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Setting up a development environment for a web application can seem simple—just use SQLite and WEBrick or a similar development server—but taking shortcuts can quickly lead to problems. What happens when you need to onboard new team members? What if your team members are geographically distributed? How do you prevent bugs from creeping in when the production environment's configuration drifts away from the development environment?

Dot Categories: DeveloperIn this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

In the week ending 26 January - Mozilla releases an update to Firefox 18, Vert.x heads to the Eclipse Foundation, Wikipedia moves to new servers, a controversial study surfaces, features coming in Linux 3.8 and Mega's security analysed

Github rolled out a new search tool today making it easier to not just discover new projects, but code within projects. Think Google Code search (when it was alive, but better)...there is no shortage of embedded private SSH keys and passwords that can easily be found.

Want to become a Linux expert? Your first decision is expert in what? Kernel development, application programming, multimedia production, productivity, enterprise apps, system and network administration, embedded, mainframe...what? There are hundreds of options.

There are a lot of good old Linux commands to see what's happening inside your system, with all the power and flexibility you need to zero in on just the information you want. Want to see who is sucking up the most resources on your computer? You can use the good old ps command. This example lists the top 7 hogs, excluding your own processes:

A very common pattern in an Android activity is showing a list of items for the user to select from. The Android API provides the ListView and ListActivity classes to help out with this. Carrying on with the Countdown app from previous tutorials, we'll list a few sample countdown times for the user to select from to set the timer.

Google blacklisted the entire iSocket ad network because their mighty cadre of malware scanners thought they detected some Badware. That's what Google calls it, Badware. Like weird parents who try to control their kids with scary stories: "The Badware's gonna GET you if you DON'T watch OUT." Or your crazy auntie (me) running around singing "Nananananananana BADWARE."

Not directly FOSS related but of interest to our readers I believe - Scott

The Consumer Electronics Show may have faded from its former glory, but it still offers a remarkable snapshot in time of embedded CE technology. The big smartphone vendors largely took a pass on CES, but plenty of second-tier vendors and Kickstarter projects were on hand with compelling offerings. Although many products floated here will never even reach market -- often, what happens in Vegas does indeed stay in Vegas -- a few may change your life.

There is more interest in Linux than ever, and it's not always obvious to new users where to get started. Using Linux is just like using Mac or Windows-- with a pointy-clicky graphical interface. No big deal there, and Linux supplies the added bonus of an extremely powerful command-line interface, which is far more sophisticated and capable than the CLI in Max OS X and Microsoft Windows. You don't have to use it, it's there for anyone who wants it, and it isn't a big deal to learn it.

For years, Jeremy Allison has been one of the better known names in free software development. The lead developer of Samba's implementation of the SMB file server protocol, he is also generally credited as the project's co-creator. True, he jokes that description means that "Tridg [Andrew Tridgell] did all the hard bits, but I was there," and claims not to be current with all aspects of the project -- yet, all the same, few have more of an overview of Samba. Recently, Allison took time to give his personal view of the challenges involved in the recent Samba 4.0 release, and of the directions in which Samba might be heading next.

Prior to the start of 2013, it seems fair to say that there hadn't been too many major shakeups in the world of mobile operating systems.

In 1998, Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. The lecture he gave, titled "The Possibility of Social Choice," succinctly captured both the subject of his work (generalizing economic theory to cover social groups of disparate actors rather than just individuals or corporations) and his irrepressible sense of humor (because the generalization applied to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem). Sen's crucial insight (for me) is this (emphasis mine):

A joint statement from Red Hat and VMware sets out to allay fears over the future of the vert.x project. Options such as forking or moving to a foundation are still on the table as discussions continue

A hackable new Linux robot will be ready to roll late this summer, not to mention walk, crawl, and slither. The Lego Mindstorms EV3 is the first major revamp of the Lego Group's programmable robot kit since 2006, and the first to run embedded Linux.

Affecting the latest Linux kernel release, Linux 3.7, are "multiple apparently unrelated network performance issues." The major network performance problems were reported by a well-known Linux kernel developer...

Valve has released their December Steam statistics that show initial data on Linux client usage...

Here's some information about the C++11 usage within the recently released Qt 5.0 tool-kit...

In the week ending 5 January - News from the 29C3 conference, Ubuntu for phones, Awesome 3.5, Samsung readying a Tizen smartphone, and Nouveau support for GeForce chipsets

Everyone has a cell phone these days. Out here in my little corner of the world, in a county that competes with the neighboring county for the poorest in the state, everyone can somehow afford smartphones with generous data plans. I have no idea what people's eye colors are anymore, or if they even have eyes, because all I see are the tops of their heads as they are bent over their tiny screens. This stuff is not cheap-- I don't know anyone whose monthly bite is under a hundred dollars. Which is why I have a cheapo TracFone, because I refuse to pay that much. Plus I like hoarding minutes, so I turn it off. I don't have to be in constant contact with my eleventeen bestest friends at all times.