June 2002

CrossOver Office

Marcel Gagné

Linux-loving Marcel shares his experience with CrossOver Office, a product designed to tackle the number one reason why users say they can't switch to Linux: MS Office apps.

Certification Scope: A First Look at CIW Certifications

Emmett Dulaney

Emmett provides an overview of the Certified Internet Webmaster program and the types of certification that are available through this series.

Zope Book Roundup

Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier

Zonker checks out offerings from No Starch Press and New Riders to see who's got the dope on Zope.

Tool of the Month: MySQL Backup

Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier

Backing up data stored on a MySQL database isn't too hard using mysqldump, but I'm always looking for ways to make my life easier. So, when I stumbled upon MySQL Backup, I decided to give it a try.

Shell Corner: Processing the Oracle Alert File

Ed Schaefer

Ed presents a Korn shell script called checkAlertLog.ksh, which processes errors from the Oracle Alert File and emails a report to the appropriate user. Congratulations to Naresh Puri on this winning script submission.

Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition

Emmett Dulaney

The latest edition of Web Performance Tuning features significant updates and expanded content. Read Emmett's review to find out if the new edition is truly brilliant, just OK, or something less.

Regular Expressions: PHP Handy off the Web, Too

Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz

Essential Checkpoint Firewall-1

Ben Rothke

Visual SlickEdit 7.0 for Linux

Emmett Dulaney

Emmett Dulaney gives two thumb-ups for Visual SlickEdit 5.0 -- a cross-platform programming editor with enterprise-wide support for multiple programming languages.

The Open Road: Working with LaTeX

Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier

Zonker provides an overview of LaTeX and what you need to get started using it.

OpenSSL: The Cryptography Lego(TM) Set

Anne Carasik

Web Services Essentials

Jeff W. Durham