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previous    Linux Today News Service    


Source: Linux Today

ars Technica: "Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why."


Source: Linux Today

WMD Zone: "Novell have previously tried to leverage that market but did it all wrong. They didn’t understand that there is just one killer feature that needs to be in there which is Exchange support."


Source: Linux Today

Good Gear Guide: "Motorola will start loading Microsoft's search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China"


Source: Linux Today

Network World: "There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article outlines the key factors you need to consider in order to pick the best operating system for your needs and experience level."


Source: Linux Today

LWN.net: "One of the features expected with the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 release is the Ubuntu One Music Store (UOMS). The UOMS is a mechanism by which Ubuntu users can purchase songs in the MP3 format, with some of the revenue going to support Canonical."


Source: Linux Today

Bogus Technologies: "Our Enterprise network needed to be updated in the worst way;
that's why we went with Bogus Technologies."


Source: Linux Today

Linux Planet: "As we come to the end of Akkana Peck's excellent series on mastering GRUB2, it's not clear what advantages it has over legacy GRUB, or even good old LILO. It seems it's gone backwards. In today's installment we learn how to translate some common and mysterious error messages, and how to manage a multi-boot system with GRUB2."


Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "The inability to play the latest off the shelf commercial games has been a thorn in the side of Linux for a long time. With companies such as Valve starting to embrace other platforms, will that be the catalyst Linux needs to become a first class citizen? "


Source: Linux Today

BBC News: "Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff."


Source: Linux Today

Database Journal: "For most of the Web era, Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) based on SQL have dominated the database landscape. But over the course of the last year, a new approach has begun to take hold known as NoSQL, offering an alternative to the traditional RDBMS."


Source: Linux Today

Serverwatch: "The enterprise Linux space has suddenly got very interesting following the news that a bunch of sharp-suited New Yorkers have made an offer to buy SUSE Linux's parent company, Novell."


Source: Linux Today

Linux User and Developer: "Omnis Studio is a cross-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) Rapid Application Development tool. It allows you to quickly build applications using a combination of graphical elements as well as a code editor."


Source: Linux Today

OMG Ubuntu: "In this post I'm going to list 16 things that I think could be improved in Lucid. I'm going to try my best to address the issues in detail and offer solutions. Of course, all of this is also a matter of opinion too. The object of this post is to make you think about ways we could improve each one."


Source: Linux Today

Opensource.com: "What we call a commons, Lanier calls "Digital Maoism"."


Source: Linux Today

Daniweb: "Google does a lot of things well, maybe too well, and it's adding to its portfolio of tools on a weekly basis. At some point you have to look at the number of pies in which Google has its fingers and start to get a little frightened of this company."


Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "In my last article I looked at performance loopers for Linux. This week I begin a 2-part review of similar applications called arpeggiators."


Source: Linux Today

CNet: "IBM is embarking on a research project to design mobile gadgets that are easier to use for people who have disabilities or aren't fully literate."


  popularity

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Mobile Today: "Apple's HTC lawsuit may have come out of nowhere as far as the public is concerned, but behind the scenes, Apple has been warning handset vendors for some time that it has patents and lawyers and isn't afraid to use them."


  popularity

Source: Linux Today

ERACC Web log: "This article is a rebuttal to Michael Gartenberg’s Opinion: Linux on the desktop: Still not happening over at Computerworld Operating Systems. Executive Summary: Michael Gartenberg is wrong."


Source: Linux Today

Tech Source: "Best Linux Distro for Web Server: If you are planning to build a web hosting company or simply host your own website at home, then it is best to use Linux as your operating system."


Source: Linux Today

Howtoforge: "This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Debian Lenny."


  popularity

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: " each Fedora release always pulls in the very latest Linux graphics code. Fedora was the first distribution shipping with the Nouveau driver, then its KMS driver, and now with Fedora 13 it's the first OS deploying Nouveau's Gallium3D driver "



previous    The O'Reilly Network's Security DevCenter Articles and Weblogs    


Source: Security DevCenter

Author Stéphane Faroult (The Art of SQL, Refactoring SQL Applications) presents SQL the way he sees it, and how theory meets practice when searching for performance.


Source: Security DevCenter

Tech-minded volunteers quickly pitched in with a variety of communication and data services in the days following the Haiti earthquake. One company -- crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower -- repurposed its service as a text-message translation tool to aid Mission 4636. CrowdFlower founder and CEO Lukas Biewald shares his story in this guest post.


