Interviews

Interview--Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL
Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL is a robust and complete treatment of the processes and technologies that go into developing secure and scalable web applications. Ibrahim Haddad interviews the author to get the inside look on the state of open source Web development.
Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:52:55 AM EST

Reports

Komodo Breathes New Fire into IDE
Developing for Linux (or any other platform) is a cutting-edge proposition that demands the best tools for the best job. ActiveState's Komodo is one such tool, bringing sophistication and flexibility to open-source developers.
Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:17:35 AM EST

Koha: A Library Checks Out Open Source
Library software is an expensive and rather restrictive proprietary environment. "You get what you pay (a lot) for" seems to be the industry model. But one rural Ohio library is using a free software application developed in rural New Zealand to shatter this model and develop their own library management system.
Friday, August 30, 2002 04:13:55 PM EST

Implementing E-Commerce on Your Linux System
Looking to implement e-commerce on your Linux server? With these three open-source e-commerce tools--TallyMan, Yams, and OpenMerchant--Linux stands a good chance of becoming the dominant e-commerce OS. We look at all three of these Perl-based packages, currently available in alpha and beta.
Monday, December 20, 1999 06:49:10 PM EST

Perl and the Y2k problem
Tom Christiansen explores the y2k issue and how it relates to perl.
Wednesday, October 20, 1999 10:40:34 AM EST

Tutorials

How I Caught the Spam and What I Did With it When I Caught it
Longtime Perl programmer Mark-Jason Dominus tells us about an unhappy incident involving food and some lawyers. He also finds time tell us how to deal with annoying Email.
Thursday, October 14, 1999 03:43:35 PM EST

Setting Up a MySQL Based Website - Part I
Setting up a database backend is one of the important and sometimes difficult things to do with your web site. Lucky for you, we have this series of tutorials that will guide you through the basics of building a database backend using MySQL. In part one of this series on MySQL and its use as a web backend, we look at basic installation and coding a Perl / MySQL guestbook.
Friday, October 1, 1999 05:28:32 PM EST