LenSoftware Moderator on SAP has been aggressively selling its HANA platform and while the back-end is proprietary, it has been starting to push the open front-end out into the world. Witness the “code jams” scheduled for the Northen-hemisphere summer, the sponsorship of the newly-created Amsterdam OSCON, the Facebook and Twitter feeds, etc. The corporate behemoth is indeed, like its SAPUI5 mascot of the…
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LenSoftware Moderator on The good news is that SAP is paying some attention to the open source community. They released an HTML5 and JavaScript framework, called SAPUI5, the year before last. Now that framework is not under an open-source license even though it incorporates quite a number of open-source JavaScript libraries (See https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/sdk/#credits.html.) According to one official SAP site: “SAPUI5” is the version…
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LenSoftware Moderator on The new year is almost upon us and so we have decided it’s time to go for a new look. With WordPress outpacing other CMS systems in popularity (see for instance a trend plotted by Google Trends as to how well WordPress is doing against Drupal and Joomla,) together with the fact that WordPress won Open Source web app of…
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LenSoftware Moderator on Just a quick update to the last post, a client asked us to look at their shopp system (an e-commerce plugin for Word Press.) The web server needed a couple of extensions, namely GD2 and cURL. After re-running the PHP 5.2.14 installer and changing the installation to include these additional extensions the web server could not be re-started as php_curl.dll…
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LenSoftware Moderator on Needed to install latest releases of PHP and MySQL (so we could edit some of the WordPress entries on the local Windows XP box.) At first tried to do it all in one go and downloaded XAMPP but after running into a few problems decided it would be best to install Apache, PHP and MySQL separately, especially as later on…
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LenSoftware Moderator on Postgres, the wonderful open source database, used to be so easy to install on Windows. If you do not want, or need, the Microsoft Visual C++ distribution you should still be able to install it. It’s not made easy though… it took me, (a humble developer here at LenSoftware) a lot of time to install the latest 8.4.3 distribution and…
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LenSoftware Moderator on This is it, LenSoftware is going to have a (more or less) technical blog. Decisions, decisions:- what software to choose? As you can see we have decided on WordPress in keeping with our general love of Open Source software. Wow… what incredible ease of installation and use, what an inspiring piece of software!
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