The OpenBSD operating system. This is a Unix style operating system whose roots go back into the very early days of computing. It's main claim to fame is that it's aimed at providing a secure operating system for servers and it's record speaks for itself.
The Apache web server. Based on very early web site software, this is by far the most common web server software used on the Internet today. It's reliable, secure and very easy to configure.
The Joomal Content Management System" (CMS). Joomla is also "Open Source" along with the multitude of modules and components that make this site work. In the background, Joomla uses:
PHP which is a very versitile scripting language that produces all of the web pages on this site dynamically.
MySQL is a relational database that's earned a deserved reputation for speed and reliability.
Yes okay, you all may be thinking by now that I am some kind of fabulously knowledgeable computer geeky type as well as being okay with a pencil. I wish I could say that was true (well hopefully it's true about the pencil thingy). The true credit for getting this website up and running, looking the way it does, chopping and changing things about, rewriting scripts (yes, he actually rewrote computer scripts...sheesh!) etc, etc, etc all goes to my partner in crime, Dave AKA S.G.E or Super-Geek-Extrordinaire.
