The Python development community announced Thursday the official release of version 2.6. It includes support for new syntactic features, new modules, and some structural improvements. Python 3.0 will be the first major release to break backwards compatibility with prior versions. Python 2.6 provides backwards compatibility with the 2.0 series but also includes many features that have been backported from Python 3.0.

Python 2.6 introduces the new format method for string types. The format method, which is based on PEP 3101, can be used as an alternative to the string “%” operator and facilitates more sophisticated interpolation capabilities.

Development on Python 3.0 is moving along quickly and the first release candidate was issued last month. To download Python 2.6, visit the official web site.

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Now make money with your website traffic. This video will explain the basics of what you need to do to add Google Adsense to Joomla. This video is created by joomlapackages.

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These are some of my favorite programming quotes:

• There are 10 kinds of people in this world….Those who understand binary and those who don’t. - Anonymous
• For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman
• Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. - Ralph Johnson
• Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray. - Anonymous
• Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. - Donald Knuth
• If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. - Edsger W. Dijkstra
• Real Programmers don’t need comments—the code is obvious. - Anonymous
• program, n.: A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one’s input into error messages. tr.v. To engage in a pastime similar to banging one’s head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. - luc.aleaume.free.fr
• Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. - Bill Gates

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Do you want to know the IP address of a visitor? Have you ever concerned about your readers’s IPs? Where are they from?

You can use the following code to obtain the IP adress of a visitor.

< ?php
echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
?>

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Following the Firefox 3.0.2 update last week, Mozilla has posted another update yesterday. Firefox 3.0.3 eliminates a bug in the browser’s password manager that refuses to fetch previously saved passwords in forms. Mozilla confirmed the problem and said that there is another bug that resets the UTF8 converter after it encounters an invalid data entry. The developers promise that the issue will be resolved with Firefox 3.0.4.

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PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro  Guide

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It hasn’t taken Web developers long to discover that when it comes to creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites, MySQL and PHP provide a winning open source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there’s no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that developers can create. With step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, and expert tips to guide readers, veteran author and database designer Larry Ullman gets right down to business: After grounding readers with separate discussions of first the scripting language (PHP) and then the database program (MySQL), he goes on to cover security, sessions and cookies, and using additional Web tools, with several sections devoted to creating sample applications.

This guide is indispensable for intermediate- to advanced level Web designers who want to replace their static sites with something dynamic. In this edition, the bulk of the new material covers the latest versions of both technologies: PHP 6 (due out in 2008) and MySQL 5 (available now). The book’s publication date is likely to beat the official release of PHP 6, making it one of the first books available on the subject.

Get it from Amazon at: PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro  Guide

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Removing The Navigation Bar in your blogger account.

1. Log in your Blogger account.
2. From the Dashboard, go to Layout
3. Choose Edit HTML
4. Scroll down, and look for :

   <b:skin><![CDATA[/*

5. Copy and Paste:

   #navbar-iframe {
   	height:0px;
   	visibility:hidden;
   	display:none
   }
   

6. Save your template and you are finished!

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Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.  This update patches numerous bugs, improves performance, and even adds a few new features.

Visual Studio 2008 Updates

The improvements for Visual Studio 2008 include:

• Improved WPF designers
• SQL Server 2008 support
• ADO.NET Entity Designer
• Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’)
• Team Foundation Server (TFS) usability and performance improvements
• Richer JavaScript support, enhanced AJAX and data tools, and Web site deployment improvements

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Eight bytes walk into a bar.  The bartender asks, “Can I get you anything?”

“Yeah,” reply the bytes.  “Make us a double.”

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Q. How did the programmer die in the shower?
A. He read the shampoo bottle instructions: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

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Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas?
Because Oct 31 equals Dec 25.

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“Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?”
very long pause….
“Java.”

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Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.

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Programming is like sex:
One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

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A man is smoking a cigarette and blowing smoke rings into the air.  His girlfriend becomes irritated with the smoke and says, “Can’t you see the warning on the cigarette pack?  Smoking is hazardous to your health!”

To which the man replies, “I am a programmer.  We don’t worry about warnings; we only worry about errors.”

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There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks.

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A programmer is walking along a beach and finds a lamp.  He rubs the lamp, and a genie appears.  “I am the most powerful genie in the world.  I can grant you any wish, but only one wish.”

The programmer pulls out a map, points to it and says, “I’d want peace in the Middle East.”

The genie responds, “Gee, I don’t know.  Those people have been fighting for millenia.  I can do just about anything, but this is likely beyond my limits.”

The programmer then says, “Well, I am a programmer, and my programs have lots of users.  Please make all my users satisfied with my software and let them ask for sensible changes.”

At which point the genie responds, “Um, let me see that map again.”

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All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.

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