"Syndicated content has become an expected part of any regular news source. Users don't want the bother of checking sites every day, and mailing lists don't allow the user enough flexibility when dealing with a large amount of news. Regular publishing formats are also notoriously unfriendly to robots, providing barriers to indexing and searching..."

"Hence, if we can wrap C++ libraries threaded using TBB, then the Parrot NCI should make it possible for all the languages that have Parrot support to call those libraries. Then, high level scripting languages such as Ruby, Python, and Perl will have convenient access to computationally-intensive libraries that have been threaded for optimal performance on multicore processors."

Want to mount your Apple iPhone under Ubuntu GNU/Linux? Well, here is how to do it. A detailed howto including links to the software you need to install for doing it.

"This is actually pretty straight-forward if you’ve got things set up properly. I had a hard time at first, because I had the “sites” framework enabled but I wasn’t using it the right way.

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer (or "packet sniffer") that can be used for network analysis, troubleshooting, software development, education, etc.

I have read about Asterisk and wanted to test it out as I will be managing/troubleshooting it at work anytime soon, so I thought of getting my hands dirty and getting some basic experience on it. First, I set up a box with Linux RedHat ES4 but I think any Linux distro would do. Kubuntu/Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva would work fine.

A must-read that looks at how to tackle security issues in your authentication system, models, controllers, views, and elsewhere...