise
{
town_sim.txt} Specification for town simulation exercise, and data
Module U101 -
Introduction to Lua.
[4324] Learning to program - variables and constants
[4271] Line, block and nested comments - Lua compared to other languages
[3724] Learning to Program in Lua - public / open training course / class
[2310] Learning to write high quality code in Lua
[1842] Lua Course, and the Wiltshire Countryside too
[1737] Rules, suggestions, considerations for Lua variable names
[1699] If you are learning Lua, here are some more examples
[1695] Lua Course - here is the index
[1111] Training in Lua
(
article) What makes a good variable name?
{
hello} Some variable types in Lua
{
simples} Read keyboard - calculate - output result
{
lop} Testing to see if a fallback is needed
{
straightforwards} Read - calculate - loop - output
{
ello} Commenting - line and multiline
{
moongreet} Hello Lua World
{
demo} Some Lua Basics
{
easys} Read - calculate - conditionals - output
{
stdo} Calling standard functions / setting up variables
Module U102 -
Numbers and the Math library.
[4569] Lua - changes to how integers and floats are handled - 5.2 to 5.3
[3917] BODMAS - the order a computer evaluates arithmetic expressions
[2509] A life lesson from the accuracy of numbers in Excel and Lua
[2345] Automatically initialising Lua variables the first time
[1744] Lua examples, Lua Courses
[1699] If you are learning Lua, here are some more examples
{
furry} Lua basics - calculations, output and comments
{
vatty} Take the VAT back off a gross amount
{
ccinit} Initialising Variables
{
larith} Simple string format example
{
prncr} io.write allows output with no new line
{
vn} Variable naming in Lua
{
ludo} Comments in Lua
{
ichange} Lua - integer changes 5.2 to 5.3
{
vars.lua} Lua Comments and Variables
{
rnum} Reading from the keyboard, calculate and output
{
allfloat} All Lua numbers are floats
Module U103 -
Conditionals and loops
[4574] repeat until in Lua - a one or more rather than a zero or more loop
[4323] Learning to program - Loop statements such as while
[4322] Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if)
[4272] Lazy operators in Lua - what they mean, and examples
[3686] The goto statement in Lua
[3558] Python or Lua - which should I use / learn?
[3397] Does a for loop evaluate its end condition once, or on every iteration?
[2455] Lua examples - coroutines, error handling, objects, etc
[2454] For loops in Lua
[2351] Ternary operators alternatives - Perl and Lua lazy operators
[1738] Clean code, jump free (Example in Lua)
[1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ...
[1685] Short circuit evaluation (lazy operator) in Lua
{
lif} if, elseif, else
{
kz} Example of a for loop
{
clumpit} for loop termination
{
doco} Changing loop counts
{
ll2} while loop and repeat until loop
{
exa} Loops and conditionals - exchange rate example
{
tchart} for loop with start, end and step
{
clike} for loop with pairs and ipairs
{
andor} Lazy and / or operators
{
swans.lua} Swan family - Lua
{
runt} repeat until
{
whilly} Writing cleaner code without break or continue
{
lloops} while and for loops
{
bpm} string.find v string.gfind
{
floo} for loop in which end condition changes
{
wcd} Comparison of while and until loops
{
lsx} Lua for loop - termination
{
meerkat} Lazy Operators
Module U104 -
Strings and the String library.
[4274] String formatting in Lua - string.format as a wrapper for sprintf
[2500] Dynamically formatting your results (Lua)
[2357] Checking if the user has entered a number (Lua)
[2348] Finding literals rather than patterns in Lua
[1744] Lua examples, Lua Courses
{
qbs} backslash specials in character strings and other basics
{
gimme} Reading from the keyboard and string basics
{
stem} Basic String functionality
{
moopark} Answer to excercise - Theme park takings
{
sf} string.format
{
kiddos} Spread money gift around a group of children
{
mlx} Single and multiline strings
{
ul} Use of string.rep
{
splitter} Using string.find and string.sub to split
{
kids} String formatting
{
ee} Excercise to print out exchange rate table
{
two} Checking a NUMBER has been entered
{
s2} Finding literal strings
{
three} Wait until a NUMBER has been entered
Module U105 -
Tables and the table library.
[4571] Lua - using modules to add your own utilities
[4273] Dot or Colon separator between table name and member in Lua - what is the difference?
[4248] Metatables, Metamethods, classes and objects in Lua
[3725] Lua Tables
[3694] Special __ methods you can use in Lua metatables
[2703] Lua Metatables
[2699] Lua tables - they are everything
[2499] ourdog is Greyhound, Staffie and Ginger Cake
[2346] The indexed and hashed parts of a Lua table
[1742] Lua - Table elements v table as a whole
[1697] Sorting in lua - specifying your own sort routine
{
imex} implode in Lua
{
party} Read and store data until we get a blank line
{
duh} What is in a table?
{
tinies} Reading a file and creating a table
{
synsug} . v ["...."] v insert
{
moretab} Getting the minimum number from a table
{
tat} whole table v single member, pairs v ipairs
{
ph} pairs, ipairs and #tablename iteration
{
cleversort} Sorting with a user defined routine
{
ooco} Assignment of a table - by reference
{
taba} Tables as associative arrays
{
clone} Duplicate (clone) a table
{
clo_demo} User defined sorting in Lua
{
asort} Sorting an Associative table
{
spjo} Split and Join a string into / from a table
{
t1} mixing associative and normal in table
{
settab} Set up a table, output in reverse
{
sorting} Sorting tables
{
tabo} Tables - some basics
{
sf3} Read file, split line, tables of tables
Module U106 -
Functions.
[3695] Functions are first class variables in Lua and Python
[2949] Lua - variable function arguments and select
[2723] Returning multiple values from a function - Lua
[2455] Lua examples - coroutines, error handling, objects, etc
[2356] Passing multiple results back from a function - Lua, Python, etc
[2347] Dot, dot, dot in Lua - variable length parameter lists
[2312] What are closures in Lua?
[1847] Lua - IAQ (Infrequently Answered Questions)
[1744] Lua examples, Lua Courses
[1743] First class functions in Lua lead to powerful OO facilities
[1699] If you are learning Lua, here are some more examples
[1697] Sorting in lua - specifying your own sort routine
[1685] Short circuit evaluation (lazy operator) in Lua
{
loadthese.lua} functions to include within a test harness
{
summer} variable arguments - a function to add up numbers
{
yik} Need to use local to reduce cope of variables
{
tabasnamed} function call via table
{
dress2} declaring variables local to avoid global issues
{
aaa} A table of functions, calling each in turn
{
dress1} The problem of default global
{
lazy} lazy operators / short circuit evaluation
{
exrate} exchange rate example as a function
{
funone} Function calling and definition in Lua
{
mj} A function to take a lot of parameters or a table
{
rmv} returning multiple values
{
vargs} Variable number of arguments
{
testharness} Loading functions from a file
{
isd} An adaptive function in Lua
{
owsort} how sorting via callbacks works
{
selit} variable number of parameters and the select function
{
cl2d} First Closure demonstration
{
symet} Symetric Functions
{
fav} Using tables and functions within them
{
fcv} Dynamic code loading
{
lomore} variables local to a block
{
dress3} Code loads at run time not compile time
{
size.lua} sample module - exercise answer
{
fsr} Flexible Function Calls
{
ex106} excersize - functions
{
funtwo} global, local and call by value
{
slct} Returning multiple results
{
brvret} break v return
Module U107 -
Object Orientation - the Lua way
[4753] Lua, Tcl, Python, C and C++ courses - at our Melksham HQ or on your site - forward from July 2017
[4573] Classic style OO code - in Lua
[4572] Tables with values and code in Lua - looks like an object?
[4273] Dot or Colon separator between table name and member in Lua - what is the difference?
[4248] Metatables, Metamethods, classes and objects in Lua
[4117] Is Lua an Object Oriented language?
[3730] What is a metatable? How do I set one up? How do I use them? Lua
[3727] Using Lua tables as objects
[3694] Special __ methods you can use in Lua metatables
[3683] Weak references in Lua - what are they, and why use them?
[3524] Metaclasses (Python) and Metatables (Lua)
[3396] Tables as Objects in Lua - a gentle introduction to data driven programming
[3142] Private and Public - and things between
[2710] __index and __newindex in Lua - metatable methods
[2703] Lua Metatables
[2701] Is Lua an Object Oriented language?
[2455] Lua examples - coroutines, error handling, objects, etc
[2359] A fresh example - objects the Lua way
[2318] For Lua Programmers AND for Town Planners
[1819] Calling base class constructors
[1743] First class functions in Lua lead to powerful OO facilities
[1699] If you are learning Lua, here are some more examples
[1692] Towards Object Oriented Programming in Lua
{
xlog.lua} Access log - exercise framework
{
visit.lua} definition of visit objects
{
anim_o1.lua} Tables to associate functions with data
{
metatiny} Metatables - the mechanism
{
Dice.lua} Definition of a dice object - Inheritance
{
kitten} Setting up tables and printing them out - control
{
cat} adding in extra behavious
{
service_12} table for data and functionallity
{
oblet} Hello Object World
{
north} Comparing dot and colon
{
couples} Moving towards Lua objects - Metatables
{
rail5} a table for each station
{
lottaob} Polymorphism in Lua - table of objects of different types
{
index_123} __index and __newindex
{
meta4} redefining operators
{
train_objects} using tables as classic objects
{
cuboid} Illustrates use of a class of objects
{
obtable} Polymorphism in Lua - table of objects of different types
{
metasmall} Metatable to change a table characteristics
{
newCube.lua} Definition of a class in Lua
{
overload_add.lua} Operator (+) and to_string overloading, Lua
{
ii5} bus and train tables, and printing metatable
{
Sphere.lua} Definition of a sphere object
{
meta1} preparations for metatables - this is just a table
{
acobj} The OO paradigm applied in Lua
{
zoo.txt} Sample data file for animal demo
{
trains} introducting metatables
{
meta2} Simple use of a metatable to create a class
{
tabby} Define special behaviours ...
{
trains_control} pre-metatables
{
animals.lua} Using a metatable to define print, <, etc
{
meta3} creating and using a table of tables("objects")
{
dibdab} We can keep funtions in a table too
{
metamid} Adding user methods via a metatable
{
Cube.lua} Definition of a cube object
{
metapetite} Overriding an operator on a table
{
alog} Program to use visit objects
Module U108 -
Pattern matching
[4366] Changing what operators do on objects - a comparison across different programming languages
[3687] Binary / bitwise operations in Lua with the standard bit32 library
[2727] Making a Lua program run more than 10 times faster
[2702] First and last match with Regular Expressions
[2383] Lua Regular Expressions
[1847] Lua - IAQ (Infrequently Answered Questions)
[1744] Lua examples, Lua Courses
{
lpm} Anchoring and delimiting patterns
{
patplode} iterating through a string, choosing a pattern
{
slander0} Pattern matching - SLOW code
{
slander1} Pattern matching - FAST code
{
stratch} String Pattern Matching
{
pcis} Pattern match and extract - a postcode
{
iiapc} Pattern matching in Lua (not Regular Expressions)
{
split} split or explode in Lua
{
dls} Pattern substitute, pattern match and extract
Module U109 -
Modules
[4571] Lua - using modules to add your own utilities
[2455] Lua examples - coroutines, error handling, objects, etc
[2358] Encapsulating shared code in a Lua module
[1699] If you are learning Lua, here are some more examples
{
strictcure} How strict.lua can trap globals
{
Distance.lua} Namespace definition in Lua
{
joinery} Separating out detailed logic into separate functions
{
exc} Excercise on loading functions from a file
{
skills.lua} Sample answer to exercise - an include file
{
j2} ... then moving logic out to a module
{
logex} Second program to use shared utilities
{
useit} Program to use a module
{
gdist} get distance between points - uses module
{
httpcalls.lua} A module to handle web access log records
{
withstrict} How strict.lua can trap globals
{
MyLib2.lua} where do namespaces load from?
{
sf5_main} first program to use shared utilities
{
MyLib.lua} where do modules / namespaces load from?
{
mymod.lua} First Lua Module
{
myutils.lua} utility functions for multiple examples
Module U110 -
Input / Output
[3558] Python or Lua - which should I use / learn?
[2344] Reading a data file and sensing EOF in Lua
[1841] Formatting with a leading + / Lua and Perl
[1744] Lua examples, Lua Courses
{
flapper} file read and write - line by line
{
filescan} Finding the latest log file and analysing it (popen, ls)
{
flipper} keyboard and screen read and write
{
emmas} Looking for (and counting) email addresses in a log file
{
boring} File open, read
{
grounds.lua} Soccer grounds - Lua
{
log_counter} Command line and data file use / full course example
{
zz} Some file reading fundamentals
{
skill_lister} Processing a file of records, splitting each record
{
info.txt} Soccer ground data for Lua and Python example
{
loganal} Log file analysis
Module U111 -
Trapping and handling errors.
[2706] Error trapping in Lua - no exceptions.
[2455] Lua examples - coroutines, error handling, objects, etc
[2360] Error Handling in Lua with assert and pcall
{
gp2} Assert - test a condition and exit with your error if it fails
{
tbp} Stack Traceback
{
splut} trapping Lua errors - assert
{
errc} Error handling on file open
{
protectedcall} pcall to trap errors in a lua function call
{
wonky} error checking through pcall
{
gp0} 'Control' for error trapping - failing example
{
splot} trapping Lua errors - nil and error
{
gp1} trapping an error via pcall
Module U112 -
Other Standard Library features.
[2951] Lots of way of converting 3 letter month abbreviations to numbers
[1847] Lua - IAQ (Infrequently Answered Questions)
{
getos} What is my host operating system (in Lua)
{
lt5l} convert 3 letter month abbreviation to number
{
ons} What is in os module?
{
mathfuncs} Maths functions and random number generators
{
dlisting} Directory listing
{
basics} List all tables and contents
{
timtimer} Time / date and timers
{
globals} Global variables via _G
Module U113 -
Installing Lua
[4102] Installing Lua 5.2.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.4
[2461] Luac - getting lua to start fast by precompiling
[1632] Lua - a powerful, up and coming scripting language
{
inst} Install procedure for LuaSocket
Module U114 -
Threading and Coroutines.
[4270] Embedding Lua to perform tailored code at an interval
[3395] Parallel but not really parallel. Moving game characters. Coroutines in Lua.
[2455] Lua examples - coroutines, error handling, objects, etc
[2314] Passing parameters to a coroutine in Lua
[1870] What to do with a huge crop of apples
[1699] If you are learning Lua, here are some more examples
[1691] Co-routines in Lua - co-operative processing
{
ff2.lua} Multiple coroutines in parallel use
{
controller} setting off a number of timers
{
datafeeder} using a coroutine as a generator
{
charmoves} coroutine for game player movements
{
crcr} coroutine basics
{
coro} simple coroutine example
{
nocoro} NOT using coroutines - filling a table then using it instead
{
inco} Passing parameters to coroutines
{
cosy} Illustration of Coroutines
Module U116 -
Network Lua.
[2238] Handling nasty characters - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, Lua
{
formone.lua} Web Page via CGI in Lua
{
webclient} Using the socket library to read a web page
{
hello.lua} Web Page via CGI in Lua
{
autobrowser} Using http client library to retreive a web page
Module U117 -
Other Lua Subjects
[2461] Luac - getting lua to start fast by precompiling
[1845] Passing a table from Lua into C
[1844] Calling functions in C from your Lua script - a first HowTo
{
fromlua.c} C code callable from Lua - Mk 1
{
wrapper.lua} Lua script to load and run C functions - Mk 3
{
candy.c} C code callable from Lua - Mk 3
{
passing.lua} Lua code that calls a C function, passing params and returning value
{
top.lua} Lua program that loads and runs C code
{
luapassing.c} C code - callable from lua with parameters passed
{
getos} What is my host operating system (in Lua)
Module U118 -
Resources.
[2319] Graphics in Lua - an example using the gd library
[1847] Lua - IAQ (Infrequently Answered Questions)
[1695] Lua Course - here is the index
[1111] Training in Lua
{
lugra} Using the gd module and library
{
envelope} Command Line parameters in Lua
Module U196 -
Testing and Development in Lua
[4326] Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code
Module U198 -
New in Lua 5.2
[3690] Changes in Lua 5.2 - Garbage Collection
[3687] Binary / bitwise operations in Lua with the standard bit32 library
[3686] The goto statement in Lua
[3683] Weak references in Lua - what are they, and why use them?
{
bitwise} The bit32 library
{
wrt} Weak references - set up and practical use
{
gotolua} Lua goto - introduced in 5.2
Module U199 -
Programming Standards in Lua
[3685] Programming Standards in Lua
{
loadthese.lua} Functions to include within a test harness
{
shortplatform} postoptimised Lua example
{
station.lua} pre-optimise
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W: Web site programming / techniques
Module W501 -
Introduction to Web Site Structure
[2552] Web site traffic - real users, or just noise?
[2282] Checking robots.txt from Python
[2214] Global Index to help you find resources
[2094] If you have a spelling mistake in your URL / page name
[1969] Search Engines. Getting the right pages seen.
[1686] FTP - how not to corrupt data (binary v ascii)
[1636] What to do if the Home Page is missing
[1431] Getting the community on line - some basics
[1198] From Web to Web 2
[1176] A pu that got me into trouble
[1168] Moving out some of the web site bloat
[1031] robots.txt - a clue to hidden pages?
[1024] Web site - a refresh to improve navigation
[528] Getting favicon to work - avoiding common pitfalls
[332] Looking up IP addresses
{
robots.txt} Telling robots to bypass certain URLs
Module W502 -
HTML Document Anatomy
[4034] The VERY basics of a web page ... and web site
[3563] How big is a web page these days? Does the size of your pages matter?
[3517] Tags used in writing this blog
[2675] Redirecting to your main domain for correct security keys
[2246] What difference does using the XHTML standard really make?
[1811] Alternative URLs using % symbol encoding
[1463] All the special characters in HTML ...
[1431] Getting the community on line - some basics
[1187] Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl)
[1160] HTML - example of a simple web page
[993] Positioning with Cascading Style Sheets
[857] Strikingly busy
{
el006.php} XHTML Page with PHP, dynamic refresh (metatag), style (css) and image (jpg) that resizes to browser window via Javascript
{
el004.php} XHTML Page with PHP, dynamic reload and style
{
codes.php} ASCII codes for HTML special characters
{
el003.php} XHTML Page - PHP clock, auto reloads every minute
{
el001.php} XHTML Page
{
el002.php} XHTML Page with PHP (current time and date)
{
el005.php} XHTML Page with PHP, dynamic reload, style and image
Module W503 -
Hypertext
[4036] HTML tags uses in these blog articles
[4035] Special characters in HTML
[1630] To provide external links, or not?
[1034] The new web site look spreads
Module W504 -
Not Just Text
[3133] An image from a website that occasionally comes out as hyroglyphics
[2554] Adding retrospective ALT attributes to IMG
[1806] Dealing with overhead cables in a photograph
[1749] Using server side and client side programming together
[1618] A small picture does not always cut it!
[847] Image maps for navigation - a straightforward example
[665] PHP Image viewing application
[553] Keep that image small
[351] Is photoajustment an addiction?
{
picshow.php4} Random image using PHP
{
frime.html} elementary formatting and images
{
bgdemo.html} Tiled background (random image)
{
3wi.html} Multiple images in a piece of HTML
Module W505 -
Tables
[1493] Comparison - cellpadding versus cellspacing
[887] HTML tables - telling whats wrong from the display
Module W506 -
Forms
[3532] Sharing the user experience - designing a form with the customer in mind
{
smith.html} target page for a link
{
esq.php} A first script - just echo inputs
{
furst.html} A first page with links to other pages and scripts (via form)
Module W507 -
Frames
[220] When to use Frames
(
article) Using Frames with PHP
{
framed_dpd.php4} hierarcy navigation - PHP with frames
{
dpd.php4} hierarcy navigation - PHP without frames
Module W508 -
Which Browser?
[3128] How does your browser find out about itself?
[2135] What features does this visitors browser support? (PHP)
[1519] Flipping images on your web page
Module W509 -
Style
[2223] CSS Style Diagrams - working out where attributes come from
[1519] Flipping images on your web page
[1034] The new web site look spreads
[1019] span and div tags - a css comparison
Module W510 -
Executable Content
[2628] An example of an injection attack using Javascript
[1814] Javascript/HTML example, dynamic server monitor
[1813] Ajax - going Asyncronous and what it means
[1812] Starting Ajax - easy example of browser calling up server data
(
article) Running CGI scripts in Apache Tomcat
(
article) Running SSI (Server Side Include) scripts in Apache Tomcat
Module W511 -
Further Aspects
[1970] Plagarism - who is copying my pages?
[1187] Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl)
[1001] .pdf files - upload via PHP, store in MySQL, retrieve
[876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance
[528] Getting favicon to work - avoiding common pitfalls
Module W512 -
Site Design Aspects
[3589] Promoting a single one of your domains on the search engines
[3563] How big is a web page these days? Does the size of your pages matter?
[3517] Tags used in writing this blog
[2214] Global Index to help you find resources
[1598] Every link has two ends - fixing 404s at the recipient
[1353] Mood shots
[1054] UK legal requirements for your commercial web site
[1047] Maintainable code - some positive advice
[1015] Search engine placement - long term strategy and success
[918] Databases needn't be frightening, hard or expensive
[859] Put the answer in context - it may be printed
[823] An excellent use for a visitor count?
[795] Remember a site's non-technical issues too
[718] Protecting images from theft
[649] Denial of Service ''attack''
[556] Colour doesn't have to mean colourful
[510] Dynamic Web presence - next generation web site
[391] One mans pleasure is another mans poison
[352] Improved mining techniques!
[345] Spotting a denial of service attack
[319] Accommodation and landing pages
[288] Colour blindness for web developers
[261] Putting a form online
[229] A fortunate accident
Module W601 -
Structure of Networks and Webs
[2246] What difference does using the XHTML standard really make?
[1798] What does an browser understand? What does an HTML document contain?
Module W602 -
Client Side Technologies
[4310] Problem ... I want to print a series of numbered forms
[4277] Sending a message to the server and changing text on a page when a button is pressed
[3128] How does your browser find out about itself?
