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Symfony is a nice PHP framework, when it works. Sometimes when you run symfony you get a cryptic error and you have no clue on how to fix the problem. The article shows one of them and how to solve it.

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To integrate JBoss behind an Apache server you often use the mod_jk module. There is another solution which combines the use of Apache mod_rewrite and mod_proxy. This solution provides more flexibility and could be more robust.

When you do a server relocation you get a new server, install it, configure it and make sure your new Web server is ready to go. During this installation, the old server was still running. Now, it is time to make the switch. This article discusses one issue related to DNS and how you can solve it.

We are using more and more Saas applications available on the Internet. Social networking applications like LinkedIn, Facebook, Plaxo are quite famous in the world, Viadeo is well known in France. In all these applications that you use, you have to authenticate yourself (this is a good thing). In many cases, you just have to give an email and a password. What confidence can you give these applications? Can you trust them? Are they secure enough?

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I'm amazed to see people speak about Vista as the Saint Graal of operating systems. Is it worth to upgrade? Many people will not ask the question and will jump to it with closed eyes. Take care!!!! You should better think twice before the upgrade (this is true for every software in fact). The article written by Randall C. Kennedy, Death match: Windows Vista versus XP, is interesting in drawing the most important reasons why you should stay with your XP version.

I'm also amazed upset to see that in 2008, a Microsoft Vista running on a 3 Ghz CPU with 2Gb of memory does not bring anything compared to an operating system from 1998 running a P3 350Mhz with 128Mb of memory. 10 years of serious hardware progress. Big regression on the software side.

You have created a Web application using a JBoss application server and you are going to put it in production. Great!

But deploying your application with JBoss serving the Web requests directly may not be the optimal solution. First because the Tomcat web server embedded within JBoss is not the best server to serve static files and second because configuring Tomcat and JBoss for best performance and security is in general a complex and tedious task.

Instead, it is a good practice to use an Apache server (2.0 or 2.2) in front of your JBoss/Tomcat. This Apache server can serve static files, take care of your SSL security and manage for you all the details of HTTP headers (Expires and other headers) and more....

Installing the GNAT Ada 2005 compiler on a linux station is quite easy but requires many steps. The compiler installation is straigtforward but to get a complete environment you also need to install some Ada libraries such as XML Ada,GtkAda, Asis, Florist and others.

C'est le temps qu'il nous a fallu pour nous décider d'acheter et ensuite aménager (presque) complètement l'appartement aprés notre déménagement en 2004. C'est long mais ca en vallait le coup!