With the new version of OS X (Leopard) Apple has included some great functionality in Time Machine. Your Mac will automatically backup to an external drive every hour. It includes the ability to recover deleted files in a timeline.
Amazon's S3 is an online storage solution; you pay for only what you use ($0.15/GB/month, plus some transfer costs). I wrote a simple step-by-step guide to setting you a Mac to sync with Amazon S3; here's the executive summary version:
Myghty is a Python based templating framework originally based on HTML::Mason, the enterprise-level framework used by Amazon.com, del.icio.us and Salon.com,
Content Management System, pronounced "CMS", is a generic term for all types of system to manage some kind of content. If you think this sounds loose and fluffy, it is.
The CMF is the Content Management Framework, an important additional piece of infrastructure for Zope which has also influenced the design of Zope 3. CMF is required by Plone and Nuxeo CPS, also ERP5 uses it (see their prerequisites list);
ended the last post with a discussion of the fundamental problem with Django's Object-Relational Mapper, namely, that it is developed for and by Django
When a web application receives more requests than it can handle over a short period of time, it can become unresponsive. In the worst case, too many concurrent requests to a web application can cause the software which services the application to crash.
In an earlier post Over on the Twisted blog, Duncan McGreggor has asked us to expand a bit on where we think Twisted may be lacking in it’s support for concurrency. I’m afraid this has turned into a meandering essay, since I needed to reference so muc
Several years ago, a client asked me to come up with a prototype for a real-money online poker bot. That's right: a piece of software you park on your computer while it goes out to a site like PokerStars or Full Tilt and plays no-limit Holdem for you
To even try to keep pace with the rapid evolution of game development, you need a strong foundation in core programming techniques-not a hefty volume on one narrow topic or one that devotes itself to API-specific implementations. Finally, there's a guid
Ksplice allows system administrators to apply security patches to the Linux kernel without having to reboot. Ksplice takes as input a source code change in unified diff format and the kernel source code to be patched, and it applies the patch to the corre
If web architectures, performance, or scalability are topics you would like to keep on top of (who doesn't!), then chances are, you've heard of Nginx ("engine x"). Originally developed by Igor Sysoev for rambler.ru (second largest Russian web-site), it is
This article was inspired by a question asked by a user on the WriteRoom Forum. This person was asking about facilities for working with multiple drafts of a work in progress; a process he was currently doing manually by saving his work with a new timesta