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Programming

Submission + - Build an Indestructible Web-Hosted Brain

LinucksGirl writes: The problem with distributed computing is that everyone with the technology to reverse-engineer your crypto chip can listen to your broadcast and know exactly what you're trying to break. Build a robust distributed computing application that is opaque to observers — even those who have access to the source code — by attaching a simple neuron implementation to HTTP transport code.
The Internet

Submission + - Create a Photo Album with Project Zero & REST

LinucksGirl writes: Combine Yahoo!'s Flickr with existing Zero components to create a photo sharing service that supports many of the same functions as Flickr. Flickr provides a user friendly, scalable and extensible service, and is an excellent example of an RIA, validating Zero as an RIA platform as well. Also learn more about RESTful design, connecting components via HTTP, and the use of JavaScript to provide a function that isn't already part of Zero.
Programming

Submission + - Linux Assemblers: A Comparison of GAS and NASM

LinucksGirl writes: This article explains some of the more important syntactic and semantic differences between two of the most popular assemblers for Linux, GNU Assembler (GAS) and Netwide Assembler (NASM), including differences in basic syntax, variables and memory access, macro handling, functions and external routines, stack handling, and techniques for easily repeating blocks of code.
Graphics

Submission + - SOA Grid Design Patterns for Graphics Animation

LinucksGirl writes: Ray tracing produces high-quality images with realistic reflections, shading, and perspective. Computational efficiency of rendering is achieved through design patterns for a grid service model fitted into a SOA. Learn how to configure and run Alchemi — a grid services model for rendering — build a simple distributed scene-animation-rendering application using the Alchemi framework, deploy it with a Web services interface, and test your application with a simple animated scene.
Businesses

Submission + - OmniFind Personal E-mail Search

LinucksGirl writes: Simple keyword or text search is not always effective for quickly finding what you need. Now it can be with IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search, a powerful search engine enables any business e-mail user to search e-mail easily and effectively; plug-ins are available for Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes mail systems.
Businesses

Submission + - Easy-to-Use Mashup Starter Kit for Businesses

LinucksGirl writes: Discover an easy-to-use Web 2.0 mashup platform for enterprises and small businesses. The IBM Mashup Starter Kit consists of two technologies: the IBM Mashup Hub, used for information feeds (RSS, ATOM, or XML formats), and the QEDWiki, the user interface for non-IT users to "mash" information from anywhere in minutes.
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - Generate and Analyze Signals in PLAYSTATION 3

LinucksGirl writes: How do you take the Cell/B.E. processor from an off-the-shelf Sony PLAYSTATION 3 and use it to construct a piece of Linux-based laboratory equipment? In this article, the author shows you how to build on the infrastructure from Part 1 to make the system into a fully operational spectrum analyzer. Part 1 mostly discussed infrastructure such as support code needed in order to get something up on a PS3's screen.
Power

Submission + - Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER

LinucksGirl writes: The IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER simplifies the installation of Linux on virtualized and non-virtualized Power machines, gives you a bootable rescue DVD, and provides the software needed to fully exploit the Power platform. Learn to use the toolkit to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM System p and System i5 machines.
The Internet

Submission + - Building BlammoSplat with Domino and Open Laszlo

LinucksGirl writes: Create complex Web-based applications with ease. This tutorial shows you how to use Lotus Notes and Domino to build a community Web site named BlammoSplat. This is the first in a series of three tutorials that chronicle the building of a site that enables collaborative discussion and animation building using Domino and Open Laszlo.
Programming

Submission + - Voice Enable Twitter

LinucksGirl writes: Blogging is another topic more people seem to do these days to increase their visibility and voice. In this article, learn to use VoiceXML to actually interact with your blog or tweet using your own voice. Specifically develop a simple blogging application that takes VoiceXML as input and saves the data into your online blog.
IBM

Submission + - IBM developerWorks Opens Linux Security Spaces

LinucksGirl writes: Linux Security Spaces is are micro-site focused on a Linux Security issues and development activity of interest to the Linux Security community. You can easily turn the Linux Security spaces into a Google Gadget, Netvibes module, or a Widget for your iGoogle page. Learn about Linux Security best practices including: Auditing, intrusion detection systems, firewalls, virus scanners, LAMP Security, network among other topics and Linux security tools; NMap, Snort, Chkrootkit, Rootkit Hunter, TripWire, Wireshark, SELenux and AppArmor. The community leader is Mayank Sharma, a contributing editor at SourceForge, Inc.
Programming

Submission + - Behavior-Driven Testing with RSpec

LinucksGirl writes: Testing fever has infected the Ruby programming community, and the infection is spreading. One of the most promising innovations in testing in the past year is the introduction and rapid growth of RSpec, a behavior-driven testing tool. Learn how RSpec can change the way you think about testing.
PHP

Submission + - Use PHP to Create XForms Part 1

LinucksGirl writes: This two-part article series is designed to get PHP developers up to speed in leveraging Web 2.0 XForms forms for their PHP forms development. In Part 1, developers will create the XForms library using PHP, allowing each function to take in parameters and output XForm elements.

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