Richard Dooling has a nice tutorial that will have you running Python on Windows XP in seven (not eight!) minutes. I’ve been using a bit of Python lately for automating some tasks on an older Windows Server. I could be using the old DOS Batch language, but instead decided to look at a fully featured, all purpose scripting language. I know that the time I spend learning Python will pay real dividends in the future when a whole lot more will be done with it than ever will again be with DOS! I’ll bet that describes your mindset as well so if you are on XP go take a look at this well-written tutorial.
PHP Ticketing System
PHP Ticket is an open-source PHP/MySQL based ticketing system that includes user management through sessions, a search function and several other features to simply ticket management. Â What a time saver this will be for anyone who makes use of tickets in their organization or as responsible for choosing a process to manage their ticketing system. I haven’t actually tried this myself but by the looks of the screenshots at least it appears to be an extremely user friendly and clear method to set up a system to more easily manage your tickets.
You can also view a demo of the PHP ticket system online.