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Entries from April 2008

Building a Local Wikipedia Database

April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I was surfing the internet and found that you can download a dump of the wikipedia article data from Wikimedia
I was learning about the XML capabilities of SQL Anywhere, so I decided to download the XML dump of the article data and load it into a database. From there I could use the database […]

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Tags: Development

Bulding a Blog - Implementation Part I

April 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

In the previous article, I talked about the software packages I chose for building the blog. In this article, I am going to detail the setup and development of the SQL Anywhere backed Wordpress 2.3.3 blog that you are reading.
Once I had the basic software components installed (Windows Server 2003, Apache 2, PhP 5, […]

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Building a Blog - Software

April 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

As mentioned in an earlier post I am planning a series of posts on how I built the blog server.  In my first post, I gave an overview of the process. In this post I will provide further detail on the criteria I used and the components of software that I actually chose to […]

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Setting up a blog server

April 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This will be the first of a few blog entries discussing how I set up the iaBlog server using SQL Anywhere and Wordpress running on Apache.
When we (the SQL Anywhere team) first decided we would like to blog, I set up an internal server from scratch with a test blog for our team so we […]

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Tags: Development