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Clearing enterprise Linux desktop adoption hurdles, part 2
Frank van Wensveen helps users begin their desktop migration away from Windows. In the second half of this two-part series, he lists open source counterparts to proprietary software and suggests strategies for a successful pilot program. Tip
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Porting criteria: Migrating apps from Unix to Linux
Don't skimp on testing or creating a sandbox environment to play in when porting your Unix apps to Linux. This is only one piece of advice an expert gives in his Unix porting guide. Tip
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Chapter 7 of 'Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated by Perl 5'
Chapter 7, Multidimensional Rays, describes arrays that can contain scalars, just like Perl 5, but they're also able to directly hold a list of numbers. Tip
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"Open Source Messaging Application Development: Building and Extending Gaim"
Chapter 2 -- The Open Source Development Process -- describes creating an open source project and community and, in the process, become an open source citizen in good standing. Tip
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Finding the bottlenecks, Chapter 6, of 'Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization'
Chapter 6 -- Finding the bottlenecks -- of "Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization: From Novice to Professional" covers how to use and alter commands for reading system and configuration variables. Tip
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Chapter 15 -- Handling file uploads -- of 'Beginning PHP and MySQL 5'
Chapter 15 -- Handling file uploads -- of 'Beginning PHP and MySQL 5' describes role of PHP's file-upload functions
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Chapter 2 -- Laying out the foundations -- of 'Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-commerce'
Chapter 2 -- Laying out the foundations -- of "Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-commerce" provides an analysis of application architecture and technical administration of the project. Tip
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Getting started with Linux: Installing, find apps for enterprise Linux
In this tip, an expert lists open source and Linux-supporting software that could replace proprietary apps and gives advice on finding application support. Tip
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Enlarging your Sybase database
In this tip, Dr. Talebzadeh gives helpful examples of removing unwanted transactions and code for boosting your master database capacity. Tip
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Sybase: Views vs. stored procedures
Sybase expert Mich Talebzadeh describes the similarities between views and stored procedures that can lead to differences in the speed of compilation. Tip