If you’ve ever had an inkling to get into mobile software development, now is your time. Google has drastically narrowed the gap for wanna-be mobile developers to get into this arena with their opensource and free Android SDK (Software Development Kit). Exciting new phones such as the, HTC “Google Phone”, Motorola Droid, Motorola [...]
It’s amazing how little things make all the difference when doing your day-to-day sysadmin tasks. I tend to use the same .profile on lots of *NIX boxes, but have always found it frustrating to find a sane editor in different environments. My editor of choice in Nano/Pico (I’m not ashamed), but this is [...]
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Here is a step-by-step tutorial on one way that I’ve found to deploy simple scripts as reliable daemons using the Daemontools package and Multilog facilities provided by D. J. Bernstein.
If you are familiar with QMail, you are probably familiar with one of the many brilliant applications created by the DJB; Daemontools. In a QMail [...]
Here is a project that deserves much more attention: http://wapache.sourceforge.net.
It is a modified Apache installation for Windows that links the power of apache (including PHP/Perl/etc. extensions) with the Windows GUI to create GUI windows applications simply and easily by way of custom apache Directives that link an Internet Explorer instance to the Windows GUI and [...]
Under most UNIX implementations, shell scripts cannot be made to setuid. This is both a security precaution and hindrance. For example, let’s say that you have the need to allow your users to RSYNC content from one server (a development server), that they have an account on, to a production server that they [...]
Working with parent-child relationships between rows in tables can be a headache to deal with, especially if you need to display those relationships graphically. However, Oracle provides some great constructs that make this much easier to deal with. Here are some of the challenges that I ran into and the solutions I came [...]