What does LAMP stand for?

The acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free and open source software , used to run dynamic Web sites or servers . The original expansion is as follows:

* Linux = operating system
* Apache = the Web server
* MySQL = the database management system (or database server)
* PHP = the programming language. Other than PHP, there are other similar programming languages can also used to enrich some other specific functions. These languages include Perl or Python.

The combination of these technologies is used primarily to define a web server infrastructure, define a programming paradigm of developing software, and establish a software distribution package.

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)

While BCSS does not focus on doing consulting on Business Process Re-engineering, we do make use of the knowledge of BPR when developing systems for customers. Business process reengineering (BPR) is a management approach aiming at improvements by means of elevating efficiency and effectiveness of the processes that exist within and across organizations. The key to BPR is for organizations to look at their business processes from a "clean slate" perspective and determine how they can best construct these processes to improve how they conduct business.

Methodology

Our development team will focus on some really critical aspects of a business in order to design the most suitable IT solutions for customers and plan the most favourable implementation.

* Make use of modern business modeling tools and create the most comprehensive view of structural organization with functional units.
* The feasibility of re-structuring and streamlining activities, removal of non-value adding tasks envision new processes support
* Identify reengineering opportunities together with enabling technologies.
* Always aligning with corporate strategy
* Existing workflow and process diagnosis for in-efficiency.
* New process design and development.
* Blueprint development for gathering feedback

Origin of Web 2.0

From Wikipedia, Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

When BCSS designs solutions for customers, we always bear this in mind and help our clients to go innovative in using technologies for the betterment of their service provided.

Technologies

Technically, below lists some techniques included in Web 2.0:

* Cascading Style Sheets
* Folksonomies
* XML, XHTML and HTML markup
* RSS or Atom feeds news feed
* Merging content from different sources, client- and server-side
* Weblog-publishing tools
* Wiki or forum software, etc., to support user-generated content
* Internet privacy, the extended power of users to manage their own privacy in cloaking or deleting their own user content or profiles.

Parallels Plesk Virtual control panel solution

Parallels Plesk is a comprehensive control panel solution used by leading hosting providers worldwide for shared, virtual and dedicated hosting. The control panel is designed to simplify the management and administration of web sites. Plesk control panel automates a large number of tasks that allow service providers to reduce operating costs and resources while at the same time increasing profitability, efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Plesk Control Panel

There are four login levels in Plesk with each level having its appropriate roles and responsibilities:

Administrator – The highest individual server level login which allows web hosting administrators to set up and manage all system items. Multiple servers can be centrally managed with the Master level login of Plesk Expand.

Client/Reseller – Second tier login account where the users are given domain creation rights from the System Administrator. Clients can administer to groups of domains using a single login.

Domain Owner – These are third tier individual domain owner accounts with predetermined permission sets and interface for single domain administration.

Mail User – This is the fourth tier individual mail account which allows the user to log in to their own private interface and manage passwords, spam filters, anti-virus settings and much more.

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, wrote on his blog on Sun on 27 July 2008 shared his latest vision on the impact of open source to the IT industry.

It was an occasion with a customer that triggered his thought. He mentioned the customer who leads technology and operations for one of the world's largest companies. They were talking through his priorities for the upcoming year, and on a page filled with various traditional priorities (consolidation, energy management, disaster recovery, regulatory compliance) were two interesting words.

"Open Source."

The customer told Jonathan that they'd done an audit of the firm's development activities, and found an overwhelming number ("hundreds") of open source projects that had been completed behind the scenes, beyond management's oversight. The projects were designed to solve problems deemed too expensive or difficult to solve with proprietary technologies - from meeting a tough budget, to automating a new process. And rather than fight the trend, they figured it was delivering real benefit, something to explore more fully. And they were asking for Sun's help.

Actually Jonathan is seeing this with nearly every customer he meet, the invisible hand of open source - communities of individuals equally devoted to their employers, and to personal and peer productivity. These communities, within companies as well as across industries, are solving problems without having to involve procurement (while religiously adhering to policies surrounding privacy, intellectual property protection and software licensing). They're delivering unquestionable value.

Full article can be referred to http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/date/20080729?cid=926298.

Introduction to RSS


It is not un-common nowadays to see websites of all sorts including a logo to invite customers/users to subscribe their news update. RSS has been widely used as a marketing channel and an innovative use of advertisement.


RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format.[2] An RSS document (which is called a "feed," "web feed,"[3] or "channel") includes full or summarized text plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content quickly and automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.


RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader," "feed reader," or an "aggregator," which can be web-based or desktop-based. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.


The initials "RSS" are used to refer to the following formats: "Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)", "RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.90)", or "Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91)".


RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats. Although RSS formats have evolved since March 1999,[4] the RSS icon ("") first gained widespread use in 2005–2006.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/brian.html