Flex Framework from Adobe goes Open Source
Yet another move from a giant company as Adobe to embrace Open Source! I’m so happy to read this!
Adobe is announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes not only the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, which have been available in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was released, but also includes the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript debugger and the core ActionScript libraries from the SDK. The Flex SDK includes all of the components needed to create Flex applications that run in any browser - on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux and on now on the desktop using “Apollo”.
Developers can use the Flex SDK to freely develop and deploy Flex applications using either Adobe Flex Builder or an IDE of their choice.
Backup multiple MySQL Database Servers
At my current place we have several internal MySQL Databases used for vtiger CRM and Bugzilla. It is very critical that you must be doing backups for your MySQL Databases. When I started, I wrote a simple and yet pretty much effective bash script to automate and schedule that backing up procedures. It has been serving me quite nicely for now.
Basically, I needed to make a dump of MySQL Database, name it with today’s date, gzip and ftp to a different backup server. Of course I used crontabs to schedule backups.
Replacement for Google Analytics - 103bees!
After some considerations, I have decided to stop using Google’s Analytics. I will be instead using 103bees to gather information about incoming traffics to my blog.
I will update on how did it go with 103bees within next week hopefully. But to tell the truth it looks promising! So chances are high that I’ll be another proud bee keeper!
Via unveils first pico-ITX design
Chip-maker Via Technologies has revealed details about its “pico-ITX” hardware reference design, and promised to announce its first commercially available mainboard based on the new form-factor “soon.” Slightly smaller than the venerable PC/104 standard, pico-ITX represents “the smallest complete x86 mainboard in the industry,” Via said.
Measuring 3.9 x 2.8 inches (10cm x 7.2cm), pico-ITX boards have half the surface area of nano-ITX boards, and a quarter that of boards based on the now 5-year-old mini-ITX standard. The miniaturization is enabled in part by an 82 percent real estate reduction of Via’s chipsets, which have shrunk from 50 x 50mm in mini-ITX’s original “Socket 370″ processors to just 21 x 21mm for the “nanoBGA” package used in Via’s current C7 product family.
reports LinuxDevices
Very Secure FTP Daemon - vsftpd
vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. It is secure and extremely fast. It is stable.
What I like in vsftpd is that you can configure your vsftpd by just editing one single file vftpd.conf.
Despite being small for purposes of speed and security, many more complicated FTP setups are achievable with vsftpd! By no means an exclusive list, vsftpd will handle:
- Virtual IP configurations
- Virtual users
- Standalone or inetd operation
- Powerful per-user configurability
- Bandwidth throttling
- Per-source-IP configurability
- Per-source-IP limits
- IPv6
- Encryption support through SSL integration
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