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Drupal — by Najib Habeb — last modified May 16, 2008 02:47 PM

Drupal is very flexible, modular and scalable CMS that has worldwide acceptance by major websites. It is written in the PHP and requires database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL. Drupal is sometimes described as a "web application framework," as its capabilities extend from content management to enabling a wide range of services and transactions.

SuccessIdeaWeb.com — by Najib Habeb — last modified May 16, 2008 02:47 PM

Leveraging on Drupal web content management system (cms), we offer complete development packages for dynamic and interactive website, intranet portal, e-commerce, community portal, knowledge management and enterprise application.

Byte Craft — by Azrin Zainal Abidin — last modified May 15, 2008 05:03 PM

Byte Craft develops custom web based applications for different industries with data visualization being our main area of focus. We assist you in exploring your data in visually appealing forms of charts, graphs or maps, thus increasing the productivity and the speed of understanding the many volumes of data. This allows for quicker decision making from top level managements thus delivering more from your data!

Apache ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse Directives — by Red-Hat-Enigma — last modified May 14, 2008 02:34 PM

A sample configuration from MDKP.GOV.MY Apache web server using the combination of ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse for achieving "shared" port 80.

Slackware — by Red-Hat-Enigma — last modified May 14, 2008 02:33 PM

Slackware Linux is a complete 32-bit multitasking "UNIX-like" system.i It's currently based around the 2.4 Linux kernel series and the GNU C Library version 2.3.4 (libc6). It contains an easy to use installation program, extensive online documentation, and a menu-driven package system. A full installation gives you the X Window System, C/C++ development environments, Perl, networking utilities, a mail server, a news server, a web server, an ftp server, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, Netscape Communicator, plus many more programs. Slackware Linux can run on 486 systems all the way up to the latest x86 machines (but uses -mcpu=i686 optimization for best performance on i686-class machines like the P3, P4, and Duron/Athlon).

Abdullah's notes on using CakePHP — by Abdullah Zainul Abidin — last modified May 14, 2008 08:40 AM

Notes of Abdullah Zainul Abidin regarding CakePHP written on a blog

Official CakePHP Web Site — by Abdullah Zainul Abidin — last modified May 14, 2008 08:38 AM

 

Official CodeIgniter Web Site — by Abdullah Zainul Abidin — last modified May 14, 2008 08:38 AM

 

Official Django Web Site — by Abdullah Zainul Abidin — last modified May 14, 2008 08:36 AM

 

British Government Educational Agency Refers Its Interoperability Complaint to the European Commission — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 13, 2008 06:12 PM

British Government Educational Agency Refers Its Interoperability Complaint to the European Commission British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) welcomes the European Commission's antitrust investigation of Microsoft concerning interoperability and confirms it has recently referred its interoperability complaint and supporting evidence to the Commission.

LDAP — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 13, 2008 11:47 AM

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP is an application protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP.

Squid — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 13, 2008 11:44 AM

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on Unix and Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

2 ADSL Load Balancing — by Red-Hat-Enigma — last modified May 13, 2008 11:39 AM

I think most of us wants to speed up our DSL link but don't know much about it. Well here is the extracted script (bash) written by mambang from mambang.org. Credit to him for writing up this script. Dual gateway using 3 nic and 4 ips with one alias

Squid Reverse Proxy with Virtual Hosts — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 13, 2008 11:45 AM

An example configuration of Knowledge Bank using Squid with Pound to load balance multiple Zope application servers with centralised logging.

HITBSecConf2008 (The Westin Kuala Lumpur, from Oct 27, 2008 08:30 AM to Oct 30, 2008 05:30 PM) — by Khairil Yusof

The main aim of our conference is to enable the dissemination, discussion and sharing of deep knowledge network security information. Presented by respected members of both the mainstream network security arena as well as the underground or black hat community, our events routinely highlight new and ground-breaking attack and defense methods that have not been seen or discussed in public before.

Velocity Technology Sdn Bhd — by Syamsul Anuar — last modified May 12, 2008 08:45 AM

We are a one-stop software house and open source service provider. We specialize in customized application development using open source and proprietary software stack, facilities management, knowledge management and also network management using open source.

Kometsoft(M) Sdn. Bhd. — by Norhayati — last modified May 10, 2008 10:16 AM

Kometsoft is a solution provider which offers high-quality and engaging products and services. We specialized in managing documents, assets and people by applying proven technologies like Rich Internet Application (RIA), Open Source Technology and Proprietary Technology. Our knowledge in proprietary technology includes Microsoft, Unix, Java, Oracle and .Net Technology. Our innovative technology and software solutions automate data collection, facilitate traceability, and improve visibility and security while providing cost savings to our customers.

pfSense — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 09, 2008 05:30 PM

pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution. Features include VPN, Wireless Access Point, Traffic Shaping and real time monitoring of traffic.

