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Install Ruby

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Make sure before installing Ruby, zlib is installed in PHP. You can do this by running a simple script with this code.
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Now you are ready for installation.
cd /usr/local/src
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz
tar xvzf ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.2
./configure
make
make install
ruby rubytest.rb
If the installaiton is successful, then you will get a message “test succeeded”.
Install Ruby Gems
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5207/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
tar xvzf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
cd rubygems-0.8.11
ruby […]

List of Open Source Content Management System

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Name              Platform                Supported databases      Latest release    Licenses
Apache Lenya       Java, XML, Apache Cocoon         2.0     Apache License
b2evolution           PHP     MySQL     1.10.3 “Key West”     GPL
BLOG:CMS           PHP     MySQL         GPL
blosxom                 Perl   Flat-file database     2.0     MIT
Bricolage                Perl     PostgreSQL     1.10.3     BSD
CivicSpace             PHP     MySQL     0.8.3     Open source, detail unknown
CMSimple             PHP     Flat-file database     3.0.1     Affero
Contrexx              Open Source edition     PHP     MySQL   1.2  Free for non-commercial […]

why you should care about Web standards

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Here are 4 reasons why you should care about Web standards; however the benefit is much more than what illustrated here while you make your website web standards compliance.
 1. Search Engine Optimization Initiative
 The search engine spiders find easier to index site, and the clean and valid code, Also the Google sitemaps protocol has become […]

HTML Email with ASP

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Here is the way you can send HTML email by using the Active Server Pages using the following code.
<%
Dim htmlMess ‘ THIS STORES THE HTML CODE
‘ PLEASE TAKE CARE ABOUT YOUR DOUBLE QUOTES
htmlMess = “<html><head><title>HTML message in Email</title>”
htmlMess = htmlMess & “<style>”
htmlMess = htmlMess & “h1{font-family : Arial; font-size : 16pt; font-weight : bold; color: […]