Monthly Archives: July 2015
Laravel 5: Whats New?
Laravel is a free, open source, PHP Web application framework. Laravel v5 was launched in February 2015. This article is about how different it...
SaltStack: Grains, Pillars, Targeting and Render Systems
In this third and concluding article in the series on SaltStack, which makes software for configuration management, infrastructure automation and cloud orchestration, we look...
An Overview of Apache Cassandra
This article explores Apache Cassandra, an open source distributed database management system that is capable of handling large amounts of data across many servers...
An Overview of Open Source Databases
Every organisation keeps data. Over the last 50 years, electronic record-keeping, powered by Codds relational model, has become the foundation of the modern data...
A Beginners Guide to the Linux File System
This is an article targeted at Linux beginners. It helps readers get an understanding of the Linux file system through a few experiments that...
Sugar A Platform on which Kids Enjoy Learning
Sugar is an award winning learning platform for children, which promotes collaborative learning through activities that are conducive to fostering critical thinking. A consequence...
Upgrade openSUSE to the Latest Linux Kernel
This article offers readers some interesting hacker tips. The tutorial is on upgrading the openSuse 13.2 stock kernel to Linux Kernel 4.x. So go...
An Introduction to NoSQL Databases
This article, which is an introduction to NoSQL databases, takes the reader through structured query languages and then on to MongoDB. It touches upon...
Web Programming in Haskell
In this final article in the series on Haskell, the author explores how to use it for Web programming.
Scotty is a Web framework written...
Working with Data and Cache Storage in Drupal
Drupal is a popular and widely used content management system (CMS). This article exposes the reader to MySQL database solutions for Drupal, along with...