Nmap — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 09, 2008 05:22 PM

Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and both console and graphical versions are available.

OSS Implementation Guideline — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 09, 2008 03:31 PM

Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) Public Sector Open Source Software Implementation Guidelines provides a comprehensive guide for agencies implementing OSS

Public Beta Release of a Free/Open Source Electronic Health Record for the Philippine Health Care Industry — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 09, 2008 07:05 AM

The first beta release of FFEHR, an electronic health record application commissioned by the ASEAN+3 node of the International Open Source Network (IOSN), was released to the public last April 28, 2008. This release comes six months after the University of the Philippines Manila-National Telehealth Center tasked free/open source software (F/OSS) programmer Nathaniel Jayme and Davao-based F/OSS organization DabaweGNU, Inc. to jointly develop FFEHR. This release marks an important milestone as the project now opens its doors for public review.

Seminar OSS Accelerated Adoption (Putrajaya, from May 06, 2008 08:40 AM to May 06, 2008 05:30 PM) — by Khairil Yusof

Seminar OSS Accelerated Adoption, 6 Mei 2008, PICC

Trac — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 08, 2008 06:48 AM

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team's established development process and policies.

Procmail — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 15, 2008 08:46 PM

Procmail can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising your mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone.

Subversion — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 08, 2008 06:40 AM

This book is written to document the 1.5 series of the Subversion version control system. Every attempt to be thorough in our coverage. However, Subversion has a thriving and energetic development community, so there are already a number of features and improvements planned for future versions that may change some of the commands and specific notes in this book.

The Art of Unix Programming — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 08, 2008 06:38 AM

This book has a lot of knowledge in it, but it is mainly about expertise. It is going to try to teach you the things about Unix development that Unix experts know, but aren't aware that they know. It is therefore less about technicalia and more about shared culture than most Unix books — both explicit and implicit culture, both conscious and unconscious traditions. It is not a ‘how-to’ book, it is a ‘why-to’ book.

Zoolhelmy — by Mohd Zoolhelmy Johan — last modified May 08, 2008 06:24 AM

Custom web, portal, software application to suit your requirement. We take pride in clear and frequent communication and serve as a guide for our clients who want a job done but don't have time to learn technical details.

Software Machine Development — by Sumardi Shukor — last modified May 08, 2008 06:23 AM

Software Machine Development has been officially registered with the company commission in 2007 as an effort to expand and gain more credibility in the software industry with the aim to become a full-service, software development company that specializes in helping businesses establish a presence on the internet.

Training.My - Serai Solutions — by Nazrol Hafiz — last modified May 08, 2008 06:23 AM

Serai Solutions registered with MoF and managing few portal such as Training.Org.My / Training.My. We offer training & IT Services. Visit our website at www.serai.org and training portal at www.training.org.my

Ruby on Rails — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 07, 2008 11:47 AM

Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server.

OPEN CREATIVE.SDN.BHD (811151-P) — by Hazrul Tajuddin — last modified May 07, 2008 11:57 AM

We are multimedia creative & information technology company providing training on opensource multimedia creative solutions.

OpenLDAP — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 07, 2008 10:07 AM

OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

Fedora Directory Server — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 07, 2008 10:06 AM

The enterprise-class Open Source LDAP server for Linux. It is hardened by real-world use, is full-featured, supports multi-master replication, and already handles many of the largest LDAP deployments in the world. The Fedora Directory Server can be downloaded for free and set up in less than an hour using the graphical console.

Blender — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 07, 2008 09:34 AM

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

Malaysian Case Studies — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 07, 2008 09:17 AM

Collection of Malaysian case studies

The Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 07, 2008 12:00 AM

This report highlights findings from the Australian Open Source Industry & Community Census surveys, and includes experiences from some of the companies. It provides the information on the make up of the community as well as the size of and contributions of the OSS industry in Australia

Bluetooth and Gnome — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 06, 2008 11:48 PM

A lightning talk on features of Gnome Desktop for working with Bluetooth devices

Gnome Desktop — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 06, 2008 11:47 PM

GNOME offers an easy to understand desktop for your GNU/Linux or UNIX computer.

