Posted: February 14, 2009 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Applications, MediaWiki, Technical Notes | Tags: applications, cloud computing, Computers, MediaWiki, servers |
Here’s a useful site for Mediawiki tweaks: http://mywiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/MediaWiki_Servers
Posted: October 12, 2008 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Applications, Linux, Technical Notes | Tags: applications, bibliographic software, cloud computing, Computers, RefDB, Research, servers |
RefDB is a powerful, open source, bibliographic database program and server developed by Markus Hoenicka with some assistance from others, including me. It can import and export references in a variety of formats, including bibtex.
TEI P4 and P5
XML, Docbook,
RTF (export only), and various flavours of
MARC (import only). It is broadly similar to
Refworks in functionality and capabilities. In my experience RefDB is
much faster (and of course adaptable and free); Refworks has more polish (as you would expect from a commercial house).
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Posted: April 2, 2007 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Applications, Linux, PHP, Technical Notes | Tags: cloud computing, Computers, PHP, servers |
I have read a large number of tutorials on Object Oriented
PHP, but for some reason I wasn’t quite getting it.
The principles seem straightforward enough. In layman’s terms—that is to say terms somebody like an English professor with no Comp. Sci. but a lot of
XML and procedural
PHP experience might understand—Objects are basically groups of related functions and variables.
