Case Study: Impact of XML Sitemaps and Key Words

Sun, 01/30/2011 - 12:56 — Stefan Schneider

Key words, meta tags and XML site maps are known technologies to increase the reach of a web site. The following article is a case study with some quantitative numbers on the effects of adding them to a web site. It shows how XML site maps, meta tag and key words impact the number of daily sessions, Google referrals and web ranking.

Solaris 11 Changes: Where is the BSD style ps command?

Fri, 01/21/2011 - 09:35 — Stefan Schneider

Short Answer: In /usr/bin/ps

Background

Oracle's new operating system Solaris 11 (Express) is a modular operating system based on the IPS installation technology. This feature has been used by Oracle to make the BSD commands in the directory /usr/ucb an optional package which doesn't get installed by default (see previous post). The BSD commands shouldn't be used since they're a backwards compatibility courtesy allowing 20th century applications written for SunOS 4 to operate without changes.

Solaris 11 Changes: Where is /usr/ucb ?

Thu, 01/20/2011 - 16:43 — Stefan Schneider

Solaris 11 Express as a predecessor to Solaris 11 ist out and a few things changed and improved...

The directory /usr/ucb isn't there anymore ...

The usage of the BSD commands in /usr/ucb has always been discouraged. The BSD commands have been provided as a backwards compatibility option for SunOS 4.1. People used them in Solaris 2 since they had interesting features. It has never been a good idea to rely on them in Solaris 2

Drupal 7 has been released

Wed, 01/05/2011 - 11:21 — Stefan Schneider

Drupal 7 is available for download. Congratulations to the team. Outstanding job!

The system requirements look reasonable. The implications of the increased PHP memory requirement (32MB) is something I'll have to evaluate.

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A SEO Configuration for Drupal

Tue, 01/04/2011 - 21:43 — Stefan Schneider

Drupal (6.20) is my favorite CMS technology (see this site). It took me however a while to get my act together in order to maximize the visibility of a Drupal site for search engines. It takes at least two extra modules.

Make your Application work on Solaris 11

Wed, 12/22/2010 - 18:43 — Stefan Schneider

Oracle just published a white paper about making applications work on Solaris 11. Most applications working on Solaris 10 will work without any modification on Solaris 11. The most senior engineers from ISV-Engineering came together and compiled this document with the very few corner cases where an application may see hick ups. All known cases deal with general innovation like upgraded frameworks or retired very old frameworks.

SMF Manifests for Solaris Applications

Tue, 12/14/2010 - 18:16 — Stefan Schneider

The Solaris Management Facility requires manifests to take applications under it''s control as a service.

This is a list of known and publicly available SMF manifests for Solaris applications:

Solaris 11 Express Video Lectures from LISA 10 Conference

Tue, 12/14/2010 - 16:20 — Stefan Schneider

Without a big introduction. All Solaris 11 talks from LISA 10 as videos as found on blip.tv. Best available, for free Solaris 11 training material as of December 2010.

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Why Solaris needs a new packaging technology (IPS)

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 08:50 — Stefan Schneider

Bart Smaalders gave a very interesting presentation at the Oracle Solaris Summit (LISA 10).

He's detailing the motivation and the need for IPS (Image Packaging System) in Solaris 11:

Workaround; Apple Java Update(1.6.0_22-b04-307) breaks OpenOffice 3.2.1

Mon, 10/25/2010 - 14:01 — Stefan Schneider

The Apple Java Update 3 from Oct. 20, 2010 breaks OpenOffice 3.2.1. OpenOffice can't find the Java JRE anymore. OpenOffice becomes fairly crippled and it shows lots of popups depending on what you do.

The workaround for this problem is described in the OpenOffice bug report 115180.

Workaround

~~Use command line (Terminal):~~

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