Author Archive

If you’re already using Subversion for version control, extend it with commit hooks to make it a more integrated part of your development workflow.

Not quite a ring of power, but Hobbit can take some of the pain out of machine, network and services management.

A walkthrus of the basics: making connections, creating and modifying entries, and searching.

Juliet Kemp shows you how to look after your bugs with Request Tracker, an enterprise-grade (and GPL’ed) ticketing system that can be used for project management, help desks, software development, and much more.

Juliet Kemp explains how to install and configure LDAP, and get it working with Kerberos, to provide a powerful solution for secure authentication.

Kerberos and LDAP are popular, separately, but if you put them together they provide a powerful solution for secure authentication. In the first of two tutorials, Juliet Kemp walks through installation and configuration of Kerberos.

Whether you have tens of gigabytes or hundreds of terabytes, the Bacula system makes backups easy. Here’s a hands-on primer.