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Manage your Requirements and more with RequisitePro
Software is based on requirements — the requirements of your clients, team, marketing department and other entities, all of whom send you requests about the features that they would like incorporated into the system. But how do you track all of t…
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Develop your grid service with the IBM Grid Toolbox
The new IBM ? Grid Toolbox V3.0 provides an effective solution for developing grid solutions, particularly on IBM eServer??? hardware. In this article, you’ll see the key differences of Grid Toolbox V3.0 over previous versions, and how the eServer…
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Apache Maintenance Basics
You’ve downloaded and configured your Apache server and are ready to move on to the next project. Can it really be left to fend for itself in a darkened room? Yes. To some degree, anyway. With the exception of configuration testing, once Apache is…
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 4: Submission and distribution
Splitting up a grid into simpler, smaller, elements makes the whole process of building a grid much easier. Grids are not mystic, they just require careful planning and a degree of flexibility in their operation and structure to allow work to be s…
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Building a grid with Perl, Part 3: Metadata
This tutorial is the third in a series of tutorials looking at how you can develop a grid solution with Perl. This series looks at building a framework for a grid system while also creating a distributed image storage/retrieval system as a sample …
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 2: Exchanging information
In this tutorial series, we’re using Perl to build a resource grid that stores and manipulates photos and images. Communication drives the grid process, and in this tutorial we’ll look at the communication requirements in our grid, including the n…
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Building a Grid with Perl, Part 1
Put your Perl skills to work and learn how to build an image storage grid distributed over a number of machines. The generic resource framework you build can be used for any resource grid system, but the example system will concentrate on storing …
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Perl and the grid infrastructure
Whether you want to develop a standalone grid or just want to provide an interface to an existing one, Perl can help. Through its extensible architecture and support for many of the protocols and systems that make up the modern grid, Perl is an id…
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Reverse Proxying With Apache 2.0
The previous Apache-focused tutorial published on ServerWatch discussed the benefits of a proxy server for the network, and how it can speed up access, reduce bandwidth requirements, and perform basic information filtering tasks. This type of prox…
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Apache 2.0/WebDAV update
One of the problems with Windows XP is that when working with non-Windows servers and services that it supplies the wrong login authentication information. When you are prompted to login to a system like WebDAV, Windows XP wants to send DOMAINUse…