Author: andy
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Part 3 – Making the Oak beam coffee table
You’ve read articles 1 and 2 in this series and you feel you’re ready to have a go at the work. Well, you’ll be pleased to know its actually quite easy. The most complicated part is planing the rough wood and ending up with a nice flat surface, so how hard can it be?
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Part 2 – The things you’ll need to make an Oak beam coffee table
Early in 2005 we saw one of these in Guildford. Quite liking the design but unwilling to pay the price we decided not to buy it. After some pondering I decided that I’d like to have a go at making my own and given that I had a lot of the equipment necessary I knew…
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PHP – Writing to an Access .MDB database using a DSN-less connection.
Hot on the heels of the last article on READing data from an MS Access .MDB database file comes the eagerly anticipated sequel: “Writing to an MS Access .MDB database using a DSN-less connection.” What a snappy title! 🙂 Here goes then. You will of course remember from the last lesson how to make the…
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Part 1 – Thick Oak beam coffee table teaser
Save yourself £200 on a thick Oak beam coffee table. Take a look at these pictures and come back later to see how its done. 3 Qtr view of the table.   A view of the ends showing the grain in the wood and the splits caused by the wood drying out and a close-up…
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PHP – Reading an Access .MDB database using a DSN-less connection.
It took some time to get this working properly. Thats probably because it was the first thing I ever tired to do in PHP. Here’s the code for you to get you up and running immediately.
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Hello world!
Hello everyone! From tiny acorns do mighty oaks grow, so the saying goes. I suppose I have to start somewhere with this site.