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Developing Web applications on Windows is easy, with XAMPP

So you are a Windows guy who never tried Linux and are afraid of the unknown waters. You want to create a web application. Time is running a little short and you want to use the remaining one to develop the Web application rather than struggling with a new operating system. So you decide to use the Open Source tools to take off. Fine till then. But what are your tools? The first obvious answer in the minds of those who are interested in open source software is 'AMP' or Apache, MySQL, PHP. Great. You can run the set on Windows too. But setting up the environment is a problem. What to install first, which files to edit and so on. So there is a handy little package called XAMPP which you would be able to install on your windows machine. It would install the Apache web server, MySQL database and PHP scripting language; all in one go and configure them to work correctly with each other.

Those who use Windows to develop applications slowly get addicted to the platform. This is true with any platform. As you learn the APIs, behavior and nature of the platform and slowly develop the understanding out of the knowledge for that platform, the attachment to the platform obviously, grows. QCubed is one of the best PHP frameworks and at times, it can be frustrating to deal with it, specially when you install it on Windows. While PHP is cross platform and works on Windows as well as it does on Linux (and other UNIX-Like operating systems), there are minor problems which can make you go insane when trying to install or develop a PHP application.

Installing QCubed on Windows

Installation of QCubed is fairly simple. You would download the package, extract it to your DocumentRoot folder (the folder which contains the web scripts and resources to be served on the web), check the permissions, set up the correct paths and databases in the includes/configuration/configuration.inc.php and launch the browser to open the main index page. The main index page would redirect to the configuration checking file, which checks whether everything is setup or not. Once done, you are redirected to the start page of the framework which should say It worked!. Well and good. But these simple steps do not really work on the Windows platform; at least not so easily.

Windows 8 is currently one of the sensations on search engines. Tech buffs have been talking about Windows 8 for a long time now. Back in October 2009, when Windows 7 was launched, it was hyped like anything. It has been about an year and a half now and Windows 8 is what people want to hear about.

If you are not a tech freak, maybe you are not that much into it but whenever you talk about Windows 8, it is like it needs to be bolded, such is the sizzle it creates.

These two actions in Attack Surface Analyzer beta are not related to the Windows Operating System. They are only related to the Attack Surface Analyzer itself. Releasing file database means that analyzer is now packing the details of the various parts of the Operating System which it has enumerated. So it basically means the content of the data folder where it saves the files generated during the enumeration process is being packed.

Services are an important part of the operations of the Windows Operating System. Services are to Windows Operating System what daemons are to the UNIX like operating systems. Services are basically programs which run in background and provide functionalities which are either required by the Operating System components or some application installed on it. For example, when we insert a USB pen drive, Windows will automatically detect it and offer actions based on the content it finds inside the pen drive.