[2628] An example of an injection attack using Javascript
[2390] Dynamic / changing images on your web page
[1814] Javascript/HTML example, dynamic server monitor
[1813] Ajax - going Asyncronous and what it means
[1812] Starting Ajax - easy example of browser calling up server data
[1749] Using server side and client side programming together
[1681] Adding a button to a web page to print the page
[1322] Flash - is it available to your web page?
[522] Javascript events - a good example
[411] Javascript examples (some PHP and MySQL too)
{
jskl.html} Javascript event handling on a form (textarea)
{
fourth.html} reporting platform information via Javascript
{
seven.php} Changing one Select menu based on another selection
{
third.html} Checking plugin availability
{
geoloc.html} Reporting back your latitude and longitude
{
nine.php} Javascript, PHP and MySQL used together - training example
{
first.html} Simple Javascript variables, and an alert box
{
fifth.html} Providing different links depending on which browser
{
smonth.php} Disabling a form input until another element has been completed
{
terry2.html} Roll over an image to change another image
{
six.php} Validating user entries at the browser
{
dynamic.html} Dynamic Image (Using Javascript)
{
isflash.html} Sensing whether Flash is available on a browser
{
eight.php} Disabling a form input until another element has been completed
{
second.html} Conditional in Javascript - wording based on browser
Module W603 -
Server Side Technologies
[4277] Sending a message to the server and changing text on a page when a button is pressed
[3915] How does PHP work?
[3705] Django Training Courses - UK
[2282] Checking robots.txt from Python
[2055] Effect on server when memory runs out and swapping starts
[1749] Using server side and client side programming together
[1615] PHP training courses every month
[1554] Online hotel reservations - Melksham, Wiltshire (near Bath)
[1365] Korn Shell scripts on the web
[1355] .php or .html extension? Morally Static Pages
[1031] robots.txt - a clue to hidden pages?
[1020] Parallel processing in PHP
[732] Where is a web site visitor browsing from
[653] Easy feed!
[642] How similar are two words
{
clockpage.php4} PHP clock refreshes every minute
Module W604 -
Beyond the Server
[4178] Where are you? How to write a geosensitive application
[2355] See this page in French
[468] Stand alone PHP programs
Module W611 -
Actionscript
[2390] Dynamic / changing images on your web page
[1926] Flash (client) to PHP (server) - example
[1352] Actionscript / Flash / Flex (IAQ/FAQ)
[1322] Flash - is it available to your web page?
{
squish.php} PHP script that shows server side interaction
{
ButtonBottom.as} Interaction from Actionscript to server and database
{
Buttontop.as} Actionscript to server interaction
{
button.html} HTML shell to load a flash movie
{
isflash.html} Sensing whether Flash is available on a browser
Module W701 -
Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
[1677] CSS training - Cascading Style Sheets (UK course)
[1016] Modernising from tables to cascading style sheets
[999] Cascading and the buses
[994] Training on Cascading Style Sheets
[993] Positioning with Cascading Style Sheets
(
article) Introduction to Cascaded Style Sheets
(
article) Elements of Cascading Style Sheets
(
article) Cascading Style Sheets - laying out your page
(
article) Cascading Style Sheets - putting it all together
{
cshello.html} First example of the application of style
{
casc1.html} Cascading style sheets - a simple cascade example
{
styles01.css} Style sheet - external files, first example
{
csel.html} Using an external style sheet file
Module W702 -
Elements of cascading style sheets
[4037] Cascading Style Sheets and formatting your web page
[1998] Text on a background image
[1831] Text formating for HTML, with PHP
[1677] CSS training - Cascading Style Sheets (UK course)
[1019] span and div tags - a css comparison
[1017] css - handling white space and pre
[999] Cascading and the buses
[994] Training on Cascading Style Sheets
(
article) Introduction to Cascaded Style Sheets
(
article) Elements of Cascading Style Sheets
(
article) Cascading Style Sheets - laying out your page
(
article) Cascading Style Sheets - putting it all together
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
{
dtext.html} text demonstration of styles
{
ddisp.html} block and inline display attributes
{
dhs.css} style sheet applied to a heirarcy
{
dte.css} flexibility in text styles
{
dfsr.html} relative font sizes using percentages
{
dshello.html} different types of element selector
{
dheir.html} document heirarcy
Module W703 -
Page layout with cascading style sheets
[1017] css - handling white space and pre
[1016] Modernising from tables to cascading style sheets
[994] Training on Cascading Style Sheets
(
article) Introduction to Cascaded Style Sheets
(
article) Elements of Cascading Style Sheets
(
article) Cascading Style Sheets - laying out your page
(
article) Cascading Style Sheets - putting it all together
{
epl.css} Style screen for positioning demos
{
e01.html} Laying out elements of a page
{
tabin.html} Standard tags v classes v tables
{
eoscr.html} Overflow and scroll - cascading style sheets
Module W704 -
Cascading style sheets - putting it all together
[4037] Cascading Style Sheets and formatting your web page
[2223] CSS Style Diagrams - working out where attributes come from
[1677] CSS training - Cascading Style Sheets (UK course)
[996] Setting your colour theme through PHP
[994] Training on Cascading Style Sheets
[565] Using PHP to output images, XML, Style sheets, etc
[501] .css - using PHP to make dynamic style sheets
(
article) Introduction to Cascaded Style Sheets
(
article) Elements of Cascading Style Sheets
(
article) Cascading Style Sheets - laying out your page
(
article) Cascading Style Sheets - putting it all together
{
hex4.css} Style for example 4
{
hex3.html} Page layout included within style
{
holder.html} holding page
{
styled.html} Styles within page
{
hex4.html} page layout is within style sheet
{
direct.html} Direct coding
{
hex1.html} Direct Coding
{
hex_direct.html} Direct code - older style tags
{
hex3.css} Style sheet for example no. 3
{
hex2.html} with tags embedded in page
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Y: Python programming and use
Overview Y050 -
Python - General
[4712] A reminder of the key issues to consider in moving from Python 2 to Python 3
[4656] Identifying the first and last records in a sequence
[4558] Well House Consultants - Python courses / what's special.
[4434] Public training courses - upcoming dates
[4408] Additional Python courses added to our schedule
[4295] A longer Python ... training course
[4236] Using Python to analyse last years forum logs. Good coding practise discussion.
[3935] Whether you have programmed before or not, we can teach you Python
[3911] How well do you know Perl and / or Python?
[3903] Python Programming class for delegates who have already self-taught the basics
[3902] Shell - Grep - Sed - Awk - Perl - Python - which to use when?
[3816] Want to escape the Olympics? Learn to program in the countryside!
[3798] When you should use Object Orientation even in a short program - Python example
[3519] Python - current versions and implementations (CPython, Jython, IronPython etc)
[3489] Python courses and Private courses - gently updating our product to keep it ahead of the game
[3463] Busy weekend of contrasts.
[3076] Python through the Snow
[2822] Python training courses for use with ESRI ArcMap software
[2778] Learning to program in Python 2 ... and / or in Python 3
[2504] Learning to program in ...
[2394] Two days of demonstration scripts in Python
[2367] Learning to program - how to jump the first hurdles
[2285] Great new diagrams for our notes ... Python releases
[2227] Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses
[2020] Learning Python - many new example programs
[2017] Python - a truly dynamic language
[16] Python training
(
article) Python Fast Start
{
wool} Generator function to prevent need for intermediate list
{
demo2} first real application - simple calculation
{
ld} Lists, lists of lists, mutable and immutable
{
rv1} Using a generator to avoid a large intermediate list - control
{
extend.py} Decorator, lots of __ methods, formatting, and more
{
d2} ways of looping through a list
{
fdo} File read and write - program 'samples' every 10th line of a log file
{
demox} How EVERYTHING is an object - even functions!
{
dd} loading functions from shared file
{
tupperware} Trying to modify a tuple
{
wac} Web Access Counter - parsing big data file
{
accts} First steps in Object definition and use
{
sheep} lists of functions, lambdas, callbacks (posh/flexible ways to use functions)
{
nuform} Some examples of the % (string formatting) operator
{
neville} Simple log file analysis
{
peeps} Converting a file on disc to a list of objects in memory
{
animals.py} Sample class with test harness too
{
p4l} Use of xrange rather than range to avoid huge intermediate lists
{
re1} Regular Expression to extract data from log file (and dictionary analyse)
{
mlog} Tracking start and end records
{
darling.py} file to be included to bring in application globals
{
dooper} A one-liner to print a file's contents
{
pipo} Running an operating system command via a pipe
{
filer} Reading a file line by line (good for huge files)
{
monty} First 'real' application
{
dfg.py} Hiding algorithms in functions - 'encapsulation'
{
zzz} transport in Ireland
{
demo} early python demonstration - using, re-using, copying variables
{
grabbage} Reading a web page 'as if it was a local file'
{
costings.py} A file of functions for 'from' or 'import'
{
fd} Some early list demonstrations!
{
together.py} Station growths
{
ooe} generatings lists of 365 elements to convert day of year to month and day
Module Y101 -
Introduction to Python
[4590] Progress on moving from Python 2 to Python 3 - training for both versions
[4298] Python - an interesting application
[4118] We not only teach PHP and Python - we teach good PHP and Python Practice!
[1663] Python in an afternoon - a lecture for experienced programmers
[1375] Python v Ruby
[950] Python and the Magic Roundabout
[949] Sludge off the mountain, and Python and PHP
[909] Python is like a narrowboat
[846] Is Perl being replaced by PHP and Python?
[834] Python makes University Challenge
[753] Python 3000 - the next generation
[745] Python modules. The distribution, The Cheese Shop and the Vaults of Parnassus.
[712] Why reinvent the wheel
[710] Linux training Glasgow, Python programming course Dundee
[629] Choosing the right language
[444] Database or Progamming - which to learn first?
[382] Central London Courses - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, MySQL
[380] Bridging to the customer requirement
[317] Programming languages - a comparison
(
article) Python Fast Start
{
new_ok} Printing strings in Python 3
{
d4_1} Factory demo
{
ok} Printing strings in Python 2
{
fred} Hello world - Python v Java
{
melksham.txt} Reform 0 sample data
{
stations.py} Samsung example
{
qx} Singapore Dollar Answer
{
scope} Python is "default local"
{
hello.py} "Hello World" in Python
{
reform} Simple data manipulation
Module Y102 -
Python - Fundamentals
[4712] A reminder of the key issues to consider in moving from Python 2 to Python 3
[4442] Mutable v Immuatble objects in Python, and the implication
[4324] Learning to program - variables and constants
[3917] BODMAS - the order a computer evaluates arithmetic expressions
[3886] Formatting output - why we need to, and first Python example
[3551] Some terms used in programming (Biased towards Python)
[3278] Do I need to initialise variables - programming in C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby or Java.
[3181] Beware - a=a+b and a+=b are different - Python
[3083] Python - fresh examples from recent courses
[2778] Learning to program in Python 2 ... and / or in Python 3
[2442] Variable storage - Perl, Tcl and Python compared
[2368] Python - fresh examples of all the fundamentals
[1878] Pascals Triangle in Python and Java
[1461] Python - input v raw input
[1448] Question on division (Java) - Also Perl, PHP, Python ...
[1430] Integer v float - Python
[956] Python security - trouble with input
[748] Getting rid of variables after you have finished with them
[633] Copying a reference, or cloning
[328] Making programs easy for any user to start
(
article) Python Fast Start
{
constr.py} Constant Strings
{
y102a} Answer to end of module exercise
{
trimmer} early example of formatting output
{
oper.py} Maths operations in Python
{
i2.py} input with built in coercion
{
tqs.py} Strings several lines long
{
inout.py} raw input
{
comment.py} Commenting your program
{
leadollar} Output - with and without spacing
{
const.py} Constants in Python
{
repo.py} Operator precedence in Python
{
pasco} Pascals Triangle
{
pygo} Deleting a variable v deleting its contents
{
pout.py} More about print statements
{
demo} Simple first steps - prompt, read, calculate, report
{
cli} Running a python program without having to type in "python" every time
{
yraw} input v raw_input
{
o2} Stripping leading and trailing space
{
henry} Conversion, Coercion, and 2 forms of print
Module Y103 -
Conditionals and Loops
[4723] Conditional operators in Python
[4713] Equality (in Python)
[4545] Method, Class, Module, Package - how to they relate in Python?
[4541] Setting up and tearing down with the Python with keyword
[4402] Finding sum, minimum, maximum and average in Python (and Ruby)
[4323] Learning to program - Loop statements such as while
[4322] Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if)
[4210] If elif elif elif - multiway selection in Python
[4092] Identity in Python
[3895] Flowchart to program - learning to program with Well House
[3762] Learning to program - the if statement. Python.
[3620] Finding the total, average, minimum and maximum in a program
[3558] Python or Lua - which should I use / learn?
[3439] Python for loops - applying a temporary second name to the same object
[3397] Does a for loop evaluate its end condition once, or on every iteration?
[3200] How a for loop works Java, Perl and other languages
[3083] Python - fresh examples from recent courses
[2899] Groupsave tickets - 3 or 4 train tickets for the price of 2
[2778] Learning to program in Python 2 ... and / or in Python 3
[1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ...
[1661] Equality, sameness and identity - Python
[1477] Decisions - small ones, or big ones?
[1201] No switch in Python
[909] Python is like a narrowboat
[835] Python - when to use the in operator
[788] New - Conditional expressions in Python 2.5
[668] Python - block insets help with documentation
[657] The ternary operator in Python
[353] Wimbledon Neck
[299] What - no switch or case statement?
(
article) the while and else structure
{
if2.py} if with a block
{
tab2.py} loop controls - break and else
{
swans.py} Swan family - Python
{
three.py} if statments - various ways of writing them
{
shand.py} Shorthand operators
{
isy} is or == in Python
{
python_switch_case} Alternative to switch, case and default
{
cally.py} Days and months exercise - answer using methods
{
shin} with as and in
{
bp} Exchange Rate Conversion answer
{
eqt} Comparions
{
if1.py} an if statement in python
{
if4.py} if, elif and else
{
goal.py} when is a number "false"?
{
ken} single and multiple statement blocks / conditionals
{
if3.py} Nested blocks
{
b1.py} if - elif - else conditional
{
table.py} a loop in python
{
sintea2} Singapore Teapot - exercise answer (2)
{
lenny} First Loop
{
sintea} Singapore Teapot - exercise answer
{
groupsave} Groupsave ticket calculator
{
george} if / elif / elif - how it works
{
combo.py} Combining conditions with and and or
Module Y104 -
Lists and Tuples
[4722] Embedding more complex code into a named block
[4368] Shuffling a list - Ruby and Python
[4027] Collections in Python - list tuple dict and string.
[3763] Spike solutions and refactoring - a Python example
[3669] Stepping through a list (or an array) in reverse order
[3348] List slices in Python - 2 and 3 values forms, with an uplifting example
[3257] All possible combinations from a list (Python) or array (Ruby)
[3181] Beware - a=a+b and a+=b are different - Python
[3118] Arrays of arrays - or 2D arrays. How to program tables.
[2996] Copying - duplicating data, or just adding a name? Perl and Python compared
[2719] Traffic lights in Python
[2368] Python - fresh examples of all the fundamentals
[2284] Strings as collections in Python
[2280] Creating and iterating through Python lists
[1789] Looking for a value in a list - Python
[1641] Tektronix 4010 series / Python Tuples
[1220] for loop - how it works (Perl, PHP, Java, C, etc)
[955] Python collections - mutable and imutable
[899] Python - extend v append on a list
[657] The ternary operator in Python
[383] Overloading of operators on standard objects in Python
(
article) Python List, Python Tuple, Python Dictionary
{
dmy} Two alternatives - day of year -> day of month and month of year
{
lc} List Comprehensions
{
revq3} Parking exercise - final sample answer
{
tu1.py} First use of a tuple
{
shuffle.py} Shuffle a list of numbers
{
lp1} Whole list or just elements of list?
{
staloop} looping throught a station file
{
inlist.py} The in operator - is a value in a list
{
weekwurk} using function from exercise
{
utils.py} solving exersise using a function
{
li3.py} Use of range to give list indexes
{
lister} 4 different ways of parsing a list
{
litu.py} Converting a list to a tuple
{
da1} Using the power of lists to reduce loops (control)
{
pf} using + and re-assigning
{
lo} list manipulation
{
m2} Alternative answer to exercise 1
{
myrange} How a function takes different shapes
{
sh2.py} Shuffle a list of numbers using supplied shuffle method
{
cally.py} Days and months exercise - answer using methods
{
slice.py} list slices
{
li2.py} for loop to handle each element of a list
{
cmp.py} Comparing lists
{
3slice} List slices - 1 2 and 3 value forms
{
daze} Using the power of lists to reduce loops (actual)
{
tessapy} All possible pairs from list
{
revq} Parking exercise - mk 1
{
yuk} some excercises with lists
{
months} Answer - excercise 1 - day and month numbers
{
menu.py} A list of lists - works like a 2 D array but better ;-)
{
backuds} Going through a list backwards
{
li4.py} range to go through each element of a list
{
revq2} Parking exercise - mark 2
{
mutt} mutable v immutable
{
repeat.py} + and * operators on a list
{
f2} Copy list v Clone list
{
li1.py} List - first example
{
lcopy.py} Copying a list (or rather - copying a reference to a list)
{
pe} using +=
Module Y105 -
Functions, Modules and Packages
[4724] From and Import in Python - where is the module loaded from?
[4722] Embedding more complex code into a named block
[4719] Nesting decorators
[4662] Recursion in Python - the classic example
[4645] What are callbacks? Why use them? An example in Python
[4448] What is the difference between a function and a method?
[4441] Reading command line parameters in Python
[4410] A good example of recursion - a real use in Python
[4407] Python - even named code blocks are objects
[4361] Multiple yields and no loops in a Python generator?
[4212] Python functions - an introduction to how they work
[4161] Python varables - checking existance, and call by name or by value?
[4029] Exception, Lambda, Generator, Slice, Dict - examples in one Python program
[3945] vargs in Python - how to call a method with unknown number of parameters
[3931] Optional positional and named parameters in Python
[3885] Default local - a good choice by the author of Python
[3852] Static variables in Python?
[3766] Python timing - when to use a list, and when to use a generator
[3695] Functions are first class variables in Lua and Python
[3662] Finding all the unique lines in a file, using Python or Perl
[3474] Python Packages - groupings of modules. An introduction
[3472] Static variables in functions - and better ways using objects
[3464] Passing optional and named parameters to python methods
[3459] Catching the fishes first?
[3280] Passing parameters to Python functions - the options you have
[3159] Returning multiple values from a function call in various languages - a comparison
[2998] Using an exception to initialise a static variable in a Python function / method
[2994] Python - some common questions answered in code examples
[2929] Passing a variable number of parameters in to a function / method
[2878] Program for reliability and efficiency - do not duplicate, but rather share and re-use
[2766] Optional and named parameters to Python functions/methods
[2718] Python - access to variables in the outer scope
[2520] Global and Enable - two misused words!
[2506] Good example of recursion in Python - analyse an RSS feed
[2481] Sample code with errors in it on our web site
[2440] Optional parameters to Python functions
[2439] Multiple returns from a function in Python
[2011] Conversion of OSI grid references to Eastings and Northings
[1879] Dynamic code - Python
[1871] Optional and named parameters in Python
[1870] What to do with a huge crop of apples
[1869] Anonymous functions (lambdas) and map in Python
[1790] Sharing variables with functions, but keeping them local too - Python
[1784] Global - Tcl, PHP, Python
[1464] Python Script - easy examples of lots of basics
[1202] Returning multiple values from a function (Perl, PHP, Python)
[1163] A better alternative to cutting and pasting code
[1134] Function / method parameters with * and ** in Python
[959] It's the 1st, not the 1nd 1rd or 1th.
[949] Sludge off the mountain, and Python and PHP
[913] Python - A list of methods
[912] Recursion in Python
[900] Python - function v method
[821] Dynamic functions and names - Python
[775] Do not duplicate your code
[749] Cottage industry or production line data handling methods
[745] Python modules. The distribution, The Cheese Shop and the Vaults of Parnassus.
[668] Python - block insets help with documentation
[561] Python's Generator functions
[418] Difference between import and from in Python
[386] What is a callback?
[340] Code and code maintainance efficiency
[308] Call by name v call by value
[303] Lambdas in Python
[294] Python generator functions, lambdas, and iterators
[105] Distance Learning
[96] Variable Scope
(
article) Python Calling functions and methods. Using objects and modules.
{
ststst} function calling - options demonstrated
{
factor} recursive example - factorial
{
cardy} Main program - methods and attributes from a module
{
myne.py} Module with documentation string and test harness
{
noa} Mandatory, optional, ordered and named parameters
{
restaurant.py} code that DEFINES a restuarant table
{
gentwo} generator - multiple yields and no loop!
{
pgob} Using objects to pass in (and out) of generators
{
extrastep.py} importing a name from a module into the current namespace
{
gen} A generator - two code branches both live
{
firstclass} List of fucntions and callback demo
{
gubbins.py} A bunch of functions in a module
{
silksheets.py} Functions that we'll share between applications
{
sweetdream} Another example of a module reuse
{
qv2} Example that uses mystuff.py
{
sysdemo.py} use of a standard module (sys)
{
jen.iter} Generator with multiple yields
{
acsh2} Dynamic function definition
{
gen_control} Not using a generator - each runs to completion
{
snoresleep} A further Good structure of named blocks of code
{
colin.py} A tiny module
{
dbc} Functions are objects
{
mapfunc.py} Use of the map function to transform a list
{
vargs} vargs in Python
{
fat.py} A second program that uses shared functions in mod2.py
{
better} An extra x - range v xrange and readlines v xreadlines
{
fm} use of functions from a module
{
pf} Defining and calling a function - postal delivery order
{
fun.py} definition and use of a function
{
mod_demo.py} Program that uses the module in local.py
{
taxcalcs.py} Collecting function parameters
{
apers} static variables in Python?
{
mystuff.py} functions, statics, test code, doc strings ...
