(Darryl K. Taft) What will become of open-source companies when they grow up? Will there be an open-source dot bomb, or is the investment going into open source leading the way for a whole new kind of software company?

(Lewis R Cunningham) If you are an Oracle developer then you are at least familiar with TOAD (if not, you should be). I see TOAD in jobs ads and in resumes on a regular basis. It’s become somewhat of a defacto standard. Sure, there are other tools. I’ve personally used PL/SQL Developer, SQL*Navi

(Dan Wellman) Apache 2 represents quite a change from previous versions. If you have set up a previous version of Apache on a Windows XP PC, you will be interested in setting up the new version. Dan Wellman shows how to set up and configure Apache 2 on a Windows XP PC to give you a development envir

(Jan Stafford) Yaakov Menken, CEO of Capalon Internet Solutions of Baltimore, spent the last month of summer setting up an open source-based call center, called Contact Loved Ones, for families separated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Users of that system get their information from MySQL, the o

(Daniel McAlister) It practically goes without saying that people develop emotional attachments to place. The Irish are particularly emotive with regards to townland, parish, county, province and country. Years of emigration have produced a diaspora abroad, cut off from the old country. While they

(Vincent Danen) Everyone knows about open source database giants such as MySQL and PostgreSQL; these free SQL database servers are commonly used by Web applications and other programs. For some uses, however, large database systems like this are overkill. If you need a simple, lightweight SQL databa

(Marc Wandschneider) Now that we have covered the basics of programming with PHP and MySQL, it is time to turn our attention to the task at hand—writing web applications. Before we begin to show you some of the techniques and tools for doing this, we are going to spend time discussing many of the ke

(Paul Dubois, Stefan Hinz and Carsten Pedersen) This chapter discusses MySQL Query Browser, a client program that provides a graphical interface to the MySQL server for querying and analyzing data.

(Noel Davis) Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at problems in MySQL, umount, KDE’s kcheckpass, GNOME Workstation Command Center, X.org, Squid, TWiki, ncompress, grip, Turquoise SuperStat, gtkdiskfree, and LessTif.

(Mike Hillyer) Users are evil. As a Visual Basic developer writing a complex database application that uses MySQL, you may already feel this way as you receive feature request after feature request, all of which absolutely have to be included, without any extension in the project deadline (of course