Monthly Archives: May 2009

[Segment 3.1] We’re entering a new phase in our journey—kernel programming. In the first part, we’ll cover a broad introduction to the Linux platform for newbies, along with some history.

Subversion 1.6.0 was released on 20th March, 2009 and included a lot of security improvements, which we explore in detail in this article.

Here’s introducing JQuery, arguably the fastest, most concise and elegant JavaScript framework with support for flexible selectors, CSS3, object detection, method chaining, AJAX, plug-ins and UI effects.

Introducing the WizTools.org RESTClient, a cross-platform tool to test RESTful WebServices and HTTP communications.

As programmers, we know that almost any software that we use (or write!) has bugs. What we might not be aware of is that...

In part 13 of the "Programming in Python for Friends and Relations" series, we learn about Csound, a powerful musical instrument that’s playable from Python.

This month we take a quick look at the problem of finding out whether a given binary tree is in fact a binary search tree. We then discuss the problem of finding the maximum and minimum in a binary search tree.

A simple tutorial that will help your tablet digital pen to work on a GNU-powered machine.

In the previous article in this series (‘Data Centre Redundancy’, page 56, April 2009) we got an overview of the architecture associated with data centre redundancy. An important aspect of this is to make sure that the traffic is evenly distributed across all the data centres in order to fully utilise the available capacity. In this concluding article, we will discuss the use of LVS (Linux Virtual Server) to load balance the traffic across data centres.

Let’s explore SELinux modes, and learn a few commands that will help in understanding SELinux policies better.