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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Assigning DNS Names to Create a Domain Hierarchy

Assigning DNS Names to Create a Domain Hierarchy: "Because DNS is the predominant name system on the Internet, DNS names are globally recognized and have well-known registration authorities. Active Directory clients requesting to log on to the network query DNS to locate domain controllers.

In Windows NT 4.0, the domain locator was based on the network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) Name System (NBNS), and domains were identified with NetBIOS names The server-based component of NBNS is called the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) server. NetBIOS names are simple, single-part names, and the NetBIOS namespace cannot be partitioned. In contrast, DNS names are hierarchical, and the DNS namespace can be partitioned along the lines of the hierarchy."

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DNS explained - The Domain Name Servers by Indichosts.net

DNS explained - The Domain Name Servers by Indichosts.net: "Here is another example:
A friend or associate of yours can somehow see your new website and you can not. This is most likely because his ISP's DNS servers are able to get the information at that time, where your ISP's DNS servers can not. Huh?!?

Here is yet another example:
What if you inadvertently provide the wrong nameserver information to your registrar such as entering one DNS server correctly but the other wrong? In this case, you would have experienced these problems right up to and well beyond the 72 hour propagation period. You'll have to update that information again and wait another 72 hours. Ouch!

Here is a neat one:
You are transferring your hosting to a new WHP. During propagation you are working on development of some pages in your website. But you notice that when trying to view your most recent changes, they appear and then vanish or they don't appear at all."

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DNS explained - The Domain Name Servers by Indichosts.net

DNS explained - The Domain Name Servers by Indichosts.net: "Contents of a DNS record:

Domain Name

Your actual domain name

'A' Record

Indicates which DNS server is the authority

'MX' Record

The mail server that accepts mail for your domain

Time-to-Live

DNS record expiration (in minutes)

For the purposes of this article we will focus on the domain name, the ‘A' record (or your WHP's DNS servers).

6. The Propagation Process

As we said before, your domain registrar is the one responsible for publishing your domain name at the root DNS level. When it is published it is placed into a directory that is broadcast out to primary DNS servers around the world. The primary DNS servers broadcast out to secondary DNS servers and so on and so forth."

Somebody Please Tell Me How To Set Up a Few Name Servers?

Could the true secret lie, in the dedicated IP????

He quietly asked to no one in particular.....

DNS explained - The Domain Name Servers by Indichosts.net

DNS explained - The Domain Name Servers by Indichosts.net: "DNS

DNS is a software program that runs on a dedicated computer known as a DNS server. DNS serves two primary functions:

1) To translate domain names into IP addresses.

It's much easier to remember a domain like mydomain.com than a sixteen digit number like 192.168.100.1. DNS servers make translating or "Resolving" this information fast and seamless. When your computer needs to know the IP address for yourdomain.com it asks a DNS server (usually the one provided by your ISP.)"

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Editor's Note: Unraveling the murky regions of DNS for those who need to need to know.

Getting Better!!!


Give me a few real strong name-servers, and I'll show you an internet- that works!!!

Setting Up Your Own DNS (Kessler)

Setting Up Your Own DNS (Kessler): " directory where the DNS program files reside. The remaining records each contain three fields which describe a DNS database file: the type of DNS information, the domain defined in the file, and the filename. There are six records that refer to DNS databases for which this DNS server has primary responsibility. The six domains defined here are:

foo.com: The DNS entries for the foo.com zone, which are in the file foo.com.zone.
210.168.192.in-addr.arpa: The foo.com domain is associated with the IP Class C address 192.168.210.0 (a valid IP address for use in a private network per RFC 1918). Reverse lookups (i.e., obtaining the host name from an IP address) are accomplished with a reverse database file. The name of the domain is the reverse dotted decimal notation of the domain's IP address, followed by in-addr.arpa, an indication of the use of IP addresses within the ARPA address assignment domain. "

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Editor's Note: TMI.... Please!!!

What geeks need to tell our parents about shopping online safely and securely - Scott Hanselman

What geeks need to tell our parents about shopping online safely and securely - Scott Hanselman: "t's easier to remember "amazon.com" than it is to remember a number like 194.105.56.3. An address is a convenience.

However, do you trust the Yellow Pages? One day a book showed up on your doorstep, you reference it and it tells you where stuff is. What if an evil-doer dropped pretend Yellow Page books on everyone's doorstep and folks who wanted to go to the store were sent somewhere evil? Hopefully at some point you'd "feel wrong" about the directions you were given and you'd question yourself.

For the most part, you're usually OK, but if you ever type an address and go somewhere that feels wrong, ask someone. There are toolbars and weird little evil bits of software (called malware or adware or spyware) that can "hijack" your browser."

