Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier is a freelance writer and editor with more than 10 years covering IT. Formerly the openSUSE Community Manager for Novell, Brockmeier has written for Linux Magazine, Sys Admin, Linux Pro Magazine, IBM developerWorks, Linux.com, CIO.com, Linux Weekly News, ZDNet, and many other publications. Brockmeier is also a FLOSS advocate and participates in several projects, including GNOME as the PR team lead.
Ruby developers have Ruby on Rails, Python has Django, but what about Java? Java Rapid Application Development and deployment might sound like an oxymoron, but Servoy is trying to cut through some of the hassle and speed up Java development and deployment. Servoy, made by a company of the same name, is a cross-platform development […]
WordPress 3.0 Expands Its Reach by Joe Brockmeier Configuring WordPress 3.0 First stage of configuring a multisite WordPress install. Multisite Features Instructions from WordPress on finalizing multisite features. Custom Post Types Editing custom post types with a custom post type UI plug-in. Custom Menu UI The new WordPress custom menu UI. New Default Theme Managing […]
WordPress became popular by making it as simple as possible to publish a personal blog. Along the way, the project has become a hit not only with personal bloggers, but with publishers as well. WordPress 3.0 comes to terms with its new audience by adding features that are better suited to content management systems than […]
Cloud, Management Advances Drive Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Forward by Joe Brockmeier Configuring Updates Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Install Configuring Updates Landscape Processes Canonical Landscape Displaying System Processes Ubuntu Landscape Service Canonical’s Landscape Service Software Selection Choosing System Software for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Ubuntu Manual Disk Partitioning Manual Partitioning for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Ubuntu Server Install […]
Canonical and the Ubuntu Project have done great things to help bring Linux to the mainstream desktop. But what about the server edition? If Ubuntu can bring the same level of polish to its server offerings, it should be a formidable competitor to Microsoft and other Linux vendors. Looking at Ubuntu Server 10.04, aka “Lucid […]