Computerworld have set up a dedicated blogging area on their site at Computerworld blogs
There are a few of us there; all dedicated to blogging on different news stories in a range of different areas and topics. You can read my blog at the dedicated Martin MC Brown Computerworld blog.
Alternatively, you can subscribe to my dedicated RSS feed.
You can see that we’ve been populated it over the last week or so; there are already blog posts from me, and others, about a variety of topics.
Please feel free to read and either comment there, or here and let me know how I’m getting on.
In the last LinuxWorld article I wrote for the magazine I talked about FOSS anniversaries, mostly because a number of important projects turned into double figures, and yet most people let it pass them by.
Talk to young programmers and developers today and you’d be fooled into thinking that free/open source software (FOSS) was a relatively new invention. Those crusty old folk among us (myself included, born in that prehistoric era of the early ’70s) know that it goes back a little further than that.
Many of us become dewy-eyed about our memories of Linux when it first came out - or the first Red Hat release. In fact, many of the FOSS projects that we take for granted today are a heck of a lot of older than people realize.
And my final request:
To try and redress the balance I’m starting a FOSS anniversaries project. Initially it’s going to be held on my personal blog at http://mcslp.com - click on the FOSS Anniversaries link to go to the page. If I get enough interest, I’ll consider improving on it and moving it elsewhere. Until then, if you’ve got some additions or corrections, use the contact form to let me know.
Here is the FOSS Anniversaries page, which is on this site. If you want me to update anything, use the Contact page.
My new piece on how to track user sessions on your website with Apache is available on ServerWatch.com. Here’s an excerpt:
Using HTTP logs to track the users who visit your site isn’t always as useful as you think it’s going to be. While metrics, like the total number of page hits and, within that, page hits over time or from a specific IP address, easily identify, they don’t always tell how people are viewing your site or answer specific questions the marketing department may pose.
This article looks at how to track progress through a site using an Apache module and provides answers to some of the more complex marketing-led questions that may be posed.