Drupal is a content management system (CMS) built on the PHP and MySQL combination (detailed requirements here). I’ve been working with the latest version since its release at the beginning of this month. Drupal 4.7 is a significant upgrade that brings major short- and long-term benefits to users and distributors of the system. It brings Drupal back to the cutting edge of CMS development.
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LAMP installations (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) are a staple of many intranet and Internet open source applications. The “L” component in LAMP is perhaps less important than the other components, since many LAMP applications will run just as happily on a Windows platform as they will on Linux. Consider, for instance, EasyPHP, an “out of the box” Apache, MySQL, and PHP installation for Windows.
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The Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox browser is without a doubt an open source software success story. One of its strengths is the active development community that works to expand and improve the browser’s functionality through the development of Firefox extensions — small applications that add functionality to Firefox. Here are a few of my favorite extensions, all tested with Firefox 1.0.1 on Windows XP and Mandrakelinux …
Part 1: http://www.linux.com/articles/44131
Google News presents a wealth of historic and up to the minute news syndicated from a wide range of trusted news sources. Is it, however, more than just a glorified news syndication site?
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If your chosen search engine is your map of the Internet, complete with areas marked “here be dragons”, then your bookmarks (or “Favourites”) are your carefully placed map pins on that ever changing map. Lose them, and may have lost the information that they point to indefinitely. If, like me, you have several hundred bookmarks covering a diverse range of topics, you may never find all of that information again.
Backing up your bookmarks and favourites should be part of your “disaster recovery” scenario irrespective of whether you are a casual Internet user, consider yourself a “power user”, or like me, you are someone for whom hitting the Internet day-in-day-out is part of your job. Nobody likes the guy who doesn’t get his work done because he can’t find the office anymore!
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