{
taxi} Exercise answer - net and tax from gross amount
{
params.py} Optional parameters, and variable number of parameters
{
flook.py} Program to use a module and the attributes of its functions
{
f1} more options with modules and functions
{
sheep.py} A Lambda function - one line function definition
{
yum} Brining in elements from a namespace
{
local.py} File of functions to be loaded by other examples
{
genex} Generator v regular function
{
locvar.py} Local and global variables
{
slumbermore} Good structure of named blocks of code
{
gen2} Using a generator function to provide an iteration
{
ffx} Dynamic function definition
{
dream} Good structure of named blocks of code
{
dfg} Using a generator to process a big file
{
recur.py} Recursion - when a function calls itself
{
drought.py} Assorted function call examples
{
yf} Using a generator
{
mutton} Anonymous variables and subs and lambdas
{
electric.py} a generator function - carries on where it left off at previous call
{
requests.xyz} Sample data for dfg
{
qv3} alternative example using mystuff.py
{
chezme} code to use a restaurant (table)
{
avg.py} Demonstration of variable scope in Python
{
mod2.py} A module with doc strings and attributes defined
{
poc.py} Scope of variables - some samples
{
passenger} Calling program - sample answer with separate module for functions
{
jenny} Sample data for jenny demo
{
tax.py} functions to work out tax and net from gross
{
m1} map to transform and filter to select from a list
{
places.xyz} Sample data for jenny demo
{
thing.py} demonstration of a Python Package - the module
{
geom.py} Full module, documentation, test harness, static variables
{
repeater} retaining a variable from one call to the next
{
ststar} * and ** in function calls
{
bundemo} demonstration of a Python Package
Module Y106 -
Object Oriented Python
[4721] When to check an object type - Python isinstance example
[4650] Why populate object with values as you construct them?
[4591] From single block to structure and object oriented programming
[4448] What is the difference between a function and a method?
[4129] Simple OO demonstration in C++, comparison to Python
[4028] Really Simple Class and Inheritance example in Python
[4021] Spike solution, refactored and reusable, Python - Example
[3947] this or self - what are they, and what is the difference? (Python)
[3878] From Structured to Object Oriented Programming.
[3673] Object oriented or structured - a comparison in Python. Also writing clean regular expressions
[3436] Moving from scripting to Object Orientation in Python
[3399] From fish, loaves and apples to money, plastic cards and BACS (Perl references explained)
[3085] Object Oriented Programming for Structured Programmers - conversion training
[2604] Tips for writing a test program (Ruby / Python / Java)
[2169] When should I use OO techniques?
[2017] Python - a truly dynamic language
[1925] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
[1348] Screw it or Glue it? Access to Object variables - a warning
[1306] Python class rattling around
[900] Python - function v method
[834] Python makes University Challenge
[477] Class, static and unbound variables
(
article) all variables are objects
(
article) Python Calling functions and methods. Using objects and modules.
(
article) copying an object - copy the reference
{
writer.py} A simple class - constructor, object method and class method, no inheritance
{
cubbyhole} Simple class - with a class (static) variable
{
typelook} looking at an object type
{
creatures} Exercise answer - program to test class animal
{
aper2} retaining data objects for iteration
{
forum.py} Class of records - forum log file analysis
{
drink.py} definition and testing of a class
{
dirStream.py} Object using generator - directory file traverser
{
c1} Defining and using a class - early steps
{
animal.py} Sample class (exercise) - animal
{
survey.py} Work in progress - survey analysis
{
webhit.py} Web Server access - directory report
{
wr_test.py} Test harness for writer class
{
rr2} Object equality, identity and sameness
{
pets} OO sample - definition and use of two dog objects
{
longer} Saving a lambda in a variable and other tricks
{
containers.py} Shapes used for items in junkroom
{
tabby.py} table, round table and rectangular table
{
wr2.py} Test application for "writer" class
{
glue} Shows danger of using direct access to a member variable
{
pyobs} test program for containers in junkroom
{
mute} mutable v immutable objects
Module Y107 -
Dictionaries
[4668] Sorting a dict in Python
[4661] Unique word locator - Python dict example
[4469] Sorting in Python 3 - and how it differs from Python 2 sorting
[4409] Setting up and using a dict in Python - simple first example
[4029] Exception, Lambda, Generator, Slice, Dict - examples in one Python program
[4027] Collections in Python - list tuple dict and string.
[3934] Multiple identical keys in a Python dict - yes, you can!
[3662] Finding all the unique lines in a file, using Python or Perl
[3555] Football league tables - under old and new point system. Python program.
[3554] Learning more about our web site - and learning how to learn about yours
[3488] Python sets and frozensets - what are they?
[3464] Passing optional and named parameters to python methods
[2994] Python - some common questions answered in code examples
[2986] Python dictionaries - reaching to new uses
[2915] Looking up a value by key - associative arrays / Hashes / Dictionaries
[2368] Python - fresh examples of all the fundamentals
[1145] Using a list of keys and a list of values to make a dictionary in Python - zip
[1144] Python dictionary for quick look ups
[955] Python collections - mutable and imutable
[103] Can't resist writing about Python
(
article) Python List, Python Tuple, Python Dictionary
{
coin.py} Class used by dictionary with object key example
{
pax_month.py} Unique visitors / visited pages per month
{
setup} Simple use of dict
{
snork} Variable scope when sorting a dictionary by value
{
pycounter} counting words using dictionary
{
d3.py} Can I sort a dictionary?
{
counter} counting server accesse
{
pred.py} Illustration of a program that would benefit from dictionaries
{
wp2} dict - members with same key
{
soccer_py} Soccer - league table, old v new point system
{
uniquise} data file with duplicated lines
{
topsk} counting occurrences in a file
{
ss1.py} Python 3 - sorting with sorted
{
u0} data file with duplicated lines')
{
u1} data file with duplicated lines
{
marie.data} data file with duplicated lines
{
pyset} listing words using set
{
uniwords} finding words by their count in a data file
{
d3_3.py} Can I sort a dictionary?
{
d2.py} Looping through all the elements of a dictionary
{
od} dict with digit strings as keys
{
zip-it.py} Joining 2 lists into a dictionary
{
d1.py} Defining and looking up in a dictionary
{
ssold.py} Python 2.7 - sorting a list
{
pocket.py} dictionary with object keys - example
{
slowcoach} Analysing visit lengths to web site - no cache
{
ss2.py} Python 3 - sorting a list
{
visitors} Analysing visit lengths to web site - using cache
{
timberpull} multiple values at same key
{
file_2nd} Analysing blog accesses
{
od3} dict with digit strings as keys (python 3)
{
soccer.data} Soccer League table
{
pres.py} Is a key used in a dictionary?
{
nx} Dictionary of objects - exercise and sample answer
{
u2} data file with duplicated lines
{
dfp} Optional, list and dictionary params
Module Y108 -
String Handling
[4659] Prining a pound sign from Python AND running from the command line at the same time
[4595] Python formatting update - including named completions
[4593] Command line parameter handling in Python via the argparse module
[4360] Python - comparison of old and new string formatters
[4307] Identifying and clearing denial of service attacks on your Apache server
[4213] Formatting options in Python
[4152] Why are bus fares so high?
[4027] Collections in Python - list tuple dict and string.
[3886] Formatting output - why we need to, and first Python example
[3796] Backquote, backtic, str and repr in Python - conversion object to string
[3469] Teaching dilemma - old tricks and techniques, or recent enhancements?
[3468] Python string formatting - the move from % to str.format
[3349] Formatting output in Python through str.format
[3218] Matching a license plate or product code - Regular Expressions
[3090] Matching to a string - what if it matches in many possible ways?
[2814] Python - splitting and joining strings
[2780] Formatted Printing in Python
[2765] Running operating system commands from your Python program
[2721] Regular Expressions in Python
[2692] Flexible search and replace in Python
[2406] Pound Sign in Python Program
[2284] Strings as collections in Python
[1876] Python Regular Expressions
[1608] Underlining in Perl and Python - the x and * operator in use
[1517] Python - formatting objects
[1195] Regular Express Primer
[1110] Python - two different splits
[970] String duplication - x in Perl, * in Python and Ruby
[954] Splitting Pythons in Bradford
[943] Matching within multiline strings, and ignoring case in regular expressions
[903] Pieces of Python
[773] Breaking bread
[560] The fencepost problem
[496] Python printf
[463] Splitting the difference
[324] The backtick operator in Python and Perl
(
article) Analysing incoming data lines
{
grab} Regular Expression - Maya strings
{
qre} Split - regular expression v literal string
{
ifi} generating text with character
{
pyform} Python Formatting via the str.format method
{
seqrev.py} translate, reverse and join - reversing dna sequence
{
sequence.py} Handling a string as a list of characters
{
twoforms} Two forms of formatting
{
earlier} formatted printing variety - format method
{
lit} Checking the type of characters entered
{
pys} Strings - how to write them
{
irish_grid} Ordnance Survey Ireland - Grid Reference Conversion
{
fhand} Unicode text string
{
splitcare} Comparison of regex and string splitting
{
cori} Multiline string
{
funsub} Substitute for a regular expression
{
clinput} reading and handling command line options
{
Pythoners} Parse a file checking each line against a criterion
{
bejo.py} split and join
{
cli.py} Command line handler function in Python
{
seq2.py} Using the replace method on a string
{
kid} Formatting strings / multiple use of % operator
{
fence.py} Fencepost problem and solution
{
chunky} Splitting at a literal v splitting at a regex
{
reginald} Regular expression with comments in it
{
regex} Search and find, replace, and replace with result
{
backtick} Conversion to a string with the backtick operator
{
tliser} Exercise answer - formatting prices and aligning columns
{
fares.py} Distortion of bus prices due to concessionary fares
{
young.py} revision - string basics
{
cli_withopts.py} Command line handler function in Python
{
poundland} formatting a pound sign and a #! line
{
inflate} Search for regular expression and replace
{
formatting} formatting - old and new ways
{
nf} Formatting - time and money using the % operator and format method
{
strf} The String formatter
{
rexy} writing understandable regular expressions
{
reggie.py} Regular Expression Overview
{
listmethods} List all methods available on an object
{
taxform.py} Formatting output - floats, ints, etc
{
visitors} Web site - population penetration
{
p3.py} raw and regular strings
{
gift} Share 10000 pound between 1 to 10 children
{
mypi} Strings, raw strings, triple quoted strings
Module Y109 -
Exceptions
[4444] Elements of an exception in Python - try, except, else, finally
[4161] Python varables - checking existance, and call by name or by value?
[4029] Exception, Lambda, Generator, Slice, Dict - examples in one Python program
[3930] Reporting the full stack trace when you catch a Python exception
[3913] How many times ... has this loco headed west through Tenby? - Python exceptions
[3664] Error checking in a Python program - making your program robust via exceptions
[3441] Pressing ^C in a Python program. Also Progress Bar.
[3433] Exceptions - a fail-safe way of trapping things that may go wrong
[3177] Insurance against any errors - Volcanoes and Python
[2998] Using an exception to initialise a static variable in a Python function / method
[2994] Python - some common questions answered in code examples
[2622] Handling unusual and error conditions - exceptions
[2408] Robust user input (exception handling) example in Python
[2368] Python - fresh examples of all the fundamentals
[2281] Python - using exceptions to set a fallback
[2018] UnboundLocalError - Python Message
[1236] Trying things in Python
[1042] Nested exceptions in Python
[381] Exceptions in Python
(
article) errors v exceptions
{
topstats} Exception, Lambda, dict
{
pushit.py} Handling multiple exceptions types
{
stopc} trapping ^C in Python
{
trapper.py} Use of try and except
{
ui} Read an integer - validated
{
syntax.py} Example of a syntax error
{
sometimes.py} Example of a piece of code that sometimes crashes
{
ranger.py} passing exceptions back to calling code
{
ouch} try, except, finally example
{
attempt} full traceback log from exceptions
{
runtime.py} Example of a runtime error
{
oy} Raising Exceptions yourself
{
railx} Busiest and quietest stations
{
gwrong.py} Using excpetions to allow *some* user errors
{
kx} Answer to exercise
{
insist.py} try and except within a loop
{
grabot.py} Read from a URL resource with error trapping
{
dbnover} Events spread over a number of units
{
prog} Status line. Also trapping ^C
{
ewhy.py} Using excpetion for fail-safe error handling
{
deltemp.py} Use of pass to provide an empty block
{
duff} Try, except, else and finally
{
bug.py} Program with a bug!
{
maffs.py} static variable in Python
{
wholehog.py} static variable - initialise via exception
Module Y110 -
File Handling
[4717] with in Python - examples of use, and of defining your own context
[4708] Scons - a build system in Python - building hello world
[4663] Easy data to object mapping (csv and Python)
[4593] Command line parameter handling in Python via the argparse module
[4451] Running an operating system command from your Python program - the new way with the subprocess module
[4438] Loving programming in Python - and ready to teach YOU how
[3764] Shell, Awk, Perl of Python?
[3558] Python or Lua - which should I use / learn?
[3465] How can I do an FTP transfer in Python?
[3442] A demonstration of how many Python facilities work together
[3083] Python - fresh examples from recent courses
[2870] Old prices - what would the equivalent price have been in 1966?
[2282] Checking robots.txt from Python
[2011] Conversion of OSI grid references to Eastings and Northings
[1442] Reading a file multiple times - file pointers
[183] The elegance of Python
[114] Relative or absolute milkman
{
widem} using with to limit the scope of a file handle
{
fgfg} Improved version - program to handle data recently appended to a log file
{
flr} Fixed Length Record to CSV
{
analysethatbusstop} import CSV data into dict
{
fff} Jumping around an input file (random access)
{
pstat.py} Checking whether a file exists, and things about it ...
{
sp} running OS subprocesses in Python
{
lost.py} Trapping a non-existant file error
{
grounds.py} Soccer grounds - Python
{
sys.py} Disc space free within an application
{
coster.py} Read whole file, report on lines matching a pattern
{
dirStream.py} Object using generator - directory file traverser
{
costhuge.py} Reading a file line by line
{
tablog.py} File overwrite and append in python
{
filechex} File checks - is it a directory, when was it modified
{
majorcooker.py} Handling huge data
{
file_first} Short file parser
{
n2} Find the title of a web site
{
j2} using a generator to source data from a file
{
dsa} polymorphism in action
{
wac1} Read file into list and process each line
{
inflate} Inflation Calculcator - what would it have cost?
{
grabpage.py} Read from a URL as is reading from a file
{
pinorder.py} List a directory sorted by age of object
{
is.xyz} Inflation data - UK - annual factors
{
jdemo} json and csv handling
{
dmoz.py} Parsing a large file, looking for matching lines
Module Y111 -
More on Collections and Sequences
[4442] Mutable v Immuatble objects in Python, and the implication
[4398] Accessing variables across subroutine boundaries - Perl, Python, Java and Tcl
[3797] zip in Python
[3439] Python for loops - applying a temporary second name to the same object
[3348] List slices in Python - 2 and 3 values forms, with an uplifting example
[3150] Python dictionaries - mutable and immutable keys and values
[2996] Copying - duplicating data, or just adding a name? Perl and Python compared
[2920] Sorting - naturally, or into a different order
[2894] Sorting people by their names
[2718] Python - access to variables in the outer scope
[1873] List Comprehensions in Python
[1869] Anonymous functions (lambdas) and map in Python
[1310] Callbacks - a more complex code sandwich
[1304] Last elements in a Perl or Python list
[899] Python - extend v append on a list
[633] Copying a reference, or cloning
[386] What is a callback?
[61] Python is a fabulous language
(
article) Python List, Python Tuple, Python Dictionary
(
article) User defined sorting - what is a callback?
(
article) copying an object - copy the reference
{
copy_levels} alias, shallow copy and deep copy comparison
{
dsd} Python equivalent of Schwartzian transform
{
slices} list slices - revision
{
cuber} using a callback to map a list
{
p162} Sample answer - module exercise
{
2dli.py} List - multiple dimensions
{
indemo} Sorting a dictionary?
{
rails_dict} Sorting and subsorting into your own order
{
lirev.py} List - revision
{
furlist.py} Further methods that run on lists - looking things up
{
shallowcop.py} List - shallow copy
{
fortan} A list of lists (a matrix?)
{
namsort.py} Natural sorting of a list of strings
{
unamsort.py} Sorting of a list of strings - user routine ignoring case
{
coldem} Collections - initial setup and reference
{
scenario} Encapsulating changes in a function
{
deepcop.py} List - deep copy
{
lat.py} copy reference and shallow copy
{
coplist.py} List - copy through assignment
{
sal} Sorting in a non-standard way
{
uip2.py} Counting in a dictionary, and sorting
{
sby_sname} Sorting by surname
Module Y112 -
Objects - Intermediate
[4719] Nesting decorators
[4718] Defining an object that is a modified standard type in Python
[4717] with in Python - examples of use, and of defining your own context
[4649] Object and Static methods - what is the difference; example in Python 3
[4541] Setting up and tearing down with the Python with keyword
[4450] Deciding whether to use parameters, conditional statements or subclasses
[4449] Spike solution, refactoring into encapsulated object methods - good design practise
[4410] A good example of recursion - a real use in Python
[4366] Changing what operators do on objects - a comparison across different programming languages
[4356] Object factories in C++, Python, PHP and Perl
[4344] Python base and inherited classes, test harness and unit testing - new examples
[4094] Python Properties - how and why
[4028] Really Simple Class and Inheritance example in Python
[3887] Inheritance, Composition and Associated objects - when to use which - Python example
[3796] Backquote, backtic, str and repr in Python - conversion object to string
[3524] Metaclasses (Python) and Metatables (Lua)
[3472] Static variables in functions - and better ways using objects
[3442] A demonstration of how many Python facilities work together
[3002] A list of special method and attribute names in Python
[2994] Python - some common questions answered in code examples
[2905] Defining static methods in Python
[2889] Should Python classes each be in their own file?
[2785] The Light bulb moment when people see how Object Orientation works in real use
[2764] Python decorators - your own, staticmethod and classmethod
[2722] Mixins example in Python
[2720] Multiple inheritance in Python - complete working example
[2717] The Multiple Inheritance Conundrum, interfaces and mixins
[2693] Methods that run on classes (static methods) in Python
[2485] How do I set up a constant in Python?
[2409] TypeError: super() argument 1 must be type, not classobj (Python)
[2368] Python - fresh examples of all the fundamentals
[1819] Calling base class constructors
[1661] Equality, sameness and identity - Python
[1644] Using a utility method to construct objects of different types - Python
[1517] Python - formatting objects
[1217] What are factory and singleton classes?
[1146] __new__ v __init__ - python constructor alternatives?
[964] Practical polymorphism in action
[903] Pieces of Python
[831] Comparison of Object Oriented Philosophy - Python, Java, C++, Perl
[656] Think about your design even if you don't use full UML
[477] Class, static and unbound variables
[383] Overloading of operators on standard objects in Python
[296] Using a Python dictionary as a holder of object attributes
(
article) Inheritance
(
article) all variables are objects
{
tabledata.csv} Data file for Python 3.4 inheritance model
{
ub} Utility method to construct different objects
{
teapot.py} Class heirarcy in a single file
{
clever} nested decorators
{
triang.py} definition of a property
{
mult_inherit} Multiple Inheritance Complete Example
{
p4.py} Factory, comparator, inheritance etc
{
timetable.txt} data for pub.py
{
whm_real} Factory method
{
accoms.xyz} Sample data for accoms program
{
bandb.py} definition of subclass bandb of accom
{
end_of_universe.txt} Data for p4.py example
{
people.py} Class, subclasses, test harness. Inheritance, Poymorphism and Overloading
{
ob1.py} definition and use of property with lambda
{
accom.py} Accommodation base clase
{
accom_finder.py} Sample application using hotel and bandb
{
mi} Multiple Inheritance
{
fcl.py} program to show use of "person" class
{
c1.py} Classes, subclasses, static method, test harness
{
travel.txt} Data file for "tu2" example
{
mcx} metaclass setup and use
{
tu2} Sample program (2) using c1.py demonstration classes
{
restex.py} Class example - restaurant
{
looob2} class exercise - add 200 count please
{
tuse} Sample program (1) using c1.py demonstration classes
{
cl_o.py} Old Style classes and inheritance
{
cho} New style class - with inheritance
{
goat.py} Defining a class of goats and overriding addition
{
ufd} Sample data for person.py demo
{
personx.py} OO demo - multiple classes, inheritance, test program
{
id} getitem and getslice
{
yum} Define your own add and print methods
{
taball} all together table example
{
xmc4.py} Polymorphism and inheritance with Christmas and Easter Characters
{
cho.py} new style classes, as module with inheritance and test harness
{
tr1.py} class, subclass, utility, factory, etc
{
ting2} static (class) methods via decorators
{
cbx} Callbacks in Python
{
overload_add.py} Operator (+) and to_string overloading, Python
{
m_i_m} Mixins Complete Example
{
boxex} Overloading (redefining) addition and how a variable is printed
{
travel.py} static methods, overloaded operator, propertys, inheritance and polymorphism ...
