Tutoring promise proving hard to keep
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Sandra Senda wanted a free private tutor for her kids, just like the No Child Left Behind law promised. She had no idea the deal came with a big headache.
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In brief Exploit circulating for unpatched vuln
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On his blog, Stuart Herbert has a quick tip showing how to mimic a feature of Ruby on Rails:   I'm still working on the next article in my series looking at PHP on servers, so in the mean time, check out this simple way to emulate Ruby's nice way of handling separate getter, setter and state query methods in PHP.   He admits his example isn't as elegant as the Ruby method, but it does get the job done. Code for the method is included in his post ready for cut and pasting.
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A one-year vow seems pretty straightforward, but there's always a gray area
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By MICHAEL HIMOWITZ  With their newly minted high school graduates headed off to college this fall, millions of parents face two agonizing prospects. One is coming up with the first tuition check. The other is buying their freshman a computer.
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The list of those who come with a great deal of promise and then failed to deliver grows endlessly long.
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Science instructor Roxanne Hunker&#39;s methods are a bit unorthodox: She shuns science textbooks and seldom assigns homework. Yet year after year, her hands-on instruction has groomed a multitude
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"Rubinius is a project to watch", so says Charles Nutter in his post Rite, Rubinius, and Everything &mdash; I think he's right.  Evan is hard at work making things work better in rubinius.  He's now got continuations working (I think this makes him the first alternative implementation of Ruby to do so), and says he should have serializable continuations soon (see his post on it here).  W00t!
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Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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The complicated etiquette of saying "Get lost" online.
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Simple to code does not always mean simple for the user. And simple for the user is often not easy to code.
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Save a bundle by learning from other people's mistakes.
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Another lesson in two may not be greater than one.
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By Rohani, Sohrab; Mirmehrabi, Mahmoud  (ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes formulae omitted.)  Q.
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At the end of her teaching day, Felicita Figueroa would like nothing more than to leave her crumbling, rat-infested school building in the Puerto Rican capital. But to pay her bills, she needs to stay late and offer private tutoring sessions.
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By Talia Buford; Journal Staff Writer  WEST WARWICK - When it comes to school fundraising these days, apparently, a bake sale just won't do.