"After a much larger delay than I would have liked, Capistrano 2.1 is now available! There is a lot going on in this release, including some pretty exciting changes. As ever, install it via RubyGems...

The FreeBSD development team has silently created the RELENG_7 branch. This is an important step in the release process of FreeBSD 7.
Ken Smith has also told that the team will shift to time-based release cycles now on, instead of feature-based ones.

An Eclipse plug-in that enables browser-based access to Eclipse.!!!

"Ben Laurie shows how to build up an Apache configuration file from first principles." via Simon Willison.

By and large, most Red Hat Linux systems will have Bash as the default shell. Bash is a darn great shell, but this article is about another equally great shell, called Z-Shell, that has most of the attributes of Bash, but in some cases goes the extra mile to give you the flexibility to customize your shell more than Bash allows.

"I thought Ligaya Turmelle's post on SQL joins was a great primer for novice developers. Since SQL joins are fundamentally set-based, the use of Venn diagrams to explain them seems, at first blush, to be a natural fit. However, like the commenters to her post, I found that the Venn diagrams didn't quite match the SQL join syntax reality in my testing..."

Absolute Linux is a stripped-down version of Slackware. It is made for speed, stability, security, and ease of use and development. Its chief aim is to make installation and maintenance easier than of the original Slackware. Absolute Linux uses the ultra-lightweight IceWM window manager and ROX for handling files.

Debian Administration has an article up about the usefulness of firewalls. Are they really necessary? If you consider a firewall as just a non-stateful, layer-3 packet filter, then I would agree they are not very useful. However, modern firewalls can do all sorts of useful filtering that can protect a public application from compromise