{
ttest.py} calling an attribute [property]
{
hound.py} Definition of two objects to demonstrate polymorphism
{
addload} Illustration of how the + (add) operator is really defined
{
bq} backquote / backtic operator
{
alog} objects within objects - access log hits and visits
{
dayzend} using with to open and close an object
{
hotel.py} definition of subclass hotel of accom
{
pets.py} Simple base class, subclass and polymorphism
{
person.py} Class with Body Mass Index method
{
tables.py} Python 3.4 tables interitance and factory demo
{
pub.py} wholesale factory method - read file to list of objects
{
meerkat} Decorator v modifier; static methods
{
cl_n.py} New Style classes and inheritance
{
obob} Inheritance demo
{
thems} Polymorphism demonstration - uses cat and dog objects from hound.py
{
pysin} Singleton class
Module Y113 -
Python and SQL databases
[4537] example of SQLite using a local database file through SQLalchemy
[4535] SQLAlchemy - first examples with a Python Object Relationship Mapping system
[4445] Graphing presentations in Python - huge data, numpy and matplotlib
[4436] Accessing a MySQL database from Python with mysql.connector
[4086] Cacheing class for Python - using a local SQLite database as a key/value store
[4024] SQL databases from Python - an SQLite example
[3139] Steering our Python courses towards wxPython, SQLite and Django
[3136] A framework with python - Django - first steps
[2790] Joining a MySQL table from within a Python program
[2786] Factory methods and SqLite in use in a Python teaching example
[2746] Model - View - Controller demo, Sqlite - Python 3 - Qt4
[2745] Connecting Python to sqlite and MySQL databases
{
orm_sqlite} sqlalchemy orm with sqlite demo - Python 2.x
{
alch001} SQL Alchemy - connect and first query
{
selector.py} Simple selector (MySQL database of 168,000 records)
{
alch002} SQL Alchemy - connect, inserts and queries
{
prepared_statements.py} MySQL / Python (3) - with prepared statements
{
multi_resultsets.py} MySQL / Python (2) - connect, drop, create, insert, select with iterate, drop
{
databases_python} sqlite3 - connect, create, insert, select
{
kvcache.py} Cacheing class object / sqlite3
{
napreader} reading from http://www.wellho.net/data/wiltshire_busstops.csv
{
pyjson_kvcache} Using our JSON service from Python with key / value cache
{
inserts.py} MySQL / Python (1) - connect, drop, create, insert, select, drop
{
logger} Local MySQL test prior to running examples
Module Y115 -
Additional Python Facilities
[4709] Some gems from Intermediate Python
[4593] Command line parameter handling in Python via the argparse module
[4536] Json load from URL, recursive display, Python 3.4
[4451] Running an operating system command from your Python program - the new way with the subprocess module
[4439] Json is the new marshall, pickle and cPickle / Python
[4298] Python - an interesting application
[4211] Handling JSON in Python (and a csv, marshall and pickle comparison)
[4085] JSON from Python - first principles, easy example
[3469] Teaching dilemma - old tricks and techniques, or recent enhancements?
[3442] A demonstration of how many Python facilities work together
[3089] Python regular expressions - repeating, splitting, lookahead and lookbehind
[2790] Joining a MySQL table from within a Python program
[2786] Factory methods and SqLite in use in a Python teaching example
[2765] Running operating system commands from your Python program
[2764] Python decorators - your own, staticmethod and classmethod
[2746] Model - View - Controller demo, Sqlite - Python 3 - Qt4
[2745] Connecting Python to sqlite and MySQL databases
[2721] Regular Expressions in Python
[2655] Python - what is going on around me?
[2462] Python - how it saves on compile time
[2435] Serialization - storing and reloading objects
[2407] Testing code in Python - doctest, unittest and others
[1876] Python Regular Expressions
[1337] A series of tyre damages
[1336] Ignore case in Regular Expression
[1305] Regular expressions made easy - building from components
[1149] Turning objects into something you can store - Pickling (Python)
[1136] Buffering output - why it is done and issues raised in Tcl, Perl, Python and PHP
[1043] Sending an email from Python
[901] Python - listing out the contents of all variables
[753] Python 3000 - the next generation
[672] Keeping your regular expressions simple
[663] Python to MySQL
[463] Splitting the difference
[239] What and why for the epoch
[208] Examples - Gadfly, NI Number, and Tcl to C interface
[183] The elegance of Python
(
article) Python threads - a first example
(
article) Pattern Matching - a primer on regular Expressions
(
article) Interfacing applications to a MySQL database engine
{
myuser.py} class for use in pickle / unpickle demo
{
tim} Some time handlers
{
hostfilter.py} Extract host computer information - strip comments with regular expressions
{
bench.py} Find largest 5 files in or below a directory
{
logs.json} Json data for http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php?item=y115/hostcounter
{
sql1.py} Hello MySQL World in Python
{
psplit} Splitting at a string v splitting at a regular expression
{
re3.py} Find email addresses in line of text
{
subp} Subprocess module - replacement for os.popen
{
refun} evaluating a net list in EQN format
{
mar_out.py} Marshal converts an object to a string
{
retest.py} Regular Expression test engine
{
re1.py} Regular expression - first example
{
currency.py} Formatting a currency using Regular Expression
{
cunpick} recover a pickled object
{
gad1.py} Create a Gadfly (SQL) database and insert data
{
syscommand} Running an operating system command in Python
{
pysql_another} Using a MySQL database - select across multiple tables
{
class_v_static.py} Decorators - your own, plus @classmethod and @staticmethod
{
mar_in.py} Loading in an object saved via the marshal module
{
python_mysql_web.py} Python, MySQL, CGI (Web) board
{
cli.py} Report on command line parameters
{
hostcounter} Extract data from huge flow. Save and restore via Json
{
penv.py} Python environment variables
{
pocohunter} Looking for postcodes in a string
{
get_os.py} Get Operating System information
{
relib.py} Some common regular expressions
{
again} Looking for part of a string that repeats later
{
cpick} Store an object via cPickle
{
flist.py} All the files in a directory - which is largest?
{
curr27} From Python 2.7 - currency alternative
{
py_mysql.py} MySQL to Python using MySQL Connector
{
re2.py} Stripping spaces
{
gad2.py} Running an SQL query - Gadfly
{
sql1a.py} MySQL to Python using MySQLdb
{
eo2.py} Scanning log file for instability
{
emma} Regular expression then split
{
sqlite.py} Sqlite3 / Python 3 example
{
re4.py} Regular expression split over several lines
{
timestuff.py} Some time handling
Module Y116 -
Applying OO design techniques and best practise
[4718] Defining an object that is a modified standard type in Python
[4359] How to avoid too many recalculations within an object
[4118] We not only teach PHP and Python - we teach good PHP and Python Practice!
[4028] Really Simple Class and Inheritance example in Python
[3887] Inheritance, Composition and Associated objects - when to use which - Python example
[2604] Tips for writing a test program (Ruby / Python / Java)
[2523] Plan your application before you start
[2485] How do I set up a constant in Python?
[2407] Testing code in Python - doctest, unittest and others
[2363] Alpaca Case or Camel Case
[1181] Good Programming practise - where to initialise variables
[945] Code quality counts
[836] Build on what you already have with OO
[668] Python - block insets help with documentation
[656] Think about your design even if you don't use full UML
[340] Code and code maintainance efficiency
(
article) What makes a good variable name?
{
t6} inherited and associated / composite objects
{
counter} inheriting from a standard data type object
{
constant.py} Constants in Python
{
cin} Caching design pattern
{
story} Traffic survey - Python without Objects
{
ddd.py} Good practise tips and documentation string
{
tree.py} Recursion and special collections in Python
{
novel} Traffic survey - Python and Objects
{
t7} completion of example t6 - add factory, comparator, etc
{
cincontrol} Caching design pattern / Control
{
sob} Data for novel and story examples
Module Y117 -
Already written modules
[4710] Searching a Json or XML structure for a specific key / value pair in Python
[4708] Scons - a build system in Python - building hello world
[4697] Month, Day, Year number to day of week and month names in Python - English and Swedish
[4696] Programming with random numbers - yet re-using the same values for testing
[4452] Binary data handling - Python and Perl
[4441] Reading command line parameters in Python
[4086] Cacheing class for Python - using a local SQLite database as a key/value store
[4085] JSON from Python - first principles, easy example
[3479] Practical Extraction and Reporting - using Python and Extreme Programming
[3465] How can I do an FTP transfer in Python?
[3442] A demonstration of how many Python facilities work together
[2931] Syncronise - software, trains, and buses. Please!
[2890] Dates and times in Python
[2506] Good example of recursion in Python - analyse an RSS feed
[2020] Learning Python - many new example programs
{
jdemo3} finding a specifically keyed within json structure
{
jflow.json} Data for jdemo3
{
pyjson_with_cache} Using our JSON service from Python with cache
{
jones} Random - really and replay
{
dates} Date and Time - short example
{
xz} Day of week, month of year names and locales
{
imgsize} interpretting binary data
{
fgrab} FTP transfers
{
pyjson} Using our JSON service from Python
{
butter} Regular Expressions
{
avx} Command Line Parameters
Module Y118 -
numpy, scipy and matplotlib
[4445] Graphing presentations in Python - huge data, numpy and matplotlib
[4440] A first graph with Matplotlib in Python
[3554] Learning more about our web site - and learning how to learn about yours
[2997] 3D graphics - web site usage - simple matplotlib and python example
[2993] Arrays v Lists - what is the difference, why use one or the other
[2992] Matplotlib - graphing in Python - teaching examples
[2991] Loading and saving data - Python / numpy
[2990] What are numpy and scipy?
{
gr3d.json} Data for graph.py - formatted json
{
mpl4.py} Two graphs on a canvas - top to bottom
{
prepare.py} Extract data for graphing and save to Json
{
npx} Loading binary data from file into numpy array
{
nphw} Basic objects in numpy
{
mpl5.py} Two plots on a canvas - left to right
{
npgd} Loading data into numpy
{
mpl1.py} Hello matplotlib world
{
npx2} alternative scheme for loading binary data
{
simplegraph} Straightforward line plot using huge data
{
mpl2.py} Plotting a user data set
{
mpl3.py} Plotting multiple user data sets
{
aa} Tuple and list to numpy array conversions
{
graph.py} Graph x,y,z via numpy from a Json file
{
tog1.py} Loading and storing numpy objects
{
xyz.py} 3d and contour plots through numpy and matplotlib
Module Y150 -
Python Development Tools and Environments
[3151] Disassembling Python and Java - previously compiled code
[2452] Making executable binaries in Python (or Perl)
[2370] C++, Python, and other training - do we use an IDE
[2123] Using Python with OpenOffice
[745] Python modules. The distribution, The Cheese Shop and the Vaults of Parnassus.
[316] Development Environments
{
lookin} using dis to look inside code
Module Y151 -
Python & XML
[4710] Searching a Json or XML structure for a specific key / value pair in Python
[4594] XML handling in Python - a new teaching example using etree
[3082] XML handling in Python - SAX, DOM and XSLT examples
[2555] Bookkeeping
[2506] Good example of recursion in Python - analyse an RSS feed
[2378] Handling XML in Perl - introduction and early examples
{
minid2.py} report structure with minidom
{
images.xml} XML data used by demonstration program
{
python_rss} Grabbing an RSS feed in Python
{
xmlparserdemo} command line params (argparse) and xml (ElementTree)
{
minid1.py} parse and check with minidom
{
simpull.xml} XML data for simsax and sidom demonstrations
{
sax_xml2.py} Extracting information via SAX
{
xsltprocess.py} Process an XML file through an XSLT Stylesheet in Python with libxml2 and libxslt
{
minid4.py} further extraction including data with minidom
{
minid3.py} Useful extraction with minidom
{
image.xsl} xslt program for Python / xslt / xml demo
{
sax_xml4.py} More sophisticated SAX output example
{
sax_xml3.py} Attributes and text extracted via SAX
{
minid5.py} Modifying a document structure with minidom
{
sax_xml1.py} First SAX based xml handler
{
simdom.py} Reading XML into memory structure - DOM
{
simsax.py} Parsing XML stream for pertinent data - SAX
Module Y199 -
Python - Fast Start
[4713] Equality (in Python)
[4712] A reminder of the key issues to consider in moving from Python 2 to Python 3
[4709] Some gems from Intermediate Python
[4707] Some gems from an introduction to Python
[3519] Python - current versions and implementations (CPython, Jython, IronPython etc)
[2017] Python - a truly dynamic language
(
article) Python Fast Start
{
if1} If, elif and else
{
for1} for loop
{
while1} While loop
{
fast1} Fundamentals of Python - variables and output
{
fast2} Fast start example 2 - inputs and strings
{
tr3.py} base and subclasses, decorator, data from file, factory
{
requests.xyz} Sample data file used in source examples
{
kwlist} What are the keywords in Python?
Module Y200 -
Python - using functions, objects and modules.
[4719] Nesting decorators
[4438] Loving programming in Python - and ready to teach YOU how
[418] Difference between import and from in Python
(
article) Python Calling functions and methods. Using objects and modules.
{
fromlist} bring module into current namespace
{
lenco} functions v methods
{
importlist} bring module into its own namespace
{
biff} Some built in functions
{
aug13_train.py} Inheritance, factory, etc
{
appy} Calling a method which alters the object it runs on
Module Y201 -
Python for DataMunging and System Admin
[4438] Loving programming in Python - and ready to teach YOU how
[4211] Handling JSON in Python (and a csv, marshall and pickle comparison)
[4088] Some tips and techniques for huge data handling in Python
[3479] Practical Extraction and Reporting - using Python and Extreme Programming
(
article) Log file analysis - short Python example
{
sbs} Data Munging Example
{
noisesource} Spike solution - Data extraction and reporting
{
rqsummy} Splitting a line at any white space
{
lfan} Demonstration program - many aspects of Python
{
spamdata.txt} Data for spam signup demo
Module Y202 -
Python on the Web
[4536] Json load from URL, recursive display, Python 3.4
[4404] Which (virtual) host was visited? Tuning Apache log files, and Python analysis
[4089] Quick and easy - showing Python data hander output via a browser
[2365] Counting Words in Python via the web
[2238] Handling nasty characters - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, Lua
[1745] Moodle, Drupal, Django (and Rails)
[903] Pieces of Python
[433] FTP - how to make the right transfers
[426] Robust checking of data entered by users
[237] Crossfertilisation, PHP to Python
(
article) Nasty Characters in Web Applications
{
hsapp2.py} Web application, Mark 2 - 3 pages, sessions, hidden fields
{
inf.py} Simple web demo - produce form, complete form, act on data entered to form
{
visitor.py} Analysing a web access log file
{
tellmewhen.py} Running a Python program through CGI
{
martin.py} Translation coster - CGI script
{
pytop} Analysis of current web log file
{
pyhello} Embedding plain text app on the web
{
pyserv} basic web server
{
python_mysql_web.py} Python, MySQL, CGI (Web) board
{
piddle.py} CGI, Python, Web server, HTML - reporting server time
{
hsdemo.htp} Template for hsapp1 and hsapp2
{
hsapp1.py} Web application mark 1 - 3 pages, sessions, hidden fields
{
place.py} Python / CGI - read from a form, run an application, fill in a template to respond
{
martin.html} Translation coster - HTML form
{
template.htp} Template for simple web example
{
pybrow} Browser client
{
jhandle} Python 3.4 urllib urlopen and json
Module Y203 -
GUIs and Graphics in Python
[3477] Choosing your Python GUI - wx, Qt, Tk or GTK?
[2744] PyQt (Python and Qt) and wxPython - GUI comparison
[1036] Python Qt, wX, TkInter, and Jython - training??
Module Y204 -
The TkInter GUI
[4258] Keeping you Tkinter display up to date while monitoring
[3476] Tkinter - an easy to use Python Graphic User Interface - introductory examples
{
tki_demo} Practical Tkinter GUI
{
tki_hello} Hello TkInter World
Module Y205 -
Further uses of Python
[1663] Python in an afternoon - a lecture for experienced programmers
[1340] Tk locks up - 100% c.p.u. on a simple program (Tcl, Perl, Python)
[1036] Python Qt, wX, TkInter, and Jython - training??
[745] Python modules. The distribution, The Cheese Shop and the Vaults of Parnassus.
[595] Add a friendly front end with Tk
[190] Python engines
{
gui1.py} Hello GUI world (Tkinter example)
Module Y206 -
Python and the Qt GUI
[2746] Model - View - Controller demo, Sqlite - Python 3 - Qt4
[2744] PyQt (Python and Qt) and wxPython - GUI comparison
[1036] Python Qt, wX, TkInter, and Jython - training??
(
article) Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs)
{
hq2.py} Python / Qt. Popup windows, Button Widgets, slots and signals
{
pyqthello.py} Hello World - Python and Qt GUI
{
qupdown.py} Altering a label as a result of button presses - Python Qt
{
Voter_qt.py} Python 3 / PyQt 4 - simple voting GUI
{
hq3.py} Python Qt - Widgets, Geometry layouts, slots and signals
Module Y207 -
wxPython
[4589] Principles or a GUI and their practical application using wxPthon
[3139] Steering our Python courses towards wxPython, SQLite and Django
[3092] wxPython geometry - BoxSizer example
[3086] Sizers (geometry control) in a wxPython GUI - a first example
[3081] wxPython - simple example to add GUI to a server log file analysis
[2887] Snow Leopard and Python (that is OS X 10.6 and wxPython)
[2744] PyQt (Python and Qt) and wxPython - GUI comparison
[2013] wxPython - Introduction and sample
[903] Pieces of Python
(
article) Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs)
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
(
article) Solution Centre - all article listing
{
delegates} Simple complete application - wxPython
{
wx02.py} Simple menu with modal "about"
{
wxexample_02} Event handlers to provide feedback
{
however} Principles of a GUI - app frame
{
wxphello.py} Hello wxPython world
{
mymodel.py} Model for wx Framework demo
{
wx01.py} Application with 2 windows
{
Voter_wx.py} Python 2.6 / wxpython - simple voting GUI
{
sizer1.py} Geometry Manager - First Example
{
demo1.py} Simple "hello world"
{
wxreal} Putting it together - food selector
{
wx04.py} Panel and event handler
{
logreport.py} Log file analysis is a wxPython GUI wrapper
{
wxexample_03} Single event handler for many buttons
{
wxpfsbe.py} Status bar with events on wxPython frame
{
wxexample_04} Final example - GUI interface to rail data
{
wxx2} GUI with feedback (manual placement)
{
boxsizer.py} Vertically arranged widgets with a BoxSizer
{
wxexample_01} principles a GUI - with code
{
wxx3} GUI with feedback (Boxsizer placement)
{
wx03_02.py} wxPython text editor with open, save, etc
Module Y209 -
Python GTK.
[1140] Python GTK - Widget, Packing, Event and Feedback example
{
multibut.py} Python GTK - events, layouts, quit button
{
gtkfeedback.py} Python GTK - feeding back into the GUI
{
hwpgt.py} Python GTK Hello World
Module Y212 -
Code testing, patterns, profiles and optimisation.
[4716] Profiling your Python program
[4618] Pytest - second example beyond hello world
[4617] Pytest - starting example
[4542] The principle of mocking - and the Python Mock package
[4540] Unittest of a Flask application including forms
[4538] Flask and unittest - hello web app test world
[4470] Testing in Python 3 - unittest, doctest and __name__ == __main__ too.
[4446] Combining tests into suites, and suites into bigger suites - Python and unittest
[4344] Python base and inherited classes, test harness and unit testing - new examples
[4326] Learning to program - comments, documentation and test code
[4090] Test Driven Development in Python - Customer Comes First
[3658] Using Make for a distribution
[3478] Testing your Python classes with the unittest package - how to
[3464] Passing optional and named parameters to python methods
[3442] A demonstration of how many Python facilities work together
[3441] Pressing ^C in a Python program. Also Progress Bar.
[2616] Defining a static method - Java, Python and Ruby
[2123] Using Python with OpenOffice
[1555] Advanced Python, Perl, PHP and Tcl training courses / classes
[1148] Python decorators - wrapping a method call in extra code
[1146] __new__ v __init__ - python constructor alternatives?
[1140] Python GTK - Widget, Packing, Event and Feedback example
[235] Preparation for a day's work
{
test_mathfuncs5.py} Pytest - multiple setup fixtures
{
logtest} Unit test for mary class
{
train.py} class for testing in doctest
{
thems.py} Polymorphism demonstration - used to demonstrate the profiler
{
tdd_3} Test Drive Developement - extending unit testing
{
Stationtest.py} Test for stations class
{
mathstuff.py} function for Pytest to test
{
dtxpass} Doctest / Python 3 - passing example
{
mzz} Mocking - setting up and calling a mocked method
{
tdd_0} Test Driven Development - step 1
{
mtbf.py} MTBF class - overwrides + and *, and associated unittest
{
stawithat} Static Method in Python (Decorator - 2.4 and later)
{
test_hello.py} Hello Pytest world
{
dec01} decorator - to log function calls
{
annie.py} Test driven exercise
{
second.py} Test program for use in build demonstration - with doctest
{
test_mathfuncs3.py} Pytest / class test with setup fixture
{
tdd_1} Test Driven Development - multiple objects
{
mary.py} Web server log access class
{
utdemo} unittest for Transport group of classes
{
profdemo.py} using and running the profiler and stats analyser
{
test_mathfuncs4.py} Pytest - chaining test no setup repeats
{
dtxfail} Doctest / Python 3 - failing example
{
Traintest.py} Tests for myTrain classes
{
transport.py} Sample class - Test Driven Development
{
testtrain} Unit test - Python 3 / train class
{
stameth} Static Method in Python (all versions)
{
dt.py} doctest - a clean example
{
Combotest} Combining Test Suites - unittest
{
test_mathfuncs2.py} Pytest with setup fixture
{
makefile} Makefile - for a python test and build distribution project
{
stawrong} bound method running on a class FAILS
{
utes.py} Simple unittest demonstration
{
setup.cfg} Sample config file for Pytest
{
first.py} Test program for use in build demonstration - first principles
{
railway.py} Test class for profiler
{
stations.py} station class - for testing demo
{
utd2} Unit Test (2) for transport classes
{
myTrain.py} train class to be tested
{
tdd_2} Test Driven Developemnt - using unittst
{
utes2.py} unittest nesting demonstration
{
dta.py} doctest - a longer example
{
third.py} Test program for use in build demonstration - with unittest
{
dtf.py} doctest - an example that triggers a failure report
{
travel.py} inheritance, factory, decorator, comparators, static methods, caching, etc
{
hound.py} Object definitions for profiler desmonstration
{
test_mathfuncs.py} pytest - simple example with setup
{
staboth} Static Method in Python (classmethod - all versions)
{
trytravel} unittest for travel.py classes
{
railstats.xyz} data for profiler demo
Module Y300 -
Python 3 - What is new, what's changed and why
[4712] A reminder of the key issues to consider in moving from Python 2 to Python 3
[4711] Convering from Python 2 to Python 3 - an update, and the 2to3 utility
[4650] Why populate object with values as you construct them?
[4649] Object and Static methods - what is the difference; example in Python 3
[4590] Progress on moving from Python 2 to Python 3 - training for both versions
[4470] Testing in Python 3 - unittest, doctest and __name__ == __main__ too.
