LUGistics

3.1 Deciding on the tools

We looked around for free (in the sence of OSS) development tools running on Linux, that would fit our needs. Here is what we ame up with:

mod_php

We chose PHP as our development tool. The language (c-like) is quite easy to learn, supports an Object-Oriented architecture, documentation is complete and there are lots of ready-made tools to speed up the development.

PHP is server-parsed HTML and not CGI which is considered a bigger security risk. (At least, that is what we think...)

php_lib

php_lib module provides the database independency we hoped for and all the right tools for authenticating users and assigning privileges.

postgeSQL

It's free, it's stable, there are many tools, much documentation to help someone find his way around, and is well supported by php.

apache

what else ? :-)

3.2 and the name.

Then we had to decide how this project would be called:

It surely sounds pompous! It also incorporates our target (LUGs) and our hellenic origin (the ending -istics which is hellenic). We also thought that our product would be easier to promote (eeeh ???) with a name that sounds familiar. Writing it LUGistiX was a temptation but we resisted! Επόμενο Προηγούμενο Περιεχόμενα