Progammers Notes on Web Design

by WanderingTechy March 8, 2010

I am starting work on a new website and using Zend Framework (as previously mentioned).  One of the most demoralising things when coding is not seeing the finished results of your work for weeks/months.

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Popular Science puts its entire 130 Year archive on the internet for free

by WanderingTechy March 7, 2010

Wow,  now that’s a nice gift to the users of the internet

http://www.popsci.com/archives

Quick Tips – Keeping your software secure on windows

by WanderingTechy March 7, 2010

Secunia offer a free personal edition of their PSI software.  This software checks all the software on your computer and checks that you have the latest patched version installed.
This saves you going through each program to see if there is an update for it.  It is not a virus scanner or security product but it does centralise the task of keeping your software up to date.

Quick Tips – Killing Zombie Processes

by WanderingTechy March 6, 2010

This will be a regular feature (I hope). Quick tips are brief descriptions of a common problem and a solution.

The first is how to kill zombie processes.
A zombie process is a child process that has died without the parent’s knowledge or acknowledgement.

To kill it send a signal SIGCHLD to the parent process.
kill -SIGCHLD processID

If this fails you will need to kill the parent process directly.

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