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System Administration Toolkit: Build intelligent, unattended scripts
A new round of articles in my System Administration Toolkit has just started, and the first one looks at how to write scripts that can run unattended with logging and error recovery. To quote the article contents: Look at how to create scripts tha…
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Develop with Java and PHP technology on AIX Version 5.3, Part 1: Setting up the Java environment
I’ve got a new series of articles and tutorials on how to develop an application using Java with a web interface using PHP. The eventual goal is to use the PHP/Java Bridge, but along the way we look at building the main application, redeploying it…
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Understanding MySQL Internals
Sash Pachev has written a new guide on Understanding MySQL Internals for O’Reilly. I was one of the technical reviewers on this book and can tell you that it makes a good read if you want to understand more of what is going on under the hood in My…
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System Administration Toolkit: Swap space management and tricks
In a new article in my System Administration Toolkit series I examine the role of swap space in your Unix /Linux system and how to configure and optimize your swap space usage. I also demonstrate a few tricks for helping you out when you run our o…
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Using alternative methods to manage and monitor your Unix Servers
I have for a long time been using a number of non-typical solutions for the management of my internal servers and, up until recently, those of my clients. I mentioned this in one of my first posts at Computerworld (RSS as and administration tool),…
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Perl/Eclipse tutorials picked for top 27
My Building Perl Applications and Debugging Perl Applications with Eclipse tutorials have been picked in a list of the top 27 Eclipse tutorials. You can see the full list here.
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Writing text parsers with yacc and lex
Lex and yacc are two tools that you may be aware of, but have maybe never used. They are key components to compilers, configuration tools and many different languages, where the ability to parse text and generate some other output (assembly code, …
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MCslp Coalface is live
I’ve started up a new blog designed to handle the day-to-day thoughts and issues, programming notes, IT tricks and so on that I come across (and use/develop) each day. Called MCslp Coalface, the blog is designed to contain the issues and notes tha…
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Retool your Linux skills for commercial UNIX
Years ago, when I went to college, I was first exposed to Unix, actually HP-UX, and then later, in my first job, Solaris, I realize how lucky I was getting trained in the commercial UNIX distributions. Linux was yet to be a twinkle in Linus’ eye, …
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Apache Session Management Within Dynamic Sites
As a follow on to an earlier piece about session management natively in Apache, I’ve written a follow up that looks more closely at the issue of developing sites that use cookies for ID and session management. In this article, I cover the mechanic…