"I'm glad to see the first beta of the so-called Python 3000. But for a version that's supposed to break all the rules to become better, I'm not seeing what I think is most important."
Read more »Gentoo upgrade to Apache 2.2
"I upgraded my server's apache from 2.0 to 2.2 today (see Overview of new features in Apache 2.2) and it was painless except for a few minor hiccups. I like to keep my server's packages up to date with Gentoo's stable packages not just for new features but mainly to make package upgrades as easy as possible..."
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Ajax Forms with jQuery
"There are so many different javascript frameworks out there, but I have recently started to use jQuery, and I love it. Not only is the library much smaller than others, but it is so simple to use. I wanted to show how easy it is to turn a regular form into a AJAX form..."
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Overlays in XUL
"... if for example you have two windows in your application and both of them have a file menu, rather than having the file menu code in both of the windows, you can define an overlay and then share this one file between both windows. This centralizes the code for the file menu and makes updating/extending the menu much easier because code changes are only required in one place..."
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Prevent X.Org from Starting in Ubuntu
If you've got an Ubuntu machine that you initially installed with Ubuntu Desktop, but would like to run as a server, you can just disable the graphical environment from starting up in order to save resources. This is also useful for doing system maintenance from the command line that needs to be performed outside of the GUI.
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Chrooted SSH/SFTP Tutorial (Debian Etch)
This tutorial describes two ways how to give users chrooted SSH access. With this setup, you can give your users shell access without having to fear that they can see your whole system.
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JavaScript Date Object Methods
"This is the second half of a two part discussion of the javascript date object. The first half discusses creating, formatting, extending and converting the date object. This section focuses solely on the methods of the javascript Date oject. In the prior section we created a working and accurate date object.
Read more »Postfix Antispam on SMTP servers
If you run your own Postfix SMTP server however, there are lots of things you can do to stop spam. This is a little crib sheet of what I do on most of my servers (as much for my ease-of-access as for other people).
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Learn python in 10 minutes.
So, you want to learn the Python programming language but can’t find a concise and yet full-featured tutorial. This tutorial will attempt to teach you Python in 10 minutes.It’s probably not so much a tutorial as it is a cross between a tutorial and a cheatsheet
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How To Install & Set Up Dovecot Mail Server With Sieve And Virtual Users
This document describes how to install the Dovecot mail server from source as an imap / pop3 mail server for your domain and how to set up the sieve plugin so your clients can use the sieve mail filtering language for their mail accounts.
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Configuring phpGroupware's Core Applications
Don Parris walks you through the process of setting the core applications of phphGroupware.
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Watch out for CouchDB
"...CouchDB is not a relational database but rather a distributed document database. Instead of inserting a row of column values into a table, you save a document, with any number of named fields and values (now represented as JSON objects) into the database where it exists in a kind of addressable pool.
Read more »Keep your laptop and PC in Unison
I usually carry my laptop everywhere and do work on it, but I do also need to work at my desktop PC, so I need to synchronize the files on the two machines. I have used several sync tools in the past, ranging from simple commands like scp and rsync to utilities like Krusader, which includes a way to synchronize directories on different machines. Recently I started using Unison.
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ASSP With Embedded ClamAV Integrated Into Postfix With Virtual Users And Domains
This document describes how to integrate ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy) with embedded ClamAV into a mail server based on Postfix featuring virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database.
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Parsing Microformats
"...This article will focus more on how to extract microformats data from the HTML, how the basic parsing rules work, and how they differ from XML..."
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