[4469] Sorting in Python 3 - and how it differs from Python 2 sorting
[2871] Moving from Python 2.6 to Python 3
[2778] Learning to program in Python 2 ... and / or in Python 3
[2559] Moving the product forward - ours, and MySQL, Perl, PHP and Python too
[2285] Great new diagrams for our notes ... Python releases
[2277] Python classes / courses - what version do we train on?
[1791] The road ahead - Python 3
[1788] Python 2 to Python 3 / Python 3000 / Py3k
[753] Python 3000 - the next generation
{
jba2} Class definition and use with a static method - Python 3
{
jba1} Class definition and use - Python 3
{
py2only.py} Python 2 - ONLY - Hello World
{
git_2.py} Generator and xrange - Python 2
{
london.3} Python 3 - converted from Python 2.6 example
{
print_3.py} print in Python 3 - print now a function
{
input_3.py} Inputs in Python 3 - input replaces raw_input
{
print_2.py} print in python 2
{
git_3.py} Generator in Python 3, range replaces xrange
{
cheznous} simple inheritance example - Python 2.7 and Python 3
{
john} input and raw_input - Python 2 and Python 3
{
jba3} Construct and Populate methods separated
{
jba_poor} Poor class definition and use
{
london.2} Python 2.6 for conversion to Python 3
{
rsy} Python 3 using classes of objects for data filtering
{
pyboth.py} Python 2 and Python 3 - Hello World
{
george} Integer v float arithmetic
{
py3only.py} Python 3 - ONLY - Hello World
{
input_2.py} inputs in Python 2
Module Y301 -
Class Interaction - an example
[3442] A demonstration of how many Python facilities work together
[964] Practical polymorphism in action
[236] Tapping in on resources
(
article) Log file analysis - short Python example
{
timetable} timetabling tool - Graham Ellis, 17th February 2018.
{
waterflows.py} Multiple classes interacting - tap simulation example (Mk 2) in Python
{
taps.py} Tap simulation example (Mk 1) in Python
Module Y302 -
Threads - What why and how
[2489] Parallel Pinging, using Python Threads or Expect spawn lists
[903] Pieces of Python
(
article) Python threads - a first example
{
fullrange} Threading to ping 254 IP addresses in parallel batches
{
fastandfull} Threading - to Ping a complete class C subnet
{
kicking} checking hosts in parallel threads
{
alive} Checking hosts one by one
Module Y303 -
Python Network Programming
[4087] Python network programming - new FTP and socket level examples
[2765] Running operating system commands from your Python program
[2695] TCP v UDP / Client v Server - Python examples
[2694] Multiple processes (forking) in Python
[2368] Python - fresh examples of all the fundamentals
[2365] Counting Words in Python via the web
{
ftpthread} FTP from within a thread and monitoring it
{
t3} pipe and fork - communicating with your children
{
browser.py} Demonstration of simple http client (browser)
{
udp_server.py} UDP Server
{
t2} Parallel processing with forks
{
probo} Reading from a remote host via http as a stream
{
to_me} Talking direct to a socket
{
server.py} Simple tcp/ip server using sockets
{
ftpgrab} FTP from Python, checking exceptions
{
table} Basic mechanism of forking
{
read_robots} Reading from a web resource in Python
{
udp_client.py} UDP client
Module Y305 -
Optimising Python
[4088] Some tips and techniques for huge data handling in Python
[3766] Python timing - when to use a list, and when to use a generator
[2462] Python - how it saves on compile time
[2369] Using a cache for efficiency. Python and PHP examples
[2277] Python classes / courses - what version do we train on?
{
slowcoach} Analysing visit lengths to web site - no cache
{
longjob} Long job, showing interactive monitoring
{
dave} load a list then iterate through it
{
jenny} iterate through a file using a generator
{
visitors} Analysing visit lengths to web site - using cache
Module Y306 -
The Django web framework
[4095] Django - first steps - Updated
[4013] Web Frameworks - nested templates
[3919] What is a web framework?
[3705] Django Training Courses - UK
[3698] How to stop forms on other sites submitting to your scripts
[3640] Sessions (Shopping Carts) in Django - the Python Web Framework
[3639] Demonstration of a form using Django
[3634] Defining database relations in your Django model
[3633] Nesting Templates in Django
[3624] Why do we need a Model, View, Controller architecture?
[3140] Django - separating the HTML from the view / model
[3139] Steering our Python courses towards wxPython, SQLite and Django
[3138] Django - adding your own views, and then templating your views.
[3136] A framework with python - Django - first steps
[1745] Moodle, Drupal, Django (and Rails)
{
15_0.views.py} Django 1.5 - Story 0
{
base_site.html} Modified look and feel for admin app
{
settings.py} Django settings for oursystems project - phase 1
{
2_settings.py} Django settings for oursystems project - phase 2
{
2_urls.py} Django - URL to view mappings - phase 2
{
3_views.py} Django integrated view
{
15_0.settings.py} Django 1.5 - Story 0
{
15_0.urls.py} Django 1.5 - Story 0
{
2_views.py} model to view transforms in Django - phase 2
{
15_0.visitbase.htp} Django 1.5 - Story 0
{
views.py.002} Transforming a model to a view in Django
{
2_index.html} Template - django, stage 2
{
admin.py} Register the System class with the admin app
{
3_integrate.html} Template for Django lesson 3 (tag language)
{
views.py.001} First view in Django - checking URL mapping
{
15_0.firsttemplate.htp} Django 1.5 - Story 0
{
models.py} Definition of Django managed tables
{
urls.py} url to application mapping
{
z_complete} Complete set of Django files
{
3_urls.py} url mapping - URLs without extensions
{
15_0.indextemplate.htp} Django 1.5 - Story 0
Module Y307 -
The Flask micro webdevelopment framework for Python
[4540] Unittest of a Flask application including forms
[4538] Flask and unittest - hello web app test world
[4534] Flask - complete MVC site to navigate around a data set
[4533] Sessions in flask
[4532] Flask - first forms and responses with wtforms
[4531] Jinja2 - Flask templating
[4530] Requests in Flask
[4529] Flask - calling in the templating engine
[4528] Routing in Flask
[4527] Hello Flask world / Python web micro framework
{
base.html} base html - supertemplate - for rrt
{
station_model.py} model - first flask MVC demo
{
rrx} Flask - form that picks up answer
{
rrx.py} Flask form demo / tuned to also work under unittest
{
allstations.html} jinja2 MVC inner template - station index page
{
requestresponse.html} template for request / response demo
{
flask_test} Running Flask with template in unittest
{
astation.html} jinja2 MVC inner template - iindividual station page
{
person.html} Template for "third" flask example
{
flask_app_test} Running Flask unittest with form and POST method
{
second} Flask with routing
{
firstform.html} Form - Jinja2
{
rrw} Flask first form
{
rrc} Flask with request - response cycle
{
rry} Flask - form that stores answers in sessions
{
stations.py} Flask Station Navigator - Router and controller for MVC demo
{
thirdform.html} template including session report
{
features.html} features of jinja2 for rrt demo
{
fltest} Running Flask in unittest
{
first} Hello Flask World
{
basestation.html} jinja2 MVC - common outer template
{
rrt} Flask - Jinja 2 introduction
{
third} Flask with routing and templates
{
secondform.html} Form and response - Jinja2
{
rstats2014.xyz} data for stations.py demo
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Z: Miscellany
Subject Z100 -
Daily life
[4222] Five lessons learned or re-learned on my travels
[3743] Sunday - no longer a day of rest
[3553] Changes to morning routines
[3463] Busy weekend of contrasts.
[3319] Moving on - a task for the hotel staff!
[3316] Twitter Phishing Trips ... and a great new alert service
[3125] The family is defunct. Long live the family.
[2868] A move towards the family
[2580] C course inspires new teaching examples
[2450] Family Gathering at 404, The Spa
[2401] Back Tomorrow
[2371] Quiet summer days? I think not!
[2264] Learning about others private lives
[2217] Enjoying the summer weather
[2164] Updating my public profile - Graham Ellis
[2159] A long day to guess where
[2141] Town Crier competiton
[2121] Out in the Vale of Pewsey
[2118] Spring Sprung
[2106] Learning to Twitter / what is Twitter?
[2105] Hire Car, from Atlanta Airport
[2090] Melksham to Georgia
[2068] Playing Catchup
[2064] East of Melksham Countryside
[2034] Through Snow and Flood to Linux and Tomcat
[2030] The final step to being British
[2027] Who sticks by you in the snow?
[2024] Carry on Training - in spite of the weather
[2008] The Month Ahead - What is happening in Melksham
[2000] 2000th article - Remember the background and basics
[1979] Looking forward, in Melksham, in 2009
[1953] End of Training, 2008
[1810] Middle aged subsidise young and old
[1643] A lack of technical content
[1429] Remembrance day - inside a church and inside the day
[1303] Heading Upstate New York
[1272] Behind closed doors?
[1189] Meet, greet and welcome
[1178] Ducking stool for Melksham?
[1151] Gordon Dodge, R.I.P.
[1138] The Holiday - unlikely romantic comedy?
[1100] Wondering where I have been
[1061] Take vehicles off the road - put all the passengers into one
[1057] Selling by phone and Skype - our policy
[1056] Another frantic posting!
[992] Enthusiastic, but ....
[978] Wellhouse Manor, Hotel, Melksham
[921] French Exchange
[911] Letter Home
[908] And so to Inverness
[897] Too much for the National Trust
[882] Rocks, hard places, trains and funerals.
[843] To join an organisation?
[817] Working on Weekend in Wiltshire and others
[777] On Crosby sands
[752] Over zealous police activity?
[724] Helping mental health through diet, exercise and other lifestyle matters
[706] May day away
[698] Catch up weekend
[692] Healthier eating
[655] Can some food be TOO different?
[654] Making use of disabled facilities
[645] Lost Camel
[635] Odd one out.
[623] Behind every face is a person and a story
[613] Greetings from Dublin
[612] Coming or going?
[605] Design your day with a walk
[584] Loosing breath with Gerald
[580] What to do with milk
[516] Open source questions? Anyone can ask.
[474] Vintage Bus Day
[473] Looking different in town
[455] A Stengthening day
[446] Up early
[363] Greetings from Edinburgh
[330] An O level comes in handy
[307] Farming yesterday
[283] Natural or man-made?
[271] Different course every day
[238] Difficulties with a trolley
[232] Diverse activities
[228] Beard Justification
[206] Fox and Python
[149] Fish stocks
[110] Friday, busy week!
[26] Matching Cat
[20] Not two the same
[19] interesting products and subjects
Subject Z101 -
Health
[4600] A big change in August
[4514] An update - and my absence in recent weeks
[3733] More hazards of modern life
[3525] Melksham has a heart - come and see the pictures. Sunday, 11 to 3, Assembly Hall
[3521] Emergency First Aid at Work (HSE) training in Melksham - places available for 19.1.2012
[3034] Birth Notice - Aeryn Cassandra Ellis
[2858] The healthy option - away from the private car
[2587] Bowerhill as a cycling community
[1776] Does fruit and veg drag on?
[1032] Chronic fatigue help - a new discussion forum
[611] Look out for the motor cyclist
Subject Z200 -
Places
[4730] San Juan Capistrano
[4729] The oldest part of Los Angeles
[4683] Saudi Arabia or Weymouth?
[4671] Ruby training, half a world away
[4643] From last July (2015)
[4497] Around the world from Melksham
[4490] What and where are the Azores?
[4488] Election day, 2015
[4486] Newark to New York - the PATH suburban railway
[4480] Crossing between continents
[4479] Pictures from around Rekjavik
[4477] Yesterday - off on leg one of our holiday
[4411] Location, location location. And a chance of a giggle!
[4348] Taking my life in my hands in Swansea
[4331] Musings on a Welsh town
[4220] Thun, Switzerland
[4214] A busy week, and a long flight
[4203] A weekend away - Four in a Bed returns to Happy Donkey Hill
[4184] A fond memory
[4182] Welcome to Salford and Oldham
[4125] The first Luas of the morning
[4052] The PHP course this week is in... Salford
[4011] From Salford
[3854] Busmans Holiday - I like being a busman
[3803] A Walk on the South Bank
[3667] A modern area of Cambridge - some thoughts provoked?
[3654] On a sunny afternoon in London
[3631] Getting around Dublin by public transport - some observations
[3603] Another cold night
[3595] Looking up
[3529] Sharpness, Gloucestershire - a place in transport history
[3393] Rodwell Trail, Weymouth
[3353] Off the beaten track - non-quite-so-tourist spots
[3330] A lot of exercise this week
[3297] A long day, a long journey, and families and similarities the world over
[3204] Two views of a war memorial
[3185] Day Trip to Hereford, in pictures
[3175] The Rhine in winter
[3070] Belfast, on a cold November evening
[3064] On the way to the course this week
[2985] Right place, right season
[2907] Dartmouth, Kingswear and Torbay
[2897] The Land of the Black Labrador
[2809] Frankfurt in 90 minutes
[2808] From home to Nurnberg - journey pictures
[2802] After the Perl course in Nurnberg
[2799] Nuremberg - some pictures
[2754] At Arlington and the Pentagon
[2733] Travel Troubles and Jesus again
[2624] Skyline and looking up in London
[2411] Further North - long summer days and lovely countryside
[2392] Lymington, New Forest - some pictures
[2387] to Clifton Down and Avonmouth
[2316] Guadalajara - a special tour of a lovely city
[2207] North Antrim Coast - a jewel thats well worth a visit
[2205] An evening walk in Carrickfergus
[1837] Alfred the Great
[1807] A sad town in the sunlight
[1804] Colvin and Carlisle
[1755] Istanbul
[1730] Punting on the Cam
[1715] Pictures from South Hampshire
[1714] Hillier Gardens, Hampshire
[1652] Old Sarum airfield brings back fond memories
[1639] Minehead Marauder
[1638] Pictures far apart
[1624] From Freddie the fallow
[1617] Steam Engines at Bressingham
[1590] All Change, Portsmouth Harbour
[1537] To Wales - where theres still a toll on the bridge
[1536] A Weekend in Liverpool
[1524] Nottingham - just text!
[1460] Christmas fare in Ljubljana
[1457] A day in Ljubljana
[1456] Right up to the top of the City
[1425] Melksham v Ely
[1307] Troy, up state New York
[1298] From Leeds
[1244] FolksFest Bristol - German beer, Bratwurst and music
[1229] Where am I?
[1204] Spot the difference
[1147] A picture (mostly in words) of Helsinki
[886] Signs of Leek
[778] Weekend in Ireland
[740] Finishing up in Dhahran
[730] Reading the newspaper and working with other restrictions
[727] A journey, an arrival, a people
[713] Pictures from my travels
[685] A couple of days away
[670] Architectural Heritage - Devizes
[403] Full circle - made it back to an old haunt
[218] Golden Nugget
[186] Lull
[92] Hard work, Hard sell
[70] Red Luas - early life and times
[66] A Taste of Ireland
Subject Z201 -
Holidays and Business Trips
[4731] To Oceanside and San Clemente Pier
[4728] Visiting Los Alamitos Bay Yacht Club
[4643] From last July (2015)
[4513] Yesterday, Weymouth
[4478] Home in Melksham to Gatwick Airport - easy by public transport
[4473] Fishguard to Melksham - third part of Dublin journey
[4472] Rosslare to Fishguard - foot passenger on the ferry
[4471] Leopardstown to Rosslare by train
[4433] Different views of a Welsh Valley - but headed home
[4249] An evening in Glasgow
[4215] Great beauty, but great natural danger
[4126] Where are we now? On holiday!
[3998] Travelogue - from the Netherlands to London via Hook and Harwich
[3853] Blanford Forum, Dorset
[3742] Dysenni Valley, and nearby
[3737] Postcards from Barmouth
[3681] Kicking up a stink, the Victorian way?
[3381] Report - day trip from Swindon / Chippenham / Melksham to Weymouth
[3372] Wearing the new London uniform
[3346] Gibraltar - said to have a few residents less than Chippenham
[3345] Cruising
[3321] Travelling around
[3306] Photogenic Place
[3303] Flying tonight
[3300] Wildlife and other pictures from holiday
[2803] Travelling across Europe
[2797] Sur la T.G.V.
[2796] Sunday - waiting for the ferry.
[2759] Touching base
[2469] Beyond the Pale
[2313] Seeing Guadalajara - a first glimpse downtown
[2306] Melksham to Mexico for the week
[2269] Sipping at York
[2265] A chance to do the tourist thing
[2208] A beautiful coastline
[2200] England, Scotland, Northern Ireland
[2198] On the road, at a Service area thats a cut above the others
[2101] A B C D of GA and TN
[2100] Visiting Family
[2098] A room without a view
[2090] Melksham to Georgia
[2030] The final step to being British
[1992] A good time to travel
[1868] Liverpool - a friendly city
[1746] London for the visitor, for free
[1740] Vertical London
[1657] Farewell, Newcastle to Stavanger, Haugsund and Bergen
[1457] A day in Ljubljana
[1454] From Sunday to Monday, from Melksham to the Balkans
[1308] Good to be home
[1299] In the USA for a few days
[1293] Weymouth - Sunny Summer Sunday afternoon
[1291] Day trip to Weymouth
[1231] Sur le Continent
[1150] Helsinki - what comes naturally
[1143] A course in Helsinki
[1120] 1200 miles in 3 days
[1025] Tomorrow's keywords - London, Training, Course, PHP, Ruby.
[1004] Old dog, old tricks
[878] Easy criteria to meet
[684] Staying in the country
[620] Familiar names, close to home
[548] San Francisco
[518] Passport office - a much improved system
[420] Towards Tebay
[374] Instant availability
[373] Vik, Iceland to Melksham, England
[370] From Iceland
[368] Vacation Week
[81] Café keyboards
[65] Ireland
Subject Z202 -
Just Pictures
[4768] 2017 - the final six months
[4755] Back and continuing to feed pictures!
[4754] A quiet Sunday afternoon
[4752] Welcome to July. Picture labelling continues!
[4750] Thurday images
[4749] Pictures for Wednesday
[4748] A second batch of images for today
[4747] Image feed for Tuesday ...
[4746] Image library - labelling continues!
[4745] More pictures - final labelling set for today
[4744] Updating image labels
[4743] Further picture labelling!
[4742] Third and final set of older picture for today
[4741] Catching up on labelling more images
[4740] Labelling images
[4133] In the hills above Harlech, and on the coast too
[3990] Stripes of Snow
[3925] Red sky at night
[3907] Weather pictures
[3894] A wet Saturday
[3846] Signs of Autumn
[3837] Evening behind Melksham Spa
[3713] Verticals ... last month
[3678] Potteries and Staffordshire in the Sunshine
[3655] Sights and scenes - more London trip pictures
[3616] Bus top - colours of London
[3562] Christmas Day - for unique pictures
[3473] Picture - Havant Station at Dusk
[3356] Holiday patterns - just the art, not the content
[3350] A set of pictures without point
[3289] New Camera - very first picture, and next from first films
[3241] Spring in the countryside near Melksham
[3220] Panasonic Lumix TZ20
[3195] Sunny day - Clanger and Picket Woods, Shearwater, and Westbury
[3101] The week before Christmas
[3096] Contrast in pictures
[2989] Oddballs in Plymouth
[2914] Older picture.
[2888] Recent Pictures
[2819] Some more pictures ...
[2767] Back from a Python course in Glasgow
[2760] Views of Scotland
[2756] Same subject - different pictures
[2677] Blowing out the winter cobwebs
[2611] Sunday Evening, City of London
[2582] Starting to arrange the picture library
[2553] On a short walk from home
[2549] Christmas Day ...
[2518] Through the arches
[2464] Beauty in pictures
[2412] Autumn Fruits and Bristol Old Station
[2404] Low Sun - Autumn is here
[2298] Melksham Carnival Parade - the people
[2266] Travelling
[2202] Bright Colours
[2168] In honour of the photograph, I present ... a walk from Reybridge to Lacock
[2146] An evening excursion to Devizes and Avebury
[2140] Beware - giving copyright away when you upload a picture - Dogs Trust
[2121] Out in the Vale of Pewsey
[2101] A B C D of GA and TN
[2098] A room without a view
[2093] Leading Lines
[2034] Through Snow and Flood to Linux and Tomcat
[2006] Contrast
[1986] Walk to Bowerhill
[1981] Bitter cold
[1931] Frosty Morning, foggy evening
[1919] Transition
[1854] Three Seasonal Pictures
[1838] Oxford in Pictures
[1818] Icelandic Badge
[1770] 3 hours from Milton Keynes
[1740] Vertical London
[1620] Norwich and London
[1546] The geometry of East London
[1489] Pictures of December
[1400] Dark Dawn
[1398] Someone else's wedding
[1392] Autumnal lighting on a London trip
[1234] A review of a week and a trip to Brugge
[1233] Horses of Brugge
[1216] Five of the best - pictures from London
[1172] May day 2007 in pictures
[1162] Cheddleton, Staffordshire
[1152] Course, right place, right time
[1099] Passenger flows
[1064] Light and shadows at Beach
[1005] Stirling at night
[958] Plain Ole nice pictures
[870] Autumn comes to Wiltshire.
[786] First Light, Bootle Docks, Liverpool
[772] Training in Liverpool
[713] Pictures from my travels
[708] Linescapes of Mull
[625] February pictures
[557] A new sign
[548] San Francisco
[416] Mixing up swallows and martins
[412] Bristol Balloon Festival
[365] Letterbox Pictures
[360] Spring turns to Summer
[298] Sharing pictures of Wiltshire
Subject Z203 -
Cat and Dog
[4666] Spring at Well House Manor
[4526] Day trip to Lancaster
[4517] Black dog day - and Bobby still seeks his new home
[4507] In favour of adoption rather than puppy purchase - dogs!
[4433] Different views of a Welsh Valley - but headed home
[4417] Crisp morning, fast run
[4333] Misty Melksham Morning
[4316] Too many Staffies, too many lurchers
[4189] Who are we - Lisa, Graham, Gypsy and Billy
[4180] Exceptionally, I sign a petition - on a life and death issue for Irish dogs
[4130] Soft furnishings up a Welsh Mountain
[4016] Red, yellow, green or pink dog? Yellow Dog Project
[3943] With us for a year already!
[3936] Lisa is home today ...
