The customizable PHP script Generic HTML Form Processor is intended to assist researchers and students in quickly setting up surveys and experiments that can be administered via the Web. This script relieves researchers from the burdens of writing new cGi scripts and building databases for each Web study. Generic HTML Form Processor processes any syntactically correct HTML form input and saves it into a dynamically created open-source database. We describe five modes for usage of the script that allow increasing functionality but require increasing levels of knowledge of PHP and Web servers: The first two modes require no previous knowledge, and the fifth requires PHP programming expertise. use of Generic HTML Form Processor is free for academic purposes, and its Web address is www.goeritz.net/brmic.
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This tutorial is all about implementing a Web-based calendar using open source technology. Specifically Java Servlets, Tomcat Server and MySQL database. All tools used to create and implement this project are open source projects and are free for the download under the GNU License Agreement. The freeness of open source projects allows practitioners to explore new technologies without incurring a huge investment. Furthermore, the software gets better as the project evolves which benefits everybody, end-users and developers a like.
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This document discusses some general principles in developing database applications using
C#, .NET, and Microsoft SQL Server. We’ll develop a command line database application to manage contacts. General ideas apply to the GUI oriented version—in fact, that’s the homework: To create a GUI version of this thing.

For this whole scheme to work, you need a few tools. These include:
• .NET Framework SDK
• Microsoft SQL Server
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