PUBLIC MARKS from mbertier with tag howto

Subscribing to the security mailing lists is a must for every sysadmin, but who has the stamina and the determination to actually read them, and then analyze the impact of both the threat and the proposed fix? A more casual user with no life-or-death-critical servers would happily settle for a solution that would download and install the security patches automatically. As always in Linux, there is more than one way of achieving this. cron-apt works for me.

I often use the Zend Framework from within my Symfony applications and until recently, I’ve been using the sfZendPlugin to import and autoload the library. You’ll notice that this plugin has recently been axed leaving some people confused as to how to use the library in their projects.

So this was really just a quick preview, but the patterns and structures shown above basically set the rules on how plugins work across the board.

This detailed how-to shows all the necessary components of a package and how to put them together to end up with a final product.

The aim of this article is to introduce Django signals and cover their uses in detail.

This document aims to provide a good method for storing files in a database using Symfony. The argument between flat file storage vs. database storage has been going on for quite a while, so this system tries to alleviate some of the concerns with speed. It outlines general file storage, a caching system, and means to serve the files in a way a user would expect.

interesting thread.

The basic and prebuilt effects in script.aculo.us are nice, but if you really want to build something great why not investigate doing your own, homegrown, do-it-yourself effects. We’re going to show you how to take basic effects and build on them to create your own.

This HOWTO is specifically for Apache 1.3.x and Windows XP

Purpose: To automate installation of the following programs because I am lazy and hate selecting to install them manually after I format my computer (which is often) so this script saves me alot of time and I hope it helps you too.

Here are the steps I had to take to install it:

Here is ALL the steps you need to know to get php5 installed via apt.

Alot of people are either unaware or are having problems harnessing the awesome powers of the LiveUser_Admin storage container API

Just a little howto for those of you who would like to add a nice Add to blogmarks.net link to the articles published on their blog (or anything else).