Archive of September 2009

Fri 11 Sep
11:58 AM

Easy installation of LASP (Linux, Apache, SQLite and PHP) on Ubuntu

If you think about learning how to create dynamic database-driven web sites, the simplest way to start is with PHP and SQLite. PHP offers high level programming, but most importantly, unparalleled documentation with clear and easy to understand usage examples. There are many SQL database engines out there, but SQLite is definitely the most simple to set up, because it is completely self-contained, cross-platform, and serverless. SQLite database is actually a single file that is also cross-platform. Conveniently, SQLite comes bundled in PHP5 as PDO extension. This extension provides abstracted access to your database. It means that if you later decide to switch to a different database like MySQL or PostgreSQL, you can use the same functions that you used to access SQLite.
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Tue 1 Sep
12:03 PM

I, Librarian benchmarking - how fast can a web-based PDF manager be?

Some of you may say that a web-based PDF manager is not very good idea. After all, most web-based services you know, like Yahoo or Google web mail, are not very snappy. Let me demonstrate how fast I, Librarian can be.
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