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Local Development: How to install Joomla on your local Windows machine

by Shane Perris on Sunday, 9 March, 2008

in how-to, tutorials

Joomla! is a free and open source content management system with just about everything a webmaster could ask for.  Originally created as a fork of the Mambo content management system (see how to install Mambo on Windows for more information on Mambo), Joomla! has since grown to become a full system in its own right [...]

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Local Development: Installing Mambo

by Shane Perris on Friday, 29 February, 2008

in how-to, tutorials

Mambo is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that was originally developed in Australia as a commercial application in 2000 and was subsequently released to the open source community.  It takes advantage of the traditional Apache/MySQL/PHP stack which makes it perfect for use locally with XAMPP.
Mambo has a checkered past and has suffered from [...]

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Local Development: How to install Movable Type 4 on your local machine

by Shane Perris on Friday, 22 February, 2008

in how-to, tutorials

Movable Type is a blogging engine developed by Six Apart (other notable Six Apart products are the hosted blog solutions Typepad and Vox).  The latest version, MT 4.1, is available under a range of licenses including free for personal use, education and non-profit licenses and commercial licenses depending on the number of users.  The release [...]

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Local Development: Installing Wordpress

by Shane Perris on Friday, 15 February, 2008

in how-to, tutorials

Wordpress is a free (as in beer and speech) open source blogging engine originally built upon the code of the b2 blogging engine.  In time it has become one of the most well known and used platforms in the blogosphere (and is the platform of choice for techwhimsy.com).  Wordpress comes in two flavours – WordPress.com, [...]

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