[Glastonbury] Newbie to Glastonbury LUG

[Sean Miller]

> 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 :) ]

Next you'll be telling me that people who have a version of 'vi' where the
arrow keys and pagedown etc. work are the spawn of Satan!! Who needs arrow
keys when you've got h, j, k and l to do all that you heart would ever
desire ;-)

Seriously, though, 'vi' is the only editor for me... having been using it
for well over 10 years as my main editor at work (colleagues who have been
lured by the colourful nothingness of GUI editors and IDEs laugh at my
quaint antiquity) I can do most things very quickly in 'vi' that might take
me ridiculously long using ANO editor or tool.  Talking of differing
perceptions, after 2 minutes of watching me write code on the mysql command
prompt on Wednesday even that bastion of quaint antiquity, Martin Wheeler,
was heard to exclaim "For goodness sake Sean... switch to phpMyAdmin...
PLEASE...!!"

...I did, briefly, but made sure that the database created through
phpMyAdmin had an appropriate name...

> >   [sm]  http://seanmiller.net/lugog/
> Thanks for these.

I shall be writing a few pages on relational database design and
implementation over the next couple of weeks which I shall post at the same
URL -- at the moment I have so little time in my days, but hopefully this
will get better once I've sent away my well overdue newsletter, and put my
current work project to bed.

> > Only other comments to add to the evening:
> >   -  Scribus installs no problem under Debian -- don't know what the
> > hassle was with RH9;

I shall have to revisit Scribus -- I may have screwed up somewhere in the
compile stage... will probably blow it all away and start again... sometimes
this solves such things.

> >   -  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

Martin's Debian mates seem to like things to have been going a while before
they'll certify them "stable" -- php 4.2.2 came out about 18 months ago and
has been certified by its writers as stable for over a year (from memory) --
I have heard rumours that Debian are now certifying the 486dx2/66 as a
stable platform, Pentiums being in a beta testing stage and anything over
500Mhz "bleeding edge" ;-)

Sean