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Deploying Your DotNetNuke Portal

by Daniel N. Egan | June 2008 | .NET Microsoft Content Management Open Source

Once your portal is looking the way you want it to, it is time to share your creation with the rest of the world. We want to transfer our site from our local computer and set it up on the World Wide Web.

In this article by Daniel N. Egan, you will know the following:

  • How to obtain a domain name for your site
  • What to look for in a hosting provider
  • How to modify your files to prepare for moving to a host
  • How to set up your database on a hosted site
  • What file permissions are needed for your site to run
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RadRails Views

by Javier Ramírez | June 2008 | AJAX Open Source Web Development

When developing a Rails project, there are more things to do than the source code itself. We have to start, stop, and monitor our servers, generate code templates, run our test suites, install plug-ins and gems, generate documentation, keep control of to-do items, or run Rake tasks for different purposes—database migrations, for example. RadRails provides different Views for supporting these tasks that are a part of the development but not of the coding itself. And, of course, it does it so we can control everything from within the IDE without having to go back to the command-line interface. In this article by Javier Ramírez, we will see how to open a View. We will also look at the Documentation Views and the Servers View, which are available as part of the Rails default perspective, that is, you don't need to do anything special to open them.

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First Steps with Scalix Admin Console and Scalix Web Access

by Markus Feilner | June 2008 | Linux Servers Open Source

This article deals with the Scalix Administration Console (SAC). This web interface is the central point of administration for the Scalix server. User, group, and resource management are done here as well as controlling services and settings. In this article by Markus Feilner, we will take a short tour through the interface, add a first user, and have a closer look at the configuration options available for him/her. Towards the end, we will test the account by logging into the web client, and sending (and receiving) emails.

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Comparing Asterisk and OpenSER

by Flavio E. Goncalves | June 2008 | Linux Servers Networking & Telephony Open Source

Voice Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telephony refers to the technology used for making telephone calls over the Internet. The two major technologies used to implement VoIP telephony are Asterisk and OpenSER. This article by Flavio E. Goncalves compares Asterisk and OpenSER topic by topic and shows the differences between them.

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Visual MySQL Database Design in MySQL Workbench

by Djoni Darmawikarta | June 2008 | MySQL PHP

MySQL Workbench is a visual database design tool recently released by MySQL AB. The tool is specifically for designing MySQL database.

MySQL Workbench has many functions and features; this article by Djoni Darmawikarta shows some of them by way of an example. We’ll build a physical data model for an order system where an order can be a sale order or a purchase order, and then, forward-engineer our model into an MySQL database.

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