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Understanding LAMP
I spend a lot of time working with LAMP technology and telling people how to make the best of the LAMP stack. But you’d be surprised about how many people don’t really understand what the LAMP stack actually is. The reality of course is that it is…
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Hosting Services and free software
I’ve started a new series, through the Free Software Magazine newsletter, on the use of open source technology by hosting services, including the ready-to-run applications such as WordPress, phpBB and Gallery. The aim is to look at these individua…
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Beyond The Big Three BSDs, BSD Alternatives
A while back I wrote an article for ServerWatch.com that covered the three main BSD distributions; FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. The article looked at the ‘other’ free software operating system range (BSD) and how it compared to Linux. I also looke…
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OpenSolaris and Linux
Regular readers will know I am both a fan of Linux and Solaris, for different reasons and, often, different solutions and environments. Back at the beginning of October I wrote this mammoth piece on my Computerworld blog: Distributions and standar…
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More New Blogs
As part of the ongoing expansion of the work that I do I am adding some further blogs to the range of titles and topics that I currently write about. Some of the new blogs are merely a way of sensibly dividing up the content I produce so that read…
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Sun Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation on the way
Laptop Solaris wast originally created to look at the use of Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris on a laptop to see how good an alternative it was to using Windows or Linux. By a strange convenience thought I’m going to be getting a genuine Sun Ultra 3 Mob…
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New Blog at Free Software Magazine
As if I didn’t have enough to do…. I’m now a blogger at Free Software Magazine. I’ve posted a little ‘Welcome, this is what I plan to do here’ piece as my first piece. The page for the blog is here, or you can subscribe to the RSS feed using thi…
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LinuxWorld Expo 2005 Report
I recently attended the LinuxWorld Expo 2005 here in London, UK on the 5th October. This was the first dedicated Linux show I’ve been to, and I have to say I was impressed. It was a lot smaller than I expected – about 60 stands – and some of the l…
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No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP, Thomas Myer
PHP doesn’t spring to mind when thinking about processing XML data, but PHP is a better solution than you might think. Since PHP is used to develop websites, which use HTML a standard based on the principles of XML, PHP is a sensible choice. PHP a…
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MySQL Storage Engines
One of the key reasons why MySQL is so flexible is because of the support for different storage engines. Rather than supporting a single method for storing information you can choose the optimal method for your database and application. But how do…