I'll be teaching a class on "dynamic websites" to some designers. What's the best (and free) way to get them playing around with MySQL? [more inside]
posted by jragon on Jun 10, 2012 - 7 answers

I'm learning PHP and MySQL, trying to work from scratch before I ramping up to a framework. I've installed a templating system, just to play with it, so my templating/view logic feels well-organized. But how do I organize the other simple DB query code so it's more MVC-ish? [more inside]
posted by circular on Sep 13, 2011 - 17 answers

I have 3-5 days (starting tomorrow!) in which I'm off from work, and have really nothing planned. As a developer geek in a crappy economy, I'm looking at looming unemployment and/or the start of a freelance career in the very near future. I want to this time making "something" that I can use in my portfolio to show potential employers/clients. What on earth can I build? [more inside]
posted by cgg on Aug 4, 2009 - 8 answers

I am going to be creating a website that tracks events, and I'd like the user experience to be easy and configurable. Can you recommend an event management software? [more inside]
posted by al_fresco on Sep 6, 2007 - 1 answer

Can anyone point me to a good documentation/samples for building an app using mod_python and cheetah? (and mySQL/DBUtils etc)? [more inside]
posted by karen on Feb 14, 2006 - 2 answers