From OSNews: *The Command Line - The Best Newbie Interface?*. “This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing [...]
I’ve been in the book and publishing business for a while. I take advantage of the fact that there are local retailers by buying from them whenever possible. Perhaps I could use an Amazon or a BookPool or another online service, but if I’ve used the local bookstore to browse the stacks, look through possible [...]
Great article over at DevShed on connecting to a MySQL database using the Python language. Folks familiar with ADO or with SQL Pass-through and the VFP way of manipulating cursors will be comfortable with code like this:
#!/usr/bin/python
# import MySQL module
import MySQLdb
# connect
db = MySQLdb.connect(host=”localhost”,
user=”joe”, passwd=”secret”,db=”db56a”)
# create a cursor
cursor = db.cursor()
# execute SQL statement
cursor.execute(”SELECT * [...]
OSNews links to a guide on Subversion for CVS Users. Subversion is a source code control system built to address many of the issues of earlier Open Source systems like CVS and RCS.
