On Friday 20 July 2001 4:14 pm, Phil Driscoll wrote: [snip]
Database. I've not yet found anything suitable yet - the school want something along the lines of Access or DataPower, but I'm inclined to go for a MySQL/PHP solution running in the web browser. I just haven't had time to write it yet :) and phpMyAdmin is a bit too technical for the intended audience (although if I had my way, I'd make the kids learn SQL instead of using a 'create flashy but useless database' wizard).
This month's WYLUG meeting had Dave Fisher doing a talk on PHP/mysql. The basis of the talk was how a (self proclaimed ) non-programmer could develop a shopping basket app using mysql and PHP. As part of that talk, he showed now to knock up a simple php front end to creating/updating database schema. he's hoping to get the talk up on the WYLUG web site sometime soon. That me be of some help to you.
Vector drawing. I've played with a few packages but still not found anything as good/easy to use as Acorn !Draw (which is what the kid's currently use).
I don't know !Draw, or what exactly you want from your vector drawing package, but I use ghostview with the 'watch' option, and gvim to write postscript. Very simple to do/use and perfectly portable output.
Cheers
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