"...Python's equivalent to the famous Ruby on rails, Django lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly. Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the "Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY) principle..."
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The Jargon File by Eric S. Raymond - Free eBook
http://manybooks.net –
An updated "Hackers Dictionary", free download in many formats, from Manybooks.
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Geospatial Web Services and REST
http://www.directionsmag.com –
"...The definition of the term "Web service" is confused by popular marketing literature. Is the main Google Maps interface a Web service? Technically, it is not. Does the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) standard describe a Web service? Absolutely..."
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ActiveRecord Screencast & Presentation
http://www.rubyinside.com –
"Gregg Pollack of RailsEnvy, co-author of the infamous Rails vs PHP/Java "commercials", has put together a presentation cum screencast about ActiveRecord and object mapping in general. It's based on a presentation given on June 16 to the Orlando Ruby User Group.
Read more »IBM, Novell Square Off With MS, Red Hat in App Server Arena
http://www.linuxinsider.com –
The end goal of the IBM-Novell alliance is to provide an enterprise-ready open source alternative to JBoss. At the same time, developers will have an opportunity to build on WAS CE -- the open source WebSphere Application Server Community Edition -- which is supported by both firms.
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GNU/Hurd: HURD LX installer
http://kiranvirus.wordpress.com –
"...We make use of an installation script to install the GNU/Hurd system, which resides in the intial ramdisk having the base linux file system. The file system contains all the necessary binaries for the execution of the script...."
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Erlang, the next Java
http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com –
"...Erlang is going to be a very important language. It could be the next Java [...] Its main advantage is that it is perfectly suited for the multi-core, web services future. In fact, it is the ONLY mature, rock-solid language that is suitable for writing highly scalable systems to run on multicore machines..."
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The Open Source Fight Club
http://www.internetnews.com –
The first rule of Fight Club is to not speak about Fight Club. That is unless of course you're an open source vendor that, by definition, aims to make everything open and available.
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The Browser Scripting Revolution
http://ejohn.org –
"...This is a huge, huge, deal. This means that JavaScript will no longer be the only viable scripting language in browsers that use that Tamarin engine[...]this is a huge announcement. This immediately helps to give credence to using the upcoming JavaScript 2 language as its cross-browser support is practically assured..."
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FreeBSD update software and apply security patch
http://www.cyberciti.biz –
Updating FreeBSD server system is quite easy. You can apply security patch to keep freebsd system up to date.
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Abiword gets experimental OCR scanning support
http://arstechnica.com –
An experimental Abiword plugin built on Ocropus and GEGL brings integrated OCR scanning support to the popular open source word processing program.
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Portfolio Project Day 2 - slow progress
http://penguinpetes.com –
I have started the front-piece. I'm looking to add more yet, but not sure what. Maybe a surf-board. I added the sun from my Inkscape tutorial to the scene.
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Dancing with Wolves, a Wolvix Hunter 1.1.0 Review
http://on-disk.com –
With the release of Wolvix Hunter 1.1.0 the wolves are loose, and they are a pleasure to hunt with!
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Set up user accounts quickly and securely
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When you need to set up a user account to give a user shell access to the system, the only logical choice of login tool is OpenSSH.
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Monday's Security Updates
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Debian has updated xulrunner (multiple vulnerabilities), iceape (multiple vulnerabilities)...
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