The way Octopress is being distributed and maintained is nearing its end. There are many things I've always disliked about how Octopress works. So before I talk about the exciting part, I'd like to tell you what's wrong with Octopress. What's wrong? If I'm being harsh, I'll tell you that as it is…

For many small businesses, open source software represents an unexplored gold mine. When you run a small business, budgets are always tight. While you need many of the same kinds of software that larger businesses need, you don't have hundreds or thousands of dollars to spend on that software like…

In Part 1 of our series “Build your own VoIP System” we learned about the very basics of how VoIP and SIP in particular works. This is Part 2, describing the process of setting up a Skype-like service using the sip:provider CE . In Part 3 you will learn how to protect existing VoIP deployments with…

Update, Feb 15th. Since writing this post some of the concepts have become quite popular and have generated quite a lot of comments and questions in the community. I recently did I talk at Puppet Camp Stockholm on this subject and hopefully I might have explained it a bit better there than I did…

Sponsored By Jeff had a blog post yesterday (seems everything he writes in his retirement gets on Hacker News as well) about reading source code. While Jeff's post is largely a pull-quote of a post on Hacker News by Brandon Bloom , one bit stuck out to me as I'm sure it did to others. "The idea that…

Today we are going to share best framework to make easy web development and web design . Framework: – this is a software designed to support the development of a Websites, Web applications and Web services. Every framework perform different kind of works like : some provides library for database…

Editor's note: This book is in its early, early alpha stage. It began as a list of projects to demonstrate the variety of uses for programming. I then started including tutorials on basic concepts and have kept wavering on how to make everything stick together. It's now a quagmire in that I spend…

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General topics Can Rockstar’s latest release change the face of gaming, or is it just Red Dead Detective? Over the past few years, I have played many video games I have liked, and a few I have loved, but most I have neither liked nor loved. Recently I worked out a rough estimate of the number of…