PHP Oracle Web Development is a new book from Packt that helps users to combine the power, scalability, and reliability of the Oracle Database with the ease of use, short development time, and high performance of PHP.
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Books: SugarCRM Developer's Manual: Customize and extend SugarCRM
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Following on from the success of their first book on SugarCRM, Packt is pleased to announce its follow up. Written by CRM expert Dr Mark Alexander Bain, SugarCRM Developer's Manual focuses on customizing this open source CRM.
Read more »Google can crawl text in Flash files
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Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we've improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology.
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Tips and tricks. Is it safe to run sysreport in production?
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Sysreport is a diagnostic utility. It collects information about the running system, which is used for Red Hat Support to analyze current problems with the system. While sysreport is generally considered non-invasive, diagnostic utilities should always be run with caution.
Read more »NVIDIA Workstation Performance: Windows vs. Linux vs. Solaris
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The performance of the NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 512MB is tested on Linux, Solaris and Windows XP.
Read more »Book: Joomla! Template Design: Create your own professional-quality templates with this fast, friendly guide
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Packt is pleased to announce a new book on designing Joomla! templates. Written by Tessa Blakeley Silver, Joomla! Template Design is a complete guide for web designers to all aspects of designing unique website templates for the free Joomla! PHP Content Management System.
Read more »Improve your PHP Coding Productivity with new CodeIgniter Book
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This book explains how to work with CodeIgniter in a clear and logical manner. It is not a detailed guide to the syntax of CodeIgniter, but makes an ideal complement to the existing online CodeIgniter user guide, helping users grasp the bigger picture and bringing together many ideas to get your application development started as smoothly as possible. If you're looking for a better way to develop PHP applications, or want to find out more about the CodeIgniter framework as a viable option for one of your own projects, this book will help you. It carefully explains the basic concepts of CodeIgniter and its MVC architecture by walking through the main features of CodeIgniter in a systematic way, explaining them clearly with illustrative code examples.
Read more »Top 5 Reasons to love iphone 3G
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After finally getting my iPhone 3G ,I spent most of my time playing with the Apps and App Store. It’s early days but there already some amazing Apps available for the iPhone. This list features top 5 reasons to love or live with iphone 3G.
Read more »OpenOffice non è l'Office gratuito!! « Il blog di Sleeping
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In this article in Italian, I want to present the Open Office suite and showing why it should be chosen instead of M$ Office and all the qualities it has. If you understand Italian, you're welcome to read it, but you're welcome to read it anyway...
Read more »SLED 10 SP1: a great Linux desktop gets better
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Sometimes, a service pack comes along that really makes a big difference. Take NT. Before SP3, it was garbage; afterwards Microsoft had its first server operating system that was worth anything. XP before SP2 was so-so, but after SP2, it became Microsoft's best desktop operating system ever (sorry, Vista).
Read more »So what's the easiest box to hack - Vista, Ubuntu or OS X?
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Tired of all the knee-jerk banter from fanboys about whose operating system is the most secure? So are the organizers of the CanSecWest security conference, which will be held in Vancouver later this month. And with a contest awarding as much as $25,000 worth of prizes, they're likely to breathe fresh life into a stale debate.
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Mandriva Linux 2009 Alpha 2
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The second alpha for Mandriva Linux 2009 is now available. There is information about the new release in various places:
* Mandriva Linux 2009 release notes: these will be updated to reflect the status of the current pre-release.
* Mandriva Linux 2009 Errata: these will be updated to reflect the status of the current pre-release.
Moonlight (Silverlight for Linux) is available now
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In another “not quite Windows Live but still cool” post, Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems, is now available in both Silverlight v1.o and 2.0 builds. Silverlight, while it still has a long way to go to become as widely adapted as Adobe’s Flash, is leading the charge for Microsoft to become a more open eco-system for development.
Read more »A Switch Even a Penguin Can Love
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Carla Schroder
I must confess to harboring a bit of a superior attitude toward my colleagues who think they need pricey Cisco and other snooty brand-name networking gear for every little thing. Linux and inexpensive x86 hardware handle all but the most demanding networking tasks capably and inexpensively. I like having complete control and customizability, and not having to pay per-user taxes.
Abyss: a small, sweet Web server
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If you need to set up a secure, easily configurable Web server in as short a time as possible, then Abyss Web Server might just be the product for you. In development since 2002, its current version (2.5) runs on Linux, BSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. Its simple installation and setup (no obscure text configuration files) allows you to code your site with PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, and even ASP.Net, if you're using the Windows version.
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