[3920] Challenge for a photographer
[3908] Black dogs at Halloween
[3906] Taking the lead, not the dog, for a walk.
[3737] Postcards from Barmouth
[3675] Spring 2012
[3674] Off to walk the dogs
[3625] An update on Billy the Greyhound and Gypsy the Lurcher
[3606] Gypsy and Billy enjoy the snow
[3561] Happy Christmas ... a Christmas morning walk in Melksham
[3553] Changes to morning routines
[3541] I loves Melksham
[3537] Letting the foster parents know ... too little or too much?
[3533] No message - just doggy pictures of the new doggy
[3530] A typical weekend??
[3338] Return trip - Dogs Trust, Newbury
[3324] Rabbit Shelter
[3096] Contrast in pictures
[2897] The Land of the Black Labrador
[2787] Sleeping in on Sunday
[2689] Can my dog eat potatoes? Doggie Dietary Research, and political sleaze!
[2555] Bookkeeping
[2499] ourdog is Greyhound, Staffie and Ginger Cake
[2496] A better design of mouth
[2456] Bright Eyes
[2451] Gypsy says
[2450] Family Gathering at 404, The Spa
[2295] The dog is not in trouble
[2271] Dogs Trust, Dog Show, Newbury
[2252] Leaping dog, Leaping horse, copyright of old masters
[2167] Watching the tele
[2140] Beware - giving copyright away when you upload a picture - Dogs Trust
[2138] Ski bore ... train bore ... dog bore
[2132] Learning about Lurchers
[2029] Also for the eyes of the cat
[771] From cat breeder to Cobol to Perl
[744] We can offer a room, but we can't operate on a dog
[547] Taking the dog for a walk
[96] Variable Scope
[62] Technical Open House
Subject Z210 -
Christmas and New Year
[4365] The changing face of Christmas
[4364] Christmas day in Melksham
[4363] A quiet evening in Melksham - awaiting Santa
[4357] Seeing Christmas Coming to Melksham
[4329] Does Santa Claus need a CRB check?
[4235] Sharing my personal best of 2013
[4227] Happy Christmas from the Well House Manor team
[3957] The week before Christmas
[3765] Christmas in June? Melksham hotel bookings and Santa train
[3562] Christmas Day - for unique pictures
[3561] Happy Christmas ... a Christmas morning walk in Melksham
[3557] Melksham Christmas Lights - Town, Shops and Private Houses
[3538] Santa Train - another successful trip - 4th December 2011
[3535] Melksham, Luxury Hotel Rooms, Christmas.
[3530] A typical weekend??
[3116] Are there newspapers on New Years Day? Do the shops open on Easter Sunday? Do trains run at Christmas?
[3110] The days after Christmas
[3101] The week before Christmas
[3095] The Christmas Season has arrived
[2978] Christmas 2010 - Well House Manor, Melksham, Hotel
[2549] Christmas Day ...
[2543] Day and night at Christmas
[2529] Santa Special, 2009
[2528] Melksham Christmas Lights
[2486] Santa Special - Trowbridge and Melksham to Swindon
[1959] -
[1952] Small Print
[1942] Christmas scenes and events
[1931] Frosty Morning, foggy evening
[1914] It must be nearly Christmas
[1484] A christmas message
[1483] What have hotels and bananas got in common?
[1481] The Christmas Letter
[1462] 10 training days to Christmas.
[980] Street Scene
[953] Christmas in November
[573] Giving an excuse for Christmas
[543] The world didn't stop for Christmas
[541] Christmas is for everyone
[540] Christmas Party
[162] A Change is as good as a rest
[161] Christmas break
Subject Z211 -
Easter
[3688] Shopkeepers take an Easter break too
[3116] Are there newspapers on New Years Day? Do the shops open on Easter Sunday? Do trains run at Christmas?
[2460] Mothers Day or Mothering Sunday?
[1775] Easterholic
[1591] Easter Sunday at 404, The Spa
[1309] Dates for Easter - 2008 to 2015
[258] Easter at Well House Consultants
Subject Z212 -
Public Holidays and festivals
[4287] TransWilts CRP - walking in Melksham Carnival
[4141] My pictures of Melksham Carnival, 13th July 2013
[4140] Riots in Melksham
[4120] American Circus in Melksham
[3513] Olympic Torch - dates and places in Wiltshire in 2012
[3360] Melksham Carnival, 2011 - pictures
[3207] Lambing at Lackham
[3191] Date of the Census (which month and day?)
[3062] Melksham Carnival - getting ready for 2011
[2875] A long day in Melksham ...
[2671] Melksham - Carnival, Party in the Park, and Spot the Oddity
[2656] Melksham Carnival
[2498] Remembrance Sunday 2009, Melksham
[2298] Melksham Carnival Parade - the people
[2297] Standing on the corner, Melksham Carnival
[1770] 3 hours from Milton Keynes
[1631] Looking back through some photos
[1540] Chinese New Year
[1269] Party in the Park - review
[1209] Where did the Bank Holiday go?
[637] Carnival
[429] Charlie on Monday
[131] Thanksgiving dinner
[35] Autumn arrives right on time
[30] Bank Holiday
Subject Z300 -
Politics and Religion
[4735] Revisiting - should I stand for Melksham Without Parish Council in May?
[4734] Thoughts on the new Blackmore Ward of Melksham Without Parish
[4729] The oldest part of Los Angeles
[4725] Writing Python 2 such that Python 3 is easy
[4720] Celebrating our diversity rather than discriminating for it
[4625] Where does Wiltshire bus subsidy money come from?
[4614] PC Plod - alive and scaremongering in Wiltshire?
[4597] Not standing as your local councillor
[4548] Melksham - two small townships, or one big one?
[4489] Election results - what if we had a party list system?
[4485] Misusing statistics? - the seedy side of election campaigning
[4476] Upcoming election - Chippenham Constituency - the major candidates compared
[4354] Wiltshire Police - assuming someone is guilty just on the say-so of a member of the public?
[4343] Politics and the railway the connects Wiltshire
[4286] Reaction in Radstock to new First bus prices
[4275] Eurpoean Elections, and other elections ahead. Some thoughts on campaigns and policies
[4223] Democracy - alive and well with the beauty pagent starting up again
[4079] Melksham Area - Unitary Council results, May 2013
[3921] On rememberance, on war, and on preventing the war cycle
[3905] How should we choose our Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner?
[3845] Good cause giving - getting the charity beggars off the street
[3806] 2011 Census results - initial figures for Wiltshire.
[3676] Rising prices, changing habits and society
[3592] Are we one man, one vote? No, and we never have been.
[3438] Melksham to become a part of Trowbridge?
[3325] The Olympic Torch, and Melksham House
[3323] Is Melksham town centre dying?
[3313] What does our MP do on a Bank Holiday?
[3264] Alternative Vote (AV) - explaining and an example
[3051] Positively reforming the system - could it be done?
[2971] Should the public sector compete with businesses? and other deep questions
[2948] Melksham shamefully makes the national headlines
[2870] Old prices - what would the equivalent price have been in 1966?
[2864] Changing with weather and seasons
[2856] Two sides of the coin
[2824] A pint of Black Rat, and a lazy barman
[2792] Should Government compete with private industry?
[2757] Bodicea, Lincoln, and our new MP
[2752] Voting day - UK General Election
[2740] Melksham Hustings at George Ward School
[2712] A more informed decision than ever before
[2689] Can my dog eat potatoes? Doggie Dietary Research, and political sleaze!
[2640] How is your tax pound spent?
[2353] All change - Wiltshire Parliamentary
[2288] Wiltshire Community Area Partnerships
[2279] Understanding the new local government structure in Wiltshire
[2270] Wiltshire - a chance to improve life for everybody
[2257] Ramblings on church and state linkage in Melksham
[2206] Spot the odd one out
[2178] Melksham Candidates for Wiltshire Unitary Election
[2075] Supporting Parkinsons and Trains
[2028] Things people say on the phone
[2012] The Wiltshire Police
[1987] One Cheer for Local Democracy - Asda in Melksham
[1882] Wiltshire Council says - part 2
[1881] Wiltshire Council says - part 1
[1872] Barack Obama wins US Predidency
[1769] July child ponders on August children
[1729] Back from the future
[1579] Rome, and the faith of Rome
[1573] Budget tax increases hit vehicle market
[1526] Carers at work - court case changes
[1428] Travel Across Wiltshire - the game
[1386] New software product for warmblooded programmers
[1350] FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) Western Region
[1260] An inspirational business talk from one of our prospective MPs
[1247] An afternoon at a public enquiry
[1175] Local elections - choosing who to vote for
[1135] Government pressure on me to shut up after I make the papers
[1109] False imprisonment - a contrast from the news
[1060] What a relief from the tax office.
[1003] Room at the Inn, Guy at the station
[967] Realistic on line shoot'em up
[875] Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
[780] Separation and Integration
[750] Almost everyone loses
[696] Is than an uphill or downhill task?
[682] Iran has enriched uranium ...
[674] Wiltshire to get an extra MP
[671] Both ends of the animal
[607] On being British
[602] MP face to face
[539] rich and famous
[505] Would you steal ... petrol? ... a training course?
[469] Yesterday was Kiss and Ride
[415] Campaign Drift and efficiency.
[384] Managing conflict and disappointment
[377] A Strengthened City
[335] Sad priorities
[326] UK Tax payment totals and where the money is spent
[313] Making bona fide international marriages more difficult
[301] General Election day, UK
[289] MP for Devizes, Wiltshire
[280] Spotted - the local MP
[257] Politics gets nasty. Must be an election coming up.
[216] Cheap purchase - votes paid for with selfish promises
Subject Z301 -
Current Affairs
[4691] Real life PHP application using our course training MVC example
[4637] People matter - but there is a tradeoff between different people in there
[4599] Happy Christmas - and a Christmas thought
[4429] Wind Turbines - beauty or menace?
[3720] Melksham ATC - freedom of the town
[3646] Exploring Melksham with a film maker
[3467] Charities v Charitable. The cost of collecting your donation.
[3385] Do university courses teach the right things for life at work later on?
[3357] Business, priorities, and volunteering
[3347] The Anthony trial - Orange County, Florida. Thoughts on conclusion
[3282] The future of canal management and charities - Kennet and Avon Canal bias
[3265] Alternative Vote (AV) - cutting the crap
[3231] Footpath, Bridleway, Byway, Road used as Public Path
[3228] What can you take on a public footpath? Pram? Wheelbarrow? Dog? Shopping Trolley? Horse? Cycle?
[3183] Redevelopment on the banks of the Avon in Melksham
[3126] Car Parking in Melksham - thoughts on the proposed scheme, and wider thoughts too
[3030] Liquorice allsorts and Dolly Mixtures
[3028] VAT rise in January - it is really up 14% not just 2.5%
[2995] A river in Melksham is not just for boaters.
[2982] Travel, Transport and Tourism - A vision for Melksham, 2026
[2904] Melksham Area Board meeting of last week
[2852] Atworth Village Fete - on the Melksham Community Area Partnership stand
[2776] Regional Spatial Strategy and the next 20 years - Whence Wiltshire under the new government?
[2666] Random thoughts on Melksham Town Planning and development
[2602] East of Melksham - Building Work Starts
[2574] Summary of Wiltshire Core Strategy responses
[2514] The road show has been - where now?
[2508] Community Area Partnership - inaugural AGM
[2289] pre-Inaugural briefing - Melksham Community Area Partnership
[2128] Wiltshire - where everybody matters
[2112] Whatever next ... the joys of being an employer
[1987] One Cheer for Local Democracy - Asda in Melksham
[1960] Christmas Survivors
[1275] Incident in Melksham
[1214] New Serieses for the summer on TV
[614] News in Ireland
[377] A Strengthened City
[33] 10 Years of experience
Subject Z401 -
Federation of Small Businesses
[3522] Networking - North and West Wilts FSB Style
[3214] Melksham Campus - any last minute inputs from Melksham businesses?
[3032] Coincidence, or Conspiracy - a wrong email address
[2524] An update on legal changes from the FSB?
[2517] Blogging accuracy - open invitation for any corrections
[1937] Getting hold of the wrong end of the stick
[1880] Melksham Chamber of Commerce, or the FSB
[1855] Volunteer v Employee - a skewed balance? (FSB)
[1823] FSB - an update.
[1654] The old sayings are the best (FSB)
[1544] FSB, EGM, AGM.
[1515] Keeping staff up to date on hotel room status
[1512] Summer Ball at Bowood - Saturday 12th July 2008
[1479] FSB leaves its members feeling like mushrooms
[1350] FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) Western Region
[1286] A wasted evening?
[1284] An update on the West Wilts show ...
[1278] West Wilts Show
[1249] Is this how to run a business for businesses?
[1246] An oddball day. Strange experiences!
[1157] Speed Networking - a great evening and how we arranged it
[1133] B-2-B Networking, 20th April. Useful for YOUR business?
[1097] Train and business balls all in the air!
[1078] Wiltshire - multicultural community
Subject Z402 -
Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry
[4738] Melksham Chamber of Commerce - my final Presidents report
[4672] Annual review of Melksham Matters for Chamber of Commerce AGM
[4399] The Campus in Melksham - name, logo, and livery choice
[4278] Future Swindon - Westbury train services. At current level into the future?
[4170] Herman Miller coming to Melksham - the Chamber of Commerce is briefed
[4164] Melksham Market - every Tuesday
[4151] Tell me a bit about Melksham
[4103] Questions from children about Melksham Campus
[4097] Melksham Chamber of Commerce - Report for AGM, 21st May 2013
[4046] Over a hundred welcoming businesses - Melksham Town Centre
[4041] Report on the last year - Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Melksham Without Parish Council
[4014] Costa Coffee in Melksham - is it a good idea?
[4002] Images of Melksham you havent seen before
[3987] Melksham Chamber of Commerce - join us in our future
[3948] Quiet little town? Advanced Technology Centre?
[3889] Melksham Chamber of Commerce - whence in 2013 and beyond?
[3880] Chamber of Commerce - looking forward in Melksham and in Wessex
[3867] The difficult interface between the business, council and voluntary sectors
[3850] Bus times - Chippenham Station to Melksham, with London connections
[3818] Making things happen - litter and ASB and lost dogs in Melksham
[3812] The Melksham News - July 2012 - Part 1, Campus and Chamber of Commerce
[3787] Melksham Pride - the Chamber of Commerce, and the future
[3768] Melksham Chamber of Commerce - looking to our future shape. Pivotal meeting next Tuesday
[3767] How well do you know Melksham?
[3752] Melksham Visitors Map - Bus routes and train lines to and from the town
[3751] Public transport for international arrivals into Melksham
[3748] Not everyone has a computer - 9 more ways to learn about the Melksham Campus
[3739] Go green - business seminar in Melksham
[3732] Ten more visitors to your premises every day?
[3714] Just 12 winners? Or 371 or more? Town Centres.
[3710] Encouraging business in Melksham and its neighbourhood - keep business local??
[3706] An exciting Chamber of Commerce AGM - sound like an Oxymoron?
[3700] Why do people use chains rather than independent traders?
[3697] Events in Melksham - read all about them, and tell us about yours
[3696] Melksham government and business organisations
[3693] Wiltshire Business Support Service
[3682] Melksham Business Newsreel
[3677] Some advise for guest speakers at meetings
[3672] Melksham Train Service - please support the TransWilts case for regular trains
[3663] Changing shops and organisations - Melksham, the last and next five years
[3627] Meeting Report - Tuesday 21st Feb - to Melksham Chamber of Commerce from Shadow Community Operations Board
[3598] Melksham Civic Awards - report and pictures
[3560] Melksham, Month by month through 2011
[3527] Melksham - changing times, an opportunity for the future
[3496] Melksham - Business to Business Speed Networking - build ahead for 2012
[3495] Looking forward - Chamber of Commerce has 2012 and beyond on the agenda
[3492] Upcoming events in and about Melksham - more dates for your diary
[3481] Some thoughts in answer to some Melksham Campus questions
[3475] Havant - Shop Frontages.
[3470] Currently pictured in Melksham
[3438] Melksham to become a part of Trowbridge?
[3427] What is on the Melksham Agenda?
[3423] 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 12?
[3420] Making best use of the new enthusiasm for Melksham
[3383] Are people who walk into Melksham being asked to subsidise parking?
[3380] Melksham Jelly - An Occasional Office for Home Workers
[3343] Summer Sunday Train Service Starts - Swindon Chippenham and Melksham to Weymouth
[3340] Summer Sunday Timetable - TransWilts Trains
[3334] A lesson from the sporran market?
[3325] The Olympic Torch, and Melksham House
[3307] Melksham Community Radio launches
[3299] Presidents Report to Melksham Chamber of Commerce, 24.5.2011
[3279] Letter to The Editor
[3275] Melksham Chamber of Commerce - grows to appoint new Press Officer. Welcome. Sam
[3272] Melksham Car Parking - current charges and limits
[3249] Events - Spring and Early Summer 2011 in Melksham
[3246] Melksham - the way forward. 26th April, Well House Manor
[3217] Vandalism and riot from the minority - the effect
[3214] Melksham Campus - any last minute inputs from Melksham businesses?
[3193] Melksham Campus - what, why, questions, concerns and how you can input
[3188] What proportion of the British Workforce still works a Monday to Friday, 9 to 5, week?
[3173] What is the Melksham Chamber of Commerce?
[3172] On consultations, car parking, and Melksham town centre
[3162] Keep your business customer-friendly!
[3141] Wiltshire Rail services - a golden opportunity
[3117] Opportunities for Melksham - new businesses in the town
[3113] Trowbridge and Melksham to Chippenham - more roadworks, even slower journey over the winter
[3088] Melksham - two many councils?
[2995] A river in Melksham is not just for boaters.
[2982] Travel, Transport and Tourism - A vision for Melksham, 2026
[2959] A Melksham news roundup
[2957] Welcome to Countrywides new Melksham store
[2932] Getting into and out of Wiltshire towns .. a.k.a. Car Parking?
[2891] Wiltshire Council ask how they can help businesses
[2883] Melksham Oak - photos of the new community school
[2872] Moved - Melksham Lorry Park
[2867] Cycling in Melksham, and looking forward
[2853] Transport in Wessex - today and into the future
[2837] Lorry Parking in Melksham
[2827] Melksham - a gem in Wiltshire
[2782] Tell the Melksham Chamber or you only have yourself to blame
[2779] The history and future of Melksham Chamber of Commerce
[2770] Melksham Chamber of Commerce - Presidents report to AGM
[2725] How do our tactics help us meet the strategy, for the greater good?
[2683] Car Parking in Melksham
[2666] Random thoughts on Melksham Town Planning and development
[2640] How is your tax pound spent?
[2594] Melksham Area - your community view is sought
[2568] Forums for your Melksham and open source discussions
[2546] How well do you know Melksham - a quiz for Christmas
[2544] Vision for Wiltshire
[2540] Rock and hard place .. and the relaxing right one won
[2531] Melksham - new Tuesday Market
[2521] Melksham Market - Tuesdays, 09:00 to 14:00
[2514] The road show has been - where now?
[2508] Community Area Partnership - inaugural AGM
[2495] Planning the future of Wiltshire
[2487] Melksham Forum
[2465] Melksham Town - asleep or awake?
[2459] New Web Site for Melksham Chamber of Commerce
[2437] Wiltshire Unitary News - Chamber of Commerce Intelligence
[2328] Melksham - no trains, no southbound buses through the town
[2289] pre-Inaugural briefing - Melksham Community Area Partnership
[2288] Wiltshire Community Area Partnerships
[2260] Important - the future of Melksham / Chamber of Commerce
[2220] Melksham Traders - where do we go?
[2194] Melksham Business Map - Chamber of Commerce, Tourist Information and Town Council
[2181] You cannot please all of the people all of the time
[2119] Make your business a DESTINATION business
[2111] Business Networking for Melksham - 23rd April
[2095] Blue Ridge and Melksham Chambers of Commerce
[2043] Confidence, Customer Service and Tourism in Melksham
[1987] One Cheer for Local Democracy - Asda in Melksham
[1979] Looking forward, in Melksham, in 2009
[1934] Lidl opens in Melksham
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes
[1892] Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry
[1881] Wiltshire Council says - part 1
[1880] Melksham Chamber of Commerce, or the FSB
[1792] All the pieces fall into place - hotel and courses
[1748] Hotel room prices - Melksham, Wiltshire
[1642] Summer!
[1633] Changing a screen saver from a web page (PHP, Perl, OSX)
[1507] Comments on proposed Asda Superstore for Melksham
[1504] Flooding by Asda-s proposed new supermarket
[1476] Shopping for Christmas and looking forward
[1432] Wiltshire County Council - Budget Consultation
[1429] Remembrance day - inside a church and inside the day
[1250] Business speed networking - a place tonight!
[1223] Asda opening large new store in Melksham
[717] A customer service company
Subject Z403 -
Organisations
[4548] Melksham - two small townships, or one big one?
[4039] Seed Swap at Well House Manor
[4020] Melksham Community - Annual Report / MCAP
[3774] Melksham - a new dawn
[3712] Some unpublished and historic pictures - Museum of Melksham
[3704] The Bowerhill Villager - a newsletter for Bowerhill, Melksham
[3677] Some advise for guest speakers at meetings
[3604] Melksham Campus - a blog you can read, and a place you can comment
[3511] Melksham has a heart - have your picture taken and support the defibrillator appeal
[3484] A Melksham Timeline - Domesday to present day
[3317] Self Portrait (in words)
[2902] Community consultation - a true open input
[2869] Contact Information for Melksham Oak Community School
[2807] Canal through Melksham - the options and issues
[2585] Consultation in Melksham, on Melkshams future
[2574] Summary of Wiltshire Core Strategy responses
[2271] Dogs Trust, Dog Show, Newbury
[2236] Alumni - revisiting and supporting the old University
[2128] Wiltshire - where everybody matters
[2026] Melksham Climate Friendly Group
[2015] Service Excellence Awards
[2012] The Wiltshire Police
[1280] West Wilts - no longer Wet Wilts - show
[1278] West Wilts Show
[1258] A day looking ahead for Well House Consultants
[981] Finalist reception - Wiltshire Business of the Year
[472] Are you free on 29th October - Charity ball
[307] Farming yesterday
[58] Call Centres, selling, and a pause for thought
Subject Z405 -
Melksham Campus
[4423] Campus - about the logos / way marks you have been choosing from
[4418] Melksham Community Campus - which of these potential signs do you like?
