The next-generation PHP stack for Windows and Linux gives IBM i developers a way to run new applications easily in-house or on a laptop without charge.

By Chris Smith

For anyone who has yet to get started developing in PHP, Zend Technologies made it easy to get your feet wet in this increasingly popular language when it released Zend Server Community Edition this week, a free and easy-to-deploy stack of PHP tools intended to give users a way to manage their newly minted PHP applications running in-house.

Want to ensure that your system starts cleanly each and every time?

By Ashley Giddings

Each time the system is started, the init program gets invoked. The inittab file describes which processes are started at system startup and during normal operation. It distinguishes between multiple run levels, each of which can have its own set of processes that are started. A simple change to the file can render the system unusable. What would happen if someone deliberately or inadvertently changed your inittab file, you didn't receive automatic alerts to unauthorized changes, and therefore and you didn't know it?