The need to suddenly start developing parallel software poses a severe challenge to the entire software industry.

Take the pain out of PHP database programming with a database abstraction layer.

Hands-on tutorial for monitoring and configuring I/O for network device drivers at the Kernel level.

fbOpen launches under a CPAL license and, perhaps, sparks a licensing revolution.

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

A rare case of the default option being surprisingly powerful.

Just how... creative is your code?

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.

While strace is often used for troubleshooting and debugging, you can also use strace to get started on examining the I/O pattern of your serial codes.

Ajax development hurts, and is not recommended without a bottle of analgesics by your side. Luckily for us there are tools that can make developing Web 2.0 apps a breeze.

Have a web app that occasionally hangs? Use signals to add a timeout to function requests with Python decorators.

Because software bugs cost customers and vendors billions of dollars every year and exploited software vulnerabilities are consistently making headlines, companies need to take a closer look at their software development processes.

Want to know how Coverity’s static source code analysis technology works? This technical white paper will provide everything a developer will need to know in gory detail.

Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced" juice") is an efficient variant of the Ubuntu Server operating system, configured specifically for virtual appliances. Soren Hansen and Nick Barcet discuss how to use JeOS to create your own virtual appliance to help distribute your applications.

PIR is Parrot's native programming language. In this conclusion of his series, chromatic presents a variety of techniques to program and validate subroutines. Learn how to create libraries and test your code in this hands-on primer.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the virtualization software leader, today announced Diane Greene, president and chief executive officer of VMware, is scheduled to present at the Bernstein Virtualization/Tech Long View Conference in San Francisco on Thursday, December 13 at 8:30 a.m. PT / 11:30 a.m. ET. Greene's presentation will be webcast live at http://ir.vmware.com. A replay will be available for one month.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Today AmieStreet.com announced the launch of Amie Street Japan (AmieStreet.jp), a joint venture with the leading Asia-Pacific Linux distributor, TurboLinux.

LOS ANGELES and WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Liferay, provider of the world's leading enterprise-class, open source portal and content management system announced a new services partnership with Sygnity SA, Poland's second largest IT services and solutions provider. As a preferred international partner, Sygnity now offers a full range of consulting, and development services around Liferay Portal to its clients in the public and private sectors. Sygnity's associates will be fully and regularly trained in Liferay Portal technology. It is also now a reseller of Liferay support services.

DAYTON, Ohio, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has launched Opticks, the company's first open source software project designed to enable detailed analysis of remote sensing data. With the release of Opticks, Ball Aerospace anticipates gaining access to new fields that can benefit from the processing and exploitation of remote sensing data.

IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DynTek, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DYNK), a leading provider of professional technology services, today announced that Karen Rosenberger has been named Chief Financial Officer, effective as of December 3, 2007. Ms. Rosenberger, who previously served as the company's corporate controller, succeeds David W. Berry.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- NorthStar Systems International, Inc., a leading provider of wealth management software to financial services institutions, today introduced the industry's first, firm-tailored, on-demand solution(TM) for wealth management. The solution is based on years of successful service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations and wealth management best practice experience. As a result, NorthStar is able to deliver the most in-depth, firm-tailored software configuration in the industry.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), the world's leading provider of programmable solutions, today announced that an SGI(R) RASC(TM) (Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing) enabled SGI(R) Altix(TM) system from Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) (Nasdaq: SGIC), featuring Xilinx(R) Virtex-4 high performance FPGAs, can accelerate the Blast-n (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool for nucleotides) bioinformatics application by more than 900 times compared to a traditional cluster.

LONDON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM), announced today that it has been selected as a winner of the Red Herring 100 Global Award. The awards span all areas of technology including biosciences, communications, computing and software; Alfresco was one of eighteen software winners.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Stickam.com, a social networking website that sets itself apart with its live video chat features, announced today that they are creating applications utilizing Google's OpenSocial APIs - - allowing OpenSocial-enabled platforms to integrate Stickam's technology.

Parrot is not just a virtual machine for running dynamic languages; it also includes several tools for building dynamic languages, including a grammars engine and a tree transformation system. Currently, all of these tools are available through PIR, Parrot's native programming language.

In this podcast, Ted Ts'o, the Linux Foundation's newly appointed Chief Platform Strategist, takes a few minutes to talk to Linux Magazine about his new role with the Linux Foundation, the status of Ext4, the Linux Standard Base, and more.

Guido van Rossum discusses the next version of the Python language, Python 3000.

Power consumption is a hot topic — from laptop, to datacenter. Recently, the Linux kernel has made huge steps forward in power conservation, thanks to tickless kernels.

Developers of HPC and enterprise software are using RapidMind today to create manageable, single-threaded applications that leverage the full potential of multi-core processors from AMD and Intel. RapidMind also optionally allows developers to seamlessly take advantage of the application acceleration available from GPUs and the Cell Broadband Engine. This White paper includes an overview of the platform architecture, detailed explanation of the API, code samples, benchmarks, and comparison to alternative task and data parallel approaches to multi-core programming.

Like Barman, Perl has its own" utility belts", namely Scalar::Util and List::Util. Here's a look at what each gizmo can do.

Harnessing the power of multicore processors is one of the largest challenges facing the computer industry today. Here we look at the challenges and some of the programming methods we can use to solve the problem.

A revolution, or evolution, is taking place in the computing industry. Multiple CPUs and multiple cores aren't new to high-end markets, but this is the first time that they're being mass-produced -- and every programmer needs to understand how to take advantage of multicore systems.

Brief introduction to Open MP and how it can help parallelize your code for multicore systems.

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) from Charles Congdon on multicore, parallelism and multi-threading.

Learn how to use the Intel Thread Profiler in a load imbalance situation, with synchronization objects and with lightweight locks.

Besides serving as what is hoped to be an appropriate and effective platform for Perl 6 and other languages, Parrot is a grand experiment. Is there a better way to write a compiler than using the lex and yacc model? Can languages interoperate at a deeper level than sharing a set of calling conventions? Here are some answers.

The Moose object system enforces type, validates values, and coerces parameters to be the correct type.

Once again, the Linux Foundation Desktop Linux (DTL) workgroup is polling users to find out what desktop Linux really needs. While the foundation folks conduct the poll (and I'd encourage Linux Magazine readers to participate), let me share my top three priorities for the Linux desktop in 2008: Applications, multimedia, and polish.