The weather truly indulged us and in just a few days we were able to see quite a lot of Paris - its most famous sights and architectural masterpieces. So let us briefly walk through the central districts of Paris once more.
If asked to name the symbol of Paris, most people would certainly mention the Eiffel Tower. The 320 m tall tower was built in 1889 for the World's Fair and was originally intended for demolition later on. But its popularity was so great that the tower stands and functions to this very day.
While the taste of Parisian spring is still on my lips, I must write. The weather there was not exactly spring-like but more closely resembled early June in Latvia.
Despite the fairly expensive entry ticket, I would definitely recommend that all visitors to Paris visit the famous cabaret Moulin Rouge. A magnificent and unforgettable show that provides genuine pleasure.
In 1997, two Israelis, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, joined the project and decided to rewrite the parser, resulting in PHP being given a new name - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. The reason the code needed to be rewritten was simple - the existing code was not good enough to build e-commerce websites.
The command-line tool is, of course, a good thing - but a graphical environment is even better. This is about a MySQL design environment, or GUI. Exactly what's needed: convenient editing, saving queries, creating connections and synchronising data/structure. And of course - backups. I have to say, this is one of the most successful applications for MySQL that I've come across recently.
Every home and family has certain traditions they follow when dyeing eggs for the Easter holiday. Perhaps it's time to try a different technique? This time, without delving into the symbolism of the egg or its connection to the spring equinox or Christian church festival, I invite you to share ideas on how to make this holiday more colourful and appealing.
This month marks 1 year since www.iinuu.lv has been online. Thank you to all site visitors for your curiosity, enthusiasm for reading and eagerness to comment! A year is a meaningful period to evaluate, summarise and reflect on what has been accomplished. Here are some numbers reflecting iinuu's activity.
This Tuesday I received a phone call from a representative of Zvaigzne ABC congratulating me on having entered a competition and won the widely praised book by J. Kotter and H. Rathgeber "Our Iceberg Is Melting". The book essentially uses allegory to tell an eight-step programme for successfully implementing change in a company, a country, a family, or a relationship. It brilliantly portrays various character types of people - sorry, penguins - and their behaviour in critical situations. Yet at the end, looking at it with a critical eye, I found myself with a series of "buts".
When creating a design, layout or sample where there is no real text or visual material yet, the question arises - what to put in? Variations on this theme abound. Some write xxx, some paste an article from a news site, some scrape text from who knows where. But it turns out this problem has been solved. It's called Lorem Ipsum.
On Monday evening, 30 March, we went to the New Riga Theatre to attend a concert by the celebrated piano virtuoso Jautrīte Putniņa. The musician's mastery is remarkable - her nimble fingers and ability to convey different moods to the audience are extraordinary. Despite her considerable age of 80, the piano virtuoso holds extensive sections of the score in her memory with ease. I must say, if the belief that music can heal is true, then I genuinely underwent a course of recovery.
A long-known saying - don't judge a man by his hat, but by his shoes. Every knowledgeable woman can say that the first impression of a man and the shoes he wears can be quite telling. The better-kept and more expensive the shoes he wears, the more put-together he is himself and the more stable and financially secure his situation. But what about women?
