ibm developerworks

Using cron to Automate Maintenance

Linux Today  Fri, 10/10/2008 - 03:35

IBM Developerworks: "From very often to every so often, cron happily minds the clock and runs jobs day or night.

Learn how to configure and maintain cron, and discover just some of its many uses."



 

Deploy an SCA Application Using Apache Tuscany

Linux Today  Fri, 10/10/2008 - 00:35

IBM Developerworks: "Apache Tuscany provides an easy-to-use open source infrastructure for the development and operation of SCA applications.

This article shows you how to administer an SCA domain using a Tuscany Web-based domain manager UI and code, and how to use the domain administrative UI to deploy an SOA solution comprised of SCA components."



 

Separate Content From Presentation With XSLT and SimpleXML

Linux Today  Thu, 10/09/2008 - 02:35

IBM Developerworks: "In this tutorial, you will explore two solutions to separating data and business logic from presentation logic: one using XSLT through the XSL module in PHP 5 and the other using the SimpleXML module in PHP 5.

To do this, you'll use a Web page for a personal resumé stored as an XML file as an example."



 

Branching, Tagging and Merging in Subversion

Linux Today  Wed, 10/08/2008 - 20:35

IBM Developerworks: "Although many development teams use version-control systems to manage code changes, they can struggle when developers code off the same code base, in parallel.

In this Automation for the people installment, automation expert Paul Duvall shows how to effectively tag, branch, and merge source code using the open source, freely available Subversion version-control system."



 

Speaking UNIX: !$#@*%

Linux Today  Fri, 10/03/2008 - 14:32

IBM Developerworks: "That's great, but you want to understand what the UNIX® administrators next to you are typing.

It looks like a lot of commands interspersed with strange symbols. Learn what |, >, >>, <, <<, [[ and ]], and many more symbols mean in UNIX and Linux® as well as how to get the most out of operators such as &&, ||, <, <=, and !=."



 

A New Way of Sleeping in the Linux Kernel

Linux Today  Thu, 10/02/2008 - 04:07

IBM Developerworks: "Linux® kernel 2.6.25 introduced a new process state for putting processes to sleep called TASK_KILLABLE, which offers an alternative to the efficient but potentially unkillable TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and the easy-to-awaken but safer TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE.

TASK_KILLABLE is the outcome of an issue raised in 2002..."



 

IBM developerWorks: Integrating Java and PHP in WebSphere sMash

PHPDeveloper.org  Wed, 10/01/2008 - 15:35

The IBM developerWorks site has this new tutorial posted showing how to combine two different languages, PHP and Jave, with the help of the Java bridge in the WebSphere sMash environment.



 

IBM DeveloperWorks: Seven habits for writing secure PHP applicat...

PHPDeveloper.org  Wed, 10/01/2008 - 10:28

The IBM DeveloperWorks site has posted some advice that can help keep you, your application and your data safe from security-related attacks.



 

Seven Habits For Writing Secure PHP Applications

Linux Today  Wed, 10/01/2008 - 02:05

IBM Developerworks: "Validating data is the most important habit you can possibly adopt when it comes to security.

And when it comes to input, it's simple: Don't trust users. Your users are probably good people, and most are likely to use your application exactly as you intended.

However, whenever there is chance for input, there is also chance for really, really bad input."



 

Eclipse Ganymede Mobile Embedded RCP apps

Linux Today  Sun, 09/21/2008 - 11:02

IBM Developerworks: " In this three-part "Using Eclipse Ganymede to develop for the desktop, Web and mobile devices" tutorial series, we will cover the following new Ganymede features: RCP, RAP, and eRCP, which allow you to develop software for the desktop, Web, and mobile platforms, respectively, with one common code base"