(SYS-CON Media) - Whether you're a company of one or 100, managing knowledge
is a core concern and implementing a knowledge base is a sensible way to
capture your content. Dokuwiki is a practical open source Web application for
creating a knowledge base that's easy for novice Webmasters to set up but
flexible and full-featured.
The Dokuwiki Web site (www.splitbrain.org/projects/dokuwiki) describes the
Dokuwiki as "a simple to use wiki aimed at a small company's documentation
needs. It works on plain text files and thus needs no database. It has a
simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the data files remain readable
outside the wiki." Dokuwiki runs on a variety of Web servers, including
Apache and IIS and requires PHP 4.3.x or higher. If you do not have your own
Web server, you can install Dokuwiki on a hosted Web site, as long the Web
host includes PHP access.
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Effective problem solving in Linux has nothing to do with knowing what the
right answer is; it's about asking the right questions to find the right
answers. You can efficiently solve problems and enhance your Linux experience
by using a series of five questions to resolve configuration issues and error
messages.
The individual questions that follow seem simple, but taken together they
provide a powerful method for solving problems and learning Linux. I had a
chance to ask Jeremy Garcia, the founder of LinuxQuestions.org
(www.linuxquestions.org), his perspective on problem solvin... (more)
Writing is an outwardly solitary adventure; however bringing a book from
concept to print takes a team of people. Now that the book's out, I want to
make some public acknowledgments.
I owe many people a thanks, and even though the front of the book mentions
some people, the list list is much bigger. Here goes.
The Packt Team
David Barnes: He's got great advice and timely feedback in the early stages.
Dhiraj Chandiramani:He kept the draft moving, coordinated technical review,
and generally did a bunch of editor stuff that I didn't have to.
Joel Goveya: He tried to keep me on schedu... (more)
The anticipation of learning a new programming language can sometimes leave
us frozen on the starting line, not knowing what to expect or where to start.
In this two-part article by Michael Badger, we will:
Take a tour of the Scratch interface Create a couple of sample projects Learn
some basic Scratch programming concepts Get our minds racing
Our specific objectives include:
Learning how to work with Scratch Learning basic Scratch programming commands
Finding inspiration to fuel our creativity
Before we create any code, let's make sure we speak the same language.
Read the rest of G... (more)
The Virtual Staffroom podcast has an introductory Scratch podcast. Chris
Betcher interviews two South Australian teachers about how they use Scratch
in their classrooms.
The show notes have a few links to projects and challenges, such as Bill
Kerr's Scratch challenges and Scratch programming projects from Nebo
Elementary.
Listen to the Virtual Staffroom's podcast "All this Scratchin'."
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Scott Sellers
Anthony Franco
Daniel Morris
Wayne Walls
Niki Acosta
Jereme Hancock
Oren Michels
Marvin Wheeler
Douglas Kim
Ken Guiberson
