April 2009

2 new useful twitter utilities that make the twitter experience much friendlier

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 05:39

As some people have found with using twitter is that it can get a little cumbersome to manage and follow.   I have found two great utilities to ease the management and following of your twitter accounts.

Cisco Cheat Sheets galore a MUST read

This is a repost of a blog entry created by Linuxscrew.com

I have personally found each of these resources useful.  I will be continually updating this page as the time goes and my Cisco experience grows in the resources and technology I use.

Cheat Sheets - Technical Quick References

Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 08:26

A grouping of quick reference technical documentation to help you get your job done effectively and correctly the first time.

SEO Guide for success and reference

Everyone that is working on a website and/or blog is always trying to stay on top of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) trends of the month.  From managing and working with websites that range from light traffic (sub 1k vistors/day) to high traffic sites (10k + vistors/day) I've found some fairly decent resources that help me along the way.

Conficker the sitting timebomb waiting to explode..

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 18:40

*Whew* Conficker wasn’t a big deal - or will it be?! -

I’ve had a lot of people ask me, “So, conficker wasn’t as big a deal as they thought?”.  I too expected to see something happen on April 1st once these bots got their instruction.  But when we didn’t see any big actions by the instruction, that wasn’t a good sign.   I thought the Gizmodo blog did a great post on this:

4 Tips to ensure a secure desktop outside of anti-virus and anti-spyware

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 19:10

There are quite a few things outside of Virus and Spyware issues that you need to be concerned with when you are considering your workstation.   Many people forget about the importance of covering all the bases when securing their desktop.  I'm going to be explaining some obscure but good practices that will ensure that utmost security of your workstation.

Oracle buys Sun.. where is this going to steer Open Source Projects in the near term

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 07:16

 

Oracle buys Sun Today is a huge day in the world of web development and database development as Oracle has acquired Sun Microsystems.  The reason that this is such a huge deal is that Sun holds a great deal of high value cards when it comes to what is being leveraged on the web today such as MySQL and Java are the largest developments coming out of the Sun house.  Right behind  those two technologies is the Microsoft Office alternative that I personally enjoy using and has became a standard for most Linux users and that is OpenOffice, and the enterprise datacenter server operating system that put Sun Microsystems on the map Solaris.  There are also some very influential research coming out of Sun Microsystems and the most widely known and adopted technology is their ZFS file system that FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, and Apple are leveraging as a

PHP References and Cheat Sheet

PHP Being one of the most used web development language on the web I found this to be a very essential resource for everyone to have access too.

PostgresSQL questions answers and why I'm moving all my databases to it

Submitted by Eric Fouarge on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 06:10

PostgreSQLAs everyone has already heard Oracle is buying / merging with Sun Microsystems who is the current owner of the MySQL technology.  Since Oracle is a huge database software vendor I suspect that they will kill the MySQL technology although they say the initial press releases on the merger deem that Not a whole lot is going to change in the direction of some of Sun's Projects (Java, OpenSolaris, ZFS, Open Office), but time will only tell where the future of MySQL will be.  As part of my full-time job is to stay ahead of the curve and provide perfect and long lasting solutions to our customer.   This is the reason you will be seeing quite a few PostgreSQL posts in the next few days as I'm quite green on the database server, but my learning curve, resources, and links will come out in my consistent posts in regards to Security, Application Migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL, Data protection, high availability etc.