You don't live anywhere rural I take it. 4WDs (aussie for SUV although ours are half the size of the ones over there) are needed for towing trailers for livestock, wood, stockfeed; plowing through mud; etc. I agree with you that there is no need for 4WDs/SUVs in an urban environment.
You should have a look at MySQL again. It now has subqueries and stored procedures (and I believe views) are available in alpha.
I like MySQL for its lack of bugs in releases and excellent user community. PostgreSQL is also a good product but quite frankly its documentation and user community sucks. And why does everything come back to MySQL? The pg community should focus on their own product. At the moment they have a reputation for being a bunch of bitter grumpy old programmers.
See http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2003/session.ht ml about 3/4 of the way down the page for a analysis of MySQl vs the ANSI standards. (There was a more up to date version of this talk given at OSCON and I'm sure you could ask Peter for a copy.)
My partner bought this book as a companion piece to the Game On exhibition in the Barbican. This exhibition had copies of many many early games (including Space War, Pong, lots of arcade games from Space Invaders to more recent stuff, and every console you've ever seen). The best thing about it was that you could actually play all the ones that were functioning. It was way cool.
The exhbition is still on but now in Scotland, and is supposed to tour internationally after that. I thoroughly recommend it if it comes to a town near you.
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Not yet. Australia has agreed to enact a DMCA type law, but it hasn't happened yet.
You don't live anywhere rural I take it. 4WDs (aussie for SUV although ours are half the size of the ones over there) are needed for towing trailers for livestock, wood, stockfeed; plowing through mud; etc.
I agree with you that there is no need for 4WDs/SUVs in an urban environment.
You should have a look at MySQL again. It now has subqueries and stored procedures (and I believe views) are available in alpha.
I like MySQL for its lack of bugs in releases and excellent user community. PostgreSQL is also a good product but quite frankly its documentation and user community sucks. And why does everything come back to MySQL? The pg community should focus on their own product. At the moment they have a reputation for being a bunch of bitter grumpy old programmers.
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http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2003/session.h
about 3/4 of the way down the page for a analysis of MySQl vs the ANSI standards. (There was a more up to date version of this talk given at OSCON and I'm sure you could ask Peter for a copy.)
Actually it's had transactions since 3.23. 4.1 has subqueries and they work nicely.
In some countries # is pronounced 'hash'. So C# is Microsoft making a hash of C.
My partner bought this book as a companion piece to the Game On exhibition in the Barbican. This exhibition had copies of many many early games (including Space War, Pong, lots of arcade games from Space Invaders to more recent stuff, and every console you've ever seen). The best thing about it was that you could actually play all the ones that were functioning. It was way cool. The exhbition is still on but now in Scotland, and is supposed to tour internationally after that. I thoroughly recommend it if it comes to a town near you.
There are at least a couple of others; I have just started reading "XML and PHP" by Vaswani (New Riders, 2002) and it seems pretty good.
There's also "XML Processing with Perl, Python and PHP" which I haven't looked at.