Jahr: 2004

Peter Seebach on Linux.com: What you need to know to write man pages Guido Socher: Writing man-pages

Gene Smith: „RSS and XML-based content syndication are really taking off. News organizations (like the NY Times) and business are increasingly using RSS to syndicate their content. RSS is also becoming the spam-free alternative to email newsletters. Most RSS feeds are automagically generated from a content management system. As more feeds spring up, and more…

PHP Everywhere has a long article pointing to lots of resources on the topic: Tuning Apache and PHP for Speed on Unix. ONLamp.com’s shorter article is Introducing LAMP Tuning Techniques.

Andy Oram has written a nice article on Linux Documentation which is also a good read when thinking about how to document your own software…

Frequently used standards: Country name codes (ISO 3166-1) Codes for the representation of names of languages (ISO 639.2) See also the ISO’s list of widely used standards.

It probably makes sense to follow the standardized Utility Conventions when writing command line utilities (which we’re doing in PHP a lot these days)… See also the chapter on Command-Line Options in The Art of Unix Programming.

Must check out Nagios. ONLamp.com has an article about Nagios: „Nagios is a feature-rich network monitoring package. Its displays provide current information about system or resource status across an entire network. In addition, it can also be configured to send alerts and perform other actions when problems are detected.“

A classic: Eric Steven Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

Joel comments on the awfully large .NET runtime: „So Microsoft, wake up, get us some nice 1950s-era linker technology, and let me make a single EXE that runs on any computer with Win 98 or later and no other external dependencies. Otherwise .NET is fatally flawed for consumer, downloaded software.“

An interesting variation of the Wiki theme: „Confluence is a knowledge management tool designed to make it easy for a team to share information with each other, and with the world.“