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It pays to keep an eye on what these guys are doing
Having struggled in the past to upload sourcecode using the pre and code tags and then still having to fiddle it is great to now have this simple method posted in the WordPress news section . I was so...
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Doing the Mum stuff
I’ve got off pretty lightly when it comes to making costumes so far. My sister’s children had been angels in the past so last year was OK. The sheep for the class assembly came out of a friend’s...
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The Form Template
This time round I decided that all that cutting and pasting of form tags into the php page (and their layout) was a waste of time so I created a couple of database tables to tell the template which...
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Red Kites over the M40
I’ve seen Kestrels before, and what might have been a Sparrowhawk having a feast in our back garden. Yesterday we were on the M40 and I saw several birds of prey. There was one Kestrel but the rest...
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Could our Tenor take out the Saxon arch?
We were ringing on five tonight as our tenor bell isn’t all that securely attached to its headstock! Just two bolts and those a bit wobbly and we weren’t going to ring it up to check the bolts inside!...
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Eight Random Things That Don’t Make Sense
What have you got me into Mark – how can you write eight random things you wouldn’t normally write on your blog on a blog as random as this? Well at least I can manage the random part OK! 1. My first...
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MySQL doesn’t have an is_numeric function!
I was trying to write a MySQL stored procedure today that was crying out for the is_numeric function – the one that doesn’t exist. I wanted to select two different things depending on whether the value...
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It’s not your Mac it’s your printer
It’s like this – you’ve had this HP Laserjet 4M plus (insert your model here) networked for years and you’ve been printing with no problems in all that time until you buy a Mac. Now suddenly there are...
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Mostly your Mac is brilliant but …
…every now and then it makes you want to scream. Take commenting out code. I always find the hash # sign the easiest to use (saves having to remember which way round to get the star and slash let alone...
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Cookies hate white space! or Why won’t my cookies set?
I was helping a friend get the login part of their site working – including the setting of user variable cookies. The cookies wouldn’t set. Brick wall bang, bang, bang (my head you understand). “I’m...
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