While the vast majority of existing open source web publishing systems rely on database back-ends, there are quite a few high-quality applications that use plain text files instead of databases to store and manage data. These applications offer a few advantages that make them viable alternatives to the database-driven applications.

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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.

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.

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"In this short tutorial we will take a look at comparison operations, some arithmetic operations and modules..."

Some time ago, I dumped Windows for Linux. It wasn't an easy task to do so. I not only gave up PC gaming pretty much (more on that), but also had to make my hardware work, and not only set up essentially a fresh computer but do so while figuring out how to do things I'd normally be able to do while sleeping.

Shae Stevens in the Ubuntulite group has put together a workable deb that, when installed via aptitude, brings in the entire framework for an ultralight system. It’s built around Openbox with XDM, and has a nice array of default applications to keep your old Pentium II in business.