The LAMP combination of Linux, Apache, MySQL and a programming technology (typically Perl, Python or PHP) is a powerful one. Once you've built one Web-based database application, however, you've built ...

Practical PHP and MySQL: Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications demonstrates that it’s easy to build commercial-quality Web applications using free and open source software. The book walks you ...

Blist, launching today at Demo 2008, is a Web-based database with a very slick Flash interface running against a SQL backend. The user interface shields the complexity of the relational database ...