WebApp: Links

It is traditional to link to other projects from your project's site, and who are we to buck tradition?

OpenBSD: The Good Fight

Every hacker should be aware of the OpenBSD project, their aims, their operating system, and their way of doing things. I do all of my development under OpenBSD. Highly recommended.

QEmu: Not VMWare, but Pretty Damn Close

Of course, I do have to test under other operating systems occasionally. For that, I generally use QEmu, which is in the OpenBSD ports collection.

SpeedyCGI: An alternative to mod_perl

I don't much like the idea of mod_perl. The SpeedyCGI project (also known as PersistentPerl) has a better approach, and one that I've seen used and worked with in high-performance situations like search engines. Very cool stuff. You might also be interested in FastCGI, which is much the same idea, but with not quite as nice an integration for Perl (FastCGI came first, though).

PostgreSQL: An Open-Source RDBMS for Adults

I have been using PostgreSQL since the days when it was just called Postgres, and lacked SQL support. I have always been impressed by the quality of this software, and appreciate the group's do-it-right attitude. If you need a good, high-performance, flexible RDBMS, consider using PostgreSQL.

Firefox, The Platform

The Mozilla Project has produced some of the world's best software, including Firefox. If you have not yet tried it, it's time you did. It's free, easy to install, and much, much better than Internet Explorer.

BizIntegrators.com: Clueful OpenBSD-based Hosting

My server is hosted at BizIntegrators.com, and I can't speak highly enough of them. They are OpenBSD-aware, clueful, responsive, and affordable. They do Windows and MacOSX-based hosting as well.

Alternet, InterPress, IndyMedia: News

I feel compelled to include a couple non-technical links, things being what they are.

I highly recommend AlterNet and InterPress News as sources of news online. You would also be well advised to check out IndyMedia, an open, online experiment in journalistic collaboration, on both global and local levels.

If you read Google News, consider my RSS Goggles script, which dumps out HTML based on Google's RSS feed that is free of redirects back to Google's servers. They can track what stories you read in a centralized manner using their redirection techniques, you know.

Fin.