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Problem Solving HOWTO - This document describes in full detail which steps to take when trying to solve hardware or software problems with Linux yourself. It helps the reader to find information spread all over its harddisk and teaches him how to use debugging tools.

FuzzyMonkey.org - Great resource for free cgi scripts which includes: Photo Gallery, Classifieds, Address Book, Web Board, Survey etc...

Here are ten one liners in perl, illustrating the kinds of task one would use a script for under linux. All the scripts take some kind of argument after the final ' quote that signals the end of the program.

1. perl -p -i -e 's/this/that/g' filename

Search and replace the string 'this' with the string 'that' in the file filename. You can also say * or *.html or any valid wildcard expression instead of filename. The s/// command uses regular expressions. If you want to alter the 'this' and 'that', it's best to avoid .*?[ ]{}$^ and other odd characters which act as metacharacters in regular expressions. Or better still look at the perlre documentation page. You can do this by saying perldoc perlre. Perl has extensive online documentation, try perldoc perltoc for a list.

Penguin Greetings - Penguin Greetings is a Perl Web-based greeting card application. It can be run as standard CGI application or persistently with SpeedyCGI and supports multiple, independent ecard sites running on the same server. By using multi-part MIME email, it is intended to make ecards more like email. HTML for the cards and the creation screens are stored in Embperl templates, making the program completely customizable by Web developers. Emailing and database updates are performed by a separate daemon, and extensive documentation is included along with over 120 cards.

RPMREBUILD - rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed. It can be used to easily build modified packages, and works on any Linux distribution that uses RPM.

Photoshop Tutorials - Good-Tutorials.com started in August 2002 as Photoshop Design. It migrated to its present form in February 2003. Good-Tutorials now houses one of the largest collections of tutorials for Adobe Photoshop on the internet today.

DeveloperSide.NET - Your source for in-depth server-side information.

Securing & Optimizing Linux - Free pdfs that you can read that will show how to secure and optimize RedHat or Linux in general.

Linux From Scratch - LFS is a project that provides you with the steps necessary to build your own custom Linux system.

DotPHP - DotPHP is next step in Web Components project. Developer can make web site only with components. It's like make a application with DELPHI or C++. Where are some limits of course. When you use DotPHP you don't need much knowledge about HTML, CSS or JavaScripts. Use the components only.