On Friday 20 July 2001 16:20, Gary Stainburn wrote:
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. I was there - in fact I was the bloke who gave the PHP talk a couple of months ago when Dave couldn't do his at the last minute. I think I can write PHP with the best of 'em!
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.
Somewhere in the national curriculum schemes of work (any educationalists please correct me if I'm wrong) it says that children have to use a vector/object based drawing package. Xara, Coreldraw, the application formerly known as KIllustrator, etc all fit the bill but are a bit too complex for the younger kids. 'Sketch' sort of hits the mark, but is a bit unpleasant to use IMHO. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll