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A Day in the Life of #Apache In this installment of his new series based on conversations on the IRC channel, #apache, Rich Bowen tackles configuration issues in the sometimes bewildering world of virtual hosts. By the time he's through, Rich will have even the most confused Apache administrator creating a functioning virtual host configuration. Rich is coauthor of the recently released Apache Cookbook. [ Apache DevCenter] RouteWord Solutions We've run the puzzles, now find out the answers! Here are the solutions to the 30 RouteWord puzzles Andrew Odewahn provided for us. [ONLamp.com] Enabling IPv6 in Linux IPv6 is coming. In fact, you can encourage its adoption by using it right now. Ibrahim Haddad explains the ideas behind, and justifications for IPv6 and demonstrates how to support it on a Linux server. [Linux DevCenter] The Best of ONLamp 2003 This year, 2003, was a big one for ONLamp. With 200+ articles under our belt, what did we like best? Where are we going next year? [ONLamp.com]
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Cooking with Apache The recently released Apache Cookbook contains over 100 solutions to problems that webmasters, web administrators, programmers, and anyone who works with Apache have come upon at one time or another. This week we've excerpted sample recipes from the book that contain solutions to problems with virtual hosting, highlighting PHP source, and enabling WebDAV. [Apache DevCenter] Ruby's Present and Future Ruby's been around for ten years and continues to grow in popularity and usage. What's next for the language? That's just one of the questions answered at the 2003 Ruby Conference. Mike Stok was there. He covers all three days of the conference. [ONLamp.com] Pitfalls of Transactions with PHP Database transactions are important for data reliability and consistency. Used properly, they can prevent many types of errors. Used improperly, they can cause many other kinds of errors. Kimberlee Jensen demonstrates using transactions with PHP well. [PHP DevCenter] Using Linux as a Small Business Internet Gateway, Part 2 Internet access is vital to many small businesses. Maintaining a reliable and worry-free connection may seem difficult, but several good monitoring tools exist to simplify the lives of administrators. Alexander Prohorenko explains how to serve DNS and monitor a small network. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Security Alerts Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but is it effective or useful? Open source developers have the opportunity to learn from the successes and failures of other projects. Are we learning the right lessons, though? [ONLamp.com] Flying the Open Skies with FlightGear Realms of geographic data are entering public use every day. Mappers, hikers, and navigators love it. What's in it for the rest of us? Realistic flight simulators. That's what pilots, aeronautical engineers, and enthusiasts are building with FlightGear, a GPL'd flight sim. Howard Wen talks to the creator and the maintainers. [LinuxDevCenter.com] Generating Database Server-Side Cross Tabulations Normalizing data into a database saves you time and trouble representing information, but actually displaying and reporting that information is trickier. Crosstabs (or pivot tables) make it easier, though trying to pivot on more than two fields is painful. That's where generating crosstab queries can help. Giuseppe Maxia demonstrates. [ONLamp.com]
FreeBSD Basics A Day in the Life of #Apache Rich Bowen, coauthor of Apache Cookbook, spends a lot of time on IRC fielding Apache questions. In this inaugural article to launch a new series based on his conversations on #apache, the IRC channel that runs on the irc.freenode.net network, Rich chronicles a user's troubles getting his .htaccess file working, and he shows what you can do to solve the problem. [Apache DevCenter]
Security Alerts RouteWord: An Interesting Diversion Graphs--loosely connected, unordered collections of nodes--are highly important to computer science. Visualizing graphs is even more important: think of maps, routes, webs, and any other interconnected relationships. Who says that can't also be fun? Andrew Odewahn explains how he accidentally created a new type of word puzzle playing around with graph visualization. [ONLamp.com] Introducing mod_security Every layer of security you can add is one more deterrent for the bad guys. Writing (or choosing) secure code is important, but it's not the only defense. Ivan Ristic, creator of mod_security, explains how this Apache module can turn back potential attacks before they reach your code. [Apache DevCenter] Client-Side Mail Filtering with SaveMyModem Junk mail--spam or mail worms--waste bandwidth. If you're running a server, server-side filtering can help. If you're on broadband, the pain is diminished. If neither applies to you, all is not lost. KIVILCIM Hindistan introduces SaveMyModem, a client-side mail filtering program that can save you bandwidth and frustration. [ONLamp.com] Using Linux as a Small Business Internet Gateway Internet access is vital to many small businesses. Creating a reliable and worry-free connection used to be difficult. With good software such as the Linux kernel, wvdial, Squid, Postfix, and iptables, it's reasonably easy to set up Linux as an Internet gateway. Alexander Prohorenko explains how. [LinuxDevCenter.com] Using and Customizing Knoppix Several Linux distributions boot directly from CD-ROMs. How many are usable in that state? How many are customizable in that state? Klaus Knopper's Knoppix is perhaps the best known of these distributions. Robert Bernier explains how to use Knoppix and how to customize your own self-booting distribution CD. [LinuxDevCenter.com] Quick and Dirty RDBMS Tuning Your database-backed application is too slow. Panic, upgrade, or rewrite? Steven Hauser suggests a more thoughtful approach. Step back and consider the whole system. Then, do the simplest thing with the greatest potential payoff. Hauser explains how to make the most of tuning opportunities. [ONLamp.com] BZFlag Sometimes a demo program can spin out of control to take on a life of its own. A ten-year-old project to demonstrate 3D movement has become a simple-yet-clever online tank battle game. Howard Wen talks to the creator and maintainer of BZFlag. [LinuxDevCenter.com] Linux on Pocket PCs While tiny handheld computers may seem like geek toys, they're actually very practical for any environment with mobile data access--hospitals, restaurants, even journalists. They can even run Linux. John Littler explores the Penguin-friendly heavy hitters in this area. [LinuxDevCenter.com] The State of Home-Brew PVRs on Linux A TiVo is basically a Linux box with some extra software (and a nice service). That's something a competent hacker could replicate. Joe Stump explores the state of the home-brew PVR community on Linux as of late 2003. [LinuxDevCenter.com] GBA Programming with DevKit Advance Emulation has opened up game programming to realms of hobbyists. While it's possible to build amazing games on all sorts of obsolete platforms, it's also possible to build them on modern ones, including the GameBoy Advance. Howard Wen explores DevKit Advance and interviews its lead developers. [LinuxDevCenter.com] Understanding Network I/O: From Spectator to Participant By design, the Internet is a simple network; any endpoint can serve any client. Even better, it's easy to write a client or a server, if you understand a few things about network programming. George Belotsky demonstrates the essential concepts with Python. [Python DevCenter]
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FreeBSD Basics Introducing REBOL with Amazingly Easy GUI Programming Cross-platform development and deployment is tricky, though modern toolkits aim to take away some of the troubles. Some languages have already solved this issue, though. Enter REBOL, a small but powerful network-enabled programming language. Gregg Irwin introduces the language by writing a tiny survey application. [ONLamp.com] PHP Web Services Without SOAP Web services are hot these days, and SOAP gets a lot of the buzz. It's not the only game in town, though. REST advocates claim their approach is how the Web was meant to be. You decide. Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of PHP Cookbook, demonstrates how to access Amazon.com's web services with PHP and REST; no special tools needed! [PHP DevCenter] Animation in SDL: OpenGL SDL, the cross-platform multimedia toolkit, is powerful enough to have brought over 40 commercial games to Linux. While it has its own graphics primitives, it also supports the popular and powerful OpenGL API. In the third of a series of articles, Bob Pendleton introduces OpenGL and demonstrates how to use it in your SDL programs. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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