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Solaris 10 Zones
Note: This post was originally part of my LinuxWorld blog; now migrated here after my resignation. I’m doing a review of Solaris 10 at the moment – expect it to appear in an new issue sometime over the summer – but I have to say that overall I’m i…
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Unix Advanced Visual QuickPro, Chris Herborth
Unix Advanced Visual QuickPro is a step-by-step guide to configuring the finer points of your Unix machine from file sharing, Web sites, and e-mail through to virus scanning. I talk to the author and long-time friend, Chris Herborth, about the boo…
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Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization
Getting the design of your database right has a huge impact on a number of issues. Primarily performance, but it can also affect other areas like the flexibility of your database and how it integrates with the application-level solution, such as P…
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Exclusive LinuxWorld Magazine Interview: My SQL Network
The MySQL Network is a new service operated by MySQL AB to help companies use and deploy MySQL technology in their applications. It bundles up a number of different components into a single chargeable service and includes certified copies of the M…
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Embed Python scripting in C applications
Learn how to embed Python applications into your C applications. This tutorial explains how Python embedding works, shows you how to translate between data types, and provides various methods for embedding Python scripts. You can read the full art…
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Five Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Perl
I have a new article up on DevSource looking at some of the more esoteric uses of Perl as a programming language. The five items? Organizing your MP3s, cataloging PDFs, Creating a Graph, Creating Archives and the excellent MisterHouse. Five Things…
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Build a GCC-based cross-compiler for Linux
There are times when the platform you’re developing on and the computer you’re developing for don’t match. For example, you might want to build a PowerPC/Linux application from your x86/Linux laptop. Using the gcc, gas, and ld tools from the GNU t…
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Automating Perl Module Deployment
If you run Perl across many different computers of any sort, you know how frustrating it can be to install Perl extension modules across those machines. The administrative process is even worse if you have a Web server farm and need to keep each m…
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Adobe Trips into Open Source
Adobe have tripped into the Open Source space by creating their own open source website for some of their projects. The site includes a combination of the Adobe Source Libraries, a set of peer-reviews C++ libraries for a variety of different tasks…
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LAMP Oil: The RSS Problem
LAMP Oil is a new blog and column, under the auspices of LinuxWorld, is where I’ll be looking at, and hopefully fuelling the fires of, LAMP technology and developers. In the first article I look at something that is going to affect the very site y…