I mentioned in a previous article about all the ins and outs of using PHPBB2, an open source forum. Although it does have some quirks about it, the program is free and with a little help from the PHPBB community, not impossible to install even for the novice. The program you will upload, however, is fairly basic in nature therefore modifications [or, mods as some prefer to call them] can be useful to install. I have found several favorites that have worked rather well for me. Now, I am plan on s...
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By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. "Blog readership shoots up 58% in 2004 6 million Americans get news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators But 62% of online Americans do not know what a blog is." - Pew Internet & American Life Project Tip #1 - How and Where Should I Start? You should begin your blog with a free blog hosting service such as Blogger (http://www.blogger.com), or other similar free services such as JournalHome.com, Li...
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Programmers engaged in software application development writes millions of lines of code for a program that would run on a single computer or a big network. Whether it is a driver written in C or C++ or a database-driven application program written in Visual Basic, the code is first written and then compiled to get the actual program. The code in the raw form (written by the programmer) is known as the source code and the compiled version is called the Object Code.The objects in Object Code form...
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World has come closer and communication has become faster with the harnessing web 2.0, I won't be wrong if I say 'Network made easy with web 2.0'. O'Reilly Media in 2003 coined the term Web 2.0 to emphasis a post-dot-com generation of sites and service that use web as platform. Web 2.0 is the new generation of web with new set of principles of web-based communities and hosted services for all its users. Web 2.0 is vanquishing the internet world because of its flexibility, usability and impetus t...
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Did you recently buy your first computer and just started surfing the Net? Isn't it fun? All the new websites and places to go, sights to see! Have you ever wondered if you can make money with your newfound toy? I think that thought is something that comes into the mind of all Newbie computer users. I mean, there's no way you can miss all the offers from the heap of self proclaimed "Gurus" selling you get-rich-quick plans and schemes! Nonetheless, people that started out just like you are makin...
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In the arena of software application development , Object-Oriented languages today acquire a very important place. These languages can be categorized into quite a few broad types, according to the level up to which they support all features and functionality of object-orientation. However, all the major object oriented languages these days are developed on four key defining concepts: abstraction, encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance. It is a coding procedure where a data structure becomes...
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File sharing occurs when folks who are hooked up to the web use file-sharing programs to copy files between each other. The moral issues come often from the concern that proponents of file sharing may infringe copyright laws. This can occur if the content of a file being shared is covered by such laws.File sharing is not necessarily illegal, whether or not the works being shared are covered by copyright. As an example, some artists may opt to support freeware, shareware, open-source, or anti-cop...
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Open source means practices in software product development by a group of volunteers who work together in a highly collaborative way. There are some steps involved in the open source software development process. Let's learn how open source is beneficial to users and developers: Software created by open source volunteers differs from commercial software sold by vendors in many ways. The key difference is that open source software is released under certain licenses that enable users to download, ...
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Web development is a broad term that incorporates all areas of developing a web site for the World of Internet ranging from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, or social network services. Now-a-days, many systems are available to the public free of charge to aid in web development (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc.) There are other easy to use web development software, most prominently Microsoft FrontP...
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Microsoft stands accused of usurping an emerging web application, and information professionals are advised to sit up and take notice. Not so much of the non-story itself, but the underlying trends which spell fundamental change to their industry. To put things in perspective, here's a tech flashback: At the height of the dot-com bubble, when billions of venture capital dollars were being blown on one 15-minute cyberfad after the next - and Netscape and Microsoft were at each other's throats in...
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