10 PuTTy Commands Worth Memorising
PuTTY is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client.
The ...
The Philosophy Behind Open Source Software [3 Pillars]
I’m currently in the middle of reading the The Facebook Story by Sarah Lacy (a highly recommended book btw) and came across this quote on Open Source Software (OSS):
“Call ...
Google’s Open Social Platform
Google has announced the launch of the “Open Social” application initaitive which will allow developers to write application that can work across various social networking ...
Wikinomics and the Wiki Economy
Heading to work today I was reading the Metro newspaper “aka the London Bible” and in it I read an article entitled Wikinomics.
Back at home this eveing I Googled Wikinomics ...
Google Joins the OIN Ranks
Google has today joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), a patent-sharing organization founded to create a legally protected environment for anyone who works with Linux.
The basic ...
Jimbo’s Wikia Takes on Google
A few months ago I wrote about building my very own Google using the open source software that is Nutch.
I actually did it but had to remove it from my server because the crawling ...
Word Press Title Tag Optimization
Here a quick tip to help you optimise your Word Press title tag so that it becomes more search engine friendly.
Login to your site using your favourite ftp application.
Open the ...
Google’s Open Source OCR
OCR -Optical character recognition- is a type of software designed to translate images of handwritten or typewritten text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text. OCR ...
Nutch Search Engine Finally Working!
If you recall a few weeks back I posted about building your own google, well I finally did it, my very own google search engine is finally up and running.
Building your own Google
I’ve recently (two days ago) started experimenting with building my own search engine. The inspiration came from my experimenting with Google’s Co-op Custom Search Engine ...
