by ahmeddirie on July 22, 2010
Over the past couple years, I found myself spending more time with Linux servers. I generally work with Ubuntu servers but more recently began swimming in the yum’s and rpm’s of CentOS. Although each server requires specific configurations and fine tuning, my general starting point after creating a user account was setting up a firewall.
There are various software firewalls available for each distribution. The one I’ve used most is IP Tables, and setting up is relatively straight forward.
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by ahmeddirie on July 20, 2010
If there is any topic I have researched till the point of further hair loss, it is getting an Apache web server to collaborate with Tomcat easily, on a Ubuntu system. In fact, I think collaborate may not be the right term, but a more proper description would be having Apache delegate certain tasks to Tomcat. Essentially, Tomcat would handle the access to the Java applications, while Apache would take care of everything else.
There are alot of articles, blog posts, and how-to’s that take this topic into depth. Most of them are either out-dated, or haven’t quite worked with my present scenario.
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by ahmeddirie on July 16, 2010
In a recent discussion with a fellow marketer, I was surprised at the level of attention to detail he had when it came to the creation of content. It’s a known fact that many companies and websites will generally rely on Google’s methodologies when it comes to website optimization. They have the most popular search engine, and everything else, so it’s only natural we align ourselves around their tools and services.
From that conversation, a few things came to light.
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by ahmeddirie on July 15, 2010
It’s been a while since I last posted blog on this site. I have been in full gear on all fronts, coding away on various projects.
Q2 of 2010 has brought many changes. Right from the start, I decided to finally park the Alero that I’ve poured countless hours and countless upgrades into. I made a promise to drive it till the wheels fell off. With a few klicks from the 300k mark, I think I did a pretty good job.
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by ahmeddirie on April 5, 2010
In the previous post, I talked about including geographical information in your metadata. This post continues on by looking at standardizing on metadata information for websites.
In 1995, a workshop took place in Dublin, Ohio and the objective was to develop interoperable metadata standards. The Organization that came out of that workshop is called the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI).
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