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Monday, July 2, 2012

Lean Startups Are Like Science - Blog Articles - LessEverything

Lean Startups Are Like Science - Blog Articles - LessEverything: "Lean Startups Are Like Science
written by Tim on June 13, 2012
We work with a lot of startups, and most of them these days aim to be a "lean startup". The only problem is that folks always seem to misunderstand what a lean startup is or how to apply the techniques. Ultimately, a lean startup is no different from any other business. You need to find a balance between sales, marketing, bookkeeping, customer development and building your product. The right balance depends on your product, your personality and your staff.

If you're spending all of your time building your product, you're likely ignoring what your customers have to say. You're probably building exactly what they don't need, resulting wasted effort and missed revenue."

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LessEverything - Ruby on Rails Developers & Designers

LessEverything - Ruby on Rails Developers & Designers: "Things We Dislike...
Internet nerd jargon.
Enterprisey programming languages (Java).
Dieting...less everything except food.
Bad web browsers.
Things We Love...
Our families.
Clean Usability & Design.
Less code with Ruby on Rails.
Mr. T & the rest of the A-Team.
Things We Believe...
Success isn't guaranteed.
Make time for your family.
Be yourself. Be saintly. Be love.
Always make an effort to empathize."

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Download -- Free Open Source Social Network -- Lovd by Less

Download -- Free Open Source Social Network -- Lovd by Less: "Skip step 5.
Now setup global variable (site name and url and stuff) (steps 6-13) and change the (r)html and css to suit your taste.
In dev mode, search (steps 14-16) should work right out of the box (assuming you install the gems). The search instructions are really for a production environment.
Start lovd with the typical "./script/server" and point your browser to "http://localhost:3000".
Still confused or have some suggestions? Visit the Lovd Google Group."

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Download -- Free Open Source Social Network -- Lovd by Less

Download -- Free Open Source Social Network -- Lovd by Less: "Lovd runs on Ruby on Rails, so first you need to get rails running. Go download rails and follow it's instructions to get rails running.
Now download Lovd and unzip it.
The directions in the README file assume some knowledge of rails, but I'll go through it a bit here.
The first thing to do is install the ruby gems that are required. For each gem listed in the README, at the command line, do something like "gem install [gem name]" or "sudo gem install [gem name]".
The next thing to do is set up your database (steps 1-4 in the README). Lovd is setup to use MySQL by default, so just follow the instructions in the README and configure the files for your computer."

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Download -- Free Open Source Social Network -- Lovd by Less

Download -- Free Open Source Social Network -- Lovd by Less: "Lovd runs on Ruby on Rails, so first you need to get rails running. Go download rails and follow it's instructions to get rails running.
Now download Lovd and unzip it.
The directions in the README file assume some knowledge of rails, but I'll go through it a bit here.
The first thing to do is install the ruby gems that are required. For each gem listed in the README, at the command line, do something like "gem install [gem name]" or "sudo gem install [gem name]".
The next thing to do is set up your database (steps 1-4 in the README). Lovd is setup to use MySQL by default, so just follow the instructions in the README and configure the files for your computer."

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GPS | MakeUseOf Directory

GPS | MakeUseOf Directory: "very one of us has done this. We parked our car in a big parking lot or ramp and then completely forgot where it was. To save yourself from the pain of searching for your own car, here is a little tool called CarParkingPlace. Once you open this web app on your mobile phone’s browser"

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MakeUseOf Directory

MakeUseOf Directory: "Mobile Apps
Android Apps (238)Ask Questions (6)Buy / Sell (38)Carrier Related (15)conference (6)"

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The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software

The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software: "Lovd by Less is among the first and only few open-source social networking platforms built on Ruby on Rails. Some features of Lovd by Less include blogs, photo gallery with captions, site search for friends, activity update and user-to-user messaging. Other things that are built into the software include Flickr and YouTube integration.
One thing good about Lovd by Less is that it is easy to use and contains most of the applications that you need. For those who prefer Ruby on Rail rather than php,"

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The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software

The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software: "Mahara is designed as a platform to allow its users to demonstrate their life-long learning, skills and development to selected audiences. With Mahara, you can create an e-Portfolio platform and set up an online learner community. Features in the software include blogs, a resume builder, a file manager, institutions detail and the social networking aspect where you can add and maintain your list of friends."

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The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software

The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software: "Overall, Elgg is a powerful software that offers blog, networking, community, collection of news using feeds aggregation and file sharing features. In fact, it is one of the most versatile pieces of software that offers almost everything you need to start a social networking site.
Elgg operates on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql and Php) environment and it is easy to install and configure. With a little php knowledge, you can get your social networking site up and running in no time."

