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How I coded in 1985. Back in 1985 I worked on the computerization of a machine designed to stick labels on bottles.

How I coded in 1985

The company that made the machines was using electromechanical controls to spool labels off a reel and onto products (such as bottles of shampoo) passing by on a conveyor. The entire thing needed to work with mm accuracy because consumers don't like labels that aren't perfectly aligned. Unfortunately, electromechanical controls aren't as flexible as computer controls and so the company had contracted a local technical college (where I was studying electronics) to prototype computer control using a KIM-1. Another student had put together the machine with a conveyor, a mechanism for delivering the labels, control of stepper motors, and infrared sensors for detecting labels and products. My job was to write the software in 6502 assembly. It was immediately obvious that computer control was going to be more flexible. PL/SQL Tutorial - PL/SQL variable declaration, constants. PL/SQL Placeholders Placeholders are temporary storage area.

PL/SQL Tutorial - PL/SQL variable declaration, constants

Placeholders can be any of Variables, Constants and Records. Oracle defines placeholders to store data temporarily, which are used to manipulate data during the execution of a PL SQL block. Depending on the kind of data you want to store, you can define placeholders with a name and a datatype. Few of the datatypes used to define placeholders are as given below. PL/SQL Variables These are placeholders that store the values that can change through the PL/SQL Block.

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PHP Editor Review - Articles Sql Phpmyadmin

It was developed by IBM (System/R project) in 1974-1979. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) published in 1986 the first official standard of the language (later revised in 1989, 1992 and 1999), and since then, the industry has widely adopted SQL as the relational database language. Virtually every database system nowadays is interfaced through SQL. The specific data architecture addressed by SQL is called the relational architecture.

In this article, we will use MySQL, a popular open-source implementation of SQL that is deployed by most Web host providers. To be able to do the exercises in this guide, you will need an access to a MySQL server. This guide will show you the SQL syntax, sometimes by asking you to enter statements, and sometimes by letting you see how phpMyAdmin generates SQL statements based on your actions using the interface. Become a Programmer, Motherfucker. If you don't know how to code, then you can learn even if you think you can't.

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[/box] This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, founder and CEO of Melonfire. These tutorials build on a previously-published 5-part series which has now been updated and extended to embrace PHP 5, making parts of it suitable for those of you who already have worked with PHP 4 in the past.

If you came here to learn about elementary PHP 4 or basic PHP 5, this is for you. PHP 101 (part 1): “Down the Rabbit Hole” An introduction to PHP’s variables and operators.PHP 101 (part 2): “Calling All Operators” The rest of the PHP operators (there are many), and simple form processing.PHP 101 (part 3): Looping The Loop Basic control structures explained.PHP 101 (part 4): The Food Factor Arrays, PHP array functions, and what it all means.

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The Art of Unix Programming

If you like it, please order a paper copy. You can get it from Amazon or Barnes & Noble, or direct from Addison-Wesley. The Art of Unix Programming attempts to capture the engineering wisdom and philosophy of the Unix community as it's applied today — not merely as it has been written down in the past, but as a living "special transmission, outside the scriptures" passed from guru to guru. Accordingly, the book doesn't focus so much on "what" as on "why", showing the connection between Unix philosophy and practice through case studies in widely available open-source software.

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