Subversion is a modern free software Revision Control System (RCS) that the Subversion community’s developers have designed from the bottom up to be more efficient in form than CVS. Subversion has a s ...
If you want to build a realistic mail infrastructure with strengthened defenses against the highly selfish spammer, then _Pro Open Source Mail: Building an Enterprise Mail Solution_, written by Curtis ...
Back in my system administration days, which were pre-broadband I set up a home network with my link to the outside world being through an ISDN router. One of my co-workers came over to the house and ...
The range of Java related libraries and frameworks are immense. It is a challenge for motivated Java practitioners to keep in contact with this constantly varying and exponentially increasing landscap ...
Maps! I grew up with a love for maps. As a young child, I could spend hours finding new routes between cities—cities I’d never been to, but could find on a map. As a teenager, a summer job depended on ...
Greg London is an author and a frequent contributor to the Creative Commons licensing mailing list. In _Bounty Hunters_, he attempts to reinvent the metaphors we use to talk about the ethics and law o ...
A bit of a departure from our usual fare, _Design Concepts with Code_ is an artistically focused book which talks about the problem of designing the look and feel of websites (or web applications). It ...
Integrating and Extending BIRT authored by Jason Weathersby, Don French, Tom Bondur, Jane Tatchell, Iana Chatalbasheva and published by Addison Wesley is obviously all about BIRT. So what is BIRT? BIR ...
The creation and generation of well presented and delivered reports is a specialized profession that requires the correct skills, mentality and tools. An excellent free software example of such a tool ...
The book _Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse_ by Anil Hemrajani is a book for developers which effectively weaves an understandable lesson based on a realistic, but imaginary ti ...
Red Hat Fedora Core currently at version 6 is a popular GNU/Linux distribution competing with the likes of Ubuntu, Knoppix and Mandrivia. With a large, active and well publicized development community ...
So, you want a free software image manipulation program? You’ve always wanted to be able to smooth out your own photos? You’ve downloaded the GIMP, but when you open the program to have a go you just ...
Pro Apache XML, authored by Poornachandra Sarang, PhD, and published by Apress, clearly explains XML, and, in specific, the Apache Software Foundation-related projects. eXtensible Markup Language (XML ...
Without the GNU Compiler collection GCC it would be difficult to imagine that free software would have had such a rapid penetration into the market place. Historically speaking, having a free high qua ...
Embedded Linux sits in telephones, cookers, cars, and best of all in my camera and wireless router. I have no real idea of how many pieces of hardware sit under Linux’s careful and motherly control, b ...
Linux is by reputation and in reality a highly stable platform. Being free software means that you can see its inner actions without the lead coat of proprietary license shielding. Problem determinati ...
I want to tell you a little story. One that involves: love, greed, selfishness, guilt, shame and finally—confession. A torrid little story this is. It revolves around a geek and his _love_ for free so ...
I’ve been reading through this book for a few days now. It has some good tips and it is very well written. But that is not what attracts me to O’Reilly’s “hacks” series. No, the truth is that I consid ...
Ok, so you are a Linux user or a power user. The question then is what does it take to become a valid, omnipotent, root-enabled superuser? One potential answer is read the book _How Linux Works_, by B ...
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts by Dave Taylor is a book that delights my force for good hacker’s instinct. Listing 101 viable Bourne shell (sh) example scripts succinctly, one is hard pressed to find a bet ...