Free And Open Source Software Licensing Primer — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 06, 2008 09:15 PM

As the FOSS Movement has been growing rapidly in recent years, more and more stakeholders are brought in to participate in different roles. Some of them are end-users, developers, business entities, or government agencies that provide funding for FOSS projects. This e-primer is designed to provide these stakeholders with some basic knowledge about copyright, software copyright and FOSS licenses. Legal issues may vary in different situations and this e-primer may not be able to provide answers to all situations. But, hopefully, it will serve as a bridge between lawyers and non-lawyers in this joint venture of FOSS development.

nslint — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 06, 2008 09:12 PM

nslint is a lint-like program that checks DNS files for errors. DNS or Domain Name System generally maps names to IP addresses and E-mail addresses in a hierarchical fashion. Errors detected include missing trailing dots, illegal characters (RFC 1034), records without matching PTR records and vice-versa, duplicate names in a subnet, duplicate names for an address, names with cname records (RFC 1033), missing quotes, and unknown keywords. It is available as a package on most Linux distributions and FreeBSD

DNS HOWTO — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 06, 2008 09:10 PM

A very good complete tutorial on understanding DNS basics and setting up domain name servers

O.S. Edge Sdn Bhd — by Peter Cheng — last modified May 07, 2008 07:10 PM

Open Source Edge is a provider of open source technology solutions, renowned throughout the industry as a supplier of high quality technical services and skills. Our initial technology focus was based on providing open source technology solutions that helps companies generate competitive values through the managing power of open source technology.

Case Studies — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 07, 2008 09:19 AM

Collection of open source case studies, local and international

Postscript — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 04, 2008 11:48 AM

PostScript (PS) is a page description language and programming language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. It widely used in Linux/Unix systems for printing.

Print Server — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 04, 2008 11:40 AM

Most major open source operating systems come with an enterprise ready print server

LSB — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 04, 2008 11:12 AM

The Linux Standard Base delivers interoperability between applications and the Linux operating system. Currently all major distributions comply with the LSB. The LSB offers a cost-effective way for application vendors to target multiple Linux distributions while building only one software package.

IPP — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 04, 2008 11:02 AM

Internet Printing Protocol

CUPS — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 04, 2008 11:33 AM

CUPS(Common Unix Printing System) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX®-based operating systems. CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues and adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real-world printing.

GNU/Linux Manuals — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 04, 2008 10:57 AM

These manuals are suitable to prepare candidates for the Linux Professional Institute certification program.

E-Maj Ubuntu for Malaysian Edisi Pertama — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 02, 2008 08:43 AM

E-Maj Ubuntu for Malaysian adalah majalah elektronik percuma

Cambodian Education System Changes to Khmer Language Free and Open Source Software — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 01, 2008 12:28 PM

At a massive ceremony that took place on 22 January 2008, the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport presented its new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Textbook for all schools that have computers, all universities and all teacher training facilities.

Migration Guide, second revised edition — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 09, 2008 03:21 PM

A guide to migrating to Open Source the basic software components on server and workstation computers published by the Coordinating and Advisory Agency of the Federal Government for Information Technology in the Federal Administration, Germany

Open Source Migration of the German Surveying and Land Register Administration — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 01, 2008 12:12 PM

The Surveying and Land Register administration of the German Federal state Rhineland-Palatinates (LVermGeo) started to migrate its IT environment towards open source software. At the Linux Tag 2005 in the German city of Karlsruhe, Klaus Thoenissen, Joerg Steffens as well as Ralf Dobberschuetz form LVermGeo presented details of the upcoming open source migration.

Django — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 01, 2008 12:05 PM

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Grok — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 01, 2008 12:04 PM

Grok is a web application framework for Python developers. It is aimed at both beginners and very experienced web developers. Grok has an emphasis on agile development. Grok is easy and powerful.

Zope 3 — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 01, 2008 12:02 PM

Zope 3 or Z3 as it's commonly referred to by developers, is based on a component architecture that makes it easy to mix software components of various origins written in Python.

Python Tutorial — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 01, 2008 11:57 AM

This tutorial introduces the reader informally to the basic concepts and features of the Python language and system. It helps to have a Python interpreter handy for hands-on experience, but all examples are self-contained, so the tutorial can be read off-line as well.

Twisted — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 01, 2008 11:54 AM

Twisted is a networking engine written in Python, supporting numerous protocols. It contains a web server, numerous chat clients, chat servers, mail servers, and more.

Infrastructure — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 01, 2008 11:52 AM

Browse all infrastructure related resources on OSCC Knowledge Bank

Python Programming Language — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 01, 2008 11:41 AM

Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code.

Getting data into and out of an OpenOffice.org Base database — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 01, 2008 11:21 AM