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Speed up your Web applications with SCGI.
Develop a working PHP function to validate e-mail addresses.
Cross-reference and convert source code to HTML for easy viewing.
If the ancient Greeks had created open-source Web applications, would they have used Ajax...or maybe Atlas?
Here is how to install and use four dynamite plugins for the WordPress content management system.
Get the Apache images in thumbnails by putting everything in a for loop.
An Ajax primer with Perl and PostgreSQL.
Screen the unwanted results out of your access log searches.
Getting back to Apache log analysis by ending with a cliffhanger.
A kilo of information on how to represent even giga numbers in a mega-useful way.
Ever wondered what your Web server is doing, but find that you don't have a stats or analytics package installed? In fact, analyzing log files is a perfect task for the Linux command line and, by extension, shell scripts too.
If you want an easy way to calculate the amount of data transferred from a log file, you can always look awk-ward.
Why and how the Planetizen Web site migrated to the Drupal infrastructure for communities.
How to build simple content Web sites using DocBook XML and CSS.
Static content on a website is like a phone book, but imagine how difficult it would be to use your "paper cache" if the numbers inside the phone book constantly changed or if numbers differed based on who was looking them up.  This is why caching dynamic content poses a more difficult problem than caching static content.
How to use Webglimpse to search and add search-based ads to your site.
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The November 13, 2008 edition of Linux Journal Live! Shawn Powers and special guest, Linux Journal Author Daniel Bartholomew, talk e-book readers and Daniel's Kindle, DRM, and other goodness.

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December 2008, #176

The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.

Other gadgets covered include the Nokia tablets, the BlackBerry, the Neo FreeRunner, the Dash Express, the Roku Netflix Player, the Kangaroo TV, The TomTom GO 930 and the MooBella Ice Cream System. On the larger hardware front, read the reviews of the Acer Aspire One and the YDL PowerStation. On the software front, check out the articles and columns on memcached, Samba security, Mutt, desktop gadgets, bash and Puppet. To wrap it all up, read Doc's thoughts on Google and the browser platform.

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