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For internal projects that require Linux we have started to use Ubuntu Server as our default platform. Every Linux distribution comes with its own peculiarities. Though a great distribution we have struggled with the pre-built Ruby and RubyGems packages that stem from its Debian heritage. In this post I want to outline how you can bypass these issues by compiling Ruby and RubyGems directly from source.

Getting good cryptography into as many hands as possible as quickly as possible

Yes, I’m still trying to squeeze more performance out of MySQL. And since small changes to a query can make a big difference in performance…

Take advantage of the XML::RSS CPAN package, which is specifically designed to read and parse RSS feeds. You've probably already heard of RSS, the XML-based format which allows Web sites to publish and syndicate the latest content on their site to all interested parties. RSS is a boon to the lazy Webmaster, because (s)he no longer has to manually update his or her Web site with new content.

Most if not all the attention surrounding Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been around performance, reliability and compatibility, but you probably didn’t know SP1 also makes short strides in terms of Vista’s power efficiency. And by short, I really do mean short because we’re talking about improvements in the magnitude of only a couple percents. That in the context of 5 hours battery life is a mere additional 6 minutes. Having said that, some is better than none.

This document explains how to set up the VMware Tools in the following guest operating systems: Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, PCLinuxOS 2007 and Debian Etch. Installing VMware Tools in your guest operating systems will help maximize performance, provide mouse synchronization and copy & paste functionality. This article also shows a way of making VMware Tools start automatically when you start a guest operating system.

Unlimited Sitemap Generator is a PHP script designed to run on the server that hosts your website.

A nice step by step guide to the process.

This article is technical, but it pertains to something I have been working on for the past week and is pretty important: the backing up of data on the network.