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Are you a . Net developer? Why are you not utilizing the advantage of Open-source projects? Many developers now rely upon these open source development tools.

Here, I am describing 5 popular open-source projects for dot Net developers.

1. ASP.NET MVC


It is an element of ASP. NET web application framework. You can make ASP. NET web application using ASP. NET MVC and ASP. NET web forms. The MVC application has three elements. They are Model, View, Controller. Model contains core information and View contains presentation of application. Control encapsulates control flow logic.

2. ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

It is an open- source project created by the joint effort of Microsoft and ASP. NET AJAX community. This projects give importance to the creation of interactive web experience. ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit contains more than 30 control elements which provides easy and effective web experience.

3. CruiseControl

The CruiseControl architecture contains three elements. They are the build loop, the jsp reporting and the dashboard. The build loop is the core part. It notifies users using publishing techniques. The jsp application allows users to browse the result of the first element.

4. DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke is a popular content management platform for. Net. It is the most widely adopted web solution framework on Windows server. It is used in more than 500K portals and public sites.

5. Mono

It is a platform designed to provide developers easy creation of cross platform applications.

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PHP is one of the most popular general purpose scripting language, which is designed for web development, to create dynamic web pages. Many of the open source publishing platforms like Drupal and joomla uses this language. PHP gives fast, stable and secure pages. For a productive web developer, a superb collection of tools is needed.

In this article I like to present 6 significant PHP tools

1. XAMPP

Many of us know that it is difficult to install Apache web server. It is not an easy task to add MySQL, Perl and PHP. XAMPP is an easy to use Apache tool including MySQL, Perl and PHP. It is easy to download, extract and use.


It is a fast development framework for PHP. It provides  architecture for creating, maintaining and deploying applications. Using this tool reduces cost and the developer can reduce codes.


Codeigniter is a powerful open source PHP framework for PHP coders who need an excellent toolkit for full featured web applications.


PEAR is a framework for reusable PHP elements. It is also easy to use.


Symfony is a collection of cohesive classes in PHP. It provides necessary elements, scheme and tools for developers to create complex web applications.


JpGraph is an object-oriented graph generating library for PHP. It is written entirely in PHP. It can be used in any of the PHP scripts. Using this tool various types of graphs can be created to convert boring data into beautiful graphs.

Linaro to boost Linux

Thursday, June 3, 2010 1 comments

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One of the most popular Electronic chip designers, ARM formed group with five of its major partners to boost the use of free open-source softwares on cellphones. This will be a challenge to Nokia’s Symbian. 

They named the joint venture as Linaro which aims at speeding up roll out of new phones. This will enable them to ship advanced chip sets. Google’s Android(GOOG.O), Nokia’s MeeGo(NOK1V. HE), Palm’s webOS and Intel(INTC.O) was successful in international mobile market.

Android, which is the largest Linux version, crossed Microsoft. At present Android has fourth position in smart phone market after Symbian. More companies are coming forward to join the venture. IBM, Texas instruments and Samsung are also joining Linaro.

Linux is growing fastly, and it is the most popular Open source OS. Its competitor in the computer is Microsoft. Symbian is the chief rival in cellphone. Symbian gives its code to anyone for free.

The tremendous growth of Linux will surely bring revolution in smart phone market.

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