"Last week, I attended a talk on JavaScript 2 by John Resig. John wrote jQuery, and is now the JS evangelist for Mozilla..."
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Setting up a search engine for your website
"If you run a website and one people to be able to search it then installing a local spider to crawl your site and create a small database of your content which users may search is a relatively straightforward thing to do. Here we'll look at using mnoGoSearch - which is packaged for Debian and simple to install...
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The Past 12 Linux Kernels Benchmarked
Taking a break from our graphics excitement last week with the release of AMD's 8.42.3 Display Driver, we have finished our largest (and most time consuming) Linux performance comparison to date. We have taken the last 12 major kernel releases, from Linux 2.6.12 to Linux 2.6.23, built them from source and set out on a benchmarking escapade.
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Debian package of mylvmbackup
"This morning I prepared and uploaded a Debian package of mylvmbackup, which provides a quick way to create backups of MySQL server's data files using an LVM snapshot..."
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Debian On Rails : Apache 2.2 + MySQL + Ruby + Rails + PHP + Mongrel + Mongrel_cluster + Subversion + Trac + Capistrano
This old French-Howto was quite handy for reaching my goals. Hope this helps...
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The XMLHttpRequest Object - W3C Working Draft 26 October 2007
"The XMLHttpRequest Object specification defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server."
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Tips for a more secure OpenSSH server
Many years ago, people used telnet to connect to their machines, but the whole communication between their computers and the remote machine was sent in clear text (unencrypted), making sensitive information available to anyone who knew how to monitor their traffic. They had to find a way to prevent this. So SSH was born.
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KHTML Vs Webkit: To Merge or Not To Merge
This past Summer, the news broke that the KDE project has plans to re-merge KHTML and Webkit. It appears the KHTML team is not going gently into that good night.
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DSL v4.0 released.
After several months and 5 release candidates of upgrades and retooling DSL to additionally provide drag-n-drop document centric computing I present v4.0
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EXI stance
"...The goal of EXI is to provide an encoding of an XML document, along with an additional compression technique..."
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Try ruby! (in your browser)
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AMD 8.42 Driver Brings Fixes, AIGLX!
For ATI Linux customers, last month was certainly a very exciting time from AMD announcing open specifications (and the subsequent delivery of the first batch and the creation of the RadeonHD driver) to the release of the fglrx 8.41 display driver.
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"CSS 3 is arguably the most eagerly anticipated specification in the works at W3C. CSS 3 promises to make it easier to create page layout and to support formatting that is currently only achievable through hacks.
Read more »Debian way to make tiny change to package
"Have you ever had to make a one-line correction (or customization) in a big package? If so how did you manage it? The obvious way is to rebuild a package and serve it locally, but is there some other approach? ..."
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Backport of MySQL 5.1 package for etch
"For those of you who want to use MySQL 5.1 on etch, I prepared a backport from the experimental package of MySQL 5.1.22-rc..."
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