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                                            What is Bitnami ? Bitnami makes it easy to run your favorite server apps anywhere Bitnami is a library of popular server applications and development environments that can be installed with one click, either in your laptop, in a virtual machine or hosted in the cloud. We take care of compiling and configuring the applications and all of their dependencies (third-party libraries, language runtimes, databases) so they work out-of-the-box. The resulting packaged software (a 'stack') is then made available as native installers, virtual machines and cloud images. These Bitnami application packages provide a consistent, secure and optimized end-user experience when deploying any app, on any platform. Bitnami Cloud Hosting Bitnami Cloud Hosting is a server management solution that makes it incredibly simple to launch and...

                             Deploying PHP applications as PHAR archives Today I discovered a very powerful addition to the PHP world.  Phar  is an archive extension for PHP that allows an entire PHP application to be packaged into a single file. It's basically PHP's answer to Java's .jar archive format. Don't get excited yet, it gets better... There are a few things that make this particularly handy. For one, it is being integrated into the next major PHP release (5.3) which means that any standard PHP installation running the latest version will support .phar files right out of the box. The other advantage is of course in deployment. Using a .phar file you can deploy an entire PHP application by working with just one file, rather than a bunch of files and directories. This is where .phar really shines. Imagine deploying a popular web app like WordPress by simply copying a single .phar file...

                                                         A tutorial introduction to Git This tutorial explains how to import a new project into Git, make changes to it, and share changes with other developers. If you are instead primarily interested in using Git to fetch a project, for example, to test the latest version, you may prefer to start with the first two chapters of  The Git User's Manual .