I’m a quiet advocate that Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) are overkill for some applications. A great example of this is small, web based utility programs that we write for ourselves and for others. Assume you need a small single user program with a limited amount of data. You can use a web server like lighttpd and a script engine like PHP to create a highly portable solution that will cross multiple OS’s. This is far from the only approach, nor is it necessarily the best, but it is viable, particularly for a developer whose core strength is in web based development and UI design.
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Shadowhand from the Kohana Forums created a post on alternative web servers. His assertion was that there were other options to PHP web developers besides the traditional Apache. I captured some of the options in his posted and listed them here for your and my reference. Feel free to give one of them a try and post a comment to me about which you like and don’t like.
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No, I’m not getting married. I am and have been happily married for 21+ years. I just woke up this morning thinking about what couples who are about to get married should really sit down and talk about before they take the plunge. I think this must be a teenage kids thing, but other than that I have no idea where it came from. Anyway, here is my list of things you must discuss before you get married.
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