I forgot to mention yet another popular forum software known as Discuz back in this forum software compared post but just in case you’re curious, its like VBulletin with lots of those standard features that you can find in VBulletin, with the difference in that it’s only available in Chinese by default, heavily used in the Chinese world, and best of all it’s free!
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Compare Forums Software: VBulletin, IPB, PHPBB, SMF, Vanilla and bbPress
I had been looking for a forum software to play with this morning and can’t really decide which one to choose. The choices are pretty obvious from the title of this post but here are just some personal comments about the things that I know about.
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MySQL Workbench 5.1.3 Alpha For Linux
I posted an article about a visual tutorial on designing a database with MySQL Workbench but people who are using Linux probably won’t be able to gain any benefit from that since there were no installable MySQL Workbench package available for Linux users at that time. That’s the case until now.
The good news is that the MySQL Workbench is now available on Linux (still in alpha stage though). Linux users can learn how to get it on the MySQL Workbench Team Blog.
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Overview
Looks like Microsoft is placing quite a lot of emphasis on the Visual Studio Team System 2010 and the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in their next generation developer tools. More details here.
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Flare: Data Visualization With ActionScript
Flare looks like a pretty way to put your data into context and make it less boring and more visually appealing.
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Google I/O Session Videos and Slides
I once wondered what Google I/O is all about. By what I can tell from this list, they seems like presentations for web technology such as API, Ajax, Javascript, Google OpenSocial and Google Maps.
14 Ways to Process and Manipulate XML with PHP
According to the PHP manual references, there are 14 ways to milk the same cow (XML)! The more popular ones which more people tend to use are DOM, DOM XML, XMLParser, XMLReader, XMLWriter and SimpleXML. How many of them have you used before?
Visual Tutorial: MySQL Database Design in MySQL Workbench
A very nice step-by-step tutorial with screenshots showing how to design a database model in MySQL Workbench. MySQL Workbench is definately a nice database toolset to add to your collection if you’re doing PHP and MySQL development.
Free Microsoft Press Visual Studio 2008 Ebook Download
Mirosoft Press is giving out 3 ebooks for free. This is a chance not to be missed by visual studio developers, software developers and students alike. Only 2 chapters will be available for download but should be a good start or preview of the book if you’re interested in learning or buying.
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5 Things You Don’t Know About Google Chrome
Google released their own internet browser known as Google Chrome and here are just a cople of interesting points about it.
1. A Gentle Introduction to Google Chrome
Google released a fairly detailed explanation of what Google Chrome is all about with a comic. Computer Science, software engineering students and web developers are certainly interested in knowing the philosophy behind the architecture and design of the new browser.
All the new features can be found here.
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