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Choosing a Linux Distribution

By dlambert ⋅ January 8, 2010 ⋅ View Comments

A while back, a friend asked me some questions about getting started with Linux.  He wanted to know specifically whether he should pick up a copy of RedHat at the local retailer — for  something on the order of $80. I sent him back some notes about choosing a Linux install (distribution, or “distro”), and [...]

Callouts: I need a WordPress plugin

By dlambert ⋅ October 24, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

In a recent post, I wanted to break out a paragraph into a callout or sidebar — a little box of goodness inset into the body of my post. This proved rather more difficult than I’d planned. Initially, I crafted the callout by hand, using a DIV for the box, and two DIVs within that [...]

Self-Managing distributed applications

By dlambert ⋅ October 2, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

I recently read about the SELFMAN project on ReadWriteWeb (Coming Soon: Internet Apps that Heal Themselves).  This project, started in 2006, aims to standardize and package the infrastructure needed to manage large-scale distributed applications.  So far, they’ve produced some sample / reference applications using components written in Java.  I don’t know if the bits themselves [...]

It’s about time…

By dlambert ⋅ October 9, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

Mono is going to be represented at Microsoft’s PDC this year.  Miguel de Icaza, who leads the open-source Mono effort, is going to present a session about Mono and .Net.  If you search this blog for “mono”, you’ll see that I’ve been paying attention to these guys for quite a while now, and wondering the [...]

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