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July 2, 2002

ant articles

Two recent articles from IBM about the Java build tool Ant: Automating the build and test process and Chapter 5 of the book Java Tools for Extreme Programming.

Posted by Brian at 2:35 PM |

square USA

Here's a nice geek-heavy article about how Square USA (the digital effects company behind Final Fantasy) built a production system in LISP on top of an Object-Oriented Database System.

Posted by Brian at 1:00 PM |

securing BIND

Great article on running the BIND 9 name server securely. It discusses how to setup a chroot'ed server on Solaris, and how to setup some of the crypto features of the server.

Posted by Brian at 12:57 PM |

cisco faq

The FAQ for the Usenet group comp.dcom.sys.cisco has a metric ton of useful information for network engineers.

Posted by Brian at 12:54 PM |

Project DOTU

Project DOTU is a web site listing undocumented commands in the Cisco IOS operating system. Some of the commands aren't all that useful (unless you're a Cisco software engineer), but some I can see coming in very handy.

Posted by Brian at 12:53 PM |

ipod

Interesting article from Electronics Design Chain Magazine on the history of the Apple iPod MP3 player, and the process by which it was designed and built. I really, *really* want one, but there's no way I can afford it any time soon.

Posted by Brian at 12:52 PM |