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Privacy agency taps open source CMS for new website

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), which oversees freedom of information and privacy for the federal government, is seeking to migrate to a new website based on the open source Joomla CMS.

By Rohan Pearce | 26 March, 2012 11:30

Tags: government, joomla, open source

PHP 5.4 aspires to elegance

PHP, one of the most widely used languages for building websites, has been updated with a number of improvements to ease development and speed performance.

By Joab Jackson | 03 March, 2012 03:51

Tags: application development, Development tools, Languages and standards, software, Web services development, zend

First look: Zend's PHP developer cloud

When you consider the cloud, you typically imagine a realm of deployed, production applications. Zend Developer Cloud (ZDC) adds a twist: ZDC creates a place in the cloud where PHP-based applications can be developed for the cloud. No more developing locally, then deploying into the cloud -- ZDC pushes both into the ether.

By Rick Grehan | 11 January, 2012 22:06

Tags: application development, cloud computing, Development Environments, engine yard, heroku, internet, paas, php, PHP Web, software

The road to a successful open source project: Learning lessons from Drupal

By almost any measure, Drupal, an open source content management system/Web platform, should be a poster child for open source success. The PHP-based CMS, the first version of which was released by Dries Buytaert in 2001, powers the Web presence of a number of major organisations, including, since 2009, Whitehouse.gov.

By Rohan Pearce | 10 January, 2012 17:02

Tags: Dries Buytaert, drupal, open source

PHP 5.4 emerges from the collapse of PHP 6.0

With the pending release of PHP version 5.4, due early next year, the creators behind the popular Web scripting language are including the best parts of the now-abandoned PHP 6.0 project.

By Joab Jackson | 06 December, 2011 04:54

Tags: application development, Languages and standards, software, Web services development, zend

OpenFlow vs. programmable ASICs

Can you program a network of multivendor switches and routers, all running different operating systems, command line interfaces and configuration routines, to work in concert when it comes to managing flows?

By Jim Duffy | 02 November, 2011 21:34

Tags: application development, OpenFlow, programming, software

Watch out for FOSS advertising

The appeal of free and open source software is undeniable - after all, who doesn't want to take advantage of OPM (other people's money) to develop a finished software product or platform that would otherwise require long lead times, dedicated programming resources and significant cost? 

By Susan Perschke | 18 October, 2011 01:51

Tags: application development, open source software, programming, software

Python vs. PHP: Choosing your next project's language

PHP and Python are two of the world's most popular Web programming languages at the moment, and naturally both have distinct advantages and disadvantages.

By Pascal Hakim | 25 August, 2011 13:47

Tags: open source, php, programming languages, python, software development

Horde 4.0 open source groupware, webmail suites released

After more than two years of development to Horde open source project has released version 4.0 of its integrated groupware and webmail suites.

By Rodney Gedda | 15 June, 2011 09:18

Tags: groupware, horde, open source, webmail

Startup tames open source for enterprise mobility

The ability to support the myriad of mobile devices in a coherent way is a bugbear for mobilising enterprise applications, but one local start up has leveraged open source components to make it all happen without the need for an on-premise server or native app.

By Rodney Gedda | 14 June, 2011 15:29

Tags: Blink Mobile, central coast, mobile applications, open source, PhoneGap, regional IT

Open source Horde groupware reaches version 4

After nearly three years of development the fourth generation of the Horde open source e-mail and groupware suite was released this week bringing with it a more modern code base and social networking features.

By Rodney Gedda | 08 April, 2011 11:20

Tags: e-mail, frameworks, groupware, horde, open source, php

Drupal's Dries Buytaert makes call for developers

A passion for PHP, as well as a strong developer community, has been vital to Drupal’s success, founder Dries Buytaert said.

By Lisa Banks | 07 February, 2011 10:26

Tags: careers, Dries Buytaert, drupal

Drupal conf heads to Brisbane in 2011 amid 7 release

The international development community of the open source Drupal content management system will gather in Brisbane in January, including the project’s founder Dries Buytaert.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 December, 2010 11:37

Tags: cms, content management system (CMS), Dries Buytaert, drupal, open source

PHP development comes to Google Android

Developers at an open source company in Spain are leading an effort to boost PHP application development for Android-based phones.

By Paul Krill | 17 July, 2010 07:28

Tags: application development, Developer World, Google, Google Android, mobile, Mobile platforms, Mobilize, php, software, Telecommunication

WordPress 3.0 blogging software released

A new version of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress has been posted, the cadre of volunteers behind the software announced on Thursday.

By Joab Jackson | 18 June, 2010 05:36

Tags: blogging, cms, open source, Wordpress

Amberdms gives open source accounting green light

New Zealand software company Amberdms has release a Web-based open source accounting and billing application aimed at simplifying business and customer management.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 December, 2009 12:42

Tags: accounting, accounting software, Amberdms, billing systems, open source

Botnet authors crash WordPress sites with buggy code

Webmasters who find an annoying error message on their sites may have caught a big break, thanks to a slip-up by the authors of the Gumblar botnet.

By Robert McMillan | 05 November, 2009 08:58

Tags: blogging, botnets, exploits and vulnerabilities, gumblar, php, security, Wordpress

Wordpress puts RSS in the cloud for real time updates

Popular content management system and blogging platform Wordpress has turned on support for a new technology that enables people to receive push notifications of feed updates on Web sites and blogs.

By Georgina Swan | 08 September, 2009 14:00

Tags: blog, blogging, cms, RSS, Wordpress

Drupal gains ground down under

The open source content management system (CMS), Drupal, continues to gain popularity both locally and internationally. The CMS powers several new high profile websites including the Prime Minister's site, launched last month and designed by Canberra-based company OPC IT and ABC's three digital radio websites – Dig Music, ABC Jazz and ABC Country. Internationally, it is used by organisations as diverse as Obama's administration in the US to Greenpeace to McDonalds.

By Dahna McConnachie | 25 August, 2009 14:27

Tags: cms, drupal, joomla, open source, Wordpress

Microsoft offers open source link for PHP, .Net

Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism Interoperability team is introducing on Friday an open source project to bridge PHP and Microsoft's .Net programming model, Microsoft representatives said.

By Paul Krill | 24 August, 2009 05:49

Tags: Codeplex, Microsoft, .net, open source toolkit, php, rest

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