Having issues with "Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible" errors in apache log files on Fedora? Well you've come to the right place!

I'm pretty sure I just ran across the most annoying thing I've ever been confronted with while trying to run Apache with PHP via XAMPP on Fedora 11 with SELinux enabled. When you setup your httpd.conf to try and access directories in your home directory, by default you will not be successful. You might spend hours, or even days trying to figure out why apache can't access files in your home directory. The good news is that I have the solution, although it wasn't easy to put together, you'll be able to access files out of your home directory after following these steps.

TortoiseSVN if you don't already know is an SVN (Subversion) client that allows you to run SVN commands right in windows explorer.  This is a nifty tool that can save you a ton of time.  You will spend more time working on your projects rather then hammering the keyboard on the command line trying to accomplish simple SVN tasks.

In this article I would like to explain the process of setting up TortoiseSVN on a windows machine to allow you to connect to your SVN repository over the SSH protocol using a pre-configured PuTTY session that uses a private key to authenticate to the server.  This can be done easily using a few free tools that you may even already have installed but, if not I have linked you to them in the tools section at the bottom of this article. 

Starting an online business requires skills from many different areas of business.  Whether you outsource, partner, or do it yourself, any successful online business requires a general knowledge of all of these areas.  I would like to share with you the different aspects of doing business online that I have learned over the years and share with you some of the resources that I regularly use to conduct my own mix of online businesses.

There are several elements of a successful online business to consider when planning your own.  First you need to have a marketing plan.

• Who will your customers be?
• How will they find your business? 
• What are your financial goals?
• What sources will your revenue come from?

I have just recently completed a project at work that uses a Perl script to parse SVN logs to CSV format for reading in Excel or any other spreadsheet application.  I found a few other SVN log parsers online but nothing that met my requirements so I have written a log parser from scratch and would like to share it with you here.  Most of the other SVN log parsers that I found online were too targeted to do specific things with the logs.  My only requirement was to get the SVN log from the server in xml format and convert that to CSV to share this information with other developers on my team and of course management will most likely be interested in using it to get an idea of the code turmoil to our SVN repository.

In this article I would like to step through the process I used to develop the Perl script and describe the details of each portion of the code that leads us to the final CSV file output.  By understanding how the script works, and with a little bit of Perl power, you should be able to customize the script to do other tasks.  If you run into any issues with the details please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to add more detail.

Since 2002 I have hosted my own e-mail using a home grown FreeBSD server running Qmail and Courier-IMAP.  Until now I have never even considered using a third party service for hosting my e-mail services.  I have always been the do it yourself type and try to save money by using open source software to host my services.  Then I ran across Google Apps and found out that I can create a couple MX records and Google will host my e-mail for free! With a few clicks of the mouse and a half cup of coffee I had my domain up and running on Google Apps.  You will be amazed by the easy setup and feature set that you can receive absolutely free of charge.