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Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie

Joy of Programming: The Legacy of C

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Dennis Ritchie died on the 8th of October 2011, at the age of 70. His lasting contributions to computing include creating the C language,...
A page after submitting for publication

Exploring Software: The New-Look Plone 4

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If this is the first time you are hearing of Plone, should you use it? If so, how would you start and get a...
Loop optimisation

CodeSport

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In this month's column, we will continue our discussion on some of the common loop optimisations performed by the compiler. In last month's column, I...
Reflections: OSI 2010 CXO Summit

Reflections — Open Source India 2010 CXO Summit

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Gone are the days when Open Source Solutions were considered the play-tools of geeks. Over time, open source tools and technologies have emerged as...
Let's learn Beamer

Taming Beamer

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This article introduces LaTeX and the Beamer extension class, which is ideal for creating professional-quality documents and presentations. The OpenOffice.org suite, and even the new...
Let's play the disk

Virtualisation and Disk Management in OpenIndiana

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In the previous part, we got acquainted with OpenIndiana -- how to install the base system, find and deploy packages, and perform maintenance tasks...
Dell India R&D Centre team

Dell India R&D Centre is 10 — Team’s Take on Milestones, Roles & Responsibilities,...

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On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Dell India R&D Centre, the LINUX For You team caught up with Rudramuni B, executive...
Automation rocks, dude

Automate Your Office Yourself with ProcessMaker, Part 1

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This article covers the basic setup and how to get started with ProcessMaker, an open source workflow automation software. This should interest small and...
Let's ride the USB

Device Drivers, Part 11: USB Drivers in Linux

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This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, gets you started with writing your first USB driver in Linux. Pugs' pen...
Getting started with CodeIgniter

Let’s Play with CodeIgniter

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Here's a basic introduction to CodeIgniter, an open source Web framework that helps to quickly develop dynamic websites with PHP. To get started, you need...