Source: Security DevCenter

January 2010 US Mobile Subscriber Market Share (ComScore) -- Android just overtook Palm, and is growing faster than the other smartphone platforms. And for a reality check, 28% of mobile customers used a browser on their phone. This and more in today's Four Short Links.


  popularity

Source: Security DevCenter

Last Saturday, several hundred folks gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to spend the day discussing Open Government. I attended, and Laurel Ruma (O'Reilly's Gov 2.0 Evangelist) was one of the organizers.



previous    The latest content from IBM developerWorks    


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

This is the first of a five-part series of articles written for the PHP developer interested in learning about an open-source, flexible, and scalable framework called Agavi. In this first article, you walk through the installation of the framework and the other required components, get an overview of Agavi and its functions, and create your first Web application.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Continue to build the Web Automobile Sales Platform by adding the ability to add, delete, and update the automobile records in Part 3 of a five-part series. You will also see how to separate user functions from administrative functions with authentication.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Work with the scalable, open-source Agavi framework to create an input form, use Doctrine to auto-generate the data models for the project, and integrate these models into the Agavi project in Part 2 of this five-part series.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Today, there is a great deal of interest in energy, and its less-desirable
environmental shadow, carbon dioxide. To create a more sustainable world,
individuals, companies, and governments are focusing attention on energy and how
we use it. The route to understanding our usage of energy (and therefore carbon)
is to measure and analyze it, to understand the results, and then act on that
information. AMEE is a neutral aggregation platform for all forms of energy and
activity data, and associated carbon models. In this article, you learn how to use the AMEE platform in your applications to deliver a high quality energy management and carbon calculation solution to your clients.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Ruby is a feature-rich, free, simple, extensible, portable, and object-oriented scripting language. As a powerful text processing language, it has immense capability. With powerful built-in libraries and a set of external libraries, Ruby is a viable option for a solution to any mundane text processing task that you might encounter.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Cloud analytics allow developers to add many of the features of traditional business intelligence solutions without the overhead. Discover how to leverage the power of cloud analytics using Zoho Reports, the Zoho API, and XML to add analytical capabilities to any application -- either in the cloud or local.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Twitter is undoubtedly one of the most recent and successful examples of social networking to appear on the World Wide Web. Twitter also has its own search engine, which enables users to search for "tweets" by keyword or category, with an API to facilitate programmatic searches, act as a REST service, and return searches in Atom format. Discover the basics of using the Twitter Search API.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Atom is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) specification that identifies information contained in a Web site. Using Atom, Web developers produce feeds that enable other Web developers (or consumers who use feed readers) to quickly locate and view information of interest on a remote site. Think of it as a Web site's index, available to anyone who wants it. Using PHP, a popular language of choice for most host providers, a Web developer can easily produce an Atom feed that can then be made available to the various feed readers and other Web developers. The ultimate result is a state-of-the-art information solution that enables the Web content to reach a much wider audience.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Mashups are an exciting genre of interactive Web applications that draw upon content retrieved from external data sources to create entirely new and innovative services. They are a hallmark of the second generation of Web applications informally known as Web 2.0. This introductory article explores what it means to be a mashup, the different classes of popular mashups constructed today, and the enabling technologies that mashup developers leverage to create their applications. Additionally, you'll see many of the emerging technical and social challenges that mashup developers face.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Trying to migrate your EJB code to JBoss 5? Can't get the code to deploy and run? If so, this tip is for you. Or, are you new to JBoss 5 but you want to get a feel for the EJB 3 environment? This tip details the required XML deployment files to build, deploy, and run EJB3 code on JBoss5.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

By providing open access to increasing amounts of Linked Data, public SPARQL endpoints boost the growth of the Semantic Web by providing great data for you to use in your applications. As with many other data-driven Web sites out there, you can create a Web page by sending a query to these endpoints and then wrapping the results in HTML tags; the big difference for SPARQL endpoints is the public availability of this new data for your applications. With simple CGI scripting, get data from two different SPARQL endpoints to build applications that answer your user's questions about actors shared between two directors and which musicians have released which albums.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

For modern Web 2.0 sites, the ability to mash up information from
different sources is a plus. You can use Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to get and
process XML-based news feeds such as RSS and the more modern Atom Syndication
Format. In this article, explore methods to access any appropriate feed -- despite
same-origin policy (SOP) limitations -- and to process the incoming XML
data.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The IBM DB2 9 release features a significant architectural departure from
prior versions. For the first time since its debut, DB2 is providing a new
query language, new storage technology, new indexing technology, and other
features to support XML data and its inherent hierarchical structure. But
don't worry, all of DB2's traditional database management features remain,
including its support for SQL and tabular data structures. Explore DB2 9's
XML technology, and learn why IBM now considers DB2 a "hybrid" or
multi-structured database management system. Originally written in 2006, this
article has been updated to include product changes in DB2 9.5 and
9.7.



Updated: Thu Mar 11 23:55:01 2010


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