Bloggitation

• Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center
  (tags: google gmail web)
• Japan’s top thirty emoticons
  (tags: japan society web fun)
• compFUSEd — transparent compression FUSE filesystem
  (tags: fuse linux backup sysadmin)
• FuseCompress — FUSE filesystem that compresses files
  (tags: fuse linux backup sysadmin)
• The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications
  (tags: ruby rails programming openid web2.0 security)
• Ruby: Net::Http and open-uri
  (tags: ruby web programming)

All for free, this site has some excellent DHTML and AJAX code you can download. Under Drag and Drop it even has the basics of an AJAX homepage!

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• How To Implement SPF In Postfix
  (tags: email postfix antispam sysadmin)
• UNIX® Load Average Part 1: How It Works
  (tags: linux sysadmin)
• Rails ‘poor mans’ SQL cache.
  (tags: ruby rails database mysql tuning programming)

• HostSeeq » Shared Hosting Support Showdown
  (tags: hosting)

iTunes has a (deservedly) bad reputation for taking total control of your music and videos, including where they live on your computer. It wasn’t always easy to move your library in past versions of the software, but happily iTunes 7 makes relocating an existing media library pretty painless - that is, with a little know-how. Here’s how to get it d

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• Mongrel Cluster and Monit
  (tags: rails mongrel cluster 247up sysadmin)
• How to use GMail’s SMTP Server with Rails
  (tags: ruby rails gmail programming email)

It looks like NTFS-3G has just hit 1.0. The release history page today said:
“Stable Version 1.0 (February 21, 2007) change: document and release version update to stable status”
Readers are reminded at this point that 1.0 (which in the Windows world often means “little better than beta”) has a very near magical meaning in Linux-land.

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• The Airport Extreme, version n, dissected.
  (tags: mac wifi netbsd)
• Deploy your Rails app in a subdirectory with Apache and Mongrel
  (tags: ruby rails mongrel apache sysadmin web)
• Ramaze
  Ramaze aims to be a simple open-source web-framework based on Ruby
  (tags: ruby web programming)
• Making Ruby faster
  (tags: ruby tuning)

OpenID is something I have been hearing more and more about. This article points out some really good reasons why its good and bad.

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• Advanced Linux Programming
  free pdf book
  (tags: linux web tutorial programming)
• Web Services using a TCP Proxy Server Tutorial (Part 1 of 3)
  (tags: erlang programming tutorial web)
• Web Services using a TCP Proxy Server Tutorial (Part 2 of 3)
  (tags: erlang programming tutorial web)
• S3DFS for EC2
  S3DFS is a distributed file system for EC2, backed on S3. S3DFS allows you to connect any number of EC2 instances to a shared file system. S3DFS uses a transactional, distributed cache to maintain a single file system view for all of the EC2 instances.
  (tags: amazon s3 ec2 cluster backup fuse linux)
• Making Reliable Distributed Systems in the Presence of Software Errors
  (tags: erlang programming tutorial)