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Computer Courses Online
EMT made hearts race on state time, report says
Columbus -- Kevin Evans, an emergency medical technician assigned full time to the Ohio Statehouse, had one of the cushiest jobs in state government. Paid $33,446 a year, he held down three other jobs, seldom punched a time clock and, with the permission of his supervisors, taught emergency medicine classes and took college courses while being paid by the state. On those days when he was at the Statehouse, investigators found, he spent an average of five hours a day trolling the Internet on his state computer, talking in chat rooms and setting up online dates. During their review of Evans' computer activity, investigators for Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles found that the 39-year-old EMS technician had expertise not only in shallow breathing but in heavy breathing, too.
RadioShack Offers Tech Courses Online
The tech world is getting more confusing every day. After all, we have HD, SACD, 1080p, LCoS, MP3 -- I could go on and on… Now you can decipher all of those acronyms and you won't even need a decoder ring. RadioShack has partnered with Powered, Inc. to offer consumer electronics education courses. The best part: You don't have to go anywhere because they're online and you don't have to pay anything because they are free. Each course is self-paced, and hopefully they won't be like the self-paced math class that I took in college, because, well -- let's just my pace was very slow. They are moderated by industry folk, people working in the tech field, and authors, so pay attention! Topics include setting up an HDTV, choosing a digital camera, computer shopping, taking technology on the go, and much more.
July 23rd, 2008 02:30 PM
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Practical Django Projects
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Chromodromic writes "Apress's newest Django offering, Practical Django Projects by James Bennett, weighs in lightly at 224 pages of actual tutorial content, but trust me, they're dense pages. Filled with pragmatic examples which directly address the kinds of development issues you will encounter when first starting out with Django, this book makes an important addition to the aspiring Django developer's reference shelf. In particular, the book's emphasis on demonstrating best practices while building complete projects does an excellent job of accelerating an understanding of Django's most powerful features — in a realistic, pragmatic setting — and which a developer will be able to leverage in very short order." Read below for the rest of Greg's review. 
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July 23rd, 2008 09:00 AM
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Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web
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Incon writes "Builder AU reports that Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Drizzle will have a micro-kernel architecture with code being removed from the Drizzle core and moved through interfaces into modules. Akers has already selected particular functionality for removal: modes, views, triggers, prepared statements, stored procedures, query cache, data conversion inserts, access control lists and some data types." 
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