http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/ 2010-07-29T15:21:34-06:00 http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/ http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-07-24T17:54:26-06:00 Larry Anderson http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=commvex:start&rev=1280015666&do=diff COMMVEX ROCKS! A few glimpses of Saturday: Commodore Server: - <http://www.commodoreserver.com/> July 24-25 2010 at the Plaza Hotel, #1 Main Street, Las Vegas, NV CommVEx 2010, the Commodore Vegas Expo! Saturday July 24th: 11am to 5pm (or later) Sunday July 25th: 11am to 5pm at the Plaza Hotel 1 Main Street, Las Vegas, NV 3rd Floor - Room: Jockey-1 presented by the Fresno Commodore User Group and the Clark County Commodore Computer Club of Las Vegas. It's Vegas, baby! CommVE… text/html 2010-07-22T11:09:17-06:00 Commvex Crew http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=commvex:presentations_guests&rev=1279818557&do=diff R.J. Mical -- Amiga/Commodore software engineer, one of the original Amiga design team -- created Amiga Intuition, the windowing and menu interface for the Amiga Dale Luck -- Amiga software engineer, one of the original Amiga design team -- Wrote the Amiga graphic libraries, invented/implemented the moving screens, wrote the layer library, invented the hardware line draw, and more. text/html 2010-07-22T11:02:44-06:00 Commvex Crew http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=commvex:vendor_info&rev=1279818164&do=diff Vendor Tables Still Available! Exhibit tables are free...just pay the $10 admission. Vending tables are free... just pay the $10 admission and give one item for the raffle. For more details, contact Robert Bernardo at: <rbernardo@iglou.com> Tim Waite Sales Tim Waite will be bring a variety of Commodore and Amiga hardware and software to sell or to give away. text/html 2010-07-20T18:02:43-06:00 Larry Anderson http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=commvex:also_in_vegas&rev=1279670563&do=diff <http://www.vegasexperience.com/#/home/> While at the Plaza, check out the Ultimate Elvis Competition from 8pm to midnight on Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th. Over 30 Elvi will be competing and there will be Elvis themed Karoke after the competition. Something for the photo album! text/html 2010-07-12T22:24:38-06:00 Larry Anderson http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_07:07-12_unique_record_ids&rev=1278995078&do=diff If you do a search for Unique Record IDs you will probably find several hits, as it is one of the common problems in data application design, many use a serial number or hashed random number with some check to verify that there is not other occurrence of the number in the table... But what if you have a system that will merge data from intermittently connected tables from different locations (aka a distributed/replicated database) What you want is each instance of the database to generate an I… text/html 2010-07-10T23:47:38-06:00 Larry Anderson http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_07:07-10_my_table_field_naming_tips&rev=1278827258&do=diff There are lots of guidelines for naming functions, objects and variables in PHP and other languages but when I started with MySQL I didnt find one that applied to databases. Fortunately I did one I saw once in an example (I don't remember where) and have added to it. text/html 2010-07-08T23:20:49-06:00 Larry Anderson http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_07:07-08_lamp_rocks&rev=1278652849&do=diff A few years ago I had to revamp our database (written in FoxBase), after frustration with Microsoft's FoxPRO (don't trust MS for supporting thier Applications) much research I chose (without knowing it) the LAMP stack, which consists of: * Linux OS * Apache Webserver * MySQL database * PHP programming language text/html 2010-07-07T19:52:05-06:00 Larry Anderson http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=commvex:commvex_raffle&rev=1278553925&do=diff YOU DON'T HAVE BE PRESENT TO WIN! tickets are $10 each - or three for $20 ENTER BY MAIL! FCUG 502 Whitney Lane Visalia, CA 93277 remember to list prize (separate raffle for each item), your name, and address Images are not of the actual items text/html 2010-07-07T00:57:07-06:00 Commvex Crew http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=commvex:exhibits&rev=1278485827&do=diff Amiga One G4 w/OS 4.1 update 2 The AmigaOne is a PPC motherboard capable of running Amiga OS4.x. See Amiga OS 4.1, the Timberwolf web browser, and the OWB (Other Web Browser) in action! A1 courtesy of Lars Nelson. Modified SX 64 A souped-up SX form portable Commodore 64 computing sporting a CMD FD-4000 3 1/2” drive (device 9) in the second “slot” of the SX-64. Secondarily, computer reset switch in the back, extra audio jack installed in the back, and JiffyDOS (with switch installed in the … text/html 2010-07-05T22:42:44-06:00 Larry Anderson http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:2010_07:07-05_necessity_is_the_mother_of_invention&rev=1278391364&do=diff Most inventions are made because people develop an answer to a need. Regardless of the education or skills of the creator, invention still happens. When I read about how you need this degree or that education to be a productive member of modern society I recall newsreels Ive seen from the 1920s and 1930s of lots of ordinary Joes' working on new inventions... Many of what I remember of those are the humorous flops, but amongst all those there were many successes.