Wimp Server is a combination of Windows7, IIS7, MySQL and PHP. Wimp Server installs automatically on your server. You don’t need to do any modifications. It also has a silent setup for unattended installs.
It is the replica of WAMP. So you can use Windows7 and PHP together.
You can download from this link.
http://wimp.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Home&version=2
If you want to generate PDF documents using PHP there is TCPPDF class.TCPPDF is an Open source PHP class for generating PDF documents.Beauty of this PHP Class is that it does not required any library for this purpose. (more…)
Due to the emergence of Citizen Journalism and Web2.0 emergence well established newspapers is facing lot of problem. So they are trying to innovate and trying to cope up the situation using the potential of Web2.0. Recently four Top Newspapers in Japan joined hands and released mobile applications to provide their content . Now The NewYork Times has opened its data for developers . Now developers can use NYT API to access its data.
This tutorial shows Python developers how to work with Python in the NetBeans IDE 6.5. It covers how to set up which Python runtime you want to use, how to create a new project, how to edit files, and how to run your programs. Use the NetBeans Python Editor for code completion, instant rename, quick fixes, catching unresolved or unused names, and import management. NetBeans also supports an interactive console and a debugger for Python.
Microsoft released an Open source CMS that can be used to develop small blogs to big websites. The CMS (Content Management System) has been named as Oxite .
This CMS has been developed in ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server . It provides everything a blogger needed like anonymous or authenticated commenting, comment moderation, gravatar support, RSS feeds, pingbacks, trackbacks, SEO optimized clean URLs, multiple blogs.
Unlike WordPress and Blogger Oxite is too complex for consumers and this has been developed from coders point of view so that they can use Microsoft
technologies .
Microsoft seems to be inspired by the success of WordPress and trying to grab the land for Microsoft technologies in fast growing CMS market .
Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15 percent expecting to do so within the next year, according to analysts at Gartner.
Gartner conducted its survey of 274 end-user organizations across the Asia/Pacific, Europe and North American markets in May and June, and announced the results .
Reason for using OSS(Open Source Software )by compnies are
1. Lower Cost of OSS
2. OSS provides some protection against single-vendor lock-in
3. Fast time to market
4.Avoidance of complex procurement rules and procedures,
Gartner also raised concern over lack of formal policies . According to “a lack of formal policies could open companies up to intellectual-property violations.”
In terms of the business processes for which open-source software is being used, customer service headed Gartner’s list, although enterprise integration, finance and administration and business analytics also showed strongly.
Now there is a good news for Python people.Now it is possible to to build AJAX apps in Python also which was a constraint earlier. Everytime when you would see Google Web Toolkit you might be furious why Java not Python. This problem has been solved by pyjamas.
pyjamas is a stand-alone python to javascript compiler, an AJAX framework / library and a Widget set API.If you want to write web applications in python you have every reason to wear pyjamas.
pyjamas structure
You can access Pyjamas Book .
Pyjamas can be downloaded from sourceforge, here. The current release is 0.3. Latest source code in development is available from sourceforge subversion, here.
Good news for open source community .Yahoo BrowserPlus, the technology platform from Yahoo that lets developers to create rich web applications with desktop capabilities, is going open source.
It seems Yahoo wants to compete with Google Gears with this move.
Here is the list of the sessions…
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WordPress has touched yet another milestone. WordPress has crossed 3 million mark. It has been a great achievement for WordPress and shows the growing clout of WordPress in blogging realm.
At exactly 9:25 PM PST today, the download counter at WordPress touched the 3 million mark.
That means WordPress 2.6 self-hosted software has been downloaded more than 3 million times from wordpress.org.
