7 "Must Read" Linux Tutorials Linux Screw: "GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary by Gareth Anderson...This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide..." (Aug 26, 2008)
A Java Developer’s Pythonic Experience (Sep 5, 2008, 19:02 UTC) (810 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Source From Bohol: "Without hesitation, I said yes and not even thinking of how I'll do it. That time, I was biting my nails and learning deeper about Python. My first problem was the GUI...Tkinter."
Sorting Perl Lists And Removing Duplicates On Linux Or Unix (Sep 5, 2008, 04:32 UTC) (677 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we're going to look a Perl list sorting. In this context, you can actually consider our lists as arrays if you prefer. I'm going to keep calling them lists because, in the end, it will most closely approximate what we will want to manipulate; a fixed list of numbers."
Writing Plug-ins in Python (Sep 5, 2008, 03:02 UTC) (1089 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "One of the more popular examples of the use of plug-ins to extend an application is the Firefox plug-in community. There are Firefox plug-ins for Flash players, Web development, managing RSS feeds, and more."
ATI to Show Linux Some Love (Sep 4, 2008, 13:31 UTC) (1668 reads)
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(feedback) Softpedia: "According to recent reports, AMD's graphics subsidiary is set on becoming more Linux-friendly. The company plans to release new Catalyst drivers for Linux-based operating systems, which will allow playback of protected high-definition content on a Linux OS."
Google on Chrome EULA Controversy: Our Bad, We'll Change It (Sep 4, 2008, 13:01 UTC) (1731 reads)
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(feedback) ars Technica: "Google's new web browser Chrome is fast, shiny, and requires users to sign their very lives over to Google before they can use it. Today's Internet outrage du jour has been Chrome's EULA, which appears to give Google a nonexclusive right to display and distribute every bit of content transmitted through the browser."
Displaying RSS And Atom Feeds On Your Web Site With SimplePie (Sep 4, 2008, 03:01 UTC) (716 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "SimplePie is a PHP library that can fetch, cache, parse, and normalize RSS and Atom feeds. It allows you to display the newest articles from websites with RSS or Atom feeds on your own site. This is a great way to add new, fresh, and relevant information to your site. This guide shows how you can set it up for your own web site."
Automatically Lock/Unlock Your PC Using Your Webcam (Sep 3, 2008, 23:32 UTC) (1403 reads)
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(feedback) My Technophilic Musings: " This is a simple (and useless) script to monitor motion in front of your PC, auto-lock it when you are away and auto-unlock it when you come back."
Lists vs. Strings: Perl List Permutations For Linux Or Unix (Sep 3, 2008, 22:32 UTC) (884 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "That basic building block is known as the permutation of a list, as opposed to an array (or string). Given Perl's definitions, at their basic, a list is static and cannot be modified, while the opposite is true of an array."
Hooray, it's a 4.1.1! (Sep 3, 2008, 15:32 UTC) (1774 reads)
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(feedback) KDE.news: "With only a good month of development time -- and Akademy in between -- the changelog is still impressively long."
Number Pools And Guaranteed Combinations Within Fixed Strings (Sep 3, 2008, 10:31 UTC) (705 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Our Objective: Given a Number Pool of "x through y," create the maximum possible Fixed String Length variations of our Fixed String that contain some variation of our Guaranteed Combination, without any duplication (i.e. 1, 2, 3 is equal to 2, 3, 1 and would only count as one match), and return the results."
Getting Started With CodeIgniter (Sep 3, 2008, 06:01 UTC) (1027 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "If you're a PHP developer, it doesn't take long to make a profound discovery when it comes to your programming language of choice: Large projects can get messy."
Scripting Best Practices (Sep 2, 2008, 19:03 UTC) (1546 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "Scripting languages are incredibly useful for quick-fix scripts. The problem with this is when the quick-fix script is still in place 6 months down the line, at which point the corners you cut because, hey, it's just a short-term fix, come back to bite you. Read on for some best practice tips to make the experience less painful."
The Real Reason Google is Making Chrome (Sep 2, 2008, 18:33 UTC) (5184 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "There are five reasons why Google is doing this, and, if you read the comic book closely - yes, I'm serious - and you know technology you can see the reasons for yourself."
Online Encyclopedia Shell Script For Linux And Unix (Sep 1, 2008, 08:02 UTC) (2760 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is a follow up (and the finishing touch, I hope ;) to a whole slew of scripts we've written to mine the knowledge on tap at reference.com."
Interview: FreeNAS for No-Cost Network Attached Storage (Aug 31, 2008, 17:03 UTC) (1515 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "The BSD licence is the most open license from my point of view. I didn't have time to read (and understand) all the concepts in the GPL, and I needed a simple license."
Dynamically Manage XML Schema Variations in XMLBeans Apps (Aug 31, 2008, 14:03 UTC) (742 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "Apache XMLBeans does not inherently support multiple versions of an XML schema. For applications that need this type of support to manage compatibility, this limitation is serious. But there is a solution, and in this article, you'll learn how dynamic class loading techniques can help.:
Spring: A Lightweight Application Framework for Day-to-Day Business Applications (Aug 31, 2008, 12:03 UTC) (1304 reads)
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(feedback) BobCares: "Spring is a Lightweight Application Framework which covers all levels of your day-to-day business applications. It helps you write, debug and maintain enterprise applications much easier and faster. It can also be integrated with other commonly used frameworks and greatly simplify your development work."
