One of the most successful articles at moixo.com was the one than explains how to install Openbravo on Ubuntu. I allways have in mind to write a new post showing this process for new versions of the software, since now I had no time to do it. Finally I installed the latest version of Openbravo on the newest Ubuntu, the 9.04 release. The process is described in detail in this article.

Virtualization is becoming essential for any software developer. Operating Systems compatibility has been improved over the years, but there are still some tests that must be done by developers over different platforms and operating systems.

Web developers that use Mac OSX need to test their sites on different browsers like Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. If you don't want to waste your hardware installing Windows, you can use any of the existing virtualization tools.

On Mac OSX there are mainly 3 wonderful options: Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion and VirtualBox. In my case, the are two reasons that made me decide wich one to use: free and open source. That is VirtualBox.

Many of us know the work and practices that the famous SGAE has maintained in recent years, mainly to denounce and prosecute, in defense of copyright. ¿Remember the famous taxes applied to digital storage devices?

For those who do not agree with this course of action, and I consider myself one of them, but on the other side wish to register ownership of any creation, they should know that there is no need to go through the SGAE, neither become a member, or sell the soul to the devil, which is virtually the same.

Visit the site http://exgae.net/hay-que-saber to learn many things that certainly we have or had misunderstood.

EXGAE organizes the OXCARS awards party to report what they call "Glamorous practices of disobedience".

If you are a web developer on PHP and MySQL, probably you needed to define virtual servers on Apache. If you also work on Mac OSX, then a good option to have a development environment fully working and up to dateis MAMP. Alright, in this situation, I recommend you to do this:

Due to specific necessities in a project that dbloop is developing, we need to enable remote access to MySQL database form the other machines in our LAN. It isn't so easy to find good information about this issue. There are many posts but don't give clear info about how to solve it. Finally, a post gives us the solution.