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Google's new web site Doctype rounds up web development tips, tricks, and best practices in an editable format à la Wikipedia. Whether you dabble in HTML on your blog or you're a full-on web...

"Git has sometimes been described as a versioning file-system which happens to support the underlying notions of version control. And while most people do simply use Git as a version control system, it remains true that it can be used for other tasks as well.

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Learn about shared library mechanisms and memory footprints on IBM AIX. This article is essential for developers writing server code or administrators managing production AIX systems. It offers developers and administrators commands and techniques, and gives the understanding necessary to analyze memory requirements of server processes on AIX.

This article describes how to set up an IBM AIX chroot environment and use it with ssh, sftp, and scp. You will also learn about the prerequisites for AIX and openssh, and how to configure and use a chroot environment.

Discover a declarative programming model and supporting run-time environment that enables cross-organizational software as compositions of Web components. Also, examine the simplification, evolution, distribution, and device adaptation of the language.

Discover PHP's new features and syntax improvements and see how they will take this already-popular scripting language to the next level. Learn how Unicode support, Web 2.0 features, and other changes make PHP V6 more robust, as well as more international.

If you saw Adam's recent Hive Five roundup of text editors, you might have noticed that Vim, a child of Unix/Linux favorite Vi, still carries a lot of favor among coders and back-to-basics text...

"We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.5. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series. It provides a number of portability improvements, bug fixes, as well as several new features. You can find it here: ..."

Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) Toolkit gives you all the tools you need to easily extend your legacy applications to business partners, customers, and employees.

More strategies and best practices for modern ORM tools. Learn base domain entities, behavior in the domain model, and more-advanced features of a generic DAO. They also share strategies for enhancing data-retrieval performance with the domain model.

Lotus Quickr content libraries can help you share content for your projects with your team. Learn how content from different Lotus Quickr libraries interacts with simple Lotus Quickr REST services in the library linker tool, which is based on the Dojo 1.0 framework.

Discover a tool that quickly and efficiently monitors a complex DB2 Database Partitioning Feature environment. Version 2.0 provides a unified, single-system view of a multi-partition DB2 database that can be used to quickly identify either partition-specific or global problems in the system.

The Internet has played a huge role in the advancement of technology, business, and everyday life for huge numbers of the world's people. Configuring a computer to communicate over a network and connecting to the Internet has become an essential task for administrators. This article shows how to configure a server running IBM AIX to connect to and use the Internet.

This article demonstrates the simplicity and ease of exposing a pureXML column of a DB2 database through Web service operations, using scripts without launching a separate tool. The installation of the Universal Services can be used to build your own prototypes or applications.

Discover Interactive Ray Tracer for Cell Broadband Engine, which demonstrates the power of the Cell Broadband Engine for interactively ray tracing high-definition television images. Use a demonstration model to animate in real time a three-dimensional, high-definition model.