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Open Source

Your own apache web server

by Terry Dunn January 25, 2010

The apache web server is officially the most popular web server in the world, beating Microsoft IIS. And as it’s open source, it’s free. You can download the apache webserver onto your own PC and run a webserver from anywhere. However, the process is a little technical with some integration required if you want SQL or [...]

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Installing PHP scripts

by Terry Dunn January 11, 2010

Have you ever been designing or building a website and thought you’d like to add a great feature to your web page you just know visitors and users would love? Did you know you can? There are thousands of free, open source scripts available for you to add to your website. You can do almost [...]

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An introduction to joomla

by Terry Dunn December 24, 2009

Have you heard about joomla? Perhaps you’ve heard the name or seen the geeky text books and wondered what it’s all about. It used to be called mambo, but joomla is the current incarnation. Joomla is an open source and very powerful content management system or framework. It’s free, easy to install, simple to manage, [...]

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The android open source project

by Terry Dunn December 3, 2009

If you’ve been shopping for mobile phones or other mobile devices, you’ve probably heard of Android. It’s the new open source operating system for mobile devices. Only last week I was shown a iphone look-alike that ran Android and it’s proud owner demonstrated all the amazing things it could do for me. I was impressed.
But [...]

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Open source is free software

by Terry Dunn November 5, 2009

Do you use open source software? If you don’t, Tom Merritt from Cnet says you are wasting money. For almost every application or program you use on your computer that you buy, you can get a free version. There are thousands of free open source programs available to download from wordprocessing to image editing. And [...]

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A drupal tutorial

by Terry Dunn October 28, 2009

Drupal, the open source content management system, has been chosen to host the whitehouse website. Tim O’Reilly in his article on the Government switch says the whitehouse liked the flexibilty of Drupal and it’s huge range of features and add-ins. It’s a big vote of confidence for open source software in general and Drupal in [...]

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