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Big pimpin' on Halloween
But where to go, what to do and who to do it with? The Desert Sun has complied a list of holiday parties beginning tonight through Tuesday. Tonight Zeldaz Dance Club and Beach Club, 169 N. Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springs 325-2375 Operating for almost 30 years, Zeldaz will hold it's annual "Pimp & Ho Halloween Ball" tonight. Anyone who's been to Zeldaz knows the club motto, "What happens at Zeldaz stays at Zeldaz" - and that's just on regular nights. A lot can happen at a Pimp & Ho party, but you'll probably be too ashamed to talk about in the next morning. There will also be a $500 costume contest for the best pimp and ho. .
Biometric scans served up with school meals
PUPILS at a Scots primary school have become the first in the world to pay for their lunches by having their palms scanned rather than by handing over cash. Biometric technology which allows them to be identified through their hands' unique vein patterns has been introduced at Todholm Primary in Paisley. .
Establishing a more reliable WebCT service
Most students have noticed that WebCT has not been working properly over the past four weeks.
For the classes that simply use it for discussion and posting of assignments, this does not create much of a problem. However, for classes such as Professor Barry Joe's first year German course and his computer mediated communications course, which are structured around the use of WebCT, the past four weeks have proven to be quite difficult.
"I have integrated WebCT and its online capacities into the pedagogical strategies I use to deliver all of my courses. From holding synchronous virtual Office Hours to assigning a nominal grade for the communal posting of class minutes, I ensure that I maintain a broad range of communication with my students," said Joe.
"In my beginners' german language course, in particular, I have also woven the on-line evaluation capabilities of the system into my pedagogical strategy for second-language acquisition.
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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