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September 2007
Voice Enable Twitter
by 1 otherBlogging is another topic more people seem to do these days to increase their visibility and voice. In this article, learn to use VoiceXML to actually interact with your blog or tweet using your own voice. Specifically develop a simple blogging application that takes VoiceXML as input and saves the data into your online blog.
Applying Mount Namespaces in Linux
What if you could allow users to craft their own filesystem setup without being constrained by the sysadmin-dictated structure? Well now you can with mount propagation. This article provides a step-by-step guide for Linux system administrators to allow users to export part of their own filesystem tree and import other users' exported filesystem trees into their tree.
IBM developerWorks Opens Linux Security Spaces
Linux Security Spaces is are micro-site focused on a Linux Security issues and development activity of interest to the Linux Security community. You can easily turn the Linux Security spaces into a Google Gadget, Netvibes module, or a Widget for your iGoogle page. Learn about Linux Security best practices including: Auditing, intrusion detection systems, firewalls, virus scanners, LAMP Security, network among other topics and Linux security tools; NMap, Snort, Chkrootkit, Rootkit Hunter, TripWire, Wireshark, SELenux and AppArmor. The community leader is Mayank Sharma, a contributing editor at SourceForge, Inc.
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March 2007
Command-Line PHP? Yes, You CAN!
Learn how to debug PHP code from the command line and examine the strengths of PHP as a shell scripting language unto itself. Give PHP a chance on the command-line interface, and you may find that it has become your new favorite shell-scripting tool. Worst-case scenario: It can save you some Web server migraines.
February 2007
ARM Performance Monitoring Made Easy with Eclipse
This tutorial describes the newly released Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) project and explains how Application Response Measurement (ARM) V4.0 has been implemented with TPTP. Also learn the trade-offs and challenges involved in getting to this point and moving forward.
June 2006
Ajax and SVG Best Practices for Location-Aware Applications
Learn the concepts behind IBM Enterprise LAS middleware and write a simple location-tracking Web application with the help of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) technologies. Be on your way to building faster location-tracking systems that can easily integrate with positioning/sensoring technologies such as RFID and Zigbee.
May 2006
Username Token with Web Sphere Application Server V6
In Part 2 of this series on Web services security, you'll learn about one of the most common ways to secure a resource: using a user name and a password. You'll learn about the UsernameToken Profile and how to use it with IBM Web services using WebSphere Application Server Version 6.
A Guided Tour of WebSphere Integration Developer
This second article in a series introduces you to the Service Component Architecture programming model for WebSphere Integration Developer. We put the concepts into use by showing how to build a simple order processing module.
Making Your Web Site Obvious to Search Engines
Get the basic information you need to organically optimize your Web site in this four-part series. In this final fourth part of the series, learn specialized techniques for large Web sites or sites with many dynamic pages.
WebSphere Application Server Community Edition
IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition is an open source Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition application server based on Apache Geronimo. This article will help you understand why you might want to use this new product. Then it walks you through what you need to know to get up and running quickly with the product from finding out how to set up your environment and choosing the right download package to deploying applications.
WebSphere Application Server Cluster Guide
This guide describes a comprehensive procedure for installing, configuring, and building an IBM WebSphere Portal V5.1 cluster using an external database and a LDAP for security. You will also see how to configure a Web server to allow for load balancing.
Clustering with WebSphere Process Server
Set up a basic clustered IBM WebSphere Process Server installation using a step-by-step approach to build a scalable and highly available application environment. Improving system availability and the ability to accommodate increased workload (scalable) are the main objectives of server or process clustering.
Rational Systems Developer V6.0.1
Download a free trial version to learn how to use IBM Rational Systems Developer. IBM Rational Systems Developer is a design and development tool that enables software architects and model-driven developers to create well-architected C/C++, Java J2SE, and CORBA-based applications that leverage Unified Modeling Language (UML 2).
From DAD to Annotated XML
Annotated XML provides an XML schema-based flexible mapping language that provides granular control to the users over the entire process of decomposition. Learn about the benefits of migration to annotated XML schema decomposition from the DB2 XML Extender at various levels. This article also provides the tool (Dad2AS) that can be used to convert the XML Extender RDB_Node DADs to the annotated XML schema.
Database Development with Apache Derby
Learn about several basic database concepts, including schemas, tables, column data types, and a simple introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL). This article presents the basic data types you can use to store data in an Apache Derby database, which is then used to create a simple schema with two tables in Apache Derby for a fictitious store. To view the schema contents of a database, you'll use the Apache Derby tool, dblook, to dump the contents of the database.
Default Mapping for Annotated XML Schema
Get an introduction to the tool DefaultAnnotater that allows you to create default mapping and a default relational schema into which corresponding XML documents can be decomposed. This article provides a good starting platform for not only trying out the new function, but also further enhancing the mapping in a given XML schema.
April 2006
Using the UNIX find command
Explore the vast terrain of the UNIX file system with the find command. One of the most powerful and useful commands in the UNIX programmer's repertoire is find. All flavors of UNIX have file systems that can contain thousands of files of many different types, which can make locating a specific file, or set of files, difficult. The find command makes this task easier in many ways.
Using ReiserFS with Linux
Take a look at the ext2, ext3, and Reiser4 file systems and discover how to create your own Reiser4 file system. File system, ext2, is a traditional UNIX style file system that doesn’t mix well with modern hard drive sizes, and ext3 file system adds journaling, but not much else. For something really advanced check out the current Reiser4 file system.
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