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WampServer (64-bit, PHP 5.4, CURL and ImageMagick)

WampServer (64-bit, PHP 5.4, CURL and ImageMagick)

If you are learning to program and are not yet ready to install Apache/PHP/MySQL yourself, but your workstation runs Windows, then WampServer - or Wamp - is exactly what you need. Wamp is essentially a pre-configured bundle of Apache2, PHP, MySQL and some useful tools.

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Web Technologies and Languages on Latvian Municipal Websites

Web Technologies and Languages on Latvian Municipal Websites

From time to time, looking at a web page, the question arises of who built it and with what technologies. Although various IP and domain tools exist that allow extracting some information about the page owner, I recently came across a Chrome plugin - Wappalyzer - which allows identifying interesting information about a page without having to pore over the source code.

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A Look at Clusterpoint: Fulltext Search and Geospatial

A Look at Clusterpoint: Fulltext Search and Geospatial

This year Clusterpoint won BaltCap investment for further project development. Its co-founder and strategic figure G. Ernestsons is known for projects such as lursoft and siets.lv. Clusterpoint positions its product as fast, scalable, with geospatial support, and as one of the few with fulltext search. The article includes some PHP examples and observations.

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How I Installed the Latvian MS Office 2010

How I Installed the Latvian MS Office 2010

One evening I decided to help a good person with buying a new computer and installing the necessary software. The computer was intended for work purposes, so both objective needs and capabilities were carefully assessed. The installation went fairly smoothly until the realisation hit that a Latvian language spell-checker was also needed.

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The History of HTC

The History of HTC

Initially the company manufactured laptops, but soon turned its attention to the rapidly growing smartphone market. The foundation of HTC's success was the decision to manufacture devices not under its own name, but to offer mobile operators ready-made devices with their own logos.

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Text Editors for Working with PHP/JS/CSS

Text Editors for Working with PHP/JS/CSS

Any text editor capable of saving text without formatting will do for working with PHP, JavaScript and CSS. PHP is essentially a scripting language, meaning that to get a result from the code, the code must be interpreted. This is both good and bad. The article reviews several text editors that will make working with PHP/CSS/JS more comfortable.

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Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

My business model is The Beatles – they were four guys who respected each other's weaknesses; they balanced each other. Their collective achievement was greater than simply the sum of all the parts. The great thing about business is that it's not built by one person, it's accomplished by a team.

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Where and How to Store Passwords?

Where and How to Store Passwords?

A password is used so that another person cannot access information you wish to keep secret, or that you don't want changed or deleted without your knowledge. This article covers several ways and approaches to storing passwords and how to avoid forgetting them.

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DropBox with 8GB - In Search of Cloud Storage

DropBox with 8GB - In Search of Cloud Storage(3)

You are a working student who often writes coursework, has some photos on your phone and some fun presentations at work. To exchange files you need a USB stick or have to send them by email. With cloud storage (as we'll call the service described below) you can do it differently.

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3D Desktop for MS Windows

3D Desktop for MS Windows

How widely 3D desktop will become popular will be determined by several factors, the most important being how convenient such a surface will be to work with. From first experience I didn't notice a significant difference between placing a program on another desktop versus minimising it. Because humanly speaking, you feel the urge to look at the monitor from the side and see what's happening on the adjacent desktop.

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