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Logging in Apache

Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The February 2005 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that more than 68% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache, thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined.

Administrators need keep regular tabs on their Web servers to make they are running smoothly, so that their clients don't meet with any unpleasant surprises. Logging helps you to spot performance problems before they become an issue, and also assists in the detection of possible security concerns. This article will discuss configuring Apache for logging purposes, and will go into some detail about remote logging solutions. It is excerpted from Hardening Apache by Tony Mobily

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Build a [Mac OS X - Tiger] Dashboard Widget - part 1

Dashboard is a new environment that allows users to run mini-applications called widgets. These widgets, while able to use all of the advanced features of Tiger, are simple to use and simple to develop. This is the first in a series of two articles that gives an introduction to developing Dashboard widgets. This article will focus on the basics of widget development and then go over the steps required to develop a widget that displays *nix man pages.

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Naming Conventions in Application Development

Why use naming conventions? The use of standardized names for the elements of a project (or the naming conventions) allows all persons involved in the project to share the same language. It makes the code easier to understand for everybody, as it follows known rules, as well as making the application development more coherent.

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Adding Custom Buttons to Internet Explorer

Have you ever wanted to extend the Internet Explorer toolbar by adding your own buttons? Say you wanted to add a button that launched [Dreamweaver], for example, or some other tool you frequently need to access when browsing the Web. Or maybe you'd like a button that launches a script that opens your company intranet home page in a new IE window.

Perhaps you'd like a button that does some other custom action, such as launching Notepad (if you're cheap)... to jot down some notes. Or maybe you need to allow users to perform some action on a kiosk machine that allows access only to IE and not the Start menu or desktop.

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Hacking Firefox: Add Stuff to Your Toolbars

Firefox fans, are you looking to trick out your toolbar with all kinds of cool new features? In an excerpt from the just-published "Firefox Hacks," [we] show you how to integrate Firefox with Gmail using the GMail Notifier extension, and how to use InfoLister, an extension that generates an HTML list of everything you currently have installed in your Firefox implementation.

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Create Podcasts Using Your PC (RSS2.0)

Just in case you aren't familiar with podcasting, quite simply it's a process for distributing audio files using RSS 2.0. A podcaster creates an audio recording, posts it to a server somewhere, and references the audio file as an enclosure in an RSS feed. By subscribing to the RSS feed in an app capable of processing enclosures, you get fresh audio content delivered to your desktop every time the podcaster creates something new.

To learn the process, though, you don't need anything fancy.

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Securely Edit Your Website Content in WebDAV

A couple of years ago, I became very fond of WebDAV. I replaced all of my FTP servers with DAV. I began managing the content on all of my websites via DAV. I even replaced most of my network file systems with DAV.

Please note that this is not a tutorial on setting up DAV, using DAV, or even telling you what DAV is.

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Making Firefox look like IE

Ok quite why anyone would want to do this is beyond me... but should you want to make FireFox look like IE then this is how to go about it! Read More

Quirky Percentages in IE6's Visual Formatting Model

Good explanation of the issues IE has dealing with percentages - origins of the Box Model issue to be found inside Read More

How stuff works - Firefox:

A Web browser is sort of like the tires on your car. You don't really give them much daily thought, but without them, you're not going anywhere. The second something goes wrong, you definitely notice.

Knowing how something works can really help when you're trying to figure out why something isn't working the way you expected it. So this article gives you a quick run down on How FireFox works

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