JavaScript Libraries

This article was first written in May 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/256). As of 2008, the most famous JavaScript libraries
are probably Dojo, JQuery and Prototype, but others like MeeBoo, Sarissa and Scriptaculous 
should be considered as well.

Dithered.com - Javascript Library

This is a collection of scripts that I've created and/or modified. All the scripts are released under a Creative Commons License. Do whatever you want with them - use them as is or modify them to suit your purposes.

JavaScript: Event Registration

This article was first written in May 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/255).

Description

Attach an event to an element by defining the type of event to listen for, the handler function to execute when the event is fired, and whether you want to use event capture.

Code

/* Author: Scott Andrew LePera (www.scottandrew.com)
Default value for useCapture has been set to false because: "If it is true,
the event listener should not fire for any element the event listener is
registered on." */
function addEvent(obj,evType

A few useful acronyms

CMS: Content Management System CRM: Customer Relationship Management ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning VoIP: Voice over IP IP: Internet Protocol SIP: Session-Initiated Protocol RFC: Request For Comments IRC: Internet Relay Chat FTP: File Transfer Protocol KM: Knowledge Management LAMP: Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP LAPP: Linux-Apache-PostgreSQL-PHP ICT: Information &

HOWTO Fully Install PostgreSQL on Debian

This article was first written in March 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/218).
This is a short tutorial on how to fully install PostgreSQL (with ready-to-use user accounts and test table) on a simple Debian installation. When not specified otherwise by the command line prefix or by a full statement, you are supposed to have root permissions.

The packages

To install the PostgreSQL base system as well as a textual client, you need to issue the following command
apt-get install postgresql postgresql-client
This will ins

Cover only one topic per e-mail and give a sensible subject

This article was first written in March 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/213).
Answering under the question should be the default. Similarly, and to avoid complicating answering to e-mails, try to cover only one topic (even huge) per e-mail. It will not cost you more to split your different subjects in several messages, and will allow you to give sensible subjects to your e-mails easily. In return, you can expect the answers to be more readable and finding something through all your e-mails far faster.

rsync

This article was first written in February 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/205).
rsync is a synchronization tool designed with powerful algorithms to only transfer the minimum needed between source and destination. Quoting the above web page: rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.

References:

For a basic explanation of the rsync algorithm, go