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  • Learn CouchDB by Doing

    CouchDB Surfing: Learn by Doing Apache CouchDB

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | 3 Comments
    Get up to speed quickly with simple installation, configuration, and code examples. There are some great books on how to get under the hood of CouchDB, but for now I’m going to just get in and get my hands dirty.

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  • linux, apache2, mysql5, php, perl, python

    Install Apache, MySQL, PHP, and PHPMyAdmin

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
    Anyone under the sun who wants/needs a development platform for themselves should be using (imo) a LAMP server. It's fast, easy and can grow with you and your projects regardless of your choice of distribution.

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  • Practical Python Programming #1

    Practical Python Programming #1

    Posted on July 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Welcome to my Practical Python Programming post, hopefully this will be the first of many. If you have been following my 'An Introduction to Python Programming' posts series, then you may already know that in this post we are going to be having some fun. We are going to be creating a text based 'Guess the Number' game.

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  • An Introduction to Python Programming #4

    An Introduction to Python Programming #4

    Posted on July 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Welcome to my forth Python Programming introduction post. In this post we are going to be looking at lists and random numbers.If you have used another programming language before, then you have probably heard of an array, well, a python list is just an array, and in the same way you can have multi dimensional lists.

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  • An Introduction to Python Programming #3

    An Introduction to Python Programming #3

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Hi, welcome to my third Python programming introduction post. In post #2 we looked at the basics of flow control using conditional statements. In this post we will be taking a look at another fundamental aspect of flow control; loops. A loop is a way of running a particular block of code more than once [...]

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  • An Introduction to Python Programming #2

    An Introduction to Python Programming #2

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
    Welcome to my second python programming post. In the first post we looked at the print statement used to print to the screen, and we also looked at basic user input via the raw_input() function. We also looked at basic variable declaration and useage. In this post we will be taking a look at some [...]

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