Linux Journal Contents #131, March 2005

Features

• Legacy Database Replacement with LAMP  by Richard Hulse
  Chalk up another victory for Do-It-Yourself IT, as one in-house project replaced three incompatible proprietary applications.
  
• Managing Projects with WebCollab  by Mike Cohen
  Keep your project status info and the key files in one place with this easy-to-use tool.
  
• A Database-Driven Web Application in 18 Lines of Code  by Paul Barry
  Want to see all the code for a soccer team tracking application? Want to see it again?
  

Indepth

• Introducing Ardour  by Dave Phillips
  A Linux Journal first, this article features a new song recorded just for this issue. Get started with hard-disk recording and have a listen.
  
• Centralized Authorization Using a Directory Service, Part II  by Alf Wachsmann
  Single sign-on is one step closer as we replace /etc/passwd entries with a centralized directory of users and groups.
  
• Event-Driven Programming with Twisted and Python  by Ken Kinder
  Develop scalable software quickly with this project that gets a handle on a high-performance programming technique.
  
• GNU Motion: Your Eye in the Sky for Computer Room Surveillance  by Phil Hollenback
  Make your security Webcam show you all the crimes, none of the empty rooms.
  
• The Perl Debugger  by Daniel Allen
  print("hello? Is this thing on?\n ");—or is there a better way?
  
• The Oddmuse Wiki Engine  by Brian Tanaka
  Get your company or project information organized with a system that lets everyone contribute fixes.
  
• LaTeX Equations and Graphics in PHP  by Titus Barik
  Put the math you want on your Web site, right inside the pages you're already building.
  

Embedded

• Optimization in GCC  by M. Tim Jones
  Want to shrink your program's memory requirements, run time or both?
  

Toolbox

• At the Forge   Bloglines Web Services, Continued  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Kernel Korner   Analysis of the HTB Queuing Discipline  by Yaron Benita
  
• Paranoid Penguin   Book Review: Islands in the Clickstream  by Mick Bauer
  

Columns

• Linux for Suits   Migration Stories  by Doc Searls
  
• EOF   Data Center Linux at OSDL  by Ibrahim Haddad
  

Departments

• From the Editor  
  
• Letters  
  
• upFRONT  
  
• New Products