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The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software

The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software: "Previously, Abhijeet has highlighted three awesome sites where you can create your own social network easily. However, if you are one of those who wants more control of the site, including the branding, the domain name, the features, the design, the community rule, or even the database, the best way is to install and run a social networking software on your server.
While there are plenty of scripts (both free and paid) that you can use to run your own social network, there are only a few that are stable, good and easy to use."

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IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org

IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org: "Again, with lots of forum support and a copy of Pro Drupal Development, we dove right in. Our search is accomplished by using Drupals Form and Database API's to run queries on user profile fields. In hindsight using Views exposed filters would have worked great here, but our experience with this powerful module was limited, and so we built a custom module to suit our purposes. Several more custom modules were created during this time as well (see list below for details)."

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IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org

IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org: "his turned out to be a great place to begin climbing the Drupal learning-curve. In focusing on the theme, Drupalisms like node, module, and theme hooks began to make more sense. When we were done theming we had a heavily customized user-profile.tpl.php (for parent profiles), and a decent working knowledge of how all the parts of a Drupal site come together. If we could go back, we would use the Content Profile module instead of core profile. On a site focused on profiles like ours, the work would have been greatly simplified if profiles were nodes."

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IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org

IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org: "his turned out to be a great place to begin climbing the Drupal learning-curve. In focusing on the theme, Drupalisms like node, module, and theme hooks began to make more sense. When we were done theming we had a heavily customized user-profile.tpl.php (for parent profiles), and a decent working knowledge of how all the parts of a Drupal site come together. If we could go back, we would use the Content Profile module instead of core profile. On a site focused on profiles like ours, the work would have been greatly simplified if profiles were nodes."

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About the First Edition | Front End Drupal

About the First Edition | Front End Drupal: "Front End Drupal fills this sizable marketplace gap by focusing on visual and interactive design, rather than module development. Two leading Drupal developers systematically cover Drupal customization with behaviors, themes, and templates. Readers will master each layout element needed to style Drupal sites, and learn how to take full advantage of Drupal's powerful templating system. The book also contains several start-to-finish case studies for creating and customizing a wide range of Drupal sites, from scratch. Front End Drupal will contain a foreword by the founder and community lead of the Drupal project, Dries Buytaert."

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IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org

IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org: "Drupal soon emerged as the best option. WordPress was too limited in its abilites, and Joomla! was considered not as SEO friendly. Drupal was given the highest marks by almost every writer we encountered. Ultimately we chose Drupal because it provides:

A free, open source platform
A secure and highly extensible framework
A large and friendly community for support and guidance
Existing modules for almost every feature we wanted
Starting from Scratch
When we began this project, none of the team had any experience with Drupal (and the developer had only just learned php), so we relied heavily on the extremely helpful Drupal community. The forums were an invaluable resource throughout development, without which this project would not have been possible. Because its a volunteer community we made sure to give back help whenever we could. The Post-installation forum is a great place a beginner can help out other beginners, and there is no greater way to learn than to try and teach."

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IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org

IHeartAdoption.org - Educational and social networking site on Drupal 6 | drupal.org: " It was soon decided that having complete control over the software and the server would be a better long term option for our agency, and so we narrowed the list down to the "big three" of Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla!

With the help of many blog posts and some poking around on http://cmsmatrix.org/, Drupal soon emerged as the best option. WordPress was too limited in its abilites, and Joomla! was considered not as SEO friendly. Drupal was given the highest marks by almost every writer we encountered. Ultimately we chose Drupal because it provides:"

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Using Drupal vs Buying Scripts Written in PHP | drupal.org

Using Drupal vs Buying Scripts Written in PHP | drupal.org: "Most of those scripts lack of quality. They are not wel documented and its a torture to modify code for your further needs. But drupal is very well documented and its pretty easy to modify functions without touching to the core
- Most of those scripts are not opensource so modifying site may cause licence problems in future but you can't have such problem with drupal
- Number of people that develop those scripts are limited so you won't get many updates.
- Mostly those scripts are designed for one purpose so its hard to add new functions"

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BuddyPress or Ning : Community/Social Networking Website toward a fully functional prepackaged product / SAS based on Drupal / let's works on that at DrupalCon SF | Drupal Groups

BuddyPress or Ning : Community/Social Networking Website toward a fully functional prepackaged product / SAS based on Drupal / let's works on that at DrupalCon SF | Drupal Groups: "We are now witnessing on the one hand the creation of more complex sites using WordPress with integration with social web and BuddyPress (a fully functional community website installation profile), and on the other hand a much more user friendly version 7 of Drupal and lots of pre-packaged products as OpenAtrium and OpenPublish.

