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The LAMP stack combines the top open source technologies available for the developer on the web.  The  Zend Cart Framework is a PHP library of modules that enhance this development stack and add many classes of built in objects that make object oriented web application programming possible.

LAMP is comprised of Linux operating system, the Apache web server, the MySQL database server and PHP hypertext Preprocessor.  This development technology is a growing and changing package that is supported by a community of users.  The Zend Cart library is a set of modules created by programmers from IBM.   After mastering objects in PHP you can move on to the Zend Framework.  It is worth the effort to learn these technologies to provide scalable web applications based on open source technologies.

Tune in later and I will provide the best links to these technologies.

Joining multiple web 2.0 social marketing sites is a great way to find interesting websites, and promote your own websites and up their search engine ratings. Some of the most useful are listed below. These are different then the more popular social networking sites uTube, Facebook, MySpace. Those are meant to be for self promotion. Site promotion is better served by these more corporate related social marketing sites. Yahoo and Google both have their own areas where they allow for social networking and marketing.

These emerging web 2.0 sites allow users to promote and market there plat of websites. At top100.com we have a unique search engine wiki site that allows users to instatntly promote their site’s content without registration. These are then linked and marketed across the web.

Join us in our End of 2008 Top 16 Website Contest - vote for or submit your top sites for this last year. The winners will be used as the top 16 informational websites for all of 2009.

StumbleOn - Find interesting sites
LinkedIn - Connect to professionals
Digg - Rate web sites
Reddit - Search for popular sites
Technorati Profile

Happy Holidays!
Erik Holm

There is an issue with words. This may just be me. It started with email. Five years ago people split on the proper spelling, with the majority spelling the word e-mail. It irked me to have to type the hyphen every single time I used the term. As a techie it just seemed to slow things down in this quick paced hi-tech world. I chalked it up to the techies vs the corpies (corporate web users). Since this started I estimate I have typed the word email almost 10,000 times. Every time I would have had to pause and looked for the nonintuitive hyphen key. It has probably saved me 2 hours in time using the spelling email sans the dash and I think everyone knows to what I am reffering. Now I am debating whether to switch to website. Why not web site? These are two separate terms why are they combined? Wikipedia say website and the media says website. Will I stand out and not get funded if I use the term the way I see fit? The space bar is intuitive and easy to find on the keyboard, but I may just capitulate on this one. Oh by the way, I think the term jokebook should be one word. See our Animated Interactive Techie Jokebook now available free on-line (or is it on line).

Erik Holm
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