Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-07 Thread Sharon Souter
CTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic > On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Sharon Souter wrote: > > > Not only is this an open source, cross-platform language, but it can > > interface to just about any

Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-07 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Sharon Souter wrote: > Not only is this an open source, cross-platform language, but it can > interface to just about any database. In my research, I understand the > newest version of MySQL does in fact support transactions and subselects are > on the list to be incorporated.

Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-05 Thread Julie Meloni
Sharon Souter wrote: > > (and no...she is not paying me to say this. > LOL!!!) > shoot, I should start! :) - julie ++ | Julie Meloni | | Tech. Director, i2i Interactive (www.i2ii.com) | | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-05 Thread Sharon Souter
AIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 8:27 AM Subject: Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic > Hi Britta, > > Having just completed a project at work which more or less does > just what you want (minus the login bit), I feel competent enough to > answer a couple of y

installing MySQL (was: Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic)

2000-06-05 Thread Julie Meloni
"Lilly S." wrote: > > oh no! i wish I'd known this earlier! I just got it over the weekend. I'm > having a *HELL* of a time trying to install the darned thing.. Oh dear. I've found MySQL to be easy to deal with. Please let me know what you've done (off-list) and I'll help you out. I've got a

Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-05 Thread Lilly S.
oh no! i wish I'd known this earlier! I just got it over the weekend. I'm having a *HELL* of a time trying to install the darned thing.. So far I've wasted two days, and I don't seem any closer than I was before. Right now all I want to do is uninstall it, and reinstall it. But being a Linux newbi

Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-05 Thread William C Beegle
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Jillian-Beth Stamos-Kaschke wrote: > If all you > want is a database with names, addresses etc., then I'd suggest > MySQL (and the O'Reilly book by Yarger, Reese and King). MySQL is a nice product, but I'm going to be contrary and recommend against the O'Reilly book. A friend

Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-05 Thread Jillian-Beth Stamos-Kaschke
Hi Britta, Having just completed a project at work which more or less does just what you want (minus the login bit), I feel competent enough to answer a couple of your questions. > I know about the following possibilities: > > - CGIs in perl / python. Stateless, so not so great with logging in,

[techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-05 Thread Britta Koch
Hi! Having learnt about nomic from the grrltalk list (it's a game about changing the rules, FAQ at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~malcolmr/nomic/FAQ.html ), I thought it would be an interesting project for learning to set up dynamic websites. Since I've never done anything like it before, I'd be int