[4399] The Campus in Melksham - name, logo, and livery choice
[4311] Melksham Campus - how is it going - October 2014
[4103] Questions from children about Melksham Campus
[4048] Art, Catering, Transport - Melksham Campus Elements - reaching local experts
[3901] How much parking should there be at Melksham Campus?
[3888] What a difference a year made - Melksham Campus
[3812] The Melksham News - July 2012 - Part 1, Campus and Chamber of Commerce
[3748] Not everyone has a computer - 9 more ways to learn about the Melksham Campus
[3741] Low carbon and other environmental lessons for the Melksham Campus?
[3736] Abstraction
[3735] A walk around Melksham this morning. Can you place all of these?
[3520] Quintessentially English - scenes from our Wiltshire town
[3518] Melksham House / Melksham Campus - Seniors Input Sought
[3503] Melksham House - a community facility
[3500] Campus Shadow - a great responsibility
[3481] Some thoughts in answer to some Melksham Campus questions
[3325] The Olympic Torch, and Melksham House
[3279] Letter to The Editor
[3277] Between a rock and a hard place.
[3246] Melksham - the way forward. 26th April, Well House Manor
[3225] Campus - answer to business questions
[3224] Melksham Campus - a win / win opportunity, but a severely lacking decision process
[3214] Melksham Campus - any last minute inputs from Melksham businesses?
[3193] Melksham Campus - what, why, questions, concerns and how you can input
Subject Z406 -
TransWilts Community Rail Partnership
[4739] A year of changes for Lisa and Graham Ellis, and Well House
[4726] TransWilts Partner Update for Melksham Area Board
[4706] Melksham trial train service is to be made permanent
[4704] Three months in community rail pictures
[4695] Melksham Rail Development Group becoming Melksham Rail Users Group
[4688] Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 5 (services and prices)
[4647] On the problems of a printed train timetable
[4638] TransWilts Community Interest Company AGM - 13 Feb 2016, Swindon
[4612] TransWilts - robust these days - no longer the first service to be cancelled
[4601] Management view - TransWilts and transport at the end of 2015
[4568] Moderation - and the tendency to over-moderate
[4513] Yesterday, Weymouth
[4512] The Weymouth Wizard - Saturdays in August from Wiltshire
[4510] Learning from the others - Community Rail
[4500] The TransWilts Community Intergrated Transport Corridor
[4497] Around the world from Melksham
[4494] Monday to Friday / TransWilts train times from 18 May to 11th December 2015
[4467] Neighbourhood Plan - travel and transport thoughts
[4463] Rail Conference, Nottingham
[4435] Images of our rail promotion campaign
[4424] Looking Forward - TransWilts Community Rail Partnership and TransWilts CIC
[4397] TransWilts / Press and Publicity report for AGM / 30th January 2015
[4371] Why are people using the TransWilts?
[4362] What a difference a year makes
[4353] Celebration pictures, year 1
[4351] A little thing can make a big difference
[4343] Politics and the railway the connects Wiltshire
[4328] Folk music train, Westbury to Swindon round trip, 14th December 2014
[4313] Moving community rail support from amateur to professional
[4309] Even in the dark of night, the train comes bearing passengers
[4291] Train Online article - ACoRP / TransWilts introduction
[4288] Some questions on how our Community Rail Partnership works
[4287] TransWilts CRP - walking in Melksham Carnival
[4284] Talk and walk to promote train service - Melksham Carnival
[4243] Taking Greyhounds and Lurchers to London for the day
[4229] Thin end of the wedge - plan to be thicker in 2014
[4225] Melksham Resident? Commuter? Save yourself 2000 pounds and 100 hours in 2014, and have a better journey!
[4219] TransWilts train services - up from 2 to 8 per day
[4218] A THANK YOU to those who have brought the new train service to fruition
[4198] New trains for 2014 - Swindon to Westbury. Meetings Melksham, Swindon, Trowbridge, Chippenham and Westbury
[4196] Official - Trowbridge and Melksham to London train improvements
[4194] TransWilts Link - meeting notes from 19th October
[4191] Getting people to and from Melksham Station - not 20 but 700 times a day
[4163] TransWilts Community Rail Partnership - formally constituted
[4160] Bank Holiday Monday - pictures of a great train trip to Weymouth
[4148] Special General Meeting, Adoption of Constitution for TransWilts Community Rail Partnership
[4142] Passenger survey at Chippenham - report and pictures
[3986] Rail services in Wiltshire - up in the air? We need to say what is best required.
[3881] Wiltshire Public Transport User Group co-ordination
Subject Z407 -
Option 24/7 - the way forward for Wiltshire buses
[4703] What do people use the bus for in Wiltshire - survey interim results.
[4694] Supported Bus Services in Wiltshire - analysis of written-in comments
[4693] Wiltshire supported bus service consultation, early 2016 - interim results published
[4692] How are bus support payments currently calculated?
[4691] Real life PHP application using our course training MVC example
[4690] Buses in Wiltshire - potential changes and where we stand at the moment
[4669] Buses - how did we get into the situation we are in?
[4667] Wiltshire Supported Bus consultation - final few days
[4660] What is happening on the 231 bus? What are you going to do about it?
[4658] The end of competition on a bus route - the effects from then end of the 234
[4657] Rumours of bus changes by First in Wiltshire - what we know and suspect
[4654] Getting to the Royal United Hospital - the Hopper and the alternatives
[4648] Why is bus funding a much hotter topic than a new set of traffic lights?
[4636] Rail user groups worried about what is happening on the buses
[4631] What would the Wiltshire Council bus cuts mean for Melksham?
[4630] The story behind the bus cuts, and what they could mean
[4625] Where does Wiltshire bus subsidy money come from?
[4624] Campaigning for a sensible bus solution and not against anyone!
[4621] The power of scripting
[4619] Buses - not about the buses, but about the people who use the buses
Subject Z408 -
TravelWatch SouthWest
[4424] Looking Forward - TransWilts Community Rail Partnership and TransWilts CIC
[4397] TransWilts / Press and Publicity report for AGM / 30th January 2015
[4188] Extended Weekend - but not a quiet one!
[4186] Melksham to Bath and Zigzag buses - at a turning point?
[4185] TransWilts Trains - running a successful campaign talk
[4173] Train and Rail Travel - who runs it and where do I ask questions?
[4040] Report on the last year - Melksham Railway Developement Group for Melksham Without Parish Council
[3904] Want to help us improve transport in Wiltshire? Here is how!
[3882] Community Transport - Pewsey, Taunton, and the whole picture too
[3677] Some advise for guest speakers at meetings
[3221] How long is a speech?
[3194] Buses - what they cost and their future direction in the SW and in Wiltshire
[2954] Railway meetings, trips and meetups this autumn
[2748] Monitoring the success and traffic of your web site
[2666] Random thoughts on Melksham Town Planning and development
[2664] Oliver Cromwell at Bristol Temple Meads
[2438] Listening to The Minister
[1966] Background to the TransWilts Train Fiasco
[1560] HST Power Car TravelWatch SouthWest
Subject Z501 -
Public Transport - Rail
[4770] GW franchise - my response
[4765] Breich Station - current pictures, and future options
[4764] Some thoughts on the closure proposal for Breich station
[4760] Rotary Talk, 25/7/2017
[4727] Learning from travelling further afield
[4726] TransWilts Partner Update for Melksham Area Board
[4706] Melksham trial train service is to be made permanent
[4699] Melksham Rail Development Group - a celebration of 20 years
[4695] Melksham Rail Development Group becoming Melksham Rail Users Group
[4688] Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 5 (services and prices)
[4687] Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 4
[4686] Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 3
[4685] Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 2
[4684] Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 1
[4677] Swindon, Chippenham and Melksham - day trips by train to Weymouth start for 2016
[4665] Chippenham to Salisbury by public transport - what we have and what we could have
[4640] Who was Doctor Beeching and what was his axe?
[4636] Rail user groups worried about what is happening on the buses
[4623] Rambling from Westbury
[4612] TransWilts - robust these days - no longer the first service to be cancelled
[4598] 21 places to get your train and bus timetables for TransWilts
[4596] Call for help counting passengers - TransWilts, 12th to 14th December
[4578] Rail electrification - far, far too optimistic so over budget and late
[4539] TransWilts public transport corridor
[4515] Why has the hourly Chippenham to Trowbridge train been withdrawn?
[4512] The Weymouth Wizard - Saturdays in August from Wiltshire
[4511] The Royal Albert Bridge as you do not normally see it
[4496] Sunday train times - 17th May to 6th September 2015
[4495] Swindon to Westbury train services - Saturdays from 23rd May 2015
[4486] Newark to New York - the PATH suburban railway
[4478] Home in Melksham to Gatwick Airport - easy by public transport
[4475] New car park at Melksham Station - ideal for commuters from Seend, Hilperton, Yarnbrook and Holt
[4473] Fishguard to Melksham - third part of Dublin journey
[4471] Leopardstown to Rosslare by train
[4467] Neighbourhood Plan - travel and transport thoughts
[4464] Catching up on a week all in a single post (?)
[4425] A Welsh valley - what the transport looks like in 2015
[4397] TransWilts / Press and Publicity report for AGM / 30th January 2015
[4378] What FGW passengers want to talk about / and PHP programming to find out
[4367] A year of rail memories!
[4365] The changing face of Christmas
[4353] Celebration pictures, year 1
[4352] A long day on the trains, but a rewarding one
[4342] My first official measure - Passenger Entrys and Exits - revisited 9 years later
[4312] Officially overcrowded in the first year
[4306] Four time target - good news. Four time prediction - poor forecasting.
[4289] It may be cheaper to buy in bulk
[4276] Swindon to Weymouth - by train, the traditional way - 2014
[4269] Survey - Journeys
[4268] Metrics - historic and current TransWilts train use
[4267] How effective is our publicity?
[4263] Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge, public transport over Easter (2014)
[4256] Train fare look expensive? There may be a cheaper option
[4253] Easter Weeks - Melksham to Weymouth
[4252] Staveton Halt, former station between Trowbridge and Melksham
[4251] Broughton Gifford Halt, TransWilts Railway Line
[4250] Lacock Halt - former TransWilts Station
[4238] A Question series posed to Melksham Tourist information
[4226] Saturday train to Swindon - two weeks in
[4224] TransWilts - first day pictures
[4219] TransWilts train services - up from 2 to 8 per day
[4218] A THANK YOU to those who have brought the new train service to fruition
[4217] New train service - launch plans and timetable links
[4216] Los Angeles - post modern transport system
[4202] Excellent Railfuture conference, but some setup lessons
[4199] Draft Westbury - Melksham - Swindon train times, from December 2014
[4196] Official - Trowbridge and Melksham to London train improvements
[4195] Booking for Santa, Melksham Railway Development Group, 8th December 2013
[4194] TransWilts Link - meeting notes from 19th October
[4191] Getting people to and from Melksham Station - not 20 but 700 times a day
[4190] A radical proposal - a cheap and effective way to provide home to city commuter transport
[4185] TransWilts Trains - running a successful campaign talk
[4176] International and off island travel from Melksham
[4173] Train and Rail Travel - who runs it and where do I ask questions?
[4163] TransWilts Community Rail Partnership - formally constituted
[4160] Bank Holiday Monday - pictures of a great train trip to Weymouth
[4159] People WILL walk to the station in Melksham, but they need a path and trains
[4154] August Bank Holiday - day out from Melksham to London or Weymouth
[4150] Melksham Regular Public Transport Map - as at August 2013
[4148] Special General Meeting, Adoption of Constitution for TransWilts Community Rail Partnership
[4146] A few more trains means a LOT more passengers. Why?
[4142] Passenger survey at Chippenham - report and pictures
[4131] West Coast (of Wales) - railway and stations in pictures
[4113] Wiltshire and Melksham Transport - what is going on?
[4110] TransWilts meeting ...
[4105] Our day trip by train from Swindon, Chippenham and Melksham to Weymouth
[4104] Weymouth vis the TransWilts - the day out today
[4080] Fancy a day at the seaside? Weymouth from Melksham
[4040] Report on the last year - Melksham Railway Developement Group for Melksham Without Parish Council
[4022] A request for all of Melksham transport groups to work integrated
[3995] Onward from Brussels
[3994] On board Eurostar - a running commentary
[3993] Two trains a day ... how many fares to London? Guess!
[3986] Rail services in Wiltshire - up in the air? We need to say what is best required.
[3942] Santa Trip - Melksham Railway Development Group, 2012
[3938] A long overdue meeting - a steeping stone towards coordinate transport user inputs
[3937] Agenda for Wiltshire Link Travel groups meeting, Saturday 1st December 2012
[3923] 35 minutes is only a slight delay on our railway service
[3904] Want to help us improve transport in Wiltshire? Here is how!
[3899] Father Christmas to be on train in Melksham
[3893] Public Transport across Wiltshire - a new map
[3890] Here comes Santa - on the train from Melksham to Swindon on 2nd December 2012
[3882] Community Transport - Pewsey, Taunton, and the whole picture too
[3881] Wiltshire Public Transport User Group co-ordination
[3879] Mixed mode travel - Information systems
[3873] Henbury loop, Bristol - a freight railway line with passenger potential?
[3872] Trains across Wiltshire - an update on the TransWilts
[3860] Melksham to Steam in Swindon, by train - great day out
[3826] TransWilts trains - what the next franchise period will bring
[3815] The Melksham News - July 2012 - Part 2, TransWilts Rail, Wilts and Berks Canal
[3804] Scenes from commuting by train
[3802] What a difference a year makes
[3795] Like a bathroom company with no plumbers
[3793] Excellent Rail News - what it really means
[3786] Improving Wiltshire Rail Offer - it WILL be happening
[3784] Steam train calls at Melksham - Pictures
[3765] Christmas in June? Melksham hotel bookings and Santa train
[3761] Melksham - placed 2254 out of 2255. What can be done about it?
[3736] Abstraction
[3728] The future needs for rail services to Melksham - change needed; current service an insult
[3699] Bristol 50? Bristol 25?
[3671] Future train services in Wiltshire - please write in to support a better service
[3668] Kings Cross - new concourse - between Python in Cambridge and Objective C in London
[3642] Wiltshire Travel Times - Chippenham, Trowbridge, Salisbury and other places too
[3631] Getting around Dublin by public transport - some observations
[3626] There is so much to see travelling by train
[3601] Rail Travel - has it become more unreliable?
[3579] Transport in Cambridgeshire - seen by an outside observer. What can Wiltshire learn?
[3565] What would an appropriate train service on the TransWilts line mean
[3564] I wish I was not a special case
[3550] Provide a useable train service, and people will use it!
[3538] Santa Train - another successful trip - 4th December 2011
[3501] Santa Claus - on the train from Melksham on 4th December 2011
[3493] West Wilts Rail User Group - Walk yesterday from Bradford-on-Avon to Trowbridge
[3487] Public transport - road and rail
[3486] How important is public transport to people in the Melksham area?
[3452] Which or ATOC - who reads train fares right?
[3434] Sundays - and over eating
[3410] A review of the Summer Sunday extra trains on the TransWilts line
[3408] Journey home by public transport for a Bank Holiday
[3403] Last chance this summer - Swindon and North Wiltshire to Weymouth by through train
[3392] What costs 8.20 from Melksham, or 22.30 via Chippenham?
[3378] New product - ensuring that supply matches demand
[3371] From Wiltshire to Weymouth on Sundays
[3370] Standing Challenge
[3364] Dogs Legs on the Dogleg
[3362] Swindon, Chippenham and Melksham to Weymouth - Sunday Train Service Starts
[3336] Efficient travel - from Melsksham to Edinburgh by Sleeper Train
[3331] Comparing Alloa and Melksham - stations and services
[3328] Summer Sundays - days out by train from Swindon on the TransWilts
[3318] Summer Sunday Trains - outings from Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham, Trowbridge and Westbury
[3274] Small scale improvement - big scale gain. And they CAN be done with local knowledge
[3273] Wanted - a look to the future
[3198] TransWilts rail - coming together, wanted and needed
[3187] Past and Present - Melksham Station
[3178] The cost of roadworks on the economy of our town - 1800 pounds per hour?
[3176] Comparing German, Dutch and British Railways
[3171] Train and boat journey - the passenger accommodation
[3167] Can I take my dog by train? And other questions
[3161] TransWilts rail - what picture represents us
[3141] Wiltshire Rail services - a golden opportunity
[3135] A time to be brave? We should ask for what is best for our area.
[3119] TransWilts - some things to see and do
[3114] Transwilts Link - both Wiltshire and beyond
[3113] Trowbridge and Melksham to Chippenham - more roadworks, even slower journey over the winter
[3111] TransWilts Link - Days out from Swindon to Weymouth?
[3080] Santa Special - rather more special than usual - December 2010
[3079] TransWilts Rail News ... Melksham (Santa Special) Edition ... 5th December 2010
[3033] Rail services back to Radstock?
[3031] Get all your ducks in a row ... and they may turn into swans
[3017] Seventh day traveller on the six day railway
[3006] Santa announcement, 5th December 2010, Melksham
[2982] Travel, Transport and Tourism - A vision for Melksham, 2026
[2955] Melksham Railway Station - new information point
[2954] Railway meetings, trips and meetups this autumn
[2931] Syncronise - software, trains, and buses. Please!
[2930] Walk - Tilehurst to Pangborne
[2919] London to Calne, Corsham, Melksham, Bradford-on-Avon, Chippenham by public Transport
[2908] How Green is my train?
[2901] Ambassador or Anorak?
[2855] Train Services - Melksham to Bath and Bristol (and airport)
[2808] From home to Nurnberg - journey pictures
[2696] Garlic bread without garlic
[2678] Reaching out to the community - a good case for support
[2664] Oliver Cromwell at Bristol Temple Meads
[2662] Is Melksham public transport actually used?
[2658] Save the Train - a significant change in approach
[2634] London to and from Melksham by public transport
[2627] Saturdays out from Melksham - to Oxford, to Didcot or to Swindon
[2626] On Malachite Green
[2568] Forums for your Melksham and open source discussions
[2557] Rail Campaign - response to core consultation
[2556] Railway Station Survey - please complete today or tomorrow
[2533] Five guests, three groups, one car
[2529] Santa Special, 2009
[2522] Integrated public Transport - what could be done for Melksham
[2513] Wiltshire Council purchases Melksham Station Land
[2511] The story of the railway land at Melksham Station
[2486] Santa Special - Trowbridge and Melksham to Swindon
[2477] By train ...
[2473] Exploring Old Railways
[2457] Railway Arithmetic
[2438] Listening to The Minister
[2395] From Lymington by train - last of the slammers
[2391] Great Western Route Utilisation Strategy - Draft for Consultation
[2372] Public Transport from (and to) Melksham on Sundays
[2328] Melksham - no trains, no southbound buses through the town
[2318] For Lua Programmers AND for Town Planners
[2268] Westbury Bypass Refused - looking forward
[2133] Bigger and better this year!
[2057] Train and Coach fares from London (and airports) to Melksham
[2042] Wiltshire Rail Service Update
[2026] Melksham Climate Friendly Group
[2024] Carry on Training - in spite of the weather
[1999] How low can you sink?
[1966] Background to the TransWilts Train Fiasco
[1965] How much does a train service actually cost
[1964] Why hasnt the fiasco been put right
[1905] A Gold Star for First Great Western Customer Service
[1858] Camera with night vision, youth with no vision
[1848] 30th November - Santa Trip from Melksham
[1757] Preserved railways - struggling to the future?
[1729] Back from the future
[1708] A Train Service Update for Melksham Party in the Park
[1616] Not daring to be an anorak
[1567] Melksham - Swindon. Train v Bus v Car
[1558] Getting somewhere with the train service
[1530] Railway Acronyms and Abbreviations
[1452] Santa on the train to Melksham
[1428] Travel Across Wiltshire - the game
[1424] Closer than you think - the next step
[1382] First Great Western - information for customers
[1358] Look forward with a new broom - Wiltshire Train Service
[1314] Business travel by train in the USA
[1303] Heading Upstate New York
[1291] Day trip to Weymouth
[1274] Radio coverage for railway issues
[1273] Melksham or Weymouth? Meal or day out?
[1228] Some progress on the train campaign
[1139] Overcrowded trains around Bristol
[1097] Train and business balls all in the air!
[1093] Wiltshire Train - can YOU come on 5th March?
[1076] Save the Train - an update
[1069] Rail trouble forced me to buy hotel
[1063] Bradford-on-Avon - 150 years of passenger trains
[1045] Bang! Train campaign hits home
[1044] Call for appropriate train services - Swindon, Bristol, Bath, West Wilts, Severn Beach etc
[1033] Empty at Easleigh, Missing at Melksham, Overflowing at Oldfield
[976] Santa at the station
[974] The last commuter train through Melksham
[952] Coming from London to Melksham by train for a course
[877] Yes, but what do we do now??
[814] Melksham Railway Calendar 2007
[803] Not shouting
[790] Shadow Transport Minister to visit Melksham
[697] For any North and West Wilts and Swindon Readers
[688] Are you free on Friday evening?
[648] West Wilts Railway Users Group and trains to Lacock
[634] Real chance to make a difference
[632] Moral dilemma
[527] Greater Western Franchise Awarded
[524] Santa comes to Melksham
[521] Proof needed? Please just use common sense!
[488] Looking for railway groups and users - Swindon, Salisbury, Southampton
[486] Rail services under threat - Swindon, Melksham ... and Newquay and Bicester too
[447] Tomorrow's meeting.
