http://blog.ginkeo.com/archives Thoughts and stuff mostly about web development and PHP Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:35:23 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 jmk@ginkeo.com jmk@ginkeo.com en The TurckMMCache project which stopped a year ago because its main developer started to work at Zend got restarted by a new team under the name eAccelerator. eAccelerator 0.9.1 is available for download under the GNU GPL license. It includes many bugfixes and is compatible to PHP5. http://blog.ginkeo.com/archives/p/145/c/1 OpenVPN is a full-featured SSL VPN solution which can accomodate a wide range of configurations, including road warrior access, home/office/campus telecommuting, WiFi security, secure branch office linking, and enterprise-scale remote access solutions with load balancing, failover, and fine-grained access-controls. The platforms supported are: Linux, Windows 2000/XP and higher, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, ... http://blog.ginkeo.com/archives/p/144/c/1 Chad Dickerson has published a very nice list of the top 20 IT mistakes to avoid on InfoWorld. There are many commonly overlooked mistakes in the list, from outsourcing to open source. As a bonus, the examples he uses offer a lot of insight on how even big IT companies are ... http://blog.ginkeo.com/archives/p/143/c/1 ScriptViewer allows to execute PHP applications without the need of a server system. It includes PHP, a webserver and a browser (IE based). This could be very useful to easily create local demos of web-applications. ScriptViewer is freeware. http://blog.ginkeo.com/archives/p/142/c/1 Randy Charles Morin has published a very comprehensive article about alot of already existing technologies that could be used to make RSS scale better and reduce bandwidth consumption. These include stuff already included in the specifications of RSS such as "skipHours" as well as features often already present in the software ... http://blog.ginkeo.com/archives/p/141/c/1 The Google Labs have released a new service called Google Suggest this month. It's basically the usual Google search extended with a little gimmick which pops up to suggest queries as you type in the search box and displays each with the number of possible hits. It's a kind of auto-complete feature ... http://blog.ginkeo.com/archives/p/138/c/1 This nicely large article on opensourcetutorials.com explains the basic concepts of Bayesian inference (as well as the things needed to understand it, such as conditional probability) and how to implement it in PHP. A very interesting subject since it opens the road to spam filtering, text matching and many other applications. ... http://blog.ginkeo.com/archives/p/137/c/1 Trac is a wiki based issue tracking system written in Python. It's main features are wiki-capabilities and subversion integration. Besides the actual wiki that can be used for the documentation of a project, issue descriptions and commit messages also support the wiki syntax. This makes it seamless to link subversion commit ... http://blog.ginkeo.com/archives/p/136/c/1 Freemind is an open source mindmapping application similar to commercial products like MindManager. It allows to draw mind maps in an easy and fast way. The data trees can be expanded and folded at will. Dragging and copying parts of a tree to reorganize things is also one of the key ... http://blog.ginkeo.com/archives/p/135/c/1 Google allows to search scholar materials such as articles from specialized media or books through scholar.google.com. Special features include the name of the author displayed in the search results as well as how many times the work has been cited. This might be a very useful help for people writing some thesis ... http://blog.ginkeo.com/archives/p/134/c/1