Web Applications
Supporting
:
Lecture 4
.
Follow the link to the
Apache Friends
version of a portable
LAMP
stack
XAMPP
. Determine the latest version and operating systems supported. Read the
windows installation instructions
.
Follow the links to explore the features of
DokuWiki
,
Mediawiki
,
Drupal
,
Joomla
and
WordPress
. In each case determine the latest version and the application's installation requirments. Which of these can be installed with XAMPP on Windows?
Read the Wikipedia articles on
Collaborative Software
,
Computer-supported Cooperative Work
,
Computer-supported Collaboration
and
Social Software
. Pick out any features of the systems described that could help you in your learning of this module, your group project work, personal development and social life. Make a table of your results like this:
Collaboration Feature
Useful for this module
Useful for group projects
Useful for personal development
Useful in my social life
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