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Stefan Koopmanschap's Blog: Contributing to Open Source
by Chris Cornutt August 04, 2010 @ 09:36:33
If you've ever wanted to get involved in the open source world but didn't quite know where to start, Stefan Koopmanschap has a great guide posted to his blog with some tips on getting yourself out there.
Last week I wrote about how me being active in Open Source helped boost my career in several ways. Now this is all very interesting, but how to go about actually contributing to Open Source. That is the topic of this blog post. How to look for the right project to contribute to, and what ways are there of contributing? Let's have a look.
He looks at things like finding the right project for you and some of the ways that you can give back to that project including:
- Core code/patches
- Plugins
- Documentation
- Promotion
- Deliver presentations
- Support
He expands out each topic mentioning more specifics on what that contribution type entails and even a few examples of projects on some of them.
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HowTo Forge: Fedora 8 Server Setup - LAMP, Email, DNS, FTP, ISPConfig - Page 6
by Chris Cornutt November 12, 2007 @ 09:32:00
On the HowTo Forge website, there's a new tutorial that walks through the complete steps of setting up a Fedora 8 linux server with a full LAMP stack complete with email, DNS, FTP and ISPConfig support. They call it the "Perfect Server".
This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 8 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of Fedora 8, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little modifications as well.
It's a seven page process with plenty of screenshots and settings to help make the installation nice and easy.
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HowTo Forge: Installing A LAMP System With Fedora Core 6
by Chris Cornutt October 25, 2006 @ 10:38:00
In this new guide from the HowTo Forge, they show you how to build, from scratch, a complete LAMP system on top of the Fedora Core 6 distribution.
This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora Core 6 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of Fedora Core 6, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little modifications as well.
The install uses Apache 2, MySQL 5, Postfix, BIND9, proftpd, dovecot, and Webalizer to round out the system. There's screenshots and steps the whole way, so you're sure to be able to follow along easily. PHP is installed via a package so it makes things simpler.
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Scott Johnson's Blog: Podcast - How to Learn PHP
by Chris Cornutt June 13, 2006 @ 05:39:10
Scott Johnson is back today with another podcast, this time, focusing on methods for learning PHP. It's targeted at the very beginner level (PHP) developer to provide them with the tools and knowledge they'd need to advance in the language.
Ok then. That's like fate to a blogger telling you what to write and rather than JAT (yet another tutorial) I put together a podcast about how you can learn PHP. Not recommended for anyone who knows how to program but if you ever wanted to this will tell you how you can learn php (or any programming language).
He recommends three steps to follow to help you on your way:
- purchase/borrow the Sams Publishing book from Luke Welling and Laura Thomson, "PHP and MySQL Web Development"
- listen to the podcast he's created
- and the most important step of all - code (practice).
People without experience in programming tend to think that you need ot learn everything about the language first, then try to go code something in it. Unfortunately, they realize (sometimes after a lot of work already) that that's just not the way to go.
Find a project - simple or hard - just find one. Even if you don't know the "best" way to do it, try. It can only help, and trust me, you'll learn more from doing than just reading any day. The book is a great starting place, and good for examples, but the real learning happens when developers do what they're meant to do - develop.
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WeberDev.com: PHP 101 (part 11) - Sinfully Simple (SimpleXML)
by Chris Cornutt May 08, 2006 @ 07:04:49
WeberDev.com has this new article today, an introduction to some PHP5 functionality that doesn't seem to get used so much - the SimpleXML functions. The tutorial provides an introduction to the topic, and includes several code examples to get you started.
While PHP has included support for the two standard methods of parsing (read: making sense of) XML - SAX and DOM - since version 4.0, the complexity and inherent geekiness of these methods often turned off all but the most dedicated XML developers. All that has changed, however, with PHP 5.0, which introduces a brand-spanking-new XML extension named SimpleXML that takes all (and I do mean all) the pain out of processing XML documents. Keep reading, and find out how.
The Bad Old Days
They describe what it is, how it works, and what kind of situations it's best suited for before getting into the code. They show you how to reference values as objects, grab their attributes, and how to use the XPath function to pick out just the data you need.
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PHPit.net: Using the CURL Library on PHP
by Chris Cornutt April 24, 2006 @ 07:39:02
Yet another fine tutorial has been posted over on PHPit.net today, this time dealing with the use of the cURL library in PHP.
Sooner or later you're bound to run across a certain problem in your script: how to retrieve content from other websites. There are several methods for this, and the simplest one is probably to use the fopen() function (if it's enabled), but there aren't really a lot of options you can set when using the fopen function. What if you're building a web spider, and want to have a custom user agent? That isn't really possible with fopen, nor is it possible to define the request method (GET or POST).
That's where the CURL library comes in. This library, usually included with PHP, allows you to retrieve other pages, and also makes it possible to define dozens of different options.
This article doesn't look to be comprehensive on the topic, but does provide a great introduction to the hows and whys of using cURL in PHP. There's no installation procedures here, so you'll need to already have it installed, but other than that, you should have a great grasp on things by the time you're through.
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