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Free Online Computer Tafe Courses
Study: HBCUs Took in a Third of Black College Students Displaced ...
About one third of the 9,600 HBCU students displaced in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina found a higher education home at other historically black colleges and universities throughout the country, according to a new study by Atlanta researcher Mike Weaver. In many cases, it meant that the HBCUs accepted the students without the benefit of their financial aid because they had already paid to attend their home institutions, Weaver told BlackAmericaWeb.com. "If it weren't for HBCUs, many of the students who were displaced by Katrina may not have gone to school at all," Weaver said. "We are our brothers' and sisters' keeper. That is what HBCUs have done traditionally. Hurricane Katrina brought out the best in HBCUs." A total of 67 HBCUs received students who fled from Dillard, Xavier and Southern University New Orleans.
RadioShack and Powered Launch Free Online Consumer Electronics ...
Each course will be moderated and taught by subject matter experts from across the country, including award-winning authors, technology leaders and technology professionals. Powered, which worked with RadioShack to develop and host the course content at the new RadioShack Learning Center, is a provider of online consumer education programs for some of the world's leading brands, including HP and Sony. "Customers give credit to RadioShack for its knowledgeable sales associates who help them understand new technologies and select the best solutions for their individual needs," said Cara Kinzey, RadioShack's senior vice president-information technologies. "We are now bringing that distinctive world-class customer service to online shoppers as well." Kinzey said certain subjects regarding technology can appear daunting to some customers, so allowing them to gain a measure of comfort using a self- paced online course is a convenient solution.
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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