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4D Sites |
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The 4D product range includes 4th Dimension, a cross-platform, single-user and client-server database development environment and deployment tool, 4D Webstar and 4D Mail, a complete webserver and mail server solution for MacOS X and MacOS X Server and 4D Business Kit, a complete cross-platform, Multi-Store, e-Commerce solution. |
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4D UK Ltd - UK Home page with links to international distributor's. |
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4DToday.com - 3rd Party resource for 4D developers. |
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Planet4D Magazine - Magazine for 4D Developers available in English and French editions. |
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Dimensions - Journal for 4D Developers available in English. |
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Island Data - Website of David Adams contain lots of useful information and articles. |
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mitchenall.com - for freeware 4D components and plugins and other consultancy services. |
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E-Node - European providers of 3rd Party tools for 4th Dimension. |
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Database Tools |
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During the course of our work we use a number of database tools. Here's a selection of our favourites. |
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PostgreSQL Database Server - One of our prefered database tools, PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source database server, which with the advent of version 8.0 can even be installed easily on Windows. Most Unix and Linux platforms are supported, and it runs great on our Apple Xserve G5 Servers. |
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mySQL Database Server - A pretty good open-source database which runs on most platforms, but lacks the power of the more grown up PostgreSQL. Great for some solutions, not so useful in others. |
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Aqua Data Studio - A fantastic GUI database query and administration tool which runs on MacOS X, Linux and Windows and works with a multitude of back-ends (e.g. Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DB/2, mySQL, Informix, etc.). Free for education and learning purpose, but still extremely cheap for commercial use and well worth buying the licence. |
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CocoaMySQL - A MySQL GUI for MacOS X. Well worth downloading if you're working with mySQL from a Mac. |
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YourSQL - Another MacOS X based GUI for mySQL. |
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phpPgAdmin - Manage your PostgreSQL databases via a web interface. |
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phpMyAdmin - Manage your mySQL databases via a web interface. Standingwave Linux-based, virtual host customers already have this installed and ready to use. |
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PHP Sites |
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We use PHP extensively in our web-based projects and it is installed on all our Apache based virtual servers. PHP's use range of functions, easy to learn syntax and object-oriented features allow developers to build everything from small personal pages to large-scale enterprise solutions and is completely open-source. |
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PHP Home Page |
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PEAR Home Page - PEAR provides a structured library of open-sourced code for PHP users along with PHP Foundation Classes and PHP Extension Code Library. |
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Smarty Template Engine - We used Smarty extensively, including in the generation of this website, and can wholeheartedly recommend that others use it too. |
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PHP Class Repository - repository for open-source PHP classes and code modules. |
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PHP Patterns - This website is aimed at applying Software Design Patterns to PHP and contains some interesting articles. |
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PHPEdit - A great Windows-based, open-source IDE for writing PHP applications with integral debugger/profiler. |
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WebMonkey PHP Articles - A pretty good selection of articles about PHP (over languages also covered). |
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PHP Builder - A website dedicated to the PHP programming language. Lots of articles and sample code. |
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Apache Sites |
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Apache is the most popular webserver on the internet and runs well on Linux, Unix, MacOS X and Win32 platforms. We provide Apache virtual hosting on both Win32 and Linux platforms. |
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Apache Web-Server Home Page - To find all the documentation, source and binary versions of the server. |
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OpenSA.org - The OpenSA Webserver is a free build of Apache for the Win32 platform. It includes support for mod_PHP, PEAR and a few other useful modules and comes with an easy to use Windows Installer based installation. |
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PHP Home Edition - This is another simple Apache installation for Microsoft Windows, which also includes mySQL and PHP. |
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Apache URL Rewriting Guide - The mod_rewrite module for Apache is extremely useful and one that we use a lot to allow us to be more flexible with our URLs and back-end scripting. This guide tells you practically everything you need to know about it. |
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