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  • MongoDB – the best features of Document Databases, RDBMSs and key-value stores – and PHP

    MongoDB has been around for a while now, with the current version of production-level code at 1.4.3. Full integration to PHP is available via PECL, across platforms, or precompiled binaries. And yes, it’s Open Source.

    From the site itself, MongoDB puts itself out there as a database that bridges the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide rich queries and deep functionality), and is geared toward document-type storage. It supports Map/Reduce for proper high-speed iteration through high volumes of data, allows for easy replication and HA (high availability – but you knew that already). Who uses it? Sourceforge, bit.ly, github and the New York Times, to name a few, use MongoDB in production, as does disqus, and shutterfly. It outputs JSON-style data structures.

    MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database. (more…)

  • OpenSSL v1 released after 11 years of development

    After a long, hard struggle of 11 years, which started with these two entries:

    23-Dec-1998: Released OpenSSL 0.9.1c
    23-Dec-1998: Official start of the OpenSSL project

    we are now at the point of “a major release” with v1.0.0 being made available. Fighting tooth and nail not to be a 1.0.0, we’ve seen iterations such as 0.9.8d to 0.9.8n (taking a page out of Google’s book of running pre-release?), though, to be fair, they started at 0.9.1c.

    Go on, then — go and get it!

  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS now in beta

    Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (beta) now out…

    Ubuntu 10.04 went beta yesterday afternoon, with downloads at http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/, otherwise from the download mirrors.  Lucid Lynx, as it’s called, enjoys LTS support (ie 5 years out the box).

    This version promises as a better (and faster) boot experience, new themes, version 2.6.32 as the Linux kernel, Firefox as default browser — with default browser page changed to Yahoo! (that’s new!) nVidia hardware support using open source drivers has improved, and a whack of new features for the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud have been included. (more…)

  • Knowledge Tree 3.7 Community Edition released

    PBGVVH25US66 They released the Knowledge Tree 3.7 RC Community Edition some time ago, which now runs on the full Zend-Server stack! Infrastructurally, this is the biggest changed; PHP-based setup wizards also feature, and sure – you can now run it on IIS6/IIS7, but that switch to the Zend stack with use of Optimiser features most highly for me on this development. But you knew that already! 🙂

    Curious to see the feedback from Steve Briggs from iBurst about their KnowledgeTree (not necessarily their whole CRM solution) usage and implementation experience at iBurst, after the chat I had with him yesterday…