http://www.evoknow.com Articles on Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL (LAMP), Open Source product reviews, and Web development in general en-us Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:30:00 GMT Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:30:00 GMT EVOKNOW CMS kabir@evoknow.com (Kabir Mohammed) webmaster@evoknow.com (Brennan Pike) http://www.evoknow.com http://www.evoknow.com/images/evoknow_logo.gif 3600 http://evoknow.com/articles/webdev/mysql_tuning/tuning-mysql-for-high-performance.html In this on-going article, we share practical MySQL performance tuning tips for practicing MySQL database administrators. Sat, 5 Apr 2008 23:30:00 GMT http://evoknow.com/articles/webdev/mysql_tuning/tuning-mysql-for-high-performance.html http://evoknow.com/articles/reviews/wordpress_review/creating-a-private-company-blog-using-wordpress.html In this article, we explore WordPress, an open source PHP and MySQL based blog to create a private blog that allows our staff to discuss and share ideas, issues and stories with each other while keeping the information accessible only from within the company network. Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:30:00 GMT http://evoknow.com/articles/reviews/wordpress_review/creating-a-private-company-blog-using-wordpress.html http://www.evoknow.com/articles/webdev/php_or_ruby/php-or-ruby.html Web is a fast moving target. Web technologies change, evolve, merge, fork and even disappear fast. If you are planning to start a Web project soon, you need it to know if PHP or Ruby is right for your project. Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:30:00 GMT http://www.evoknow.com/articles/webdev/php_or_ruby/php-or-ruby.html http://www.evoknow.com/articles/general/web2.0/what-is-web-2.0.html We live in a buzzword laden technology world; Web 2.0 is everywhere but very few seem to have a decent understanding of what Web 2.0 really means. This article is our attempt to look into Web 2.0 and what it means for your Web applications Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:30:00 GMT http://www.evoknow.com/articles/general/web2.0/what-is-web-2.0.html http://www.evoknow.com/articles/reviews/sugarcrm_review/sugarcrm-review.html n this review, we explore SugarCRM, an open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for small & medium businesses. Our primary objective: can we extend, support, and recommend SugarCRM to our customers? Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:30:00 GMT http://www.evoknow.com/articles/reviews/sugarcrm_review/sugarcrm-review.html Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:30:00 GMT Getting started with a Web project is often very easy but keeping it in good health throughout the various phases of evolution is often a difficult task. In this article, we focus on how startups and small and medium companies with limited resources can perform self-audits on their on-going Web projects. http://www.evoknow.com/articles/general/web_project_self_audit/web-project-self-audit.html http://www.evoknow.com/articles/general/web_project_self_audit/web-project-self-audit.html Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:30:00 GMT PHPSteel is a model-view-controller based PHP and MySQL Web development framework that we developed five years ago. We use it daily, update it regularly and continue to build small to large PHP and MySQL Web applications as both products and customer projects. Unlike others, the primary objective of our framework is not to impress the purists among our Web developer peers; instead, it is intended to help us build maintainable PHP and MySQL Web applications using small groups of software engineers on a timely and sane manner. http://www.evoknow.com/articles/webdev/intro_phpsteel_framework/introduction-to-phpsteel-framework.html http://www.evoknow.com/articles/webdev/intro_phpsteel_framework/introduction-to-phpsteel-framework.html