PortableApps.com | Your Digital Life, To Go&

„PortableApps.com has officially launched. PortableApps.com is a community site devoted to the development, promotion and use of portable applications. The site was created by John T. Haller (aka me), the developer behind numerous portable applications (like Portable Firefox, Portable Thunderbird and Portable OpenOffice.org) as a way to centralize the knowledge and development efforts of multiple portable application efforts. PortableApps.com now hosts all of my portable applications including the Portable Apps Suite as well support pages, discussion forums, a directory of portable applications and resources for developers of portable apps.“

PortableApps.com | Your Digital Life, To Go&

PortableApps.com | Your Digital Life, To Go&

CSS for Bar Graphs

„CSS FOR BAR GRAPHS

Having a working knowledge of XHTML and CSS when developing applications is a big help in knowing what can be done client-side and what should be generated server-side.

Recently we’ve had to tackle some interesting visualizations which we coded in XHTML and CSS. The method we used, while fairly simple, was a big help to the engineer and created a very flexible and inexpensive solution. We thought we would share our solution and code in case anyone else ran against similar situations.“

CSS for Bar Graphs

CSS for Bar Graphs

20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration

„Here are 20 things you can do to make your apache configuration more secure.
Disclaimer: The thing about security is that there are no guarantees or absolutes. These suggestions should make your server a bit tighter, but don’t think your server is necessarily secure after following these suggestions.
Additionally some of these suggestions may decrease performance, or cause problems due to your environment. It is up to you to determine if any of the changes I suggest are not compatible with your requirements. In other words proceed at your own risk.“

20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration

20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration

PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Checklist

„PostgreSQL 8.0 Performance Checklist
This is a set of rules of thumb for setting up your PostgreSQL 8.0 server. A lot of the below is based on anecdotal evidence or practical scaling tests; there’s a lot about database performance that we, and OSDL, are still working out. However, this should get you started. All information below is useful as of January 12, 2005 and will likely be updated later. Discussions of settings below supercede the recommendations I’ve made on General Bits.“

PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Checklist

PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Checklist