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Courses Free Computer Books Online
Bulletin Board for Broward County
German movies (no subtitles), 7 p.m. at the German-American Society of Hollywood, 6401 Washington St. $1 donation for admission; $5 for meals. Call 954-322-6227. Concert with Johnny Vincent, 7-9 p.m. at the Deerfield Beach main parking lot, one block north of Hillsboro Boulevard on State Road A1A. Free. Call 954-480-4433. Lectures Robert's Rules Made Clear, 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Plantation Community Center, 5555 Palm Tree Road. Before the Plantation Unit of Parliamentarians business meeting. Free. Call 954-791-5957. Seniors Senior discussion group, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Northeast Focal Point Senior Center, 227 NW Second St., Deerfield Beach. $10 annual registration fee. Call 954-480-4447. Etc. Caring for the Caregiver, 4:30-6 p.m.
Perry County races see three incumbents challenged
"I believe that the Perry County Sheriff's Office is on the right path," Kellerman said. "I would like to see this positive form of government continue. The sheriff's office should be and is an office our citizens are proud of. This office has the largest budget within the county government, but I am financially responsible and with the programs that are in place, nearly one million dollars a year in revenue is generated by the Perry County Sheriff's Office."Kellerman said he believes the issues in the election are simple: "experience and knowledge. I believe a person should have these qualifications, especially with the ever-changing federal and state laws. A sheriff has to deal with many complicated issues on a daily basis from corrections, patrol, dispatch (communications) and investigations, rules and laws that pertain to federal and state inmates, drug cases and criminal investigations.
Library grant buys learning tools
Patrick Vickers of Marshfield has been using the computers at Marshfield Public Library an hour a day for about a month. "I got rid of my computer at home," he said. Leaning back in the computer chair, with walls separating the computer he was using from another, Vickers, 38, is able to do his business and e-mail work. "I like it, there's a little more privacy," he said. "It's your own work space." The separate stations are courtesy of a Mead-Witter Foundation grant the library received this year, said Lori Belongia, library director. "We have been purchasing furniture to replace our computer furniture," she said. "We had some very long tables that didn't provide much for privacy." The $10,000 grant was also used to buy magnetic sand tables for the children's department, large print books and children's activity books for parents and group leaders, which include special games and learning activities for kids.
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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