Ruby Editors - The Choices For Non-Mac And Non-VI People
I'm on a Mac most of the time and TextMate will be pried out of my cold dead fingers. But when I'm on my Ubuntu box, glad to see there's a growing... more »
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NetBeans: The Ultimate Linux IDE
Why NetBeans beats Eclipse and is perfect for Linux Development
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The Cron Commandments
Although it's a rare Unix machine that doesn't run at least a couple of custom cronjobs it's an even more special snowflake that does them properly.... more »
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100 Vim commands every programmer should know
Since the 70’s, Vi is one of the programmer’s best friend. Nevermind you’re new to Vi or not, here’s a big list of 100 useful commands, organized by... more »
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PHP Tricks: Easily eliminate any unwanted characters from a string
I wanted to scrub any characters out of a string that were not alphanumeric. So, I wrote this function that uses a simple regular expression to detect... more »
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Install Ganymede on Ubuntu
Simple steps for getting the newest version of eclipse working on Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
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Excelsior JET 6.4: Smaller, Faster, More Secure Java
Since the beginning of time Java applications have been battered with complaints about startup time, memory footprint, performance and security.... more »
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Linux vs. Closed-Source Kernel Modules
There's an uneasy relationship between Linux and some of the bits that make it work on many computers - closed-source kernel modules. These modules -... more »
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5 Ways to Screencast Your Linux Desktop
Here are five popular ways to capture desktop screencast for Linux
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Jython Approaches 2.5
Jython 2.5 is really, finally, unbelievably coming together. This is the next release of Jython, after last summer's 2.2. In a nutshell, we have... more »
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8 Useful Collections of Open Source Apps
Datamation has a good collection of 75 Popular Open Source Desktop Downloads posted. The products in the list are categorized, and include business... more »
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Intrusion Detection For PHP Applications With PHPIDS
This tutorial explains how to set up PHPIDS on a web server with Apache2 and PHP5. PHPIDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System) is a simple to use, well... more »
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Top 10 Best GTK Applications Not Included in GNOME
The article reviews 10 GTK applications which don't come with the GNOME desktop environment: GIMP, Banshee, Inkscape, Firefox, Deluge, XChat,... more »
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Opera 9.5 gives Firefox 3 a run for its money
Two of the most popular Linux browsers were unveiled this month after years of development -- the open source Firefox 3 and the proprietary Opera 9.5.... more »
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Splunk your distributed logs in EC2
Index and search distributed (or local) logs with ease - a look at Splunk with a simple Ruby-based TCP logger.
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Red Hat's IcedTea Powers OpenJDK to Full TCK Compatibility (no encumbered code)
Most of you know that the road to open source Java has been a long and winding one. Today an important milestone was announced, and through the... more »
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Wine 1.0 released
The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta... more »
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Windows Beats Linux/OSX at Handwriting
Lately I’ve been trying to code an application which requires some form of natural handwriting recognition. Natural Handwriting is basically the way... more »
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Should IT consultants pay for their stupid mistakes?
We’ve all done it, but nobody likes to admit it: You delete all files, and there’s no backup. Your momentary, calm puzzlement at rm’s cryptic... more »
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Discover the Power of Cron Jobs
Cron jobs are commands run by the unix program cron. There are a lot of uses out there for setting up crons with web applications. As webmasters, if... more »
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An Ubuntu netbook?
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has hinted at the likelihood of an ultra-portable netbook pre-loaded with Ubuntu Remix in the very near future.... more »
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Running FEST under Xvfb
If you're running Linux, BSD, or any *NIX style operating system chances are that CI server probably doesn't even have X running, so how are you to... more »
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How Google Manages its Apple Desktops
In this short podcast, Google's Nigel Kersten tells us how Google manages the configuration of its "many, many thousands" of Apple desktops, all with... more »
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The illustrated guide to recovering lost commits with Git
A walkthrough to recovering from most kinds of bad situations you can get into with Git, the revolutionary version control system. With cameos by... more »
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Version labeling is out of control
Anybody who spends time trying new free software applications and distributions will soon notice that version numbering and labeling is next to... more »
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