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Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish!

Unix-to-Linux Migration Has Come of Age

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If you've often wondered whether you ought to migrate your Unix system to Linux, this article will answer your question! The driving force behind every...
Let's create an online forum

Set Up Your Own Forum Using phpBB

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Clichéd as it may sound, we do live in the age of the social media. It is normal for humans to gather in groups...
WordPress time!

10 WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging

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The power of WordPress lies in its many plugins, which can greatly enhance its functionality. Understanding the plugin infrastructure and equipping your WordPress site...
Bineeta Guharoy

A Media Organisation Keeps Its Data Safe with PostgreSQL

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Bineeta Guharoy ,one of the EnterpriseDB PostgreSQL contest winners, shares her views on why she trusts PostgreSQL to keep critical data safe. A media house...
Gave dev time, again!

Get Started with Pygame, Part 2

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In the first part of this series, we learnt about uploading a background image, and how to put text with different fonts on the...
Hardware access kit

Device Drivers, Part 8: Accessing x86-Specific I/O-Mapped Hardware

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This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, continues the discussion on accessing hardware in Linux. The second day in the...
Graphics with Xlib

Graphics Using Xlib, Part 2: Writing Programs

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This article applies the concepts explained in Part l of this series with a sample program. In case you have forgotten the concepts, a quick...
Social Apps with Facebook

Making Your Web Apps Social with Facebook

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Thinking about making your Web application talk to Facebook? Or do you need tighter integration for your website? Alternately, do you just want to...
Research time!

A Low-cost Platform for PC-interfaced Science Experiments called expEYES

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There is nothing new about computer-interfaced science experiments, but how often do you come across an experiment platform that costs as little as Rs...
Hmm... they claim it's powerful enough.

Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 2

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Lisp has been hailed as the world's most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it, because of its cryptic...