OpenOffice is the best cross-platform office productivity suite, but it misses a few popular features like a clipart gallery, Google Docs integration, PDF import, and more than basic templates. But they're out there if you know where to look, and Eric Geier shows the way.
<b>Linux User and Developer:</b> "However, it is my impression that many people, including some Ubuntu users, do not know how the distribution is made. Most are familiar with the principle that Ubuntu is largely based upon the Debian distribution, but not a great deal beyond this."
<b>IT Wire:</b> "For the first time in its 16-year history, the Debian GNU/Linux project has a woman in the running to become leader of the project when voting for the post takes place between April 2 and April 15."
The fine people at Canonical are experts at keeping Ubuntu in the news, and keeping a lot of buzz going. That is a good thing; still, there is a whole world outside of Canonical, so here are some of my favorite Linuxes.
<b>Software Engineering with FOSS and Linux:</b> "It is often the case that an sftp transfer gets interrupted for one reason or another, resulting to partially transferred files. This can be annoying, especially in the case of large file transfers."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "Back in March we talked about the possible X.Org projects this year during Google's Summer of Code, for which X.Org is a veteran participant (in the past items like the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver and generic GPU video decoding have been tackled), but the list of accepted projects for this summer have now been announced."
Linux and open source rule the wireless hotspot world, and Eric Geier has rounded up five excellent, feature-packed open source wireless hotspots for us.
Information is gold and cyber villains are getting more aggressive in their attempts to steal it. Data theft requires new ways of thinking, says Symantec CEO Enrique Salem at RSA.
<b>eSecurityPlanet:</b> "Botnets cranked out more spam and larger individual files containing spam in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest report from Postini, Google's e-mail filtering and security service."
Despite improved security software applications and greater consumer awareness, Google's Postini said total spam volume increased six percent in the first quarter of 2010.
<b>TuxRadar:</b> "Do you want to remove bloat from your Linux installation? Are you looking to enable extra features that aren't provided by your distro? Fancy trying some of the cutting-edge patches doing the rounds? You'll need to recompile your kernel, and while it might look like black magic if you've never done it before, it's actually pretty straightforward."
Mixing .NET and Java technologies with web services is often easy, but for many tasks web services are not the solution for Java/.NET interoperability.
Mixing .NET and Java technologies with web services is often easy, but for many tasks web services are not the solution for Java/.NET interoperability.
I'm just starting out with Zend Framework and am having issues using Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addPath() to add helpers. I'm not sure if my classes are named incorrectly, I'm giving it the wrong prefix, or what I'm doing wrong so I will post the code and file structure and get out of the way.
In Bootstrap.php
public function __construct($application)
{
...
// This works with a manual include_once('../application/plugins/helpers/Csrf.php');
//Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper(new Application_Controller_Action_Helper_Csrf());
// This isn't picking up my helper class automagically
Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addPath('../application/plugins/helpers','Application_Controller_Action_Helper');
...
}
In application/plugins/helpers/Csrf.php
class Application_Controller_Action_Helper_Csrf extends Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Abstract
{
...
}
My directory tree:
/
application/
...
plugins/
helpers/
Csrf.php
CsrfProtect.php
...
With Microsoft and Google already having already released fixes for critical security bugs this week, Adobe is getting ready to join the party as it readies an important patch for its Adobe Flash Player software.