The pedigree of PostgreSQL
When commentators talk about PostgreSQL, it is often in the same breath as MySQL, or MariaDB, or SQLite. They are open source databases, with no licence costs, and popular with developers. Got it. But …
Infinite Scale: ownCloud on steroids
ownCloud is a well-known suite of open source collaboration software that provides similar functionality to DropBox, Google Docs, or Microsoft OneDrive. A new version called ownCloud Infinite Scale …
Jazz up your terminal prompt with Z shell and Prezto
Working with containers and virtual machines means that you spend most of your time on the command line. The default Bash shell in Linux does the job, and it's always available on any Linux box, but …
Containers are not lightweight VMs
How often have you read that Docker containers are like lightweight virtual machines? But are they really? Sure, containers virtualise computing resources, but treating them like lightweight virtual …
Nextcloud on RHEL 8 / Centos 8
If you don't like the idea of storing your personal or corporate data on a public cloud, and if you have your own hardware and technical skills, consider deploying Nextcloud, a software suite written …
GitHub Pages, Jekyll and Centos 7
I have been digging into GitHub Pages as an alternative blogging platform in case Blogger follows Google+ to the Great Big BitBucket in the Sky. I looked into WordPress as an alternative to Blogger …
iDempiere and Buckminster: building a web-based OSGi application
iDempiere is an open source, web-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that has been built with tools from the Java world. Instead of using a build automation tool like Maven or Gradle, the …