Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
IBM are close to releasing the next version of their DB2 database, codenamed ‘Viper’, which they plan will steal some of Oracle’s market share. Unless they have changed things though, I am not a fan of DB2 from experience developing a web-based application over the last 2 years that has DB2 at the backend. The …
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Zend, the company behind the major and most commonly used implementation of PHP, have released a PHP engine for Oracle, that includes support for Oracle databases. This could be a major stepping stone for PHP adoption and usage with the major database vendors on enterprise development projects. Up until now PHP have been mainly associated …
Komplete is a CMS system developed in PHP. To install on Apache using the PHP module there are a number of other requirements that must be met. After dropping the komplete dir into your /var/www/html/ dir and configuring access in httpd.conf to that directory, the installation page for Komplete guides you through what prequisites are …
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My linux server went down last weekend and would no longer boot. It had some sort of hardware issue with the disk controller card, and when it rebooted it would no longer see the card. Strangely, after leaving it off for half hour and trying again it came back to life. However, when I powered …