This article explains how to get phpMyAdmin up and running on a Windows machine. It is however only ment to handle your databases running on localhost and should not be used for production environment.

Download the latest zip file from phpMyAdmin and unpack it to your htdocs directory in Apache. As of version 2.8 phpMyAdmin comes with an installer, which probably is a great feature if you’re an advanced database administrator. I on the other hand liked the old way, where all you needed to do was updating/filling in the config file.

As you all know DVD’s might get corrupted over time. Scratches, carelessness or any other reason can make your favourite movie inaccessible. So how do you go about creating a backup to save you the grief (and the money) of buying a new one?

I recently visited Download.com to see if there was a new Web Editor out there that might compete against Dreamweaver (my editor of choice), when it struck me… Most of these reviews looks like they´ve been written by the developers!

While browsing the list of Web editors and reading some user reviews I got the stinct impression that more than 50% of all reviews seemed to come from the developers themselves. Some of them even looked like they were randomly generated by a computer. Paragraph after another without any real content, just line after line of bragging about groovy functions and super-easy menues and error checking.

In case you´ve been living under a rock lately, Opera recently announced that as of version 8.5, they will no longer be charging for usage of their browser.

In the past, previous versions were free for download. However, unless you paid for it, you were greeted by a built-in banner advertisement during the entirety of your web browsing. I had given it a try a few years ago, but simply had not found anything useful enough to merit either paying for it, or tolerating the ads. So, I switched back to Internet Explorer (pre-Firefox).

Safe and secure storage of passwords and other sensitive information is of great concern to every developer. Today I came across some new hash functions built in to the latest release of PHP.