The African Globalist touches on issues brought about by the convergence of technology, open markets and global business strategy. It also chronicles lessons learned on an ongoing projects including a web-based content management system in PHP, ASP.Net development and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
For those developing MySQL database solutions, you may have wondered what the difference is between InnoDB vs. ISAM vs. Heap database tables. This TechRepublic article titled, “A fast and furious guide to MySQL database engines” is a great primer that explains in a nutshell, the different database engines supported by MySQL and why you would [...]
Posted on May 8th, 2008 by andai
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The MySQL database management system, available under the GNU license (also available under a number of other propriety licenses) is very popular, especially for web applications, due to its speed. I believe part of its speed is because it had certain features one comes to expect in DBMSs missing. Some of these features included referential [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2007 by andai
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I have spent the last two days trying to configure a new install of PHP 5.2 to work on with my new local install of Xitami web server. This was not a great experience simply because I could not get PHP to work satisfactorily with Xitami.
What’s even worse is that there is no longer [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2007 by andai
Filed under: .Net, ASP.Net, C#, CMS, Content Management Systems, MySQL, PHP, Web Development | No Comments »
I am done with the initial base templates I plan to use.
Currently the templates are straight XHTML and CSS but I will have to incorporate some PHP code in them. However before I can do this, I must first turn my attention back to the PHP classes that I had started developing.
The plan now is [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2007 by andai
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