Author: sroot
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Course Complete!
Hooray! Course over. I think I’ve found a new way of learning, instructor led over the Internet seems to be the way for me to go with many of the strange things I want to learn more about. Ben Ramsey the tutor really knows his stuff. Between us (the class) we really threw some awkward…
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Who created $foo $bar?
During my recent programming course on PHP, we had to use variables to store data. The content or use of those variables wasn’t significant to the thing we had to learn, so as is common in coding circles we used variables $foo and $var. I wonder who first used the variables $foo $bar? In terms…
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You did do that backup…. didn't you?
It seems just a few weeks ago that I posted about making regular backups of your computer. That’s because it was just a few weeks ago! Which makes me wonder whether the server at my office read the post too, and decided to test me. As well as regular backups the server has two hard…