I've been taking a Java programming course this semester at the local
technical college, which has been a wonderful learning experience. The
programming course uses the Eclipse 3.5.1 IDE along with the Java
Development Toolkit for programming in Java. In addition to using Eclipse,
I use Dropbox to save the source code and
preferences from my home install of Eclipse, eliminating the need to carry a
USB key or email/transfer the files through any other method. This Dropbox
storage method also ensures that every machine I use has the latest version
of source code files with minimal interaction and fuss on my part.
I’m a big fan of the Nagios network monitoring system and rely on it to tell me if something goes wrong with the systems for which I am responsible. I have made a large investment in time configuring Nagios to monitor exactly what I am interested in, and this effort would be wasted if Nagios detected a problem, but failed to communicate that problem to me.
Introducing Linux Journal's penguin gallery contest. That's right -- penguins. Real, virtual, 2D, 3D, with fish, without fish, etc., etc. Submit your penguin photo or artwork and be entered to win some pretty cool LJ goodies.
When grep and sed aren't enough, gawk may provide
the extra horsepower that you need.
The following tip contains a sampling of some of the
things one might do with gawk.
Even with all of the high quality software available, sometimes you just have to break down and write a custom application, and usually you don't have a lot of time to devote to it. This is the situation I found myself in when my wife started a new business and needed a simple means of tracking sales leads.
You may have noticed something different about LinuxJournal.com today.
I am very pleased to share our newly redesigned site with you, and I'd like to tell you a little bit about some of the new features. I hope you'll take the time to register, if you have not already, so that you may take advantage of all of the new features we have added and will continue to add.
Every few weeks, I like to browse the OpenOffice.org Extensions site to see what is available, and what people are using.
New extensions that are both useful and well-designed seem to be getting few and far between. However, if you search patiently, you can still find extensions worth trying.
I don't usually write book reviews, but this one is special. My friend and colleague Daniel James has written an introduction to the world of media production with Linux, or as the subtitle describes it, "A manual for creative media on a modest budget". I'll put the spoiler right up front: This book is wonderful and is an essential read for all artistically-inclined Linux users. Read on to find out why I think so.
There are many dialog programs out there, Zenity, Kdialog,
xdialog, etc. I love programs like these. They make it so easy to
spice up a shell script with a little GUI action. Today I'm going to
go look at a dialog program called gxmessage.
Audio processing and synthesis plugins are always a lively topic for musicians. Many contemporary music-makers rely completely upon their plugin collection for all their sound sources and processing routines, and it is not at all uncommon to discover that some of these composers have never learned to play a traditional instrument. However you feel about audio plugins they are a fact of life in modern music production.
