{"id":22,"date":"2007-01-21T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T08:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/22"},"modified":"2007-02-07T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T15:24:54","slug":"webapp-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/22","title":{"rendered":"My web application recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I decided to maintain this as a &#8220;page&#8221; (see the link on the right). So I won&#8217;t update this blog post anymore, but instead you will find any new information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/my-web-application-recommendations\/\">&#8220;My web application recommendations&#8221; page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m playing around with various web applications (mainly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LAMP_(software_bundle)\">LAMP<\/a>-based ones) for quite some time now, I thought it might be useful to have a list to point to, when the &#8220;what&#8217;s best for this task?&#8221; questions arise. And so here it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a><\/strong>\n<p>Note: never change the domain name (for example I changed from &#8220;blog.bla.com&#8221; to &#8220;bla.com\/blog&#8221;) &#8211; it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pain_in_the_ass\">PITA<\/a>, because WordPress uses absolute URLs in some places in the database.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Webmail: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squirrelmail.org\">SquirrelMail<\/a><\/strong>\n<p>It really takes some time to configure to all your needs (for example encryption through gnupg, &#8230;), but then it&#8217;s a great mail user agent with nearly the comfort of your desktop application. On a side note: When nothing else works, because the connection is very, very slow &#8211; webmail still works. I experienced that during my stay in China while <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6211451.stm\">Asia was mostly disconnected from the rest of the Internet<\/a>. At that time, access to my IMAP server was impossible due to timeouts &#8211; loading a website (like my Webmail interface) took forever, but worked after all.<\/p>\n<p>Tip: if SquirrelMail is very slow (in searching and listing folders), try to activate server side sorting<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n$allow_thread_sort        = true;<br \/>\n$allow_server_sort        = true;<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>it will accelerate SquirrelMail from being nearly unusable to instant reaction!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Picture gallery \/ photo album: <a href=\"http:\/\/coppermine-gallery.net\/\">Coppermine<\/a><\/strong>\n<p>Well, there are some worthy competitors (for example <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.menalto.com\/\">Gallery<\/a>), but I still like Coppermine best.<\/p>\n<p>Problems: Don&#8217;t use the &#8220;batch add&#8221; function with a large number of large images, or this will totally overload the server. The problem lies in the fact that all conversion processes are being started in parallel, thus using up a huge amount of memory for large images.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MySQL database administration: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpmyadmin.net\">PHPMyAdmin<\/a><\/strong>\n<p>This tool is just excellent. In fact it&#8217;s better than any desktop application I saw for database administration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Browser independent bookmarks: <a href=\"http:\/\/sitebar.org\/downloads.php\">SiteBar<\/a><\/strong>\n<p>My newest discovery. I was tired of having different bookmarks in different browsers and on different machines &#8211; why not store the bookmarks &#8220;on the net&#8221; &#8211; you need a connection to browse it, anyway \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Problems: SiteBar says that all my bookmarks that start with https:\/\/ are &#8220;broken&#8221; when I run a validation &#8211; don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong here. Anyone?<\/p>\n<p>What I don&#8217;t like about SiteBar: There seems to be a Cross-Site-Scripting vulnerability, which has been discovered last summer (June or July of 2006), but is still not fixed (2007-01-21). There is a patch from the Debian project, which has also been included in Gentoo portage &#8211; otherwise I wouldn&#8217;t use that web application.<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: I decided to maintain this as a &#8220;page&#8221; (see the link on the right). So I won&#8217;t update this blog post anymore, but instead you will find any new information on the &#8220;My web application recommendations&#8221; page. As I&#8217;m playing around with various web applications (mainly LAMP-based ones) for quite some time now, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My web application recommendations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}