Subject: RE: Meeting info
From: The Original Evil Josh (augustus@acerbic.org)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 12:54:22 AKST
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Jan Zumwalt wrote:
>
> OK, you ask what we might like to see...I personally would like to see a
> **VERY** basic presentation of creating a simple data base (employee info?)
> and have a handout to take home that shows the steps you saw at the demo...
> Of course the speaker could then go on to other subjects over the neophytes
> learning curve :)
> JZ
That was actually my plan, I was going to cover the installation steps
using both the source tarball and a binary package, initial database
creation, table creation etc... I'll go over some of the basic SQL you'll
need to get started and to correct simple mistakes, as well as some of the
nifty utilities that come with MySQL that you'll use often. Depending on
how I'm looking for time I'd also like to cover the basics of using PHP
and MySQL to create a quick database backed website using the skills
covered in the presentation.
I'll put an HTML version of my presentation, complete with working demo's
of whatever webpage we build during the presentation and the source code
used. Setting all of this up may lag a week or so behind the presentation,
depending on time constraints.
Things I won't be covering:
Third party MySQL clients
GUI clients
Languages other than PHP (however if anyone wants to prepare a hand-out or
say a few words about Perl+MySQL or any other language for that matter
that'd be cool)
Anything involving interfacing with M$ software
The main reason I won't be covering any of the above is because I have
little or no experiance with them, so it'd be hard to lecture on them ;->
If anyone has any other requests for MySQL material let me know and
I'll see if I can roll them into the talk.
"The Americans, who are the most efficient people on earth...have invented
so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an
amusing and animated converstation without giving a moments reflection
to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more
important matters of big business and fornication."
- W. Somerset Maugham
Josh Burroughs
augustus@acerbic.org
http://www.acerbic.org
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