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Vim 201: An Intermediate Guide to Vim

Posted Sun, 11/29/2009 - 15:16 by jlquesada

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/243002-vim-201-an-intermediate-guid...

Vim 201: An Intermediate Guide to Vim
Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:15 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier

Ready to boost your Vim skills? Many use Vim, but don't make use of nearly all the features. In this guide, we'll take a look at some of the intermediate features offered by Vim, including abbreviations, word completion, and editing multiple documents in the same Vim session.

10 Special Linux Distributions That You Should Know

Posted Sun, 11/29/2009 - 14:36 by jlquesada

http://www.daniweb.com/news/story239006.html#

10 Special Linux Distributions That You Should Know
Ken Hess khess is offline Offline | Nov 16th, 2009, 3:05 pm |
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IBM.com : Total security in a PostgreSQL database

Posted Sun, 11/29/2009 - 11:43 by jlquesada

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-postgresecurity/...

Total security in a PostgreSQL database

Readiness for the first strike
Robert Bernier (robert@pg-live.info), PostgreSQL Business Intelligence Analyst, Medio Systems

Performance Tuning PostgreSQL

Posted Tue, 11/24/2009 - 22:24 by jlquesada

http://www.revsys.com/writings/postgresql-performance.html

Performance Tuning PostgreSQL
by Frank Wiles
Introduction
PostgreSQL is the most advanced and flexible Open Source SQL database today. With this power and flexibility comes a problem. How do the PostgreSQL developers tune the default configuration for everyone? Unfortunately the answer is they can't.

Moca Mobile Overview

Posted Wed, 11/18/2009 - 07:46 by jlquesada

PDF Document

“Last year, my father had chest pains and needed to see a specialist in Manila. We sold our cows and our land so he can go. I had to take leave from my job to accompany him. It turned out to be pneumonia, which could have been diagnosed here.”
- a local from Batanes, the northernmost region of the Philippines, to Moca team members, June 2009

A Complete Health System: Our Innovative Approach

Moodle [securityalerts] HEADS UP: Backup password exploit

Posted Wed, 11/18/2009 - 07:32 by jlquesada

From : Martin Dougiamas
Sender : moodler@gmail.com
Subject : [securityalerts] HEADS UP: Moodle 1.9.7 and Moodle 1.8.11 are coming soon
To : securityalerts@lists.moodle.org

Tue, Nov 17, 2009 09:41 PM

Hi Moodle admins,

You're getting this email because you chose to receive important news
by email when you registered your Moodle site with moodle.org.

I'm writing to tell you about an exploit that was recently published
on the internet (intentionally bypassing our official security policy

IBM Developer Works - Understanding the Zend Framework, Part 1: The basics

Posted Mon, 09/21/2009 - 08:31 by jlquesada

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-zend1/index....

Understanding the Zend Framework, Part 1: The basics

Building the perfect reader
Nicholas Chase (ibmquestions@nicholaschase.com), Consultant, Backstop Media

IBM Developer Works - PHP frameworks, Part 1: Getting started with three popular frameworks Zend, symfony, CakePHP

Posted Mon, 09/21/2009 - 08:27 by jlquesada

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-fwk1/?S_TACT...

PHP frameworks, Part 1: Getting started with three popular frameworks

Zend, symfony, CakePHP
Duane O'Brien, PHP developer, Freelance
Duane O'Brien has been a technological Swiss army knife since the Oregon Trail was text only. His favorite color is sushi. He has never been to the moon.

Django vs Symfony

Posted Sun, 09/20/2009 - 23:10 by jlquesada

http://www.mellowmorning.com/2008/08/27/django-vs-symfony/

Django vs Symfony
By Thierry Schellenbach on 27 Aug 2008

As you can see from the posts (one, two) I’ve always been a big Symfony fan. Symfony is really great, but my current favourite is clearly Django. I had to dive deep into python to use it, but it was well worth the effort.
Choosing Django:

Django has a few killer features which make it a better choice for many projects.
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