[434] Through public transport connection, Chippenham to Salisbury, to cease
[428] Swindon - Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge - Westbury train service
[154] Railway train service, Melksham station
{
station_usage_0607.csv} Station entrances and exits - 2006/7
{
station_usage_0203.csv} Station entrances and exits - 2002 - 2003
{
station_usage_0910.csv} station entrances and exits - 2009/2010
{
station_usage_0405.csv} station entrances and exits - 2004/5
{
station_usage_0809.csv} Station entrances and exits - 2008/9
{
station_usage_0708.csv} Station entrances and exits 2007 - 2008
{
stationtables.tsv} Rail stations - postcode, OS and lat/long data source
{
station_usage_0506.csv} station entrances and exits - 2005/6
{
railstats.txt} Railway Station codes, locations, usage 2004 - 2010 (+2011 added 29.3.2012) (+2012 added 4.4.2013)
Subject Z504 -
[4500] The TransWilts Community Intergrated Transport Corridor
Subject Z511 -
Public Transport - Road
[4703] What do people use the bus for in Wiltshire - survey interim results.
[4692] How are bus support payments currently calculated?
[4690] Buses in Wiltshire - potential changes and where we stand at the moment
[4683] Saudi Arabia or Weymouth?
[4670] The end, or the start?
[4667] Wiltshire Supported Bus consultation - final few days
[4664] Mallory Place bus stop - services to Bath
[4660] What is happening on the 231 bus? What are you going to do about it?
[4654] Getting to the Royal United Hospital - the Hopper and the alternatives
[4648] Why is bus funding a much hotter topic than a new set of traffic lights?
[4639] Working out the costs of running a bus service through the day
[4636] Rail user groups worried about what is happening on the buses
[4631] What would the Wiltshire Council bus cuts mean for Melksham?
[4629] Making travel time useful time on public transport
[4624] Campaigning for a sensible bus solution and not against anyone!
[4619] Buses - not about the buses, but about the people who use the buses
[4615] Questions for First (West of England)
[4592] A comparison of the public transport alternatives to the Royal United Hospital, Bath - from Melksham.
[4547] RUH Hopper - experience and thoughts forward
[4546] Is the RUH hopper a limited, duplicate service running unnecessarily and at high cost?
[4500] The TransWilts Community Intergrated Transport Corridor
[4425] A Welsh valley - what the transport looks like in 2015
[4290] National Express replaced by train and by Megabus from Chippenham to London
[4286] Reaction in Radstock to new First bus prices
[4263] Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge, public transport over Easter (2014)
[4257] Over a pound a kilometre - my bus in Weston-super-mare
[4247] You wait a long time - then buses come in threes. It's timetabled that way!
[4240] Melksham Rail Link
[4228] Mallory Place, The Spa, Wellington Drive, Melksham - a Christmas present for you
[4194] TransWilts Link - meeting notes from 19th October
[4192] A positive progress behind the scenes
[4191] Getting people to and from Melksham Station - not 20 but 700 times a day
[4190] A radical proposal - a cheap and effective way to provide home to city commuter transport
[4186] Melksham to Bath and Zigzag buses - at a turning point?
[4181] Grumbling about trains? Buses can be far worse!
[4179] Changing transport and destinations - looking forward to a good future
[4171] Mapping road accidents in Melksham and elsewhere too
[4152] Why are bus fares so high?
[4150] Melksham Regular Public Transport Map - as at August 2013
[4149] Bus changes to Bath - good idea, but I despair at information available
[4143] Bus times - Melksham to Bath from 28th July 2013
[4124] Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge bus changes next month
[4123] New timetables from 28th July - bus routes 271 and 272
[4113] Wiltshire and Melksham Transport - what is going on?
[4111] Zigzag bus - forward for the future, or decaying service?
[4108] The painful cost of local travel to Melksham
[4032] Easier public transport from Melksham to Bristol Airport
[4023] Melksham to Chippenham (Station) bus services - times and routes
[4022] A request for all of Melksham transport groups to work integrated
[3951] Christmas Bus Schedule for Melksham - First Bus
[3938] A long overdue meeting - a steeping stone towards coordinate transport user inputs
[3937] Agenda for Wiltshire Link Travel groups meeting, Saturday 1st December 2012
[3929] Melksham Bus Issues - to be raised at First Bus Customer Panel
[3904] Want to help us improve transport in Wiltshire? Here is how!
[3893] Public Transport across Wiltshire - a new map
[3879] Mixed mode travel - Information systems
[3877] Public Transport Services - from and to Melksham
[3866] Celebrate! Buses from Meksham to Bath
[3850] Bus times - Chippenham Station to Melksham, with London connections
[3849] New bus times - Melksham to Bath
[3699] Bristol 50? Bristol 25?
[3631] Getting around Dublin by public transport - some observations
[3580] Melksham Area - buses, trains, cycles, and roads. Meeting, 17.1.2012
[3579] Transport in Cambridgeshire - seen by an outside observer. What can Wiltshire learn?
[3564] I wish I was not a special case
[3523] When competition is not a good idea - Melksham Bus Absurdity
[3504] Coaches from Trowbridge and Melksham to London
[3487] Public transport - road and rail
[3486] How important is public transport to people in the Melksham area?
[3471] Vintage Bus Running Day in Warminster. An example of good bus practise.
[3404] Buses on the Cambridge Guided Busway
[3301] Using public transport - USA style
[3290] Changes (and no changes) at Melksham bus stops
[3194] Buses - what they cost and their future direction in the SW and in Wiltshire
[3126] Car Parking in Melksham - thoughts on the proposed scheme, and wider thoughts too
[2983] Strong arm tactics in the bus industry? Poor result for the customer!
[2982] Travel, Transport and Tourism - A vision for Melksham, 2026
[2958] What do these road markings mean? Could Confusion Kill?
[2933] Bath - Melksham - Devizes buses from September
[2919] London to Calne, Corsham, Melksham, Bradford-on-Avon, Chippenham by public Transport
[2903] Bath to Devizes bus via Melksham - changing again in September
[2857] Park and Ride at Batheaston - will it solve Wiltshires Ills?
[2791] Bath to Melksham buses - times
[2789] Melksham to London (Heathrow, and Central London)
[2771] Melksham to Calne by public transport
[2672] Dear Planners, please provide viable alternatives
[2662] Is Melksham public transport actually used?
[2533] Five guests, three groups, one car
[2522] Integrated public Transport - what could be done for Melksham
[2515] Why we have two buses an hour - but not a half hourly service
[2431] Moving busstop!
[2372] Public Transport from (and to) Melksham on Sundays
[2328] Melksham - no trains, no southbound buses through the town
[2268] Westbury Bypass Refused - looking forward
[2083] Do you support a decent train service? Please sign up!
[2075] Supporting Parkinsons and Trains
[1777] The Rise and Rise of First Bus Fares
[1723] Bath - Melksham - Devizes. Bus route changes, new timetable
[1668] Talk on TransWilts train service to Green Party
[1567] Melksham - Swindon. Train v Bus v Car
[1560] HST Power Car TravelWatch SouthWest
[1511] Buses from Well House Manor, Melksham, to Bath
[1428] Travel Across Wiltshire - the game
[1315] Two years of campaigning for a train service
[1254] Comparing bus stops
[1125] Train service - petititon reply
[1085] Lawrence Webb's Melksham Taxi service
[818] Heard, yes. Considered, no. The case for the train.
[764] Journey planning - Xephos v Transport Direct
[474] Vintage Bus Day
[459] Kiss and Ride
[187] a popular bus number
[119] PHP course. Come by train.
Subject Z521 -
Navigable waterways - Canals, Rivers and Sea
[4577] An update - Melksham Link Canal and river
[4472] Rosslare to Fishguard - foot passenger on the ferry
[3998] Travelogue - from the Netherlands to London via Hook and Harwich
[3815] The Melksham News - July 2012 - Part 2, TransWilts Rail, Wilts and Berks Canal
[3483] Canals, watererways in the Melksham area
[3482] Taking a boat down Caen Hill Locks
[3345] Cruising
[3282] The future of canal management and charities - Kennet and Avon Canal bias
[3266] Easter on the Canal - near Melksham, Wiltshire
[3183] Redevelopment on the banks of the Avon in Melksham
[3157] A new monopoly on the ferry to Northern Ireland
[3023] Autumn walk from Bowerhill
[2950] Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, turns first sod in Melksham Link Canal
[2807] Canal through Melksham - the options and issues
[2796] Sunday - waiting for the ferry.
[2730] Bird Watching on the Melksham Avon
[2588] Freddies Wood and the K and A Canal
[1986] Walk to Bowerhill
[1657] Farewell, Newcastle to Stavanger, Haugsund and Bergen
[820] Robert and William Whitworth
[793] The Wilts and Berks Canal
[776] Naming Rooms
[708] Linescapes of Mull
[598] Should we cruise around the world?
Subject Z531 -
Cycling and Walking
[4022] A request for all of Melksham transport groups to work integrated
[3938] A long overdue meeting - a steeping stone towards coordinate transport user inputs
[3904] Want to help us improve transport in Wiltshire? Here is how!
[3771] Fine evening, country walk from Melksham - pictures
[3689] Can I cycle or ride my mobility scooter on the pavement?
[3580] Melksham Area - buses, trains, cycles, and roads. Meeting, 17.1.2012
[3579] Transport in Cambridgeshire - seen by an outside observer. What can Wiltshire learn?
[3376] Kennet and Avon - Walk from Bedwyn to Pewsey. TransWilts day out.
[3231] Footpath, Bridleway, Byway, Road used as Public Path
[3228] What can you take on a public footpath? Pram? Wheelbarrow? Dog? Shopping Trolley? Horse? Cycle?
[3216] Images of a Spring Walk
[3023] Autumn walk from Bowerhill
[2958] What do these road markings mean? Could Confusion Kill?
[2858] The healthy option - away from the private car
[2709] Old trackways and routes near Melksham
[2707] A walk on the Kennet and Avon
[2704] A walk within without - Melksham Without
[2666] Random thoughts on Melksham Town Planning and development
[2490] Friendly Hotel in Melksham, near Bath
[2253] Walks in and around Melksham, Wiltshire
[1802] Motorcycles welcome at Well House Manor
[1640] Walking on The Wiltshire Downs
Subject Z600 -
History
[4739] A year of changes for Lisa and Graham Ellis, and Well House
[4730] San Juan Capistrano
[4729] The oldest part of Los Angeles
[4285] Pictures of Melksham Heritage Discovery Fair
[3731] Now Open - A Museum for Melksham. Come in and see us.
[3726] Press Release - Museum to explore the story of Melksham
[3510] The skull above the door in Melksham Town Hall
[3484] A Melksham Timeline - Domesday to present day
[2037] The Interview and The Lift
[102] The Romans got it right
[33] 10 Years of experience
(
article) Time Line - growth of our Open Source training
Subject Z700 -
People
[4736] Our changing world
[4728] Visiting Los Alamitos Bay Yacht Club
[4646] Sometimes you wonder about people. And perhaps you should not.
[4482] People in New York
[4349] When I am old, what will worry me?
[4193] Using our non-found page to help look for missing persons
[3981] Melksham - a town of some remarkable people
[3905] How should we choose our Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner?
[3775] Alan Turing - 1912 to 1954
[3512] A colleague and friend who changed my life
[3466] Passing of Steve Jobs - R.I.P.
[3355] Family Pictures
[3298] Quiet Monday in
[3297] A long day, a long journey, and families and similarities the world over
[3268] Baby Pictures
[3184] Visiting relatives
[3125] The family is defunct. Long live the family.
[3055] Zyliana Kyrei Cox
[3034] Birth Notice - Aeryn Cassandra Ellis
[3008] Dulwich College Preparatory, and Sevenoaks, Schools
[2886] Congratulations, Kimberly
[2846] Catching up with an old friend
[2795] Simon says
[2503] Melksham manslaughter case concludes - sort of
[2132] Learning about Lurchers
[2100] Visiting Family
[2078] A lot has changed - but the memory lingers on
[1988] Melksham, Wiltshire. Town Crier Competition, 2009
[1980] Michelle
[1916] Why I remember East Grafton
[1627] Amazing family members
[1570] London Midland ... Merrymaker ... Percy Danks
[1522] Paging Martin Noke, who petitions for more trains from Trowbridge to Swindon
[1385] Delegates of all shapes and sizes
[1303] Heading Upstate New York
[1279] The Gdansk fireball
[1238] The kind spirit of Melksham
[1197] Back off home with our best wishes
[1151] Gordon Dodge, R.I.P.
[1119] The Last Word on the road
[1107] Weekend Visitors
[1065] Graham Ellis - an Introduction
[1064] Light and shadows at Beach
[820] Robert and William Whitworth
[794] Perl delegate - much more than just a delegate
[771] From cat breeder to Cobol to Perl
[763] Much more that the world cup
[704] Erin Brent - rest in peace
[650] A person of few words
[611] Look out for the motor cyclist
[601] A fond memory of Sir Freddie
[584] Loosing breath with Gerald
[543] The world didn't stop for Christmas
[530] Perl course during the week, getting married at the weekend
[423] A Victorian Lady
[392] No Smoking
[388] BBQ Season
[207] Canteen Dragon
(
article) Portrait of the Author of PHP
Subject Z800 -
Whimsy
[4392] Interview conditions,and other instructions to staff
[4329] Does Santa Claus need a CRB check?
[4067] The woman, the television, the bullock and Darlington
[3922] Twerp - A person regarded as insignificant and contemptible
[3912] Sand to Arabia, Coals to Newcastle or Woodburners to Russia
[3868] How to make an ohno cake
[3851] Who is this? Picture Puzzle
[3738] Adoptive homes sought for abandoned babies
[3462] Hangers, luggage and possessions
[3369] Local Council leads bans on many activities
[3288] Random Questions ...
[3226] A busy morning for railway announcements
[3223] Answering at my earliest convenience
[3215] Solution looking for problem
[3203] Melksham Town Council announces ...
[3030] Liquorice allsorts and Dolly Mixtures
[2945] Last, final, etc
[2676] Changing Times
[2626] On Malachite Green
[2542] My armpit was like a zebra crossing
[2496] A better design of mouth
[2397] Signwriting is dead. Long live the sign.
[2256] Is it Python past cheetah already?
[2251] Over a third of numbers start with the digit 1
[2250] Bluegrass comes to Melksham
[2180] Patterns in numbers - room occupancy
[2157] From the 51773 family
[2152] My four feet!
[2143] Throughout the year, around the world
[2138] Ski bore ... train bore ... dog bore
[2131] Patterns in street names
[2127] Call in the professionals!
[2108] Funny Amusing, Funny Amazing and The Smarts
[2089] The Longest Day - Wednesday, 28th September
[2050] Why the Pony Tail?
[2028] Things people say on the phone
[2009] The Royal Mail Receipt
[1988] Melksham, Wiltshire. Town Crier Competition, 2009
[1980] Michelle
[1977] Going round the block
[1952] Small Print
[1886] Keys to friendless churches
[1662] Westonbirt Arboretum Postcode
[1604] M25 / South Mimms Service Area
[1440] Useful command or messy screen?
[1241] If I say 'I am fine', what do I mean?
[1171] Traffic light control for horses
[1167] Leaning tower of Cheeser
[1075] I'm not the father
[973] Too much used to Skype
[892] A pattern in change
[850] Lighter moments
[807] Telling large from small
[784] Which way to turn?
[761] Great new inventions
[758] Very good for woodlice
[701] Minature Cyclists only - limited headroom
[689] The call of nature
[661] Dressed up for a phone call
[610] Need a hankie
[568] NB ''Aspiration''
[547] Taking the dog for a walk
[520] Three life changing comments
[395] Making Orangutangs
[346] No Smoking Pubs
[331] 08:45 is a difficult time
[300] Dentist's Waiting Room Syndrome
[156] Signage
[151] Coffee Standards
[94] Special change
[69] John Toner
[44] Serious subject
[39] A Change is as good as a rest
[24] Impossible terms
Subject Z801 -
Pettifog
[4720] Celebrating our diversity rather than discriminating for it
[4651] Pressure selling in the fire safety business
[4630] The story behind the bus cuts, and what they could mean
[4354] Wiltshire Police - assuming someone is guilty just on the say-so of a member of the public?
[4304] Please do not ask me to be the chair!
[4282] On tipping - and the expectation of a tip
[4167] The important customers are the majority, not the celebrity
[4140] Riots in Melksham
[3900] The Xxxxx Guest House in Xxxxxxxxxxx - my stay reviewed
[3835] The Information age - not yet truly with us?
[3749] Removal of water safety equipment, and how to use a lifesaver ring
[3302] Are you a half full or half empty person?
[3084] Can you trust the big brand names?
[3030] Liquorice allsorts and Dolly Mixtures
[3013] Audio equipment
[2944] What others cannot do in 10 months takes Virgin 10 minutes
[2937] The cat in the dustbin
[2788] Cost of Sales
[2761] A small business, facing a big government questionnaire
[2625] Both feet on the same pavement
[2193] Excellent product, excruciating customer service. 3 Mobile Broadband
[2122] Commission Creep
[1972] Pettifog and forum boards away from public view
[1862] Remember your units
[1839] Job application
[1783] Think before you send
[1741] Age Concern
[1349] Cash is not an acceptable way of paying
[1337] A series of tyre damages
[1170] Smoking, or no? The law insists we spell out the obvious
[826] Fighting illegal net use by imposing download limits
[815] Time trickles like water through a sieve
[791] Strange housewarming
[783] Good follow up ... my thanks
[638] A pile of sand? Where do we stand?
[600] It costs nothing to say THANK YOU
[562] Smoke and mirrors
[519] New Road
[478] Watch what you wear
[471] And it gets even better
[439] You cant
[323] 1 in 48 steel
[90] Rude old people
[87] Too sittings
[52] International awareness
(
article) Phone and fax to 070059 numbers in the UK
Subject Z900 -
The rest
[4516] Looking ahead on the blog
[4188] Extended Weekend - but not a quiet one!
[2807] Canal through Melksham - the options and issues
[2113] Answering a question with a question
[905] Not proud to be British
[810] A bad place for security firms
[700] As I walked in to Oxford
[678] Why are maps rarely to scale?
[275] See 8 but buy 6. See 6 but you can buy 8.
[214] Futility of war?
[178] Calling a spade a spade
[169] A pleasure to train
[147] Recent technical articles
[106] Far from the sea, but close to the heart
[100] Life is frail
[97] What makes a professional photographer?
[60] Birth Notice
[21] two plus two equals seven
[14] London - Most expensive city??
[8] How much does fuel cost for an airline flight?
Subject Z950 -
Purely Personal
[4767] Some thoughts on 2017, and looking forward to 2018
[4761] Looking forward to the autumn.
[4759] Sale of effects and furniture - 12th and 13th August 2017
[4756] Learning how to be a more effective community partner
[4739] A year of changes for Lisa and Graham Ellis, and Well House
[4737] Why you should vote for Lisa in Melksham Central
[4735] Revisiting - should I stand for Melksham Without Parish Council in May?
[4734] Thoughts on the new Blackmore Ward of Melksham Without Parish
[4728] Visiting Los Alamitos Bay Yacht Club
[4714] The technical article feed continues - personal updates more proactive on Facebook now!
[4698] Lisa writes - on the referendum vote today
[4669] Buses - how did we get into the situation we are in?
[4658] The end of competition on a bus route - the effects from then end of the 234
[4657] Rumours of bus changes by First in Wiltshire - what we know and suspect
[4625] Where does Wiltshire bus subsidy money come from?
[4600] A big change in August
[4489] Election results - what if we had a party list system?
[4485] Misusing statistics? - the seedy side of election campaigning
[4476] Upcoming election - Chippenham Constituency - the major candidates compared
[4308] What can you and I learn from online quizzes?
[4286] Reaction in Radstock to new First bus prices
[4281] A different vision for the future
[4275] Eurpoean Elections, and other elections ahead. Some thoughts on campaigns and policies
[4235] Sharing my personal best of 2013
[4221] Celebration of the fruits of LSTF, and of the people who have helped and are helping
[4201] Looking to the future at Melksham Station
[4187] Not treading water, but not risking the ship for a 0.5th of tar either
[4165] Improving travel advise information in Wiltshire
[4157] Wedding Photos - Kim Ellis to Kyle Londors, 22nd August 2013
[4111] Zigzag bus - forward for the future, or decaying service?
[3905] How should we choose our Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner?
[3711] Kiss
[3602] Emerging proposals for land to the east of Spa Road, Melksham
[3566] Initial thoughts - response to GW Rail Franchise Consultation for Wiltshire
[3556] Aeryn at 1
[3511] Melksham has a heart - have your picture taken and support the defibrillator appeal
[3450] A threat in the post? Poor marketing practise from Smiletrain?
[3413] If its Sunday, must it be Weymouth?
[3298] Quiet Monday in
[3283] The juggler
[3240] Melksham Town Council - vacancy in the Spa Ward
[3224] Melksham Campus - a win / win opportunity, but a severely lacking decision process
[3108] My First Christmas
[3055] Zyliana Kyrei Cox
[3037] Looking back and forward personally - 6 years each way
[3034] Birth Notice - Aeryn Cassandra Ellis
[2982] Travel, Transport and Tourism - A vision for Melksham, 2026
[2886] Congratulations, Kimberly
[2698] Ruth Davis, 1916 - 2010
[2547] The great thing about snow ....
[2195] A two day gap - first time in five years?
[1051] Too busy to blog it - but it's great (mostly)
[1014] Christmas Season Piccies
These articles have not yet been categorisedSubject Z999 -
new and uncategorised articles[4766] Moving on from Sunnyside and Devizes
[4758] Even more images!
[4757] Images ... continued
[4733] Python examples - updates under way
[4732] Reviewing TransWilts performance 2015-16
[4576] If it's Tuesday it must be Belgium?
[4509] Throwing a die - exercise in Ruby
[4508] Melksham to London by train - dont buy more than you need
[4484] TransAtlantic crossing - the starter
[4242] A busy January
[4237] Why the long gap?
[4127] Exploring the area ... Ynys, near Harlech
[4054] On Salford Docks - mind over matter?
[4047] Looking for Creative Design, Catering and Transport inputs to help with Melksham Campus
[4044] What to do on a wet weekend in Melksham?
[4043] Bus stop audit - what is missing?
[4042] Bright Spring Morning
[3857] Why has the mouth not said much for the last week or two?
[3801] A year ago today, a server upgrade and a new Perl example
[3578] A busy start to 2012
[3567] First of the year
[3363] Should we take sponsored adverts on our site?
[3342] A Holiday
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