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In this article we learn to create a mashup with Ruby on Rails on a number of mapping and geocoding providers including Yahoo, Google, geocoder. us, geocoder.ca, and hostip.info. We learn to create a mashup that gives us a map of the closest kiosks to a particular location, given an existing database of kiosks that have location addresses. This is just an introduction to the synergistic value that mashups bring to the table, creating value that was not available in individual APIs. When they are all put together, you have a useful feature for your website.

GParted is an excellent GNOME program for editing partitions, changing file-systems, and performing related disk tasks. However, GParted is not exactly the ideal program for new Linux users to familiarize themselves with if all they want to do is format a USB drive or external storage device. Fortunately, a new GNOME utility has come about that supersedes GFloppy and is designed to be a simple yet powerful disk formatting utility. In this article we are taking an introductory look at GNOME Format.

Linux is old news folks. Red Hat's JBoss middleware business is growing twice as fast as the company's Linux infrastructure business, The VAR Guy has learned.

miniInvoices is a part of the Writer’s Tools package for OpenOffice.org tailored to professional writers.

I have been using Joomla! for more than four years now and build tens of web portals and minor sites with it. Nevertheless, I'm still amazed by the complexity of the CMS. With all the pluses Joomla! gets, there's however a big downside to it: the more third party modules and components you install, the more vulnerable it gets and the more time you have to spend checking it. The Joomla! Web Security book that Packt Publishing released at the end of 2008 came in handy. It discusses the vulnerability and security part of Joomla! and teaches you how to ensure a solid CMS installation.

eBay subsidiary Skype is beta-testing a "Moblin" version of its proprietary VoIP softphone. Skype 1.0 Beta for Intel-based MIDs (mobile Internet devices) is claimed to offer excellent, free video calling, thanks to the high-performance processors and high-bandwidth 3G/4G/WiMAX wireless networking capabilities MIDs are expected to have.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Thursday, January 8, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 43. In today's news, Apple gets it, a bit, Fedora is nameless, a review that isn't, Abiword gets some, the iceberg issue, convert them with these, pirates with law degrees, and the end of OLPC as you knew it.

Pop the hood on our new Web site and you’ll find one very powerful engine. It’s called Drupal, a free, open-source platform that powers all of our content entry. As many healthcare IT workers know, the value of open-source solutions isn't just the (lack of) price tag: it's the fact that the products are user-developed, community-tested and constantly improved. After an exhaustive evaluation process, the open-source model was the only solution that met our needs for a fast-paced, ever-adapting content management system (CMS).

After learning jQuery, I've had a lot more fun programming in the JavaScript language. All the boring stuff is taken care of, so I can focus on coding the juicy stuff.

Free VoIP platform software FreeSWITCH is now in version 1.0.2. Enhancements include a fax module and new codecs for higher sampling rates.

LXer Feature: 09-Jan-2009

A review of my time walking around the largest technology exposition on the planet and how I barely avoided an epic fail at finding something FOSS related to write about.

References may belong in an encyclopedia, but what purpose do they serve in Perl?

In 1976 one man changed the face of text editors. That man is Bill Joy who developed vi for BSD UNIX.

We’ve been brought up with many different variations of this popular function. Some books/teachers like to write it as “int main”, some write it as “void main” and then there are some who make do with just “main”, forgoing the return type altogether. So, which one out of them is correct? Or does it even make a difference?

This article describes how you can shrink and grow existing software RAID1 partitions with LVM on top. I have tested this with logical volumes that use ext3 as the file system. I will describe this procedure for an intact RAID array and also a degraded RAID array.

Vietnamese ministry servers are to run exclusively on open source software in 2009 and the government is also urging dealers to install the free software.

This article covers the creation of custom RAD JSF components such as menus, rich text editors, file uploads, and calendars: functionality that users expect. See how to design modern Web applications using Rational Application Developer (RAD), that provide your users with a richer experience with more complex components than what the JSF specification provides. This article covers the creation of custom RAD JSF components such as menus, rich text editors, file uploads, and calendars: functionality that users expect.

Cisco is holding a contest for Linux developers as a way to familiarize them with its Network as a Platform concept. The goal is to generate applications to run on Cisco's Application Extension Platform and to create a Linux developer network.

The December holidays always hold some interesting surprises for me, and this year's season was no exception. However, in this context "interesting" can mean either "utterly engaging fascination" or "coma-inducing exasperation". This holiday season I got plenty of both.

Matt Hartley offers up some helpful tips, tools, and strategy to aid in migrating from Windows to Linux without making a big mess. Security, basic system management, and thinking like a Linux user instead of a Windows user are foundational steps to get started.

[Lookout people, its a Matt Hartley story.. - Scott]