One of the common questions that come up during IT strategy discussions is around open source alternatives that businesses should keep an eye on, if not actively considering a migration to. This article examines some of the common open source alternatives that I have found most clients have been happy with in their production environment. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of open source alternatives. But, some of the top choices in selected categories that can get you started.

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Part two of our series on User Personalization with PHP looks at user authentication. User authentication simply means verifying that a particular user has the right to access a part of our application. Read on to learn more…

Django bills itself as "the Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines." In this two-part series we'll put ourselves on a deadline and see how fast we can produce a simple blog using Django.

Client-side form validation is quick and reduces the load on the server. This tutorial explains how to use the Dojo JavaScript library for these types of validation in order to enhance your form processing.