From the beginning open-ecommerce.org was set up as a social enterprise. Our projects are united by a common underlying idea, everything we do aims to empower people and help them realise their online aspirations.
This Blog is a way to share our way to do things with a broader audience and a chanel to talk with developers and clients.
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We normally work on windows with netbeans and we have an ubuntu box with apache as a dev environment.
Instead of have to different directories one for UAT (dev environment where the clients can see what we are doing) and my local server for debugging what we do is to have one single directory that we use locally with netbeans
Heidi is a fantastic OpenSource tool created by Ansgar Becker it is a pitty that only works on windows. You can use it in linux but via vine. (We use DBeaver from linus)
Synergy is a little resident multiplatform application created by the genius of Nick Bolton if after you use it for a while you feel like contribute do so to: http://synergy-foss.org/story/