Beta Ubuntu 9.10 released
The beta of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is released. Still 24 days (as of today) to go, before the official stable release.
You can help the ubuntu developers by testing the beta release and submit any bugs you find. Download the new release from the ubuntu site
Learning Linux part 6/15: Linux filesystem
In short, the filesystem controls the way how files are organised on the disk.
To describe how this works, I will try to explain some of the process when a file gets accessed.
In order to access a file, the operating system needs the full path of the file.
Learning Linux Part 5/15: Edit & transform textfiles
This part I will try to explain some of the document processing features that linux has. We will cut this part in 3 pieces:
Vim as a PHP editor
Matthew Weier O'phinney has posted a great article about using vim as your php editor. Adding mappings to run the file through php linter helps you finding any (syntax)errors while you're working in vim.
Also a project plugin is explained in this article.