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IBM’s developerWorks on tuning LAMP

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Karl

Sean A. Walberg’s series on IBM developerWorks is a great primer: Tuning LAMP systems, Part 1: Understanding the LAMP architecture Tuning LAMP systems, Part 2: Optimizing Apache and PHP Tuning LAMP systems, Part 3: Tuning your MySQL server

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Netbeans IDE + Python virtualenv

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Karl

teleported bits shares how.

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Sharing folders between Mac Host and Ubuntu Guest with VirtualBox

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Karl

ozz314: VirtualBox Shared Folders between Ubuntu Guest and Mac Host That was easy.

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Two comparisons of different programming languages worth reading

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Karl

Normally these kinds of pieces are worthless, but these two recently stood out to me: Dennis M. Ritchie: Five Little Languages and How They Grew: Talk at HOPL* March 19, 2002 Michael Tsai: Perl vs. Python vs. Ruby – distinguished … Continue reading →

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SVN Branch Management Link-a-rama

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Karl

Coding Horror: Software Branching and Parallel Universes Perforce: Laura Wingerd & Christopher Seiwald: High-level Best Practices in Software Configuration Management InfoQ: Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams BetterExplained: A Visual Guide to Version Control Branch Maintenance: Chapter 4. Common Branching … Continue reading →

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Some of my Emacs defaults (in .emacs)

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Karl

(defvar my-dir-root (expand-file-name “~/elisp”)) (set-default-font “-apple-consolas-medium-r-normal–13-0-72-72-m-0-iso10646-1″) ; appending to the elisp load path for our stuff (setq load-path (cons my-dir-root load-path)) ; stop that splash screen (setq inhibit-splash-screen t) ; set the fill column (setq-default fill-column 79) ; set the … Continue reading →

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Useful Wget and cURL links

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Karl

Using cURL to interact with Google data services insanesecurity: Wget all the way cURL: Tutorial

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More on Graphviz

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Karl

Linux.com: An Introduction to GraphViz Emacs mode for Graphviz OmniNerd: Automating Data Visualization with Ruby and Graphviz

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Reading about Graphviz

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Karl

While gearing up on a content management project, a few developers were wrangling with how to share solution diagrams between Visio and OmniGraffle. While there is a level of compatibility between the two, its not ideal. While researching, I went … Continue reading →

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Reading up on Python for utility scripts

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Karl

Red Hat Magazine: Python for Bash scripters: A well-kept secret IBM Developerworks: Using Python to create UNIX command line tools PLEAC – Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook – Python

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