With members of WordPress/BuddyPress community I lauch a meeting to have panel (community and real life usecase). More than 100 peop"

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BuddyPress or Ning : Community/Social Networking Website toward a fully functional prepackaged product / SAS based on Drupal / let's works on that at DrupalCon SF | Drupal Groups

BuddyPress or Ning : Community/Social Networking Website toward a fully functional prepackaged product / SAS based on Drupal / let's works on that at DrupalCon SF | Drupal Groups: "We are now witnessing on the one hand the creation of more complex sites using WordPress with integration with social web and BuddyPress (a fully functional community website installation profile), and on the other hand a much more user friendly version 7 of Drupal and lots of pre-packaged products as OpenAtrium and OpenPublish.

With members of WordPress/BuddyPress community I lauch a meeting to have panel (community and real life usecase). More than 100 peop"

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Drupal vs BuddyPress as a Social Networking site | drupal.org

Drupal vs BuddyPress as a Social Networking site | drupal.org: "Drupal, probably more so than any package listed, is capable of being the premier choice for a social network site. It really all depends on what modules are developed, and that depends on those who have the good hearts and the know-how to create those modules.

If I had the time and the php knowledge, I'd be right there with them, building modules. Alas, neither time nor training is mine at the moment. I don't know what the technical limits of Drupal are (and ALL software has limitations), but I'd hazard a guess that most if not all of the modules needed to make such a site could be developed if someone was so inclined.

I don't know about the current state of Dolphin, but last time I was looking at it, it was buggy and lacking some necessary components unless you were willing to pay for them"

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Drupal vs BuddyPress as a Social Networking site | drupal.org

Drupal vs BuddyPress as a Social Networking site | drupal.org: "HOWEVER, if you're going to incorporate e-commerce facility, Drupal + Ubercart rocks!!! There is Wordpress e-Commerce form www.instinct.co.nz - but I haven't got much experience with that one.
Also Drupal views is way too time-consuming, compared to templating in Wordpress.

BuddyPress - well, it's new, it's maintained, it's got awesome groups, profiles, messaging etc and the theming in Wordpress is nice and easy. BuddyPress (as with Drupal) is well-scalable too because it's core is Wordpress Mu.

Elgg is cool too, but it has a limited community and contributions (for now, that is). As for e-commerce solutions there and ease of templating - I can't say."

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Anjaan: Top 10 Open Source PHP Scripts for Social Networking

Anjaan: Top 10 Open Source PHP Scripts for Social Networking: "10. JCow
JCow is also one of the best scripts. With free edition, it provide one way communication i.e. there will be no groups, forums, user roles etc. You will require pro edition even for some of the most prominent features provided by Elgg, Buddypress. Demo
Now, overall I would recommend Elgg, BuddyPress for all the newbies who wish to get their hands dirty with the codes. Oxwall is also preferred alternate. Many other scripts that geeks advice is Drupal. Drupal, is one of the greatest CMS but for social networking I would not recommend it. For premium, you may go with Social Engine, JomSocial (for Joomla) etc."

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Anjaan: Top 10 Open Source PHP Scripts for Social Networking

Anjaan: Top 10 Open Source PHP Scripts for Social Networking: "his can be used to create an e-Portfolio platform and can also be used to set up an online community where people can learn different things. It provides features such as resume builder, file manager, institutions detail and much more. Just like Elgg social networking script it also requires LAMP environment for working. Demo
7. Community Builder
Community Builder by Joomlapolis for Joomla CMS is another popular free script and provides a vast base. All the basic features + addons help it to stand in the queue with elgg, dolphin, types. But for more deep and 'advanced' feature, you would need to go with Pro Membership. Features and screenshots Demo Site Download"

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Anjaan: Top 10 Open Source PHP Scripts for Social Networking

Anjaan: Top 10 Open Source PHP Scripts for Social Networking: "The good part of Doplhin lies in its mobile apps, already loaded media players, and many other social plugins. But it is not all that free. The Boonex will give its ads on your site's footer, i.e. the script is not white-label. Moreover, many cases you would get on googling Dolphin comparisons with others, questioning its open source nature and the bugs. The big banner ads will surely annoy you. Demo"

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Anjaan: Top 10 Open Source PHP Scripts for Social Networking

Anjaan: Top 10 Open Source PHP Scripts for Social Networking: "Top 10 Open Source PHP Scripts for Social Networking

Creating a niche social network by geeks is yet another hobby and a play-with-code activity with the upcoming of open source scripts and facebook, twitter social plugins. It is obvious for newcomers to explore the Google for 'best cms, script for sn' bla bla. Some two years ago I too was one of those. Thanks to elgg, which gave me start just within six months and I landed with Shouvik on PPSZ"

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