Technical Review

Technical Review

Toad for MySQL – A True No Brainer Decision

Beren Erchamion
January 15, 2008

I’m using Drupal with MySQL on the back-end. So far I’ve been doing all the MySQL tasks from the command line, which is empowering since I can still hack it from the command line, but after a while I start…

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One Laptop Per Child – Two Cool Machines!

Beren Erchamion
January 10, 2008

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has been a project long in the works. I recently got my hands on a device from Tim “Plutarch” Schultz. He ordered the device a few months ago and finally it arrived. The deal is…

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Beating the lumps in the mashup…then taking a deep breath.

Beren Erchamion
January 4, 2008

I’m running out of funny titles for mashup server articles. For the next article I’ll need to get some help from a six-pack of a decent ale (perhaps some Speckled Hen – yum!). My friends at WSO2 have released the…

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Plone and Drupal – Which is Better?

Beren Erchamion
December 27, 2007

I get this question all the time and I bet if you have experience with any of the popular CMS tools then you do too. Well I’m tired of this question so I’m going to use my own soapbox, and…

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Aptana IDE for Web Programming

Beren Erchamion
December 14, 2007

If you’ve been following along with my blog you know I’ve been experimenting with Drupal and picked a cheap, but functional editor for PHP websites. Now that I’m getting into things with the WSO2 mashup server I need some new…

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Re-Heating the Mashup

Beren Erchamion
December 10, 2007

I’ve continued to poke around with mashup servers. If you caught my first piece on this topic, you’ll have a clue what I’m talking about. Since I got the WSO2 mashup server working, I’ve stuck with this tool for now.…

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