(Brian Hendrickson) Porting the ASP.NET application for the Race to Linux has been quite a challenge this week. I was eager to test my latest development tools, which include a small persistent PHP framework with a data access layer, and a new novice-friendly generative software development applicat

(Vawn Himmelsbach) Governments are considering open-source technologies as an alternative to costly proprietary software . But while they’re past the science project stage and starting to get real benefits from open source , there’s still some confusion and fear surrounding the low-cost software al

(Paul Sterne and Nicholas Herring) As a businessman, the Advertising and Conversion Models are more interesting, but from a raw power standpoint the Membership Model may be more important. So in the spirit of journalistic integrity, I have adjusted the Open Source Business Models graphic to correct

(Carsten Pedersen) MySQL 5.0 introduced Stored Procedures which allow us to automate or program our way out of many tasks on directly on the server rather than having to write external scripts to do complex manipulation of data.

In this example, we are going to develop a BIRT listing report. We will use a bugzilla database installed on MySQL as our data source. What we would like to show in this report is a listing of all current bugs in the system. This will be a simple yet powerful report, showing groupings on Bugzilla Pr

(Carl “C.J.” Collier) The Synchronization Manager (SyncMan) provides a platform for database-agnostic data replication and synchronization. The platform is built on Java technologies such as the Java Messaging Service (JMS) and the Java Database Connectivity framework (JDBC). The core SyncMan serv

(James Niccolai) ANTs Software has released an update to its high-speed relational database that adds compatibility for applications written for databases from MySQL and IBM’s Informix division.

(Marc Wandschneider) At some point in coding, you will want to reuse some code that you have already written. Personal Home Page (PHP) provides a number of ways to organize and reuse code – starting with functions, the most straightforward way to reuse code.

(Andrew Dunstan) Most Perl users are familiar with using Perl to talk to databases. Perl’s DBI is, along with ODBC and JDBC, one of the most common and widely ported database client interfaces. The DBI driver for PostgreSQL, DBD::Pg, is very well-maintained, and quite featureful. For example, it rec

(Marc Delisle) Structured Query Language is a non-procedural language used to define, manipulate and retrieve data. It was developed by IBM (System/R project) in 1974-1979. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) published in 1986 the first official standard of the language (later revised i