Articles tagged ‘opensource’

Zmanda brings its robust, well integrated database backup and recovery package to one of the most popular Linux distributions with its latest product release of Zmanda Recovery Manager version 3.0 for MySQL on Ubuntu.

In this how-to, we will step through the process of setting up a Ruby on Rails development environment on Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 Beta.

Over the past decade open source software has become popular with technology users in India. The benefits of open source - affordability, availability of source code and freedom of choice - have made open source a preferred platform for many innovative Indian organizations and individuals who want to harness the power of high quality software which can be freely adapted to their own requirements.

Import HTML content into WordPress using the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) with open source tools like Lynx, awk, Hpricot, and Ruby.

This article demonstrates how to write a web application for the iPhone to perform a single activity and control its operational parameters. It demonstrates how to communicate to a web service that periodically provides message updates.

A short Ruby program to demonstrate building a stack (LIFO) using two pipe (FIFO) structures.

rename.rb renames multiple files like the popular Perl command found in many modern Linux distributions.

An easy-to-use yet comprehensive backup and recovery solution for MySQL databases is at the top of every DBA’s wishlist. In this review, we take a look at Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL, an open source data protection solution. ZRM simplifies MySQL data backup and recovery with a web-based management console and open data formats.

In email interviews with Chander Kant, CEO and cofounder of Zmanda, and Paddy Sreenivasan, VP of Engineering and cofounder of Zmanda, Alolita Sharma discussed all things ZRM, open-source backup and growing an Open Source community.

In this article we’ll focus on one of the most popular cloud computing solutions today, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and walk through the development of an open source mashup for EC2.