Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Owl Intranet Engine:"Owl is a multi user document repository (knowledgebase) system written in PHP4 for publishing files/documents onto the web for a corporation, small business, group of people, or just for yourself." 11:17:34 AM

Wired News: Group Warns DVRs Endangered - "To fight the impending rule and to stoke backlash from TV viewers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation earlier this month launched the Digital Television Liberation Project to guide people on how to make their own personal video recorders from off-the-shelf parts. The digital-rights group is encouraging people to buy digital TV, or DTV, tuner cards for their PCs, and is distributing instructions on how to build TiVo-like digital video recorders. The idea is to get people hooked on the charms of time-shifting -- recording a program and then watching it at a later time -- and to help them understand what they would be missing once the broadcast flag rule goes into effect." 11:13:10 AM

WAMP Up Your Open Source Development on Windows for Free - "A look into the Windows world revealed that PHP, Apache, and MySQL have made some serious progress in Windows compatibility. The MySQL, PHP, and Apache teams have done an excellent job of producing a Windows installer for each of these applications. What's more, the PHP team has branched out to make PHP compatible with a number of servers, including Microsoft PWS, IIS, Apache, and Xitami." [DevX] This is a great article for anyone interested in dipping into the Apache/MySQL/PHP waters without doing a Linux install. 11:12:07 AM

Interact - Online Learning and Collaboration Platform:"Interact is an Online Learning and Collaboration platform developed by the Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand. It is a free alternative to the likes of WebCT and Blackboard. It is an open source cms, lms designed with the intention of making it easy for students and lecturers to interact online, based around constructivist and vygotskian views of teaching and learning. " 11:06:46 AM