Mac OS X Shell Scripting Tips For Young And Old (Aug 30, 2008, 08:01 UTC) (1430 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Mac has been fronting their BSD'ish CLI for quite a while now and, if you can use RedHat, Suse, FreeBSD or any of the other myriad varieties of Linux on the market today, OS X's insides should be easy enough for you to figure out."
The Upside Down Of HTML On Unix and Linux: Backward (Aug 29, 2008, 01:02 UTC) (1553 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "...when it comes to the more complicated issue of handling tags that dictate image, span, table, style and other such extravagant beautification, it may turn out a web page so horribly disfigured that you'll hardly recognize it. ...although, maybe that was the point."
Developing For the Embedded Linux Nokia N810 (Aug 28, 2008, 22:01 UTC) (1147 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "The N810 is an embedded handheld system with an 800x480 display. It has Bluetooth, wireless, and USB connections. The underlying kernel is a 2.6.21 Linux® kernel, adapted for the hardware."
Open Source is Dead, Long Live Open Source (Aug 28, 2008, 16:01 UTC) (1112 reads)
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(feedback) 451 CAOS Theory: "A couple of articles have been published recently that point to a growing realisation/admission about the role that open source will play in the future of enterprise software."
Opentape: Not Quite Open Source (Aug 27, 2008, 22:31 UTC) (881 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "Muxtape, as you may know, is a music sharing and mixing site that's apparently been shut down by the RIAA. Now there's Opentape, which bills itself as "a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web." But is it?"
Performance Problems Plague Perl on Red Hat (Aug 27, 2008, 12:31 UTC) (1613 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "The problem, which also manifests itself on some versions of the Fedora and CentOS Linux distributions, means that some programs will take more than 100 (yes, one hundred) times longer to execute under Red Hat than other distributions. "
Google drops Bluetooth, GTalkService APIs from Android 1.0 (Aug 27, 2008, 04:01 UTC) (1203 reads)
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(feedback) Good Gear Guide: "Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs (application program interfaces) from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android Developers Blog."
The Paradox of FOSS Projects Supporting Windows (Aug 26, 2008, 23:01 UTC) (1149 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Today Blog: "FOSS applications for Windows don't seem to get the same respect and support that their Linux counterparts do...Some say they are good introductions to FOSS; some think they're tainted and nasty and prop up the evil monopolist."
Hack Week III is Almost Upon Us! (Aug 26, 2008, 19:01 UTC) (815 reads)
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(feedback) openSUSE news: "What’s Hack Week? Hack Week is a chance for Novell’s developers to work on Innovation Time Off (ITO) projects, uninterrupted by normal hacking duties. This helps provide an opportunity for Novell’s developers to work on innovative new projects they might not normally be able to work on. Since most of the projects developed during Hack Week are open source, this also benefits the community by providing new code."
Who Writes Linux? (And How You Can Too!) (Aug 26, 2008, 17:01 UTC) (1059 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux Distillery: "The very heart of the Linux operating system is the kernel, the piece of software which makes programs run and work with hardware. It's possibly the largest and most geographical spread open source project in the world. With software projects failing daily how can such a task actually work?"
Internet TV Broadcaster Targets MIDs (Aug 26, 2008, 14:31 UTC) (737 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Devices: "Internet TV (ITV) service provider Move Networks announced an ITV media player optimized for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) based on the Intel Atom and the Linux-based Moblin stack. The Move Media Player for MIDs will deliver video from partners like ABC, Fox, and ESPN."
Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries (Aug 26, 2008, 10:33 UTC) (1313 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "This article investigates the process of creating and using dynamic libraries, provides details on the various tools for exploring them, and explores how these libraries work under the hood."
Kernel Space: udev Rules, But Whose? (Aug 25, 2008, 15:03 UTC) (1606 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld: "Udev is now a key component in almost all Linux systems. It's like the plumbing in a house; most people never notice it until it breaks."
Create Mashups on the Google App Engine Using Eclipse, Part 3 (Aug 24, 2008, 18:02 UTC) (1357 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "Social networks are making it easier to take data and mash it up to create innovative Web applications. You still, however, must deal with all the usual issues with creating a scalable Web application. Now the Google App Engine (GAE) makes that easier for you."
Create BlackBerry Applications With Open Source Tools (Aug 24, 2008, 02:02 UTC) (1897 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "Despite being a popular platform, third-party applications are still needed for the BlackBerry platform. There is no better way to bring those applications to fruition than to enable the help from the open source community."
Using Prototype Property in JavaScript (Aug 23, 2008, 18:02 UTC) (1578 reads)
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(feedback) Packt: "Understanding how the prototype works is an important part of learning the JavaScript language. After all, JavaScript is classified as having a prototype-based object model. There's nothing particularly difficult about the prototype, but it is a new concept and as such may sometimes take some time to sink in."
Oops! I Fixed the Linux Kernel (Aug 23, 2008, 06:02 UTC) (3701 reads)
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(feedback) Internet News: "Efforts like "oops" show the Linux community's focus on improving code quality, fixing bugs and even enlisting non-technical users to help the cause."
