Culture, Shopping and Technology
La Redoute, the French-style fashion company, now has a brand new website design – from today! In their own words, La Redoute’s French style “combines seriousness and humour, impertinence and relevance, and are visionary, open, unique yet simple.’ And, as you might imagine, the new website is ready to offer customers a truly memorable experience.
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With the weather now getting colder and autumn in full swing, now is the perfect time to swing along to Damart and check out their unique range of thermal clothing. Both fashionable and functional, Damart have their exclusive Thermolactyl range now on sale. Uniquely designed to keep you cosy and warm this winter, you’ll find no better range of thermal clothing anywhere.
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The Savile Row Company has long been a top destination for discerning shoppers looking for high-quality clothing at affordable prices. While mostly catering to men, with their fine quality menswear, Savile Row does also sell products for women too, notably nightwear and gifts. So, even if you’re not currently looking for a wardrobe update, you may well find an ideal gift for a friend or loved one.
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Dorothy Perkins – Female Fashion. Discover the latest high street fashion online at Dorothy Perkins. Shop for the latest styles in women’s dresses, tops, shoes, coats, petite clothing, and more. You’ll find sizes from 6-22, to accommodate almost every occasion. Whether you’re looking for jeans and comfy tops, or stylish evening-wear, or even smart-looking office-wear, there is a wide selection of stylish fashion for every taste and every pocket.
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With autumn closing in, and cooler weather already upon us, now is a good time to see how Ryman Stationery store can come to the rescue. Far from being just being a great source for stationery and office products, Ryman also sells lots of other useful products too. And, right now, there are lots of special deals on outdoor heaters, which are great for keeping the chill away during the cooler autumnal days and evenings.
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Scotts of Stow, UK. Shop for great value curtains, cushions, tablecloths and much more to add beautiful décor to your home. With the cooler weather setting in, and more time indoors, now is a great time to spruce up your home for the autumn. You’ll also find much more at Scotts online catalogue store than comfy cushions and home accessories though, and a wide range of clothing also awaits.
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After getting familiar with the syntax of a language, performing little challenges – such as sorting a list of items – is often the next thing one might try. So, although I’d previously lots of Perl experience, having focused on other things for a while I was decidedly rusty, and decided to reactivate my Perl braincells, and write a little program to bubble sort a string in Perl.
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WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux, version 2) is a great piece of software for all kinds of useful reasons. For one it means you don’t need to have a separate Linux machine to develop on, and it also avoids you needing to install a VM using Oracle VM VirtualBox or Hyper-V, for example. Plus, it’s easy to set up and for most things is probably as close as you’ll need to working on a Linux machine, while still using your trusty Windows machine.
Continue reading »The code in this post will enable you to identify your system’s local IP address and put it into a variable for your further use. I specifically did this to identify the IP address on a Ubuntu WSL2 instance (i.e. Windows Subsystem for Linux), but it should work on any machine. As anyone familiar with WSL2 will know, unlike prior versions of WSL, WSL2 doesn’t keep a static IP address, which can be a pain, and provides a new one on each startup. So, being able to identify the newly allocated IP at startup can be quite handy.
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With the price of almost everything seeming to skyrocket with inflation, it’s always welcome to find a good deal, and now we have some excellent new offers for you at the JD Williams catalogue store. With up to 60% off some items, and deals across the board – from fashion and home goods to technology, footwear, and garden products – there are lots of ways to save some money at JD Williams right now.
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