[Glastonbury] Newbie to Glastonbury LUG

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:28:23PM +0000, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Nigel Goldsmith wrote:
> 
> >  I have been lurking on the newsgroup for
> > about a week now. Hoping to see details of when and where you meet.
> 
Welcome and good luck :)
> 
> The scheduled Martin & Sean show (Apache, PHP & MySQL interworking)
> actually resolved itself to the Sean show only (you can only plug one
> laptop into the projector at a time); but an impressive virtuoso
> demonstration of using technicolour vi was given, on top of the very
> useful demo of relationships within a relational database, and how to
> manipulate them and view them from the command line as well as via a gui
> such as phpmyadmin.  (And what it all looks like on a web-page, of
> course.)
> 
Technicolour vi - HEATHEN PROFLIGATE. 
vi nust be white/green on black in either 40 or 80 columns.
And, for those backsliders who think differently - there _is_ no other 
editor but vi. [EMACS = Eighty megs and constantly swapping :) ]
> 
>   [mw]  http://startext.demon.co.uk/lugog/
> and
>   [sm]  http://seanmiller.net/lugog/
Thanks for these.
> 
>  -- be aware, it's still in a state of flux as we add explanatory notes,
> etc.  (And none of my own stuff was demonstrated, anyway, so it's a case
> of having to read the source to find out what it's all about to begin
> with!)
> 
> Only other comments to add to the evening:
>   -  Scribus installs no problem under Debian -- don't know what the
> hassle was with RH9;
But needs intelligent handling to get best results.
>   -  the CMS Sean demonstrated -- phpwebsite -- requires PHP 4.2.2 to
> run -- OK if you're running Knoppix (which gives PHP 4.2.3 out of the
> box) -- but not if you're using stable/testing, which is still stuck at
> 4.1.2
Unstable gives you 4.3

All the best

Andy