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Thursday, November 22 2007

Linux-System: Detaching a background process from a screen session
by Cory Rauch

Did you ever wonder why a background process terminates when you quit a terminal session? This is because the process is attached to the terminal session.

Sunday, June 03 2007

Linux-System: Updating Your Ubuntu Server From The Command Line
by Cory Rauch

Ubuntu Desktop is popular with linux desktop crowd, but how do you apply updates from the command line in Ubuntu server (No Gui)?

Web-Performance: Ubuntu Apache Performance Tip
by Cory Rauch

In a previous post I discussed using Cache-Control to tune web server performance. In this post I will include how to do this specifically on Ubuntu Server.

Tuesday, May 15 2007

Web-Performance: Speeding up your web server with Cache Control
by Cory Rauch

Using simple cache control directives you can speed up website by enabling better cache coverage when serving up pages. In this small tutorial I will go over one way of controlling caching using the cache-control directive.

Wednesday, May 09 2007

Web-Development: Cool Example of Java and Javascript working together
by Cory Rauch

This is a cool example of when you combine Javascript and Java in a web application. Its a photo editor that can do some pretty amazing things like 3-D slideshow (HW accelerated too) especially considering its a web app.