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Article Information: Category: Ham Radio; Published on Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:49; Written by David L Norris

A good variety of tools will serve you well. The proper tools can make or break a project.

Ideally, you will need a few different types of tools. You can never have too many tools.

Tools The key is organizing these tools so you can remember you have them, see immediately if a tool is misplaced and find the correct tool instantly. The time you spend trying to use the wrong tool or trying to find a misplaced tool is time wasted. At best, its distracting. At worst you can damage something.

Article Information: Category: Joomla; Published on Monday, 08 August 2011 23:33; Written by David L Norris

Amazon has this nifty caching service called CloudFront. As the name implies, if puts the cloud in front of your web services. Sounds awesome, no? Well it is.

One way of using CloudFront is to position it in front of an Apache HTTPD server hosted at your data center of choice. Amazon calls this "download" mode. This is the method we will discuss. This is useful for accelerating static content on an existing website.

The other method pairs CloudFront with an Amazon S3 instance. Amazon calls this "streaming". This is useful for streaming never-changing data such as videos and other content securely.

Article Information: Category: Ham Radio; Published on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:56; Written by David L Norris

Ham Radio has always been about building your own equipment. Now, sure, you can study, get a license and go buy almost anything you need. But historically that has not been the case. When I was younger pretty much everyone had built a Heath Kit or Conar or some other piece of gear at one point or another and almost everyone had built their own antennas. This is a very valuable learning experience and I strongly encourage everyone, ham or not, to build something of their own.

Article Information: Category: Bizarre Bazaar; Published on Sunday, 17 July 2011 01:39; Written by David L Norris

Article Information: Category: Web Development; Published on Sunday, 03 July 2011 16:12; Written by David L Norris

Apache's mod_autoindex is really rather boring on the surface. However I will show you there is quite a lot you can do with it given a little understanding of how it functions. If you need a file listing this is an excellent means to accomplish that goal. You can wrap the auto-generated output with simple HTML, PHP, Perl or any other file type Apache can process.

In our case, we aren't going to generate anything using PHP or SSI or any other server-side mechanisms. We are going to create a custom header and footer which wraps the basic unordered list output format with CSS and jQuery calls. We will create the .htaccess file and other supporting files at the root of a /images folder on our server; in my case this is a Joomla installation's uploaded images folder. I just want a quick and dirty means for authors to browse images uploaded into certain folders of this system.

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