Comments for Robbie Bow

Comment on Iptables firewall & Debian Aptitude on Memset miniserver by Tom

Tom — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:10:15 +0000

Memset provide an apt proxy for customers to save bandwidth. If you wish to use this then you need to have outgoing 3128 TCP open. If you have a look in /etc/apt/apt.conf you will see the configuration for this proxy. You can delete it from here if you would rather not use it.

Comment on Ahar Bangladeshi Take-away, Mill Road by robbiebow

robbiebow — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:27:44 +0000

A suspicious man would think that was a self-recommendation!

Comment on Ahar Bangladeshi Take-away, Mill Road by Chris Qureshi

Chris Qureshi — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:52:22 +0000

Ahar restaurant is becoming very popular, the staff is really nise espacially the chef called Kahn. I will say Kahn cooks really tasty dishes and without him i think Ahar will go down dramaticlly. I would highly recommend Ahar and i say the food is lovely.

Comment on Contact email addresses on web sites by Ross Haffenden

Ross Haffenden — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:29:50 +0000

well done mate!

Comment on Pumpkin Soup by robbiebow

robbiebow — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:24:46 +0000

Looking at the enormous pumpkin sat in the kitchen right now, this is what autumn is all about…

Comment on The No Mill Road Tesco Campaign by Clive Mitchell

Clive Mitchell — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:07:25 +0000

At last an open and honest opinion about the opening of Tesco on Mill Road. I have come to the conclusion that if Mill Road is such a diverse and and open minded community then where are all the objections coming from. If the road is an area of small independent traders then it will still be so after Tesco opens, and it will be up to the local individual to excercise their right to shop independently and not go into Tesco. If you don’t go into a shop it will not survive, so if you want to keep the independent trader use them and stop blaming Tesco when they close as it will be your fault. Don’t forget the onslaught of the internet and it’s ease of online shopping was going to bring down the major retailers’ the only casualty that I am I aware of was Woolworths and that was s basically unsound business plan that caused there demise. As for the objections to the traffic problem, perhaps the local community would like to raise a petition against all the illegally parked vehicles in Mill Road, from council vehicles watering plants to the CoOp delivery vehicles which turn up 3 at a time and block off the entrance to Catherine Street, to vehicles that exceed the weight and time limits. If these campaigners took the time to talk too “local people” they would realize that Mill Road no longer has the facilities that it once had, where has the milliners gone, the wet fish shop, the wool shop and countless other local businesses. The sign of the times is change, how many hairdressers, fast food outlets, off license premises, cycle shops and estate agents does Mill Road need, or is it just a case of lower rents and rates that attract these types of businesses. We are in a period of recession, however house prices in Romsey still remain high and buck the national trend. So will Tesco opening change my lifestyle, NO, I will still shop where I want to and buy the things that I require to carry out my daily life, and yes I do live in Romsey and I am proud to say so. As an afterthought check out Hilary’s greengrocers as it has a wholesale business that supplies to most of the colleges in Cambridge, hardly an independent local shop?.

Comment on Add Options to a Select with jQuery : IE7 by Robbie Bow

Robbie Bow — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:35:59 +0000

I don’t know how .append() works under the hood either, but I did try creating an option object using the “new Option()” syntax That result in the option being added but the text was not displayed.My only luck was with the createElement() – appendChild(createTextNode) syntax above.

Comment on Add Options to a Select with jQuery : IE7 by steve

steve — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:21:39 +0000

I’m not sure how the append() method in jQuery works, but if it just wraps this type of structure, then you’ve encountered an IE bug (274 to be exact)
http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/08/bug-274-dom-methods-on-select-lists.html
e.g. if .append(str) translates to:
this.append = function(str){
this.innerHTML = str;
};
In IE you can’t set the .innerHTML on a select element. you’ll need to use the DOM zero style “new Option();” syntax. Or set the outerHTML.

Comment on Rounding and int by Robbie Bow

Robbie Bow — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:00:54 +0000

Storing in minor units is indeed optimal. Receiving data in minor units would be nice as well. Having all currencies adopt the sensible approach of the Japanese Yen which has no minor units at all would be the best approach, albeit not the cheapest.
Ta for the birthday wishes. I make good my threat to visit you sometime soon, mark my words.

Comment on Rounding and int by Tom Hukins

Tom Hukins — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:45:29 +0000

Yes, floating point numbers have a habit of naughtiness. I think I learned little else I still consider relevant from low-level programming.
Of course, Perl programmers should use CPAN’s Math::* libraries for better precision.
I note your example uses 2 decimal places and I know what you do for a living. I prefer to store prices in pence, or the equivalent in whatever currency you use, instead of pounds, to avoid problems like this.
But then you get products that people typically buy in bulk with a unit cost of less than 1p, such as those electrical components we made a site for a couple of years ago.
Tough life programming, innit?
Happy birthday, belatedly, too.