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This article introduces you to GStreamer, a universal multimedia processing library that makes multimedia handling easy. Learn how to use gst-launch, one of the most versatile tools you'll come across. It is for GStreamer what shell is for UNIX. Using it, you can construct even complex multimedia pipelines using simple syntax.

Here is your chance to improve your portal's performance. This article shows you how to create a cleaner overall web portal application architecture, and make your users happier with a mush faster portal by integrating Ajax into your portal application.

This article demonstrates how to add Subversion support to Eclipse and how to perform basic version-control activities from the IDE.

Take a break and have some fun this summer using Perl, ImageMagick, and MPlayer to create mosaic movies. Zoom out from the center of a large text-overlay image made up of sequential frames of existing movies. Disassemble, composite, and encode your own mosaic-type movies for special promotional or home video events.

Copying a live file system can be risky, especially if there are open files. You should also be careful to ensure that you don't accidentally overwrite a partition, or existing files, with the files you are trying to copy. With some careful thought, you can effectively migrate files reliably to take advantage of more space, even on a live system.

This article discuss how code generation works in Ruby, and it delve into a more radical component-based approach in Seaside.

This article looks at how static analysis tools can change the way you manage Java software quality.

This paper talks about using the Dojo toolkit for building enterprise SOA clients for J2EE applications. It also shows you how to use JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)–RPC to invoke the server-side Java objects.

This article shares the concepts behind the Zend Framework, including the Model-View-Controller pattern and the PHP coding standards.

The recently released Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a comprehensive set of APIs and tools that lets you create dynamic Web applications almost entirely in Java code. However, GWT is something of an all-or-nothing approach, targeted at a relatively small niche in Web application development market. This article shows you what GWT can do and will help you decide if its the best tool to use for your web development.

Ruby on Rails is an open source Web framework causing a lot of excitement among Web developers. IBM has recently released a DB2 adapter for Ruby on Rails, now its time to learn how to speed your development of DB2-based Web applications using the Ruby on Rails Web framework.

Several browsers recently completed or announced built-in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support. This tutorial focuses on SVG for Web development, offering step-by-step instruction for Web developers and designers to learn how to use SVG and vector graphics in Web sites.

This list is compiled from a variety of sources and is intended for anyone who wishes to find centralized reading material about Eclipse. One of the biggest challenges new Eclipse users face is where to find the right information for a task. This article provides a small step in solving that problem.

FIT is a general-purpose, open-ended framework that you can easily extend for expressing various sorts of tests. This article shows you how to use FIT in conjunction with Eclipse to solve several problems in software development. It provides a look at what FIT does to solve the problems inherent in software engineering.

Easy to use, powerful and free! That's how MySQL and PostgreSQL are often described. But did you know that DB2 has a version (Express-C) with the same qualities and more? Easy to use, powerful and free, DB2 Express-C is also a professional-grade database. Examine the differences and migrate from MySQL or PostgreSQL in three easy steps.

This article provides a glipse of the future with DVB-H and provides the technical details of preparing for the coming DVB-H boom.

Monitoring your file systems and ensuring they don't fill up is a vital process in the day-to-day management of your UNIX systems. This article looks at methods for keeping an eye on disk space, discovering which files, users, or applications are using up the most space, and how to make use of quotas and other solutions to find the information you need.

In in Part 1 of this series, you'll learn how to use the LDAP Tools for Eclipse to configure Geronimo's built-in Apache Directory LDAP server. In Part 2 you'll query the LDAP server and update the Web page using Ajax. You'll also get familiar with some of the techniques to build LDAP-centric applications using the toolsets available in the Java platform and Ajax.

This article shows you how the Tcl/Tk scripting language offers a simple and elegant way to code GUI widgets with minimal effort.

This article shares the concepts of the next-generation Internet protocol and how we can benefit from it.