Doing More With phpMyAdmin

In the article Doing More With phpMyAdmin (Part 1), by Harish Kamath, readers receive easy-to-follow instructions for installing phpMyAdmin on their environment.

Installing Apache, PHP and Perl in one shot: XAMPP

xampp is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start. At the moment there are 3 XAMPP installers - one for GNU-Linux, one for Windows, and another for Solaris.

Visual database design with DBDesigner

DBDesigner is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.
DBDesigner 4 compares to products like Oracle's Designer, IBM's Rational Rose, Computer Associates's ERwin and theKompany's DataArchitect, but is an open source project available for Microsoft Windows© 2k/XP and Linux KDE/Gnome. It is released under the GPL.

UML 2 modeling tool: Gaphor

Gaphor is an easy to use modeling environment. This means that you are able to create nice UML diagrams for documentation and to assist you with design decisions. Gaphor will help you create your applications.
* Gaphor has a UML 2.0 compliant data model. This guarantees future compatibility with other modeling tools.
* The data model is developed in Gaphor itself!
* SVG diagram exports.
* The following diagram types are supported:
o Class diagrams
o Use case diagrams
o Action diagrams
o Component diagrams
* Support for stereotypes on classes, interfaces and packages.
* Cross platform: Gaphor works on both Unix and Windows.
* Plugin infrastructure makes Gaphor easy to extend.