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  • How to install PHP on Windows Server

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    PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. I will follow the installation steps of the PHP Non Thread Safe version on a Windows Server 2019 Standard Evaluation (Desktop Experience) operating system that needs IIS…

  • How to install MySQL on Windows Server

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    Webmasters use MySQL to run the databases of the created websites. The installation is quite complex and I will show you the steps by installing MySQL on a Windows Server 2019 Standard Evaluation (Desktop Experience) operating system. MySQL is also available for Mac OS X, Linux, or Unix. Before installing MySQL on a new system…

  • Notepad++

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    Notepad++ is a more complex text editor compared to the classic Notepad for Microsoft Windows, you can edit with him in several programming languages including HTML (HyperText Markup Language). During installation, it is recommended to install all plugins, among them we find a converter that converts ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) into HEX,…

  • Mozilla Thunderbird

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    Mozilla Thunderbird is a free email application that gives users the possibility to manage e-mail accounts like POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). Can access the accounts already created from Yahoo, Outlook, Lycos, Gmail, Mail, and Libero. The account settings are not so difficult, all you need is the…

  • 7-Zip file archiver

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    Many of us received compressed files and we wonder with what software those files can be open for decompression and if that software is free. 7-Zip is a program that can access some of the following file formats RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, LZH, LZA, ARJ, ISO as well as its own format 7z specific to this software. It has a pretty…

  • XAMPP – web server solution stack package

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    Used for educational purposes or to help you if you don’t have access to a server and want to test some web pages created before uploading them to the server, with XAMPP you can create a local web server by yourself. This is a solution stack package running with Apache a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)…

  • Microsoft Office vs. LibreOffice

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    It’s not something new for us, we all know what is a word processor (Word), spreadsheet (Excel), e-mail client (Outlook), or office software for graphical presentations (PowerPoint), those are all part of the Microsoft Office package. There is a variety of packages and those are: Office for home and Office for business (see comparative table)…

  • Microsoft Windows vs. Linux

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    If you are not a hardcore gamer, or you are just playing online games through your web browser, I recommend an alternative to the Microsoft Windows operating system that will be Open Source and this is Linux Mint. You can use Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation for 90 days to